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Banned in 1961 for its scathing critique of postwar reconstruction but now widely hailed as one of the greatest Korean films ever made, Yu Hyun-mok’s breakout feature was this unrelentingly bleak, noir-tinged melodrama set in the aftermath of the Korean War. The film follows the tragic bond between two brothers living with their surviving family in a Seoul slum called Liberation Village. While Cheol-ho, an accountant suffering from a toothache he can’t afford to treat, struggles to scrape together a meager existence, the senseless consequences of the war gradually tear at the seams of his family and push his younger brother, Young-Ho, to a desperate measure. An on-location tour through the traumatized atmosphere of Korea’s capital, Aimless Bullet artfully blends expressionist and neorealist styles within a grimly introspective portrait of a nation left shattered by hatred and fear
Original Release
04/13/1961
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jin Kyu Kim | Cheol-ho |
Jeong-suk Moon | Cheol-ho's Wife / Wife |
Ae-ja Seo | Myeong-suk |
Hye-jeong Kim | Miri |
Baek Choe | |
Geon Choe | |
Kil-ho Choi | |
Seong Choi | (as Sung Choi) |
Bang-yeol Ji | |
Seung Kim |
Directors
Writers
Beom-seon Lee, I-ryeong Lee, Jong-gi Lee
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jin Kyu Kim | Cheol-ho |
Jeong-suk Moon | Cheol-ho's Wife / Wife |
Ae-ja Seo | Myeong-suk |
Hye-jeong Kim | Miri |
Baek Choe | |
Geon Choe | |
Kil-ho Choi | |
Seong Choi | (as Sung Choi) |
Bang-yeol Ji | |
Seung Kim | |
Seol-bong Ko | |
Dae-yeob Lee | (as Dae-yub Lee) |
Jin-a Lee | |
Kyeong-chun Lee | |
Yong Lee | (as Ryong Lee) |
Hye-ran Mun | |
Chun-yeok Nam | |
Jae-shin No | Mother |
Chun Park | |
Gyeong-hui Park |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Seong-chun Kim | Producer |
Gyeong-sik Park | Producer |