Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 1054min

Jimi Kim was praised as a Star-Turned-a-True-Actress in 1970’s. However, her acting reached its peak in mid 1980’s with [Kilsodeum] and [Ticket]. Jimi Kim plays Hwa-young who reunites with her long-lost beau and a son separated d...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 73min

Throughout history, ancient literature has been explored by various directors. Director Shin Sang-ok made two films based on ancient literature, and both were called [Dream]. The one showcased here is from 1955. It is one of his f...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 116min

In this film, Jimi Kim plays Jungsook in her own version of [Madam Freedom]. She portrays a naive, but passionate housewife who falls into a dangerous affair. In her 13th year of marriage, Jungsook meets a debauched Jang Jaesuk at...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 105min

This mystery film by first time director Jo Hae-won was high-praised as a quality melodrama with a solid foundation and an unquestionable delight. [The Tiger Moth] pivots on the serial killings around a mysterious beauty, Min Hwa-...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 107min

Soo-mi(Jimi Kim), in despair from losing her fiance in the war, unintentionally falls in love with a Korean American, Henry Jang(Lee Min). However, on their wedding day, In-kyu(Choi Moo-ryong), the fiance she thought was dead, sho...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 123min

This is a comedy about an oriental medicine doctor and his daughter′s Western doctor suitor in a constant battle with each other. The conflict deepens as the two decide to run for office, for there exists a generation gap in their...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 105min

This film, a remake of Lee Man-hee’s Late Autumn(1966), reunited director Kim Ki-young and Jimi Kim. Suk-young(Jimi Kim), a model prisoner in her thirties, meets Hoon(Lee Jung-gil) on a train to her mother’s grave. As Hoon is purs...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 100min

Based on Kim Dong-ree’s novel, this film exhibits a memorable, vibrant and passionate comeback performance from Jimi Kim following a long absence from the screen. Upon realizing that her son, Young-sul, has become a Christian, E...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 142min

[The Earth] is a representative literary film based on Park Kyung-ri’s epic novel, and features voice recordings done by Jimi Kim herself for the first time since Shin Sang-ok’s [Prince Daewon] in 1968. She played a role of the gr...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2010
• 100min

Produced by and starring Jimi Kim, [Ticket] is an ensemble that realistically captures the anger and pain suffered by women working in suburban call-girl cafes. It is a film that transcends the reach of similar subject matters and...