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Coin Locker Girl (Hangul: 차이나타운; RR: Chainataun; lit. Chinatown) is a 2015 South Korean film written and directed by Han Jun-hee, starring Kim Hye-soo, Kim Go-eun, Uhm Tae-goo with Park Bo-gum and Go Kyung-pyo.[3][4][5] It was selected to screen in the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
A baby is found abandoned inside a coin locker at Western Seoul train station in 1996. A beggar takes her and names her Il-young (Kim Go-eun), then when she turns 10, she is taken by the corrupt detective who sells her off to a woman referred to simply as Mother as part of his loan payment (Kim Hye-soo). Mother is the boss of a loan shark and organ trafficking crime ring in Chinatown, Incheon; she has held on to her position of power by being dispassionate and calculating, and by keeping by her side only those of use to her. Mother decides to raise the young child after she shows toughness and smarts, eventually grooming her for a position in her organization as her personal debt collector. One day, Il-young is given a task to collect debt from Suk-hyun (Park Bo-gum), the son of a debtor. Over the course of a few days, she is initially taken back by the boy who is not afraid of her and shows her kindness and openness from his own struggles from the past and current with unyielding spirit that she starts to develop special feelings for him. But when his father flees from the debt, Mother orders her to kill Suk-hyun. Il-young cannot go through with it and by making that single choice, she must now flee from the only family she has ever known.
A new born girl is placed in a coin operated locker in the subway station. The girl is raised by a mother who is the boss for a loan shark group. Later, when the girl has grown into a teen, she carries out missions given to her by her mother.
Director : Jun-hee Han
Writer : Jun-hee Han
Stars :
Hye-su Kim, Go-eun Kim, Bo-gum Park.
A baby is found abandoned inside a coin locker at Western Seoul train station in 1996. A beggar takes her and names her Il-young (Kim Go-eun), then when she turns 10, she is taken by the corrupt detective who sells her off to a woman referred to simply as Mother as part of his loan payment (Kim Hye-soo). Mother is the boss of a loan shark and organ trafficking crime ring in Chinatown, Incheon; she has held on to her position of power by being dispassionate and calculating, and by keeping by her side only those of use to her. Mother decides to raise the young child after she shows toughness and smarts, eventually grooming her for a position in her organization as her personal debt collector. One day, Il-young is given a task to collect debt from Suk-hyun (Park Bo-gum), the son of a debtor. Over the course of a few days, she is initially taken back by the boy who is not afraid of her and shows her kindness and openness from his own struggles from the past and current with unyielding spirit that she starts to develop special feelings for him. But when his father flees from the debt, Mother orders her to kill Suk-hyun. Il-young cannot go through with it and by making that single choice, she must now flee from the only family she has ever known.
A new born girl is placed in a coin operated locker in the subway station. The girl is raised by a mother who is the boss for a loan shark group. Later, when the girl has grown into a teen, she carries out missions given to her by her mother.
Director : Jun-hee Han
Writer : Jun-hee Han
Stars :
Hye-su Kim, Go-eun Kim, Bo-gum Park.
Coin Locker Girl | |
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Directed by | Han Jun-hee |
Produced by | Ahn Eun-mi Cho Dong-ki |
Written by | Han Jun-hee |
Based on | Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami |
Starring | Kim Hye-soo Kim Go-eun Uhm Tae-goo Park Bo-gum Go Kyung-pyo |
Music by | Jang Young-gyu Kim Sun |
Cinematography | Lee Chang-jae |
Edited by | Shin Min-kyung |
Production
company |
Pollux Pictures
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Distributed by | CGV Arthouse[1] |
Release date
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Running time
| 110 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | US$10.7 million[2] |