Han Gong-ju

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Han Gong-ju

2013

1h 52m

Drama

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100+ Ratings

Hyo-sun Choi is taken to an unfamiliar area to escape an investigation.

Danny King

Village Voice

The cumulative impact of the delayed story revelations and Chun's startling vulnerability is both an elegant gut-punch and a furious indictment ...

Jul 2, 2014

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Avoiding intimacy with something close to terror, Gong-ju idles on the fringes of events as though reluctant to take up space. She knows that invisibility is probably her only friend.

Jun 30, 2014

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

"Han Gong-ju" is one of the best Korean indie dramas, while Lee Su-jin's message will echo to the viewer long after the movie has ended: The cycle of violence never closes

Apr 11, 2021

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Joe Bendel

Epoch Times

This is not popcorn entertainment, but Chun's work is powerful stuff that puts recent tear-jerking young adult novel adaptations to shame for their naked manipulation.

Rated: 4/5

May 26, 2016

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Nikola Grozdanovic

The Playlist

The gnawing sense of failed potential is inescapable. Similar to its title character, "Han Gong-ju" is beautiful, brave and ambitious but ultimately too damaged to blossom into greatness.

Rated: C+

Aug 23, 2014

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Anton Bitel

Grolsch Film Works

Lee's sink-or-swim narrative exposes the seemingly insurmountable venality and injustice of Korea's social structures, while keeping its focus primarily on Gong-ju herself as a vehicle of both despair - and of hope too.

Jun 24, 2014

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Siriporn P

The story is good but very despressing though.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/11/23

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Audience Member

Watching Han Gong Ju is a deeply disturbing experience specially because you are not just watching a movie... but you are actually peeping in the psyche of this young girl in a traumatic phase of her life...

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

Uma garota sofre um estupro coletivo junto com sua amiga. Ela é afastada da sua cidade para não sofrer pressão dos pais dos criminosos que querem que ela assine um documento isentando seus filhos. Em uma casa de desconhecidos e em um novo colégio, ela tenta recomeçar a vida, mas esconder seu segredo não é nada fácil. Fala sobre um assunto polêmico com flashbacks que vão revelando, aos poucos, o estupro. É um filme bem executado, mas mediano.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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jake s

Remind me never to get raped in South Korea.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Delicate yet powerful.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Audience Member

Beautiful yet frustrating. The editing of this film was so inconsistent and impatient that you have to be overly conscious of the sudden transition between past and present. Despite the prevailing erratic timeline, Han Gong-Ju is such an exquisite film.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Synopsis

Hyo-sun Choi is taken to an unfamiliar area to escape an investigation.

Director: Lee Sujin
Producer: Jung-hwan Kim
Screenwriter: Lee Sujin
Production Co: Vill LEE Film
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 9, 2017
Runtime: 1h 52m

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