In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
Acting
Song Kang-ho's unhinged director is simultaneously pathetic and magnificent.
Direction
Kim Jee-woon juggles three timelines without dropping a single ball.
Production
1970s Korean film sets recreated with obsessive period detail.
Director
Kim Jee-woon
Song Kang-ho
Director Kim
Lim Soo-jung
Min-ja
Oh Jung-se
Ho-se
Jeon Yeo-been
Mido
Krystal Jung
Yu-rim
Park Jung-soo
Madam Oh
Jang Young-nam
President Baek
Jung Woo-sung
Director Shin
Um Tae-goo
Yu-rim's Boyfriend
Yeom Hye-ran
Ho-se's Wife
Kim Min-jae
Manager Kim
Kim Dong-young
Assistant Director
Kim Jae-geon
Chairman Kang
Jang Kwang
Chief Choi
Jeong In-gi
Actor as Hunter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1970s Korean film industry operated under Park Chung-hee's military dictatorship, where scripts required government approval and 'decadent' or critical content was banned — making Director Kim's resistance explicitly political.
The fictional film 'Cobweb' that Director Kim is making is actually a real lost 1970s Korean film by auteur Kim Ki-young, whose work was suppressed — this is Kim Jee-woon's tribute to a director destroyed by the same system depicted.
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