Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this critically acclaimed South Korean film tells the story of Jong-soo, a part-time worker who bumps into old neighbour Hae-mi. She asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Kenya, but when she returns, Hae-mi introduces Ben (STEVEN YEUN) to Jong-soo. One day, Ben visits Jong-soo with Hae-mi and confesses his own secret hobby.
Adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami, Lee Chang-Dong's BURNING follows the story of deliveryman Jongsu (Ah-In Yoo), who is out on a job when he runs into Haemi (Jong-Seo Jun), a girl who once lived in his neighbourhood. Friendly and flirtatious, she asks if he can look after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa, and he happily obliges. On her return, she asks Jongsu to meet her at the airport- and promptly introduces him to Ben (Steven Yeun) - an enigmatic young man she met during her trip. As the group spend more time together, Jongsu slowly gets to know the inscrutable visitor until one day, Ben tells him about his most unusual hobby...
A soldier returns home from his tour of duty only to find that many things have changed in his small town. Feeling rootless he joins up with a local triad boss and his mistress who seem like the ideal new family. But things are never as they seem and disaster may strike at any time.
Mija lives in a small city by the Han River with her teenage grandson. When she discovers her grandson's part in the gang-rape the suicide of a Catholic school girl, Mija takes up poetry classes to explore her inner world while her outer world is collapsing on her. A Cannes Film Festival winner and favourite, Lee Chang-dong's Poetry is raw and unsentimental and features a masterclass performance by Jeong-Hie Yun as Mija at its centre.
Mija lives in a small city by the Han River with her teenage grandson. When she discovers her grandson's part in the gang-rape the suicide of a Catholic school girl, Mija takes up poetry classes to explore her inner world while her outer world is collapsing on her. A Cannes Film Festival winner and favourite, Lee Chang-dong's Poetry is raw and unsentimental and features a masterclass performance by Jeong-Hie Yun as Mija at its centre.
Combining fantasy with stark realism Lee Chang-Dong's (Peppermint Candy Secret Sunshine) magnificent film is both beautiful and tragic as it explores the theory issue of how people with disabilities are marginalised. Stars Sol Kyung-Gu and Moon So-Ri give their finest performances as the mentally ill ex-con Jong-Do (Sol) who falls for a young woman with cerebral palsy (Moon) would-be lovers who are sidelined by society.
Shown in reverse chronological order Peppermint Candy is the tale of a solitary man's painful growth in life set against the back drop of nearly three decades of Korean history. A distraught and weathered man Yong-ho stands on the rails of a train track staring oncoming death in the face. Through divided sequences we retrace the steps that brought him to this place and this state of mind. From his failed marriage and unsuccessful career to his first love and his traumatizing experience in the army we are shown all of the elements that went into the psychological demise of a broken man.
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