Mother’s brother, and Hyeonseo and Min-ho’s uncle. Uncle Cinema lives in Hamhung and owns the local movie theater. Hyeonseo and Min-ho are sent to stay with Uncle Cinema when Father is hospitalized with depression after being detained by the North Korean government, and he is the one to tell Hyeonseo and Min-ho that their father has died.
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Uncle Cinema Character Timeline in The Girl with Seven Names
The timeline below shows where the character Uncle Cinema appears in The Girl with Seven Names. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: The City at the Edge of the World
...and could paint the Leaders, but since falling in songbun, he paints only propaganda placards. Uncle Cinema runs a local movie theater, and Uncle Opium is a drug dealer, protected from investigation...
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Chapter 13: Sunlight on Dark Water
...sent back to the hospital in Hyesan. Hyeonseo and Min-ho are sent to stay with Uncle Cinema , who comes home one day and tells them their father has died.
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Chapter 16: “By the Time You Read This, the Five of Us Will No Longer Exist in This World”
...Korea, and soldiers and police officers turn into thieves. Mother sends Hyeonseo and Min-ho to Uncle Cinema ’s near Hamhung, and Hyeonseo is shocked to see what has become of the bustling...
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