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Dear Dictator

2015 · 102 min

A bleak, slow indie drama that drifts through hardscrabble lives with a detached, uneasy gaze.

Directed by: Lee Sang-woo
Genres: Drama
Starring: Kim Young-gune, Shin Won-ho, Seo Hyun-seok

Overview: Bukseong, Youngrim and Woosuck are dropouts living in a shanty town. One day, a spy from North Korea begins video-recording their hardscrabble lives. A complicated series of events happens between them.

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Directed by: Lee Sang-woo
Genres: Drama
Starring: Kim Young-gune, Shin Won-ho, Seo Hyun-seok

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
class
survival
identity
exploration
Places: small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Lee Sang-woo
Written by: Lee Sang-woo
Starring: Kim Young-gune, Shin Won-ho, Seo Hyun-seok, Lee Joo-min, Lee Tae-rim, Hwang Seok-ha
Runtime: 102 min
Country: South Korea
Languages: Korean

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