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3 IRON
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A mesmerizing film from Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk, this urban fairy tale stars Jae Hee as a jobless youth who survives by squatting in empty residences. During one of his break-ins, the young man encounters a beautiful model (Seung-yeon Lee) who's attempting to escape from her thuggish, career-driven husband. Like Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring and The Isle, Kim's drama explores themes of physical and spiritual connection with a tender, sparing touch. In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2004---88 mins.
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ADDRESS UNKNOWN
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This drama by South Korea's Kim Ki-Duk (The Isle, Bad Guy) follows the lives of three teenagers living in a small Korean town on the outskirts of an American military base in the 1970s. Chang-guk (Yan Dong-guen) is the son of a Korean bar waitress and an African-American soldier who longs to go to the U.S. Eun-ok (Ban Min-jeong), who has a cataract in her left eye, sells her body to an American soldier in exchange for money for eye surgery. The silent Ji-hum (Kim Young-min) is unable to deal with his disabled Korean War veteran father. None of these characters seem to realize that they have all been disabled by the Korean War. In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2001---116 mins.
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BAD GUY
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A young college girl is forced into prostitution while the pimp who orchestrated her demise silently watches her from behind a false mirror. Korean director Kim Ki-Duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) submerges the audience in the underground world of Seoul's red-light district in this surrealistic, darkly romantic tour de force. "It will rock and shock you as few recent Asian movies have or can" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2001---103 mins.
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BIRDCAGE INN
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An early work from the prolific "bad boy" of Korean cinema Kim Ki-Duk, Birdcage Inn takes place in the country town of Pohang where Jina is the new call girl. The run-down inn has virtually no legitimate guests and the family who owns it lives off the income provided by Jina. Their daughter Hyemi despises Jina, despite Jina's attempts at friendship. Relatives and boyfriends become entangled--leading to both dark comedy and darker exploitation as the two women discover that they have more in common than either suspected. The issue of sex which originally divided them becomes the channel for their reconciliation. In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---Korea---1998---105 mins.
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BOW, THE
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An old man has been raising a young girl since she was a child, and plans to marry her once she reaches legal age. Despite the harsh conditions, the two live together in relative happiness on a boat in the middle of the sea. He uses a bow to attract the attention of passing fishermen who might want to spend some lusty time with the young girl. But the power of the bow is challenged when a young man joins their boat and creates a bond with the girl that has the potential to free her from isolated exploitation. This unique and fascinating tale of love and jealousy is acclaimed filmmaker Kim Ki Duk's twelfth feature film. In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---Korea---2005---128 mins.
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BOW, THE (KIM KI-DUK)
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This exotic, sparse film from Kim Ki-Duk (The Isle, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring) tells of a sixty-year-old man (Jeon Seong-hwang ) who has raised a young girl (Han Yeo-reum) on his fishing boat for the past 1 0 years and plans to marry her once she turns 17. As the years passed, he defended this dream with his bow and arrow. Though she feels content as her birthday approaches, a connection with a young student threatens their tender balance. Filmed entirely on the water with minimal dialogue and an emphasis o n music, The Bow's lyrical quality certainly factored into its success at Cannes. In Korean with English and Spanish subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2005---90 mins.
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BREATH (KI-DUK 2007)
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In Kim Ki-duk's offbeat romance, a death-row inmate (Chang Chen) makes headlines when he tries to commit suicide by stabbing his neck. His story captures the heart of a young woman (Park Ji-a), who sneaks away from her loveless marriage and squeaky clean Seoul apartment in the middle of the night to go visit the now-mute prisoner.
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COAST GUARD
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An eerie thriller about wartime psychology from acclaimed Korean director Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring). Jang Dong-kun stars as Private Kang, an overeager soldier who impatiently awaits his opportunity to gun down a spy along the South Korean coast. His excitement causes him to fire on an innocent pair of teenagers, an act that causes hostility and paranoia between Kang's company and the local villagers. In Korean with Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2002---92 mins.
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COAST GUARD (REGION 3)
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An eerie thriller about wartime psychology from acclaimed Korean director Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring). Jang Dong-kun stars as Private Kang, an overeager soldier who impatiently awaits his opportunity to gun down a spy along the South Korean coast. His excitement causes him to fire on an innocent pair of teenagers, an act that causes hostility and paranoia between Kang's company and the local villagers. In Korean with Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2002---92 mins.
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ISLE
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South Korean Kim Ki-Duk directed this erotic tale of jealously, lust, revenge and betrayal. An ex-cop, haunted by the murder of his girlfriend, finds himself at an isolated and eerie fishing retreat. The retreat's beautiful proprietor, who sells her body by night to her unsavory guests, becomes obsessed with the cop. This leads to a dangerous relationship with sadomasochistic chemistry. "A perversely intriguing (and intriguingly perverse) love story" (San Francisco Examiner). In Korean with English Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2001---89 mins.
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REAL FICTION
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Taking a fresh stylistic approach to genre material, this feature was shot in a single afternoon, mainly in real time, using 20 film and video cameras set up in different locations. A tormented artist is driven into a murderous rage, leaving a trail of dead bodies behind him. In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2000---95 mins.
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SAMARITAN GIRL
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This modestly budgeted film about a father and daughter who feel conflicted about their respective roles in life earned Korean auteur Kim Ki-Duk the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. This moving drama follows a young woman who grants her prostitute friend's dying wish by sleeping with her ex-johns and returning their money. Her father desperately attempts to confront her about the behavior, but is knowingly hypocritical in doing so. In Korean/Cantonese with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---Korea---2004---98 mins.
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SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER
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Acclaimed Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk, noted for his psychologically brutal films, shows his versatility with this transcendental fable illustrating the tenets of Buddhism through the cyclical patterns of life. Set in a quiet, one-room monastery nestled within idyllic hills, the film beautifully and gently unfolds the five seasons of a young Buddhist monk's life, which see him confronted with birth, death and rebirth via moments of violence, danger, love and compassion. "...manages to isolate something essential about human nature and at the same time to comprehend the scope of human experience" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times). In Korean with English subtitles. Kim Ki-Duk---Korea---2004---103 mins.
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TIME (KIM KI-DUK)
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After a two-year relationship, Seh-hee (Park Ji-yun) has a pathological fear that her boyfriend Ji-woo (Ha Jung-woo) is losing interest in her sexually. She decides to have drastic plastic surgery to become a completely different woman. Six months later (renamed See-hee and played by Sung Hyun-ah), she approaches Ji-woo to spark a new love affair. In a bitter irony, See-hee discovers Ji-woo is still hung up on his ex-lover, Seh-hee. Shi Gan, Kim Ki-duk's thirteenth film, is "fearlessly honest, so attuned to contemporary anxieties about sex, love and social status that the characters' unhappiness is as squirm-inducing as the movie's close-ups of sliced flesh" (New York Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea---2006---85 mins.
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YONGARY MONSTER FROM THE DEEP
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A Japanese-Korean giant monster movie. The title character, who looks like Godzilla's second cousin, emerges to terrorize Asia after an earthquake in China sets it free. Yongary enjoys drinking gasoline, crushing buildings in Seoul and dancing to rock and roll music. "...one of the better Godzilla-inspired rip-offs..." (Stomp Tokyo). Dubbed in English. Kim Ki-Duk---South Korea/Japan---1967---100 mins.
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