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20th(2015) Korean Cinema Today

Social Criticism · Suspense/Mystery · Tradition · War · Spirituality · Martial Arts  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2015
  • Running Time87min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
Following the Fukushima nuclear incident, a young couple moves to Tokyo where they realize that the wife is pregnant. She wants to have an abortion, worried the baby might have been affected by radioactive contamination and concerned it might be deformed or disabled. But the husband wants her to keep it. He persuades her that Fukushima is very different from the Chernobyl disaster, but she is still not convinced, so he visits his house in Fukushima himself, to find proof that the radioactive contamination is not so serious. However, he witnesses something quite unexpected while he is there. Can the couple truly escape the effects of the Fukushima nuclear incident? Director Kim Ki-duk made this film almost completely independently. He cast Japanese actors but shot the film as if he were a guerrilla filmmaker, without a normal crew to help as such. Like his previous film, One on One, the provocative elements of the film demand attention, and he doesn’t hesitate to insist on the radical notion that to avoid nuclear accidents, we should stop using electricity. (NAM Dong-chul)
Director
Director
KIM Ki-duk
Since his first film Crocodile(1996), he went on to become a leading Korean director. Samaria(2004) won him the Best Director Award in Berlin and 3-Iron(2004) earned him four awards in Venice. Arirang(2011) received the Un Certain Regard Prize in Cannes and Pieta(2012) was the first Korean film to receive the Golden Lion Award in Venice. His controversial Moebius(2013) and One on One(2014) were also both invited to Venice.
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  • Director KIM Ki-duk 김기덕
  • Cast Tsubasa Nakae, Natsuko Hori, Hiromitsu Takeda
  • Screenplay Ki-duk KIM
  • Cinematography Ki-duk KIM
  • Editor Ki-duk KIM
  • Production Company KIM KI DUK FILM
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