Han Gong-ju

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Movie Info

Hyo-sun Choi is taken to an unfamiliar area to escape an investigation.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Korean
Director:

Su-jin Lee
Producer:

Jung-hwan Kim
Writer:

Su-jin Lee
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 9, 2017
Runtime:

1h 52m

Cast & Crew

Woo-hee Chun
Han Gong-Ju

So-young Kim
Hwa-Ok

In-seon Jeong
Eun-Hee

Young-lan Lee
Ms. Lee

Su-jin Lee
Director

Su-jin Lee
Screenwriter

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Critic Reviews for Han Gong-ju

All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (1)

The cumulative impact of the delayed story revelations and Chun's startling vulnerability is both an elegant gut-punch and a furious indictment ...

July 2, 2014 | Full Review…

Danny King
Village Voice
Avoiding intimacy with something close to terror, Gong-ju idles on the fringes of events as though reluctant to take up space. She knows that invisibility is probably her only friend.

June 30, 2014 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
This is not popcorn entertainment, but Chun's work is powerful stuff that puts recent tear-jerking young adult novel adaptations to shame for their naked manipulation.

May 26, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Joe Bendel
Epoch Times
The gnawing sense of failed potential is inescapable. Similar to its title character, "Han Gong-ju" is beautiful, brave and ambitious but ultimately too damaged to blossom into greatness.

August 23, 2014 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Nikola Grozdanovic
The Playlist
Lee's sink-or-swim narrative exposes the seemingly insurmountable venality and injustice of Korea's social structures, while keeping its focus primarily on Gong-ju herself as a vehicle of both despair - and of hope too.

June 24, 2014 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Grolsch Film Works