Together with the Consulates General of Korea across Canada (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver), the Korean Cultural Centre Canada is pleased to announce the third edition of the Online Cinema Series.

From Monday, August 24 to Sunday, September 6, the third edition of the Online Cinema Series will be available for free streaming through our website (canada.korean-culture.org). For the third edition, we present three films under the theme of “Time and Characters in Cinema.”

In the world of films, the audience is invited to places of imagination where physical and temporal concepts have no limits. The three films that we present draw upon these places of imagination brought by time structures and characters unique to cinematic storytelling.

The three films for this screening range from a story of a character trapped in time in <Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned>, to a story of vengeance against the chronicle of evil in <Inside Men>, and finally, a story of a terminally ill lawyer who befriends a mafia in <Man of Men>. 

We hope this screening will invite you to an exciting world of “Cinematic Time and Characters” unique to Korean cinema! 

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<Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned 가려진 시간>

Director Um Tae-hwa, 2016, 129 mins, PG-13,  Drama/Fantasy

Synopsis: 13-year-old Su-rin moves to a remote island with her step-father when her mother passes away. She befriends Sung-min, an orphan boy who truly understands her. One day, they venture into a cave in the forest with a group of kids and discover a glittering egg which, according to their local folktale, hold a time-eating monster; a monster that can instantly turn a child into an adult.

Su-rin tries to stop them, but the boys take the egg out of curiosity. When she follows them out of the cave, she finds that her friends have disappeared. The police assume that this is an abduction case and begin their investigation. Su-rin tells the police about finding the egg, but nobody believes her. Later, a mysterious man in his 30s shows up and tells Su-rin that he is Sung-min.

<Inside Men 내부자들>

Director Woo Min-ho, 2015, 130 mins, R,  Crime/Drama

Synopsis: LEE Kang-hee, an editor at an influential conservative newspaper raises congressman JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate for President using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s biggest sponsor. AHN Sang-goo, a political henchman who supported LEE and JANG, gets his hand cut when he is caught pocketing the record of the sponsor’s slush fund. WOO Jang-hoon, an ambitious prosecutor, starts to investigate the relationship with JANG and the sponsor believing it is the only chance he can make it to the top. While getting down to the grass roots on the case, WOO meets AHN who has been deliberately planning his revenge. Now the war among the one blind for power, the one hell bent for vengeance and the one eager for success starts.

<Man of Men 퍼펙트맨>

Director Yong-su, 2019, 116 mins, PG-13,  Drama/Comedy

Synopsis: Once an infamous lawyer for taking any cases for money, Jang-su (SEOL Kyung-gu) is now a terminal patient. His dreary time left is shaken up by the new volunteer Young-ki (CHO Jin-woong), a low-life gangster assigned to do the court-ordered community service. Finding Young-ki’s unrefined manner refreshing and authentic, Jang-su asks Young-ki to help him complete his bucket list in return of a large sum of his life insurance money. In desperate need of fast cash, Young-ki accepts the offer, but the job leads them to an unexpected ending.