Failan

2001 [KOREAN]

Action / Drama / Romance

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 6520 6.5K

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Plot summary

After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency.

Director

Hae-sung Song Photo
Hae-sung Song

Top cast

Cecilia Cheung Photo
Cecilia Cheung as Failan
Min-sik Choi Photo
Min-sik Choi as Kang-jae
Kyeong-jin Min Photo
Kyeong-jin Min as Director Gan Seong
Byung-ho Son Photo
Byung-ho Son
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.04 GB
1280*720
Korean 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds ...
2.14 GB
1904*1072
Korean 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sitenoise 6 / 10

Great Performances in a phony melodrama

Reviewed by alife613 7 / 10

It's no Hana-bi

This film falls somewhere between Fireworks and Postman Blues, without approaching the greatness of either. The principal problem seems to be a serious lack of depth and excessively sappy treatment where the title character, Failan herself, is concerned. Demands for sympathy are so obvious and pathetic that the film is stripped of much of its potential emotion.While there are excellent performances all around, and moments of brilliance in direction and cinematography, the script itself seems to be so lop-sided in terms of its focus on the two worlds of the main characters, that it makes one question why any of Failan's life is shown at all. Indeed, the final sequence would have been much more effective otherwise.
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