Bakha satang (1999)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Chang-dong Lee

Writer:

Chang-dong Lee (writer)

Release Date:

1 January 2000 (South Korea)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Adultery | Ex Cop | Suicide | Backwards | Reverse Chronology

Awards:

6 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Yeo-jin Kim	...	Hongja
Kyung-gu Sol	...	Yongho
Jung Suh
So-ri Moon	...	Sunim
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
In-kwon Kim
Seo-hie Ko
Dae-yeon Lee
Ji-Yeon Park
Se-beom Park
Yeon-su Yu

Also Known As:

Peppermint Candy (International: English title)

Runtime:

France:129 min | Japan:130 min | South Korea:130 min

Country:

South Korea | Japan

Language:

Korean

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

South Korea:18 | Singapore:M18 | France:U | Australia:MA (cable rating)

Company:

East Film Company

the origins of a Korean man's destruction

while it may take being Korean (and being part of the "386-generation" that really went through all the turbulent events of this movie's timeline) to fully appreciate this movie, it is nevertheless a powerful, graphic, and grippingly emotional commentary on South Korea of the the last twenty years. Director Chang-dong Lee masterfully presents the plot in reverse chronological order, and protagonist Kyung-gu Sol handily goes from broken buisnessman to lovesick schoolboy by the movie's end/his troubled road's beginning. In a way, this movie is perhaps Korea's unique and tragic answer to a movie like "Forrest Gump." "Na ottoke" ("what do I do?") - indeed, what does one do when faced with such experiences? Easily one of the best Korean movies I've seen to date.