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When a film starts with an intro like this "This story is an investigative record of the criminal acts of the South Labor Party, based on investigations at the army, prosecution, court s rulings and testimonies" which is preceded by a group of communists putting acetic acid in eggs to use as weapons, it is not easy to realize that the whole thing is going to be intensely propagandistic. At the same time, however, the genre effort here is so bad, that the whole thing ends up being cult. Let us take things from the beginning though, A Case of a College Girl Lee Nan-Hee of Special Investigation Center, An In-suk, Choi Moo-ryong, Jang Hyuk-I, Lee Dae-yub, Lee Hyang, Park Na-yeong, Seol Tae-ho ....
Ji-woo (played by Seohyun) is a fairly competent employee at a company that deals a lot in children s programming. The somewhat confusingly named Ji-hoo (played by Lee Jun-young) is a new hire at that company. This similarity inspires some weird sexist comments from Team Leader Hwang (played by Seo Hyun-woo) although this is mostly ignored for the sake of a greater plot arc about dom-sub culture. Ji-hoo is into it, mainly as a sub, and Ji-woo is only just learning, Love and Leashes, Ahn Sung-kyun, Kim Bo-ra, Kim Han-na, Lee El, Lee Jun-young, Park Hyeon-jin, Seo Hyun-woo, Seohyun ....
Forgotten in storage for 37 years, following a clash between the creators and the censors, with the latter demanding that the ending line changes and the former denying, "A Day Off" was discovered in 2005 in the Korean Film Archive, and was eventually restored, adding even more to the legend of one of the most influencing directors of the 60s, A Day Off, An Eun-suk, Ji Yun-seong, Kang-Shin Sung-il, Kim Kyung-ran, Kim Sun-cheol, Kim Sung-ok, Lee Man-hee-I ....
Eun-ha (played by Park So-dam) is a delivery driver. Her job is more impressive than the title implies- her boss President Baek (played by Kim Eui-sung) specializes in services for ne er-do-wells, and their portside headquarters does a lot of international transfers. Some brief hints suggest that President Baek may be involved in more sinister human trafficking than just giving fugitives phony passports to escape to China, But on the other end Asif (played by Han Hyun-min) vouches for his dad s trustworthiness with kids. And Asif s like a cute little puppy, it s hard to imagine him lying, Special Delivery, Han Hyun-min, Jeong Hyeon-jun, Kim Eui-sung, Park Dae-min, Park So-dam, Song Sae-byeok, Yeom Hye-ran, Yeon Woo-jin ....
The concept of the arthouse horror/thriller seems to be on the rise in Korean cinema lately, with titles such as "Seire" and "The Prayer" having a successful festival run. Lim Sang-su, in his feature debut, tries his own hand in the style, in a movie that also included an almost philosophical whodunnit element, Drown, Seire, The Prayer, Byun Jung-hee, Gong Min-jung, Kang Mal-geum, Kim Dae-geon, Kim Yeon-kyo, Lee Joong-ok, Lim Sang-su ....