Kim Seong-Su Movies
- 1985
In a routine melodrama with a universal theme, an elderly Korean couple is forced to live with their oldest son because they have nowhere else to go. The couple can no longer live on their own in the countryside, and all their children now live in the city. Like others, they have just two choices in their later years: they can either go to one of the many forbidding senior citizens' homes or they can stay with one of their children. (There is no financial assistance for the elderly in South Korea.) After moving in with their oldest son, everyone suffers due to the cramped quarters -- and the dilemma of the aging is clearly delineated in the process. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shin Seong-il, Hwang Jeong-Sun, (more)
- 2001
A two-character drama shot in black-and-white on digital video, Camel(s) stars Myung-Shin Park and Dae-Yeon Lee as a businessman and a pharmacy clerk from Seoul who drive to a seaside resort for a weekend affair. Through conversations over meals, in bed, and while driving or walking around the resort, a few details emerge about their lives and families back home, how they met, and why they have embarked on their a relationship which never seems to come across as very satisfying. By isolating his characters, and limiting the audience's knowledge of their lives and backgrounds, director Ki-Yong Park makes Camel(s) a subtle drama that emphasizes the dissatisfaction that seems to grip both protagonists. ~ Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lee Dae-Yun, Park Myeong-shin, (more)
Kim Yong-gyun's picture The Red Shoes is a South Korean horror opus. The story unravels in Seoul, where Sun Jae (Kim Hye Soo) discovers her husband's infidelity and leaves him, moving into an ancient, semi-dilapidated apartment house with her daughter, Tae Soo. She discovers a strange pair of red shoes on the subway and carts them home with her, sans realizing that the shoes carry a demonic curse and threaten to destroy the life of whoever holds them. As supernatural terrors hit the apartment and otherworldly visions fill Sun Jae's mind (including a dream sequence where drops of blood snow down from the sky), the shoes unleash the buried malevolent thoughts and desires from everyone surrounding Sun Jae, propelling the individuals toward horrible deaths. Sun Jae and her boyfriend Cheol (Kim Seong-Su) then attempt to determine the origin of the shoes and end the death spell - before Sun Jae's life is extinguished. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kim Hye-su, Kim Seong-Su, (more)
