Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Peppermint candy
Bakha satang
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| Other authors / contributors: | Yi, Ch'ang-dong.
Sŏl, Kyŏng-gu.
Mun, So-ri.
Kim, Yŏ-jin.
이창동.
설경구.
문소리.
김여진.
Isŭtʻŭ Pʻillŭm.
T'aewŏn Ent'ŏt'einmŏnt'ŭ.
Sindo Pʻillŭm.
UniKorea.
이스트필름.
태원엔터테인먼트.
신도필름.
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| Notes: | Aspect ratio: 1.85:1, anamorphic widescreen, Korean Dolby Digital 2.0, 5.1/DTS, dual layer.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Cinematography, Kim Hyŏng-gu ; music, Yi Chae-jin.
Sŏl Kyŏng-gu, Mun So-ri, Kim Yŏ-jin.
설경구, 문소리, 김여진.
DVD, NTSC region 3.
Dialogue in Korean with optional subtitles in English or Korean.
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| Summary: | In the spring of 1999 a distraught and incoherent middle-aged man, Kim Yong-ho, dressed in a tailored business suit, lies along the side of a railroad bridge that overlooks an open field by a lake. Nearby, a loose knit group of friends called the Bong-woo Club, which formed 20 years earlier at the same site during a social gathering of factory employees, are holding their reunion. Yong-ho stumbles into the picnic and is immediately recognized by members of the group as a fellow factory worker. Unable to disconnect himself from his desperate, unarticulated anguish and join in the amusement of his former colleagues, the inconsolable Yong-ho climbs to the railroad tracks and throws himself in front of a passing train, shouting "I am going back." The film then proceeds in reverse chronology through the past 20 years of Yong-ho's life -- from his family's estrangement, financial bankruptcy, traumatic law enforcement career during the 1987 student demonstrations for democratic reform, military service during the crackdown on martial law protestors that led to the tragedy of the 1980 Kwangju massacre, and the loss of his first love, Sun-Nim.
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| Target Audience: | Age 18 and older.
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| Publisher's no.: | 99-F200 Taewon
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