Park Ri-woong — Director (2)

Movie

The Land of Morning Calm (2024)
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other title: 아침바다 갈매기는 / 晨謐之境 …
Feeling stuck, young fisherman Yong-su sees no hope in his future - like a fish in a net. As a last resort, he plans an insurance scam by staging his disappearance, hoping to provide a better life for his Vietnamese wife and his ageing mother. At the centre of this scheme is his captain, Yeong-guk, who reluctantly reports Yong-su missing. However, when Yong-su’s mother refuses to connect her son’s disappearance with his death, the white lie snowballs into something harder to chew.

Movie

The Girl on a Bulldozer (2022)
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other title: 坐推土机的少女 / 불도저에 탄 소녀 …
Haeyoung (Kim Hyeyoon) is a hopeless girl. She has tattoos all over her arms. She uses vulgar language, and is even violent. She is a terrible troublemaker. She does not have a mother and lives with her father (Park Hyukkwon), who runs a Chinese restaurant, and a younger sibling. One day, her father has a mysterious accident, which places her in a position of responsibility. She is now not only the head of the house and must look after her younger sibling, but also an investigator tasked with finding the truth about the accident, and a fighter standing against the ugly world. A detective (YeSung) tries to help her, but her life is far from being easy or organized. The way she lives her life remains unchanged. As the story develops, however, her boldness brings honesty and innocence, which eventually fills the film with touching moments. How will she operate a bulldozer? (JUNG Hanseok)