BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS

JI-PU-RA-GI-RA-DO JAP-GO-SHIP-EUN JIM-SEUNG-DEUL

By Yong-Hoon KIM

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First film - Completed 2019

Different desires of these low lives slowly gather around the money bag.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFF 2020
Bright Future Tiger Competition special jury award
Red Sea IFF 2020
Best of the Year
Busan IFF 2020
Korean Cinema Today
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • First film, Thriller
    • Countries
    • KOREA (South)
    • Languages
    • KOREAN
    • Duration
    • 116 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yong-Hoon KIM
    • Synopsis
    • The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.