Ode to My Father

2014 PG-13 2h 6m

7.4 / 10 137

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7.4/10

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Duk-soo lost his father and younger sister while taking refuge during the Korean War. He leaves for Germany to work as a miner and enters the Vietnam War. He wishes to find his sister.

Director JK Youn

Writers

Park Soo-jin JK Youn

Stars

Hwang Jung-min Yunjin Kim Oh Dal-su

Deok-soo's Paternal Aunt

Chairman of the Youth Association

Heo Dong-won

Youth Association Member

Matthew Douma

US Army Soldier

Jeon Somi

Yun Mak-sun's Daughter (uncredited)

Jung Sung-ho

Syngman Rhee (voice) (uncredited)

Dispatched to Germany Miners Interviewer

Lee Jae-soon

Young-ja's Grandmother

Anupam Tripathi

Sri Lankan Man

Park Young-soo

President of Youth Group

Dispatched to Germany Miners Overseer

Separated Family Grandfather

Park Sang-hyeok

Producer

Hyun Bong-sik

Present Gukje Market Merchant

Park Hye-jin

Old Woman

Park Jin-soo

Korean Trading Company Employee

Kang Shin-chul

Korean Trading Company Employee

Crying Family Member of Merchant

Nam Seung-woo

Youngster with Crutches

Park Gil-su

Young-ja's Father

Kim Geon-ho

Yoon Sun-joo's Husband

Jung Chan-woo

Separated Family Control Room PD

Drama

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User Reviews 1

badelf 25 Jan 2022

9/10

Things happen in life, sometimes only a comment made to us, that shape and color our whole life. In my own life, I remember seminal moments, people, that made a difference in the way I lived and the decisions I made. Ode to My Father is an epic story of how one man's life was colored by just such a significant event. Duk-soo, running with his family at the beginning of the Korean War, loses his si...