True North (Japanese: トゥルーノース) is a 2020 Japanese-Indonesian 3D animated film written, edited, directed and produced by a South Korean-Japanese filmmaker Eiji Han Shimizu [ja], co-produced by Sumimasen led by Shimizu and Studio Raboon.
It based on years of research and interviews with former political prisoners who defected to South Korea by Shimizu, depicts a family held captive in a prisons in North Korea in English.
[2][3] Park Yohan, a nine-year-old boy living in Pyongyang, his mother and younger sister are forcibly relocated to a notoriously cruel political prison camp in North Korea.
His innocence is gradually eroded by the harsh brutality of the camp, while the rest of his family tries to maintain their decency and compassion for their fellow humans.
Years later, after being devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of a loved one, he begins to reassess the meaning of his life - even as he struggles to survive in the worst imaginable living conditions.