My Small Land

2022 [JAPANESE]

Drama

5
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 887 887

kurd

Plot summary

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

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23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by parsamardashti 9 / 10

Nice movie

The story is about a girl who lost her mother and lives with her father, brother and sister in Tokyo and they are refugees because her father was a political figure and wanted the freedom of the Kurds and he also participated in the Kurdish war. But in the end, they are forced to flee their country and become refugees in Tokyo, if their visa and asylum requests are not accepted, this family must live in a limited way, otherwise they will go to prison, the girl's father cannot follow the restrictions and He continues to work and finally his attempt to earn money for his family and work ends up in prison because their asylum application was rejected and they were not allowed to work in Tokyo. Saria's father had a selfless and family-friendly personality who returned to his country for the sake of his children to cancel his visa application so that his children who grew up in Tokyo and were born elsewhere would have visas and live in hardship. Do not continue Saria and her younger brother do not reveal their real identity because they are ashamed to speak the name of their country because their country is at war and they do not like to reveal their identity. Everyone thinks Saria is German and she tells everyone that she is German, but she is Kurdistan. Saria had a personality that changed me a lot. She was independent and tried to earn money to feed her siblings by working, cooking for them, trying to pay the rent of their own house in the absence of her own father, and becoming independent in her studies. His own and preparing to enter the university to stand on his own feet. But he could also feel the lack of affection because he had lost his mother. Her relationship with her boyfriend, who was the niece of her business owner, helped a lot in her lack of love and hiding her secrets, because he was the only one she trusted and told her everything and her boyfriend was like a counselor. He was listening to her words to make her feel better. Her boyfriend had a lovely, cool and reliable personality who had a special interest in Saria and left positive effects in Saria's life in addition to his love.But in the last moments, when there is complete despair, there is still hope left, and by thinking positively, not losing ourselves, and continuing our efforts, we can reach our goal: when Saria was fired from her job and had no hope of being accepted into the university because her visa He didn't have it and he was disappointed if his father was planning to return because of the visa of Saria and his children and now he can go to his university with a visa. And no effort and hard work will be fruitless because Saria worked hard in her life and she will get the answer by getting accepted in the university she likes.
Reviewed by ineslukin 7 / 10

Good, but raises many questions

The movie is very well written and acting is superb, especially from the main actress. She is very young and balancing so well in the role that has to be both mature beyond her age on one hand and childlike on another.Before watching this movie, I was not familiar with Japanese immigration laws and was not even aware of the fact that there are Kurdish refugees in the country, so there was definitely an education moment for me as well.Because of this reason, I am still left with some important questions unanswered despite the emotional and mindful storytelling.1. How is it possible that minors can live alone in Japan? I do not understand how the social service would not be involved after her father went to jail, especially considering the youngest child, her brother. It seems unlikely to me that minors would just be left alone to fend for themselves, is it really so in Japan?2. Again, I am appalled by the fact that parents must renounce their visa status in exchange for children's visa and find it hard to believe - a definite shock for me which I immediately went to google. How come the lawyer was so passive and nobody did anything for the family?I also noticed that the main character is depicted in a kind of idealised Japanese manner - apart from her looks she and in fact her brother and sister too act and behave totally Japanese and, while this theoretically possible, I find it highly unlikely from my experience. Even the father is fluent in Japanese and speaks mostly Japanese to the kids which, again, from what I have seen in other countries strikes me as odd.Even though it is mentioned in the movie that many Kurdish refugees speak no or very poor Japanese, they are depicted as kind of outlaws in comparison to the "good" family that behaves very Japanese (kids even slurp ramen to the annoyance of their father). The question is, why did the director feel the need to depict a "perfect" immigrant family totally immersed in local culture (which, again, does not happen so often)? Would the average viewer feel less emotionally invested if the family or the main girl were rebellious, odd or non-compliant to the Japanese manners and typical behaviour? If the main character was less "feminine" in a traditional Japanese way, less selfless or deviating in any way from the ideal behaviour, would the average viewer have same feelings of empathy towards her story? If her father spoke zero Japanese, etc., would it change the viewers perception?Also, the good point about the movie was showing reactions of Japanese people around them to their situation; boss firing her and even telling her to stay away from her boyfriend etc. Unfortunately the consequences and the follow up were not really depicted in the movie, so I feel this topic needed a bit more thorough investigation even though I find it admirable to have such a realistic and critical stance towards the society.All in all, this is an excellent movie about a topic not so well known and I would recommend it to anyone interested in immigration politics, sociology or simply a touching human story.
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