In-ho is willing to do anything to protect his first love, Mi-ju, including murder. They cannot forget each other while In-ho is in prison, but their love does not go smoothly.
Acting
Ju Jin-mo simmers with desperate intensity.
Direction
Kwak Kyung-taek's muscular, unflinching violence.
Director
Kwak Kyung-taek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Kwak Kyung-taek made this between Friend (2001) and Typhoon (2005), completing his unofficial 'masculine destruction' trilogy.
The film reflects Korean cinema's obsession with doomed first loves and the social impossibility of ex-convict redemption—Mi-ju's family pressure mirrors real stigma.
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