Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1999 • South Korea
Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin
Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong’s acclaimed second feature rewinds the protagonist’s loss of humanity—from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho’s agonizing struggles, mirror South Korea’s traumatic political history during the late twentieth century, and in turn elegize a generation of marginalized people to immensely moving effect.
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Oasis
Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2002 • South Korea
Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ryoo Seung-wanFresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-boun...
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Poetry
Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2010 • South Korea
Starring Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-raLee Chang-dong’s follow-up to his acclaimed SECRET SUNSHINE is an exquisite story about the power of art to bear witness to both sublime beauty and the violent truths that lie hidden in the hearts of ...
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Secret Sunshine
Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2007 • South Korea
Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Song Kang-hoA master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a luminary of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring and unpredictable work exa...
