¢º Samaria/ Samaritan Girl
 
2004, Drama, 95min

Director : KIM Ki-duk
Executive Producer: KIM Dong-joo
Producer : BAE Jeong-min
Screenplay : KIM Ki-duk Cinematographer : SUN Sang-jae
Editor : KIM Ki-duk
Original Music : PARK Ji

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webstie : www.samaria2004.co.kr

54th Berlin International FilmFestival "Best Director"

 

starring
KWAK Ji-min : as Yeo-jin
SEO Min-jung : as Jae-young
LEE Uhl : as Young-gi, Yeo-jin¡¯s father

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Synopsis

 

Yeo-jin is a teenage girl who lives happily with her detective father. Her best friend Jae-young prostitutes herself while Yeo-jin helps Jae-youngher by managing their clientele and saving up their profits for their planned trip to Europe. Jae-young tells Yeo-jin about an old Indian tale where a prostitute named Vasumitra turned men into faithful Buddhists after she had sex with them. Jae-young asks Yeo-jin to call her Vasumitra from now on. Later on, Jae-young ends up falling attached to one of her customers. But Yeo-jin gets angry with Jae-young for getting too close to her customer. For her best friend, Jae-young leaves the man.

One day, cops come to the motel to search for prostituting minors, Jae-young jumps out of a window andhas her head injured. plummets to the ground. On her deathbed, Jae-young asks Yeo-jin to bring the guy she liked. Yeo-jin goes to meet him, but the man doesn't want to see Jae-young. He asks her if she has sex with him, he will go. Yeo-jin reluctantly accepts his proposal for the sake of her dying friend. However, Jae-young is already found dead before they arrive at the hospital.

Shocked by her best friend¡¯s death, Yeo-jin starts meeting Jae-young's customers one by one, but instead of getting paid she rather pays them back. The men are surprised at Yeo-jin's behavior, and they later regret what they did to a hischool girl. Gradually, Yeojin meets men happily like Jae-young.

One day, Yeo-jin's father coincidentally spots Yeo-jin with a man and he starts to tail him. From that day on, he beats up those men and he ends up killing one of Yeo-jin's men. One night, he asks Yeo-jin to go on a journey...


Synopsis

 

2004.07 Brisbane Int'l Film Festival (Australia)
2004.07 ERA - New Horizon Film Festival (Poland)
2004.07 Melbourne Int'l Film Festival (Australia)
2004.07 OSIAN'S - CINEFAN, 6th Festival of Asian Cinema (India)
2004.07 Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival (Czech Republic)
2004.06 Moscow Int'l Film Festival (Russia)
2004.02 Berlin Int'l Film Festival - Best Director / Silver Bear Award (Germany)


 

Director _KIM Ki-duk

From the perspective of a man who could be an assailant, I try to fathom the painful minds of fathers whose daughters they love are made into prostitutes during these times.

[Profile]
Born in 1960.
Studied Fine art in France from 1990~1992

[FILMOGRAPHY]
1996 "The Crocodile" Featrure Debut, Director / Screenplay
1997 "Wild Animal" Director / Screenplay
1998 "Birdcage Inn" Director / Screenplay
1999 "The Isle" Director / Screenplay
2000 "Real Fiction" Director / Screenplay
2001 "Address Unknown" Director / Screenplay
2002 "Bad Guy" Director / Screenplay
2002 "The Coast guard" Director
2003 "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring" Director / Screenplay
2004 "Samaritan Girl" Director / Screenplay