Youn Yuh Jung

Minari, starring Steven Yeun, accumulates $5.2mn over third weekend at the Korean box office

Minari, a semi-autobiographical movie, revolves around a Korean immigrant family who sets up a farm in rural Arkansas in the 1980s to pursue the American dream.

In Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, a deeply personal story of harvesting an American dream

Wanting to find a balance between a memory piece and melodrama, Chung imaged something that combined the neo-realism of Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli with the earthy, wide-screen American epics like East of Eden and Giant that his father raised him on.