Peppermint Candy

Lee Chang-dong
Ryoo Seung-bum, Moon So-ri, Kim Yu-jin, Seo Young-hee, Go Ah-sung, Lee Dae-yeon, Kim Kyung-ik, Kim In-kwon
1999
South Korea, Japan
Completed
Korean
130 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as박하사탕,is aSouth Korea, JapanProducerwomen sex,At1999Released in year
。The dialogue language isKorean,Current Douban rating8.6(For reference only)。
In the spring of 1999, a middle-aged man named Kim Yong-ho (played by Ryoo Seung-bum), despairing of life, attends a class reunion in a state of decline. He cries out nervously and screams at an oncoming train on an overpass: "I want to go back!"Three days before, Kim Yong-ho had already collapsed, wanting to end his life, but is called by a mysterious figure to meet someone. The next scenes take us back to 1994, when he lived a dissolute life, cold as ice to his wife (played by Kim Ji-soo) and prone to violence; in 1987, he was a ruthless police officer; from 1984, 1980, to 1978, it isn't until the seventh segment, through his first love (played by Moon So-ri) and the "Peppermint Candy" that serves as a thematic token, that the film reveals what crushed the protagonist's life, shattering his hopes.