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  • Kwon-taek Im – Bului dal AKA Daughter of Fire (1983)

    1981-1990DramaKwon-taek ImSouth Korea

    Hae-joon seems like an ordinary middle-class, middle-aged family man. But his dreams are telling him a different story about himself. He has visions of his mother, a shaman, and is haunted by sounds of drums and chanting. Meanwhile his daughter lies bed-ridden with some mysterious ailment, preyed over zealously, if to little purpose, by his wife and her Christian cronies. He takes himself on a journey South, following scattered traces of his fire-obsessed mother, eventually to the festive scene of public shaman ceremonies on Jindo Island.Read More »

  • Kwon-taek Im – Jagko AKA Pursuit of Death (1980)

    Kwon-taek Im1971-1980DramaSouth KoreaWar
    Jagko (1980)
    Jagko (1980)

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    Two old adversaries meet by chance in a rehab center and realize that the conflict which has dominated their lives since the Korean War has run out of road. Both men are in ruins. One is a former cop, the other a former communist guerrilla; the flashbacks to their sad backstories show Im’s skill in anchoring the currents of modern Korean history in wrenching emotional drama.Read More »

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