The film opens with its tragic protagonist standing on a train track, screaming "I want to go back!" as a train approaches. The story then unfolds in reverse, revealing the trauma that led to this moment.
Less famous but more devastating. Deaf-mute Ryu kidnaps a industrialist’s daughter to pay for his sister’s kidney transplant. The girl accidentally drowns in a reservoir.
After the fall of the military dictatorship and the lifting of the strict Production Law in 1996, Korean directors unleashed a pent-up creative fury.
: The claustrophobic tension of the housemaid's quiet but lethal intrusion into a middle-class family remains a masterclass in subverting social hierarchies. Aimless Bullet (1961)
