Oscar winner ‘Minari’ comes to Amazon Prime Video

NEW DELHI: Korean film Minari, that earned multiple nominations at the Academy Awards this year, has been launched by the American streaming service Amazon Prime Video on its platform. It won Oscar for best supporting actress, Yuh-Jung Youn, making her the first Korean to win an Academy Award for acting.

The film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Yuh-Jung Youn, and Will Patton in lead roles. It is a semi-autobiographical take on Chung’s upbringing, with the plot following a family of South Korean immigrants in rural US during the 1980s.