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By Ki-Duk KIM

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Drama - Completed 2012

A solitary man who grew up as an orphan works as a cruel loan shark. A mysterious woman claims to be his mother and he finds himself becoming attached to her only to realize her extreme yet sad motive.

Festivals
& Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2012

Competition Golden Lion

Toronto - TIFF 2012

Masters

Busan - BIFF/APM 2012

Korean Cinema Today - Vision

Sitges - Intl Fantastic FF of Catalonia 2012

Oficial noves vision

Dubai DIFF 2012

Muhr AsiaAfrica Feature Best Director

Palm Spring IFF 2013

Best Foreign Language Film

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- KOREA (South)
- Languages
- KOREAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Ki-Duk KIM
- Writer(s)
- Ki-Duk KIM
- Cast
- Min-Soo CHO, Jung-Jin LEE
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-723E-0000-8-0000-0000-D
- EIDR
- 10.5240/4AA3-9B86-9CEE-DE1E-290E-N
- Producer(s)
- Soon-Mo KIM (KIM Ki-duk Film )
- Synopsis
- Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at first, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent life. Then suddenly the mother is kidnapped. Assuming that it would be by someone he had hurt in the past, he starts to track down all the people he had harassed. The man finally finds the one, only to discover most horrifing dark secrets better left unrevealed.

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