Address Unknown

Address Unknown (Suchwiin bulmyeong)

Release Date : 2001
Director : Kim Ki Duk
Writer : Kim Ki Duk

Cast:
Yang Dong Kun ... Chang Guk
Ban Min Jung ... Eu Nok
Kim Young Min ... Ji Hum


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Sypnosis:

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country. Three forlorn teenagers, Chank-guk, Jihum and Eunok are figures in the landscape of this story, which highlights the global implications of a very Korean reality. None of them is able to escape the withering pull of tragedy. All desperate pleas for love and redemption are returned stamped in red with

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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring

Release Date: 2004
Director: Kim Ki Duk
Writer : Kim Ki Duk

Cast:
Oh Yeong Soo ... Old Monk
Seo Jae Kyeong ... Child Monk
Kim Young Min ... Young Adult Monk
Kim Ki Duk ... Adult Monk


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Sypnosis:

Spring - Child Monk takes life of animals out of innocence
A child monk ties a stone to a back of fish. Same plight awaits a frog and a snake. The child monk roams the brook in search of the fish and the frog as his punishment allotted by the old monk.

Summer - Boy Monk in love learns obsession
The monk is now 17 years old. To the lonely hermitage, a girl comes to convalesce. Before long, warm feelings towards the girl sprouts in the boy's heart. Their ripple in the water turns into an act of love.

Autumn - Young Monk in agony of malice
The boy returns to the hermitage in the mountains as a young man in his thirties after committing a murder. The old monk whips him finding the young man attempting suicide in front of the statue of Buddha. Old monk order him to etch the Pranja-parpamitasutra, meanwhile he finds peace in his heart.

Winter - Mature Monk in days of enlightenment
The monk, now in his full maturity retraces his steps to the abandoned hermitage in the mountains. A woman wearing a veil visits the hermitage with a baby. She leaves her baby behind and runs away.

And then spring - Another child monk : cycle of four seasons
The old monk living with another child monk is having a peaceful time in the hermitage...the circle of life keeps on.


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