The Land of Morning Calm, dir. Park Ri-woong, Korea 2024, 113 min., Korean with English subtitles, 12
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In a neglected coastal village, bullying, cantankerous, divorced Vietnam vet Yeong-gook (Yoon Joo-sang) drowns his sorrows every night, and goes out early each morning in a fishing boat that, like him, has seen better days. With his straight talk and bellowing voice, he is perhaps the worst man to keep a secret, but he has several: one about the circumstances of his marital breakup; and another about the fate of his vanished boat assistant Yong-soo (Park Jong-hwan) whose mother Pan-rye (Yang Hee-kyung) and Vietnamese wife Yeong-ran (Khazsak) have been left in a legal limbo.
Park Ri-woong’s drama is a bleak portrait of an ageing, dying community, of those left behind by Korea’s economic boom, and of a whole way of life that is running on empty. All these characters lead harsh, precarious existences - and there seems to be only one way for any of them truly to escape their misery.
Park Ri-woong’s drama is a bleak portrait of an ageing, dying community, of those left behind by Korea’s economic boom, and of a whole way of life that is running on empty. All these characters lead harsh, precarious existences - and there seems to be only one way for any of them truly to escape their misery.
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06:30 pm
Sat, 08 Nov 2025
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