A Petal

A Petal (Kkoch-ip)

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Release Date : 1996
Director: Jang Sun Woo
Writer: Jang Sun Woo, Jang Moon Il

Cast:
Lee Jung Hyun
Moon Sung Keun
Park Chol Min
Sul Kyung Gu




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Sypnosis:

The setting is May, 1980 during the Kwangju up-rising. A 15-year-old girl deserts her dying mother and runs away amid gunfire. Years late, the girl calls a construction site worker "Jang" and follows him everywhere. Jang knows that the girl has experienced something horrible. The girl never talks and always has a far-off gaze. Her mind seems to be torn into pieces which frustrates Jang. He becomes absorbed into the pain and sadness of the girl, and finds her one day in front of her mother's tomb. There, she retells her past when she had to abandon her mother to die alone. Meanwhile, friends of her older sister look for the young girl but in vain.

Trivia :
- A Petal was adapted from Choi Yun's Silently, a Petal Falls.
- The movie included documentary footage filmed during the actual Kwangju uprising.

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Real Fiction

Real Fiction

*M18 : For Mature Audiences Only
Release Date : 2000
Director : Kim Ki Duk
Writer : Kim Ki Duk

Cast:
Joo Jin Mo
Lee Je Rak
Kim Jin Ah
Jang Hyeon Seong


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Sypnosis:

In this bold and daring film experiment from Korea shot in real time, a mentally unstable street artist finally gets tired of the harassment he has been receiving from the local thugs for years. He decide to inflict ruthless revenge on the bullies while allowing a mysterious girl with a camcorder to document his acts of vengeance. Shot in just over three hours in a single day with the help of twelve directors and a staff of 120, "Real Fiction" is not only an unorthodox exercise in cinema, but also a gripping tale of one man's desire for self-respect.

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A Bittersweet Life

A Bittersweet Life (Dol Kom Han In Saeng)

Release Date : 2005
Director: Kim Ji Woon
Writer: Kim Ji Woon

Cast:
Lee Byung Hun ... Sun Woo
Sin Min Ah ... Hee Soo

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Sypnosis:

Sun-woo is a man whose heart and mind remain closed to wind, rain, or disruptive emotions. For the past seven years he has served his gangster boss with unflinching exactitude. He manages an upscale bar called La Dolce Vita (which echoes the film's original Korean title), and he despatches people who get in the boss's way with skill and efficiency. The boss (Kim Young-cheol) trusts him so much that he asks Sun-woo to look after his mistress (Shin Min-ah), and to kill her if she is being unfaithful.

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A Tale Of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon)

Release Date : 2003
Director : Kim Ji Woon
Writer : Kim Ji Woon

Cast:
Im Su Jeong ... Bae Soo Mi
Moon Geung Young ... Bae Soo Yeon



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Sypnosis :

Two sisters, Su-Mi (Im Soo-jung) and Su-Yeon (Moon Geun-young), have been deeply traumatised by the circumstances of their mother's death. After a long stay in an institution, they return to the country-house of their father (Kim Kab-su) and his new wife Eun-joo (Yeom Jeong-a). The shy Su-yeon is terrified by footsteps that she hears approaching her bed at night, Su-mi is convinced that her younger sister is being beaten and tormented by their stepmother, while the pill-popping Eun-joo's behaviour becomes more and more neurotic and aggressive. In this atmosphere of heated female hysteria, a fifth presence in the house is making itself felt, forcing the family's dark secrets out of the closet.

For all the apparent simplicity of its premise, 'A Tale of Two Sisters' has more twists than a sixties dance floor, so that seemingly innocuous questions - who does the father keep calling on the telephone? why is Eun-Joo on medication? why does her menstrual cycle coincide with Su-yeon's? - receive the most unexpected answers. At times this film is nail-bitingly terrifying, but for the most part it is marked by a brooding, slightly unhinged mood of melancholy through which, as in Hideo Nakata's 'Dark Water', madness scurries like a ghost.

Lose yourself in the haunted delirium of 'A Tale of Two Sisters' before Hollywood puts it on prozac.

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