UID:
kobvindex_ZLB14175578
Format:
1 DVD (ca. 110 Min.)
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Tonformat: Stereo 2.0
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Bildformat: 16:9
Content:
In this South Korean crime drama, Makdong (Han Suk-Kyu) is discharged from the army to find changes in his rural hometown village. Aboard a train, he meets nightclub singer Miae (Shim Hye-Jin), girlfriend of a Seoul gang leader (Moon Sung-Keun). Makdong joins the gang, but his increasing interest in Miae puts him in conflict with the boss. This film won the 1997 Vancouver Film Festival's Dragons and Tigers Award, given to top Asian films. (Hanbooks)
Content:
This landmark Korean film finds our hero, Mak-dong discharged from the military and returning home to find his village transformed into a city. Confused, alone and alienated he finds drifts into the shady world of organized crime which offers some stability and familiarity in its codes of honor and respect. However morality comes crashing down through the complicated love triangle which develops with his gangland boss and his boss' mistress, all the while as the criminal empire itself starts to come apart at the seams. (Third Window Films)
Note:
Ländercode: 2
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Korean. mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
Korean
