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Peppermint candy = Pakha sat'ang / chejak Isŭt'ŭ P'illim ; kakpon kamdok Yi Ch'ang-dong.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Korean
- Subjects (All):
- Midlife crisis--Korea (South)--Drama.
- Midlife crisis.
- Man-woman relationships--Korea (South)--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Korea (South)--History--20th century--Drama.
- Korea (South).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- History.
- Foreign films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (131 minutes)) : sound, color
- Other Title:
- Pakha sat'ang
- Bakha satang
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Distributed by Asian Crush, [1999]
- Language Note:
- In Korean with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- In the spring of 1999 a distraught and incoherent middle-aged man, Kim Yong-ho, dressed in a tailored business suit, lies along the side of a railroad bridge that overlooks an open field by a lake. Nearby, a loose knit group of friends called the Bong-woo Club, which formed 20 years earlier at the same site during a social gathering of factory employees, are holding their reunion. Yong-ho stumbles into the picnic and is immediately recognized by members of the group as a fellow factory worker. Unable to disconnect himself from his desperate, unarticulated anguish and join in the amusement of his former colleagues, the inconsolable Yong-ho climbs to the railroad tracks and throws himself in front of a passing train, shouting "I am going back." The film then proceeds in reverse chronology through the past 20 years of Yong-ho's life -- from his family's estrangement, financial bankruptcy, traumatic law enforcement career during the 1987 student demonstrations for democratic reform, military service during the crackdown of martial law protestors that led to the tragedy of the 1980 Kwangju massacre, and the loss of his first love, Sun-Nim.
- Participant:
- Sŏl Kyŏng-gu, Mun So-ri, Kim Yŏ-jin.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on January 21, 2025).
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
- Description based on a videodisc record.
- OCLC:
- 1014268795
- Publisher Number:
- 889290183583
- 00019 Ya Entertainment
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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