Peppermint Candy

1999 [KOREAN]

Action / Drama

21
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 83% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 12280 12.3K

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Plot summary

In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.

Director

Chang-dong Lee Photo
Chang-dong Lee

Top cast

Kyung-gu Sol Photo
Kyung-gu Sol as Yongho
Jung Suh Photo
Jung Suh as Miss Lee
Yeo-jin Kim Photo
Yeo-jin Kim as Hongja
Se-beom Park Photo
Se-beom Park as Shinkwang man
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.17 GB
1280*714
Korean 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 5
2.4 GB
1920*1072
Korean 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Alvaritj 9 / 10

Brilliant! More please!

A smart film! We get to follow a man back in time (in the "wrong" chronological order!?). At first he seems to be a cruel, evil and bitter man. But the further back in time the film takes us we get another picture. A picture of how an ordinary nice guy turns in to a sadistic man by the "system". Maybe the film makers wants us to see that no man is born evil.
Reviewed by DonShin 9 / 10

the origins of a Korean man's destruction

while it may take being Korean (and being part of the "386-generation" that really went through all the turbulent events of this movie's timeline) to fully appreciate this movie, it is nevertheless a powerful, graphic, and grippingly emotional commentary on South Korea of the the last twenty years. Director Chang-dong Lee masterfully presents the plot in reverse chronological order, and protagonist Kyung-gu Sol handily goes from broken buisnessman to lovesick schoolboy by the movie's end/his troubled road's beginning. In a way, this movie is perhaps Korea's unique and tragic answer to a movie like "Forrest Gump." "Na ottoke" ("what do I do?") - indeed, what does one do when faced with such experiences? Easily one of the best Korean movies I've seen to date.
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