Short film
Choongshim, Soso
2012 · 30 min
A quiet, somber slice of displacement, watching a woman's fragile hope quietly collapse in a foreign border city.
- Directed by
- Kim Jung-in
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lee Sang-hee, Maeng Bong-hak
- Tagline
- Choongshim, Soso
- Overview
- In Dandong, the border city facing Sinuiju across the Amrok River, a North Korean defector named Choong-shim works as a massager. When the police chase the illegal immigrants, Choong-shim sneaks into a house of a Korean businessman who showed generosity to her. He once promised her that he would take her to the South. But he isn't there anymore, and Choong-shim gets devastated.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Isolation, survival, betrayal, immigration
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Kim Jung-in
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lee Sang-hee, Maeng Bong-hak
