Pianist Sara arrives in the city of Seoul as an exchange professor. She can't see the sad loneliness of the city. Sarah enjoys her time as a well-to-do tourist. Others, born in the city, fight against loneliness and sorrow. Illegal workers are exploited and cops extort money from adult entertainment establishments. Among these, gang member Il-Hwan (Oh Seong-Tae) collects money ...
JEON stated that ”with The Painter I want to create a different type of mise-en-scene within the frame of genre – a unique and highly stylized film with the vision I have become known for.” The project will star YOO Joon-sang, who is known for his performance in HONG Sangsoo’s films such as Hahaha (2009), The Day He Arrives (2011) and In Another Country (2012), as a painter wit...
OH Sung-chul does manual labor and spends the cold winter in a low-rise apartment building scheduled for demolition. He has a sexual disability and an obsessive compulsive disorder, so he wears an electronic anklet and tries desperately to suppress his desires. He gets a job as a cab driver and finds himself drawn to a 9-year-old who collects waste paper in the neighborhood. KI...
