Address Unknown (2001 film)

Address Unknown

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Hangul 수취인 불명
Hanja 受取人不明
RR Suchwiin bulmyeong
MR Such'wiin pulmyŏng
Directed by Kim Ki-duk
Produced by Lee Seung-jae
Written by Kim Ki-duk
Starring Yang Dong-geun
Ban Min-jeong
Bang Eun-jin
Cho Jae-hyun
Cinematography Seo Jeong-min
Editing by Ham Seong-won
Distributed by Tube Entertainment
Release date(s) 2 June 2001
Running time 117 mins.
Country South Korea
Language Korean

Address Unknown (Hangul: 수취인 불명; RR: Suchwiin bulmyeong) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk. It was the opening movie of the 2001 Venice Film Festival.

Overview

Based on real life stories from the director's life, and those known to him. It is set in the Korean countryside around a U.S. army base, and particularly involves the villages that are affected by its presence. This includes an unstable, near psychotic American soldier who survives on a diet of LSD and rage, Eun-Ok, a girl with one defective eye, Jihum a lonesome boy and Chang-Guk, who lives in an old U.S. army bus with his mother. She has taught Chang-Guk English in an attempt to prepare him for their new life in America, reunited with his father who she mails regularly, although the letters are always returned "address unknown."

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