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Peppermint Candy

Peppermint Candy

Drama

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

Film review analysis↗

Completed

Korean

130 minutes

2025-03-02 14:31:37

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.

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