korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 97 mins

Recent divorcee Song-Hee moves into number 301 of the "New Hope Bio Apartment." A fantastic chef, she gained weight cooking and then finishing the elaborate meals that helped trigger her divorce. She befriends the woman in number ...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 138 mins

After studying in France for five and a half years, R. is reunited with J, who he lived with in France, two years later in Seoul. He wants to make love right when they meet, but she refuses, leaving him alone in a cheap hotel room...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 100 mins

In a mining village layered in gray dust, a man posing as Kim Ki-Young finds refuge from winter and the law. Wanted by the police for an offense he commited under the authoritarian rule of the 1980′s， he conceals himself as an od...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 118 mins

In love with fellow college student Hye-Lin, Young-Min attends every play she performs in and anonymously sends her flowers. But she marries Sung-Woo and the couple move away. Years later, Young-Min accidentally meets a divorced H...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 104 mins

Without reason, a man suddenly unearths his wife′s ashes and sets out to scatter them in her home-town, Kangwon. Among his many encounters is an eighty-year-old native North Korean man traumatized by the nation′s division, and his...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 105min

Chung-Hee, a housewife, is raped by two young men on her way home. While resisting their attack, she bites off one man′s tongue. Ironically, he charges her with assault and she is arrested. On trial, she is venomously desecrated a...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 175 mins

Upon killing one bird of a pair, Hae-Jin discovers the duality of life and death that dominates this world. He realizes the original pain and suffering of life: death and vanity, attachment and desire, sins and fear. He learns tha...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 102 mins

Following the Korean War, poverty and mass destruction prevailed and misery hung in the air. By presenting the story of two, poor women at that time, this film examines gender, war, kinship and Confucian culture. Because Young-Soo...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 105 mins

Pobun, a Buddhist monk for 6 years, has not yet attained nirvana. Drenched with guilt, he assuages his conscience through ascetic self-regulation. Around this time, he encounters the unorthodox monk， Jisan. While traveling togeth...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 97 mins

Dong-Chul, a pickpocket and beggar since childhood, meets Yook-Duk, a driver who is good-natured but a bit slow. In a failed ploy to kidnap a beautiful woman, they befriend the prostitute Hye-Young who gets them work at a brothel....