Acacia (film)

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Acacia
Directed by	Park Ki-hyeong
Produced by	Kang Sung-kyu Park Ki-hyeong Yu Yeong-shik
Written by	Seong Gi-young Park Ki-hyeong
Starring	Shim Hye-jin Kim Jin-geun Moon Woo-bin Jeong Na-yun
Music by	Choi Man-sik
Cinematography	Oh Hyun-jae
Editing by	Ham Seong-weon
Distributed by	Show East
Release date(s)	October 17, 2003 February 27, 2004 April 14, 2004 June 17, 2004 January 21, 2005
Running time	103 mins.
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$2.2 million
IMDb profile
Korean name
Hangul	아카시아
Revised Romanization	Akasia

Acacia is a 2003 South Korean horror film, directed by Park Ki-hyeong and starring Shim Hye-jin and Kim Jin-geun.

[edit] Plot

Unable to have children of their own, married couple Mi-sook and Do-il adopt a young boy named Lee Jin-seong (His name soon gets changed to Kim Jin-seong when he moves with Mi-sook and Do-il). The boy is drawn to an acacia tree in his new home's backyard, which soon becomes the focal point of an increasing number of strange occurrences.

Jin-seong makes a new friend named Min-jee who is two years older than him, and they only play with each other. Soon she tells Jin-seong that she cannot go to school as she has lost a lot of blood, and when she kisses Jin-seong, he starts to change becoming even more aggressive and violent. He turns even worse as Mi-sook becomes pregnant and has a new baby named Hae-sung. Jin-seong is so angry that he tries to beat the baby to death, and starts running away.

Soon Min-jee starts changing and becoming more obsessed with the acacia tree as well, and starts find herself in unnatural situations, like making ants attack another person. Mi-sook gets so frustrated that she decides to chop the tree down, but finds a bleeding and passed out Jin-seong.

[edit] Cast

• Shim Hye-jin ... Choi Mi-sook
• Kim Jin-geun ... Kim Do-il
• Moon Woo-bin ... Kim Jin-seong
• Park Woong
• Jeong Na-yun ... Min-ji
• Lee Young-hee
• Min Hye-ryeong

[edit] External links

• Acacia at the Internet Movie Database
• Acacia at Allmovie
• Acacia at Rotten Tomatoes
• Review at Koreanfilm.org

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