Address Unknown (2001)
Release Date: Jun 2, 2001 Wide
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Following up on his hallucinatory meditation on sex, death, and fish hooks in The Isle, Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk spins this brutal exploration on the lingering anger and exploitation of America's occupation of South Korea. Even though all her letters are returned stamped "Address Unknown," a middle-aged woman nevertheless compulsively writes letter after letter to the American soldier with whom she bore an African-American/Korean child. Her son, named Chang-guk, is the object of societal
Jun 2, 2001 Wide
Jan 24, 2006
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Dong-kun Yang
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Young-min Kim
Ji-Hum -
Ban Min-Yung
Eun-Ok -
Jae Hyun Cho
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Pang Eun-Jin
Chang-Guk's Mother -
Myung Kye-Nam
Ji-Hum's Father -
Lee In-Ock
Eun-Ok's Mother -
Mitch Malum
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A simple tale about Dog butchery, bullying, American imperialism and Korean bigotry.
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The film also suffers from some truly terrible performances by the actors playing American soldiers. The American soldier has an important place in the plot, but the actor's performance is so cartoonish that it's distracting every time he's on screen. This portrayal may be the way that Koreans see the American soldiers stationed there, but it still doesn't line up with the rest of the film.