While the government watches everything and everyone, Myonggil and Pyongsok organize a movie club called The Magnificent Seven. Later in life, after Myonggil is released from military service, he goes to visit his childhood friend and finds out that their lives have taken very different paths.
Acting
Choi Min-soo's eyes carry twenty years of unspoken words.
Direction
Chung Ji-young makes Seoul feel like a ghost you used to know.
Writing
The Magnificent Seven club name becomes devastatingly ironic.
Director
Chung Ji-young
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during South Korea's democratic transition, it captures the specific melancholy of 1980s student activists facing 1990s economic reality.
The title's 'Hollywood Kid' refers ironically to Myeong-gil—he never left Korea, never made films, yet the name haunts him as what he almost became.
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