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     "A story about life and love - although love is not always spectacular. Love is, in general, stylized in films, but only a small change in angle is necessary to discover all of its absurdity and hopeless. This is, also, a story about the dream of living, eating, and making love without having to work. Social orthodoxy has it that all of the world has the right to work and to lead a decent life and, for this reason, I find it most amusing to show a point of view to the contrary".

This is the definition given by Jang Sun Woo to the obsessive and sadistic relationship established between a girl of eighteen years and a sculptor of thirty-eight, which results in a film of radical eroticism.

In the first encounter, she gives herself and her virginity to him. In the second, sex becomes more intense. In the third, he brings along a whip - violence becomes a central element of their sexual encounters. When her brother discovers the truth about the relationship, she decides to leave home and to live from motel to motel with her lover. She only returns when she learns of the death of her brother, and breaks off the unhealthy romance. Later, however, she seeks him out for she wishes to see him one last time, before moving to Brazil.

   
 
Director : Jang Sun Woo
Screenplay : Jang Sun Woo
Cinematographer : Kim Woo Hyung
Edition : Park Gok Ji
Cast : Lee Sang Hyun, Kim Tea Yeon, Jeon Hye Jim, Choi Hyun Joo
Producer : Shin Chul
Production : ShinCine Communications Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-120, Misung Blgd. 2nd Fl 609-1, Shinsa-dong
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  Col., 115 min., 1999
 

Born in Seoul in 1952, and one of the most acclaimed directors in Korea. He made films that were and international success, such as Hwa-om-Kyung, in 1993, Kyotip, in 1996, and Nappun Yeonghwa, in 1997. His work brings together different styles in directing and broaches dramatic, controversial subjects.