“My Name is Loh Kiwan” is adapted from the homonymous book by Cho Hae-jin, which won the 2013 31th Sin Dong-yup (Korean poet) Prize for Literature. After its release on Netflix this month, the movie topped their global weekly chart for non-English movies between March 4-10, after racking in over 5 million views and making a mark in 31 countries like Peru, Portugal, Turkey and Malaysia.
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The film is about the plight of Loh Kiwan, a North Korean defector who flees to China with his mother. While there, he becomes a fugitive due to an incident and soon the police come knocking at his door. During the chase that follows, he manages to get away but his mother is not that lucky and tragically killed. This eventually prompts him to defect again and this time to Belgium for another fresh start.
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The film is about the plight of Loh Kiwan, a North Korean defector who flees to China with his mother. While there, he becomes a fugitive due to an incident and soon the police come knocking at his door. During the chase that follows, he manages to get away but his mother is not that lucky and tragically killed. This eventually prompts him to defect again and this time to Belgium for another fresh start.
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- 3/18/2024
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
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