| The Game of Their Lives   &    Friends of Kim |
Presented by Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours these two fascinating documentaries on North Korea tell some of the most fascinating stories to come out of this enigmatic country. Simon will give some background information on the film and answer any questions after the screening
Where: The Apartment, [...]

North Korea Novels
While the TV and movie world have been going gaga of late over adaptations of crime novels ranging from the Inspector Wallander books, Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, the various Holmes revivals and so on those of us with an eye on the North Korea novel scene can still hope for a film or [...]

On Sunday 24th July Koryo Tours is pleased to present the Shanghai premiere of the Canadian Travel Documentary Departures: North Korea. Filmed in 2009 and broadcast first in 2010 this program was part of the third series of the Departures television program in which two Canadians embark on a globe-trotting journey to some of the [...]

Koryo Tours, the planet’s leading North Korea travel specialists invite you to get a glimpse of another culture without ever leaving Shanghai. This month, Koryo is showing their award-winning documentary, The Game of Their Lives, which chronicles  the 1966 World Cup’s “greatest sports story never told”, when the underdog North Korean football team defeated the [...]

The Game of Their Lives

VeryMuchSo Production and Koryo Tours in conjuction with Passion Pictures and BBC4. Dan Gordon (Director/Producer) Nicholas Bonner (Associate Producer)
‘The greatest sports story never told’
-Ron Gluckman, Asian Wall Street Journal, Jan 2002
In 2003, ‘The Game of Their Lives’ won the Royal Television Society award for best sports documentary, received a nomination [...]

A State of Mind

VeryMuchSo Production and Koryo Tours in conjuction with Passion Pictures, BBC4 and ARTE . Dan Gordon (Director/Producer) Nicholas Bonner (Associate Producer). ‘A State of Mind’ is an observational documentary film following two North Korean schoolgirls and their families in the lead up to the Mass Games – the biggest and most [...]

Crossing the Line
VeryMuchSo Production and Koryo Tours in conjuction with Passion Pictures, BBC4 and ARTE. Dan Gordon (Director/Producer) Nicholas Bonner (Co-Producer). Our most ambitious documentary and the most amazing of stories… if this was fiction it would be unbelievable: CROSSING THE LINE is now available on DVD.
In the 1960’s, four US soldiers serving in the [...]

Koryo Tours Film Screening

Crossing the Line, North Korea Documentary by Koryo Tours
Sunday, December 12, 2010, 8pm
Dada Bar, 115 Xingfu Lu near Fahuazhen Lu and Pingwu Lu, across from Huashan Park, Changming district, Shanghai (Tel: 150-0018-2212 / 150 0018-2208)
Entrance:    Free
Koryo Tours joins Dada in presenting Crossing The Line, the third of three Koryo documentaries about life [...]

Koryo Tours has always been more than a travel company; among other projects, we have a long history of filmmaking in the DPRK. While preparing to shoot our latest feature film, we obtained the rights to a North Korea football (soccer if you like!) movie, made in 1978 and never exported abroad – until now. [...]