March 8, 2008
If you love a girl, make her a whore. Quite alright, innit.
Duek-mun Choi, Jae-hyeon Jo, Won Seo
While strutting through Downtown Seoul, Hang-gi, a local gangland pimp, spots young Sun-hwa, a pretty, middle-class college student, waiting on a park bench. He sits next to her, creating a disparate ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 28, 2005
Stats: 215 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (215)
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June 2, 2007Kim Ki Duk has an amazing ability to create characters who are real. In fact they are so real their actions seem unrealistic. In this film, we see a very unlikeable man fall in love. He is obviously socially incompetent and becomes obsessive. Like many of Duk's films there are no...( read more)
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April 14, 2006I just finished watching this and i still don't really kow what to make of it. One thing is for sure, much like Kim Ki-Duk's other films, it makes a strong impression. It is dramatic and strangely poetic... revolting and romantic, sometimes even a little funny, in other words, co...( read more)
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March 20, 2007I had this movie recommended to me by a very good friend of mine here on Flixster. Just like all of the foreign movies I have watched. This is definately my least favorite of the foreign movies that I have watched but it still wasn't a bad movie. I haven't watched a single bad fo...( read more)
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February 4, 2007Harsh, cruel, uncompromising yet also strangely uplifting masterpiece by Kim Ki-Duk, like most of the master's works this one is not for everyone.
At its core it could be viewed as an incredibly unconventional love story with sado-massochistic overtones, but reducing it to tha...( read more) -
November 8, 2009Are you really, really sure your relationship doesn't get any worse?
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August 9, 2009It takes a totally screwed up mind to conceive of a love story where the only love that takes place generally gets wiped off a woman's stomach with a Kleenex. This is the love story for the person who always dreamed of meeting that special someone, falling in love and turning the...( read more)
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July 31, 2009Pretty good movie by Kim Ki-duk. I would say this isn't as good as Address Unknown but better than 3 Iron. Worth watching and there are some interesting scenes.
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February 21, 2009Rare. superb. i keep thinking about it. cant help. wonderful. made me want to watch more.
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February 9, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
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