Address Unknown

Address Unknown (2001)

  • 76% of users liked it
    (1,380 ratings)

Following up on his hallucinatory meditation on sex, death, and fish hooks in The Isle, Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk spins this brutal exploration on the lingering anger and exploitation of America's occupation of South Korea. Even though all her letters are returned stamped "Address Unknown," a… More

R, 1 hr. 58 min.
Directed By
Ki-duk Kim
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Jun 2, 2001 Wide
On DVD
Jan 24, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Joseph Proimakis, Movies for the Masses

    An eheis tin ypomoni na parakoloythiseis gia miamisi ora tin poiitiki epanaliptikotita toy skinotheti poy einai asygkratitos oso pote sti mizeria poy petaei stoys iroes toy, mporei mesa ston aparadekto iho, ti ftini fotografia kai tin aneleita koyrastiki

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • El Hombre I


    It's difficult to recommend Ki-duk Kim's films. His movies are never complacent, but even the most passionate examples can be dull. Address Unknown is one such film, an explosive concept made dull by a director still learning his craft and working out the kinks. Fans of the… More

  • Lesley N


    I like Kim Ki-Duk films... 3-Iron, Spring Summer Autumn Winter, Bi-Mong - they meander along but I'm always happy to follow. This is one of his depressing films, where dislikable people do dislikable things to each other, themselves and, in this case, dogs. All the main… More

  • Jojo S


    This is a story of an angry young man borned as a mixed Black-Korean dispised by the entire society he lived in. He lived in an abandoned school bus with his mother who wrote letters daily to her American lover; who always got her letters returned and stamped with "address… More

  • Wu C


    Moody and tragic like most Ki-Duk films.

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