Shilje Sanghwang

Shilje Sanghwang (2000)

Genres - Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime  |   Sub-Genres - Psychological Thriller  |   Run Time - 86 min.  |   Countries - Korea, South, United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

An unstable artist (Ju Jin-mo) is sent over the edge during a walk in the park when a woman with a video camera (Kim Jin-ah) begins following him. Flying into a murderous rage, the artist begins running loose through the city, leaving dead bodies in his wake, until he winds up back in the park where he began. Director Kim Hi-duk shot this feature in "real time," during less than four hours in one afternoon, using an armada of 20 film and video cameras set up in different locations; significantly, the film ends with the film running out in the cameras set in the park. Kim Hi-duk then edited his footage down to a compact 86 minutes.

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artist, killing-spree, mental-breakdown, video-camera