KOGONADA | What’s great is it’s this quiet scene with so much drama percolating beneath the surface. But after she tastes that rice, all of the good memories, and the bad, come back to her, from long before she came to Japan. YOUN | When Sunja first follows her grandson, she’s there to help him pursue this landowner, to sell her property.
You see Solomon delighting in the grandmothers’ connection, not realizing that the more they connect, the more it’s going to upset his agenda. The dynamic and the way things shift between the three of them was really lovely. It surprises all of the characters, and that’s what is so interesting about it. KOGONADA | It’s such a pivotal scene, and one that affects the whole series. Rice is very important for the Korean people, like bread.
YUH-JUNG YOUN | I remember Soo Hugh calling me, to say that this scene, about telling the difference between Korean rice and Japanese rice, is very meaningful for her.
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