2021/07/02
It turns out that
Kim Ki-young did not only direct psychosexual horror movies in the style of The Housemaid but also dealt in other kind of styles, as the present one follows a melodramatic approach regarding the student soldiers that were conscripted by the Japanese Occupation Forces close to the end of WW2. This approach, however, is somewhat peculiar, while the ending seems completely disconnected with the rest of the aesthetics. Let us take things from the beginning though. (I should also note here that the film quality is not exactly the best, while the sound is missing completely from a number of parts.