The Old Garden
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The plot of the film involves a couple during the turbulent political landscape in early 1980s South Korea, and the events surrounding the Gwangju Massacre.
Plot
Hyun-woo (Ji Jin-hee) is released after 17 years in prison. During his college days he was involved in the student-led anti-government protests that swept Korea in the early 1980s. Hyun-woo travels back to the town where he spent a few months immediately prior to his arrest.
Seventeen years earlier, Hyun-woo fled to a rural area, hiding from authorities trying to quash his anti-government group. He found sanctuary at the home of Han Yun-hee (Yum Jung-ah). Once a sympathizer to the anti-government cause, she now lives a modest life as a teacher in a small rural community. The couple quickly grow intimate, with Hyun-woo offering the spark missing from Yun-hee's simple life.
While Hyun-woo is in hiding at Yun-hee's home, he learns that most of his fellow anti-government protesters are imprisoned. Though he is high on the government's wanted list, he feels ashamed for living peacefully while his friends are imprisoned. Thus, he makes the difficult decision to leave Yun-hee and go back to the movement centered in Seoul.
What he later learns is that he left behind the sole person who would stay faithful to him throughout his 17-year imprisonment and also Yun-hee, who is carrying his baby.
Cast
- Ji Jin-hee
- Yum Jung-ah
- Youn Yuh-jung
- Lee Soo-mi as Soo-mi
Awards and nominations
- Best Actress - Yum Jung-ah
- Nomination – Best Screenplay - Im Sang-soo
- Nomination – Best Editing - Lee Eun-soo
References
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- The Old Garden: a review at The Korea Society
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- 2006 films
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- Films directed by Im Sang-soo
- Lotte Entertainment films
- 2000s Korean-language films
- South Korean political films
- 2000s political films
- 2000s South Korean films