A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.
Direction
Kim Ki-duk's wordless storytelling hits harder than dialogue ever could.
Acting
Chang Chen's entire performance through a cell window is devastating.
Cinematography
Those seasonal backdrops transforming a concrete box into something almost beautiful.
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kim Ki-duk himself plays the prison warden, making him literally the authority figure keeping his lovers apart.
The film was shot in just 10 days with almost no script, typical of Kim's controversial 'fast and dirty' method that polarized Korean critics.
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