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.

Jung Il-sung had shot both Kim Ki-young’s film Iodo and Eul-hwa, two very different treatments of Korean shamans, in 1979 and was interested in exploring the topic further with Im Kwon-taek. Im, for all his success in finding vivid ways of putting Buddhism on screen, has maintained that it is shamanism which lies at the roots of Korean religious culture.

Bului.dal.1983.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-thr.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 53 min
Size: 	913 MiB
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Resolution: 	1024x768 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.940 fps
Bit rate: 	1 000 kb/s
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#1:  	Korean 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0B7BE17D2A1635A/Bului.dal.1983.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-thr.mkv

Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English

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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.

Jagko.AKA.Pursuit.of.Death.1980.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
Size: 	1.96 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x366 
Aspect ratio:  	2.798
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 498 kb/s
BPP: 	0.278
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#1:  	Korean 1.0ch AAC LC @ 125 kb/s
#2:  	Korean 2.0ch AAC LC @ 88.2 kb/s (Commentary by filmmaker Kim Dae-seung and Cine21 editor Ju Sung-chul)

https://nitro.download/view/8A67760AC6B963E/Jagko.AKA.Pursuit.of.Death.1980.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Korean with Korean commentary
Subtitles:English (main feature and commentary)

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