Family Ties
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- Movie: Family Ties
- Hangul: 가족의 탄생
- Revised romanization: Gajokeui tansaeng
- Director: Tae-Yong Kim
- Writer: Tae-Yong Kim, Ki-yeong Sung
- Producer:
- Cinemotagraphy:
- Release Date: May 18, 2006 (South Korea)
- Runtime: 113 Min.
- Production Budget: US$ 2.5 M
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
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Mira is a shy, single woman who runs a small restaurant and tends her plants with love and care. Her life is thrown into mayhem when her brother Hyungchul (Uhm Tae-woong), shows up out of the blue after five years' absence, some of them spent in jail. Hyung-chul not only settles down at Mira's place but is soon joined by his new wife, Mu-shin (Goh Doo-shim), a much older woman who smokes like a chimney - and Mira's a non-smoker. As if the house wasn't crowded enough, Mu-shin's young stepdaughter knocks at Mira's door one fine day, and moves in.
The film's second part centres on Sunkyung (Kong Hyo-jin), who discovers that her mother - with whom she has a terribly difficult relationship - is seriously ill. Unhappy about her life, Sun-kyung decides to leave the country, but her plan is disrupted by her mother's death and by the presence of Kyung-suk (Bong Tae-kyu), her half-brother.
Like threads neatly woven into the fine tapestry of a vivid family portrait, the intertwined lives of these characters come together years later in the third section of the film.
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Blood isn’t thicker than water in Family Ties, an intelligent, subtle drama full of witty winks at family bonds or, better said, at how to build a family. Even if it is dysfunctional. A film that tells three interrelated stories, where women take solidarity and the struggle for a future beyond blood, surrounded by useless men, in a shrewd critique of the masculine hero role in Korean cinema. The three stories come together like a jigsaw in an unexpected, explosive and almost surreal finale that shows the director’s ability to create a magical and moving story and totally believable characters. A shrewd look at the social, political and sexual role changes in traditional Korean society, with sprinklings of humor and magnificently played by a cast of the best in Korean film, headed by superstar Mun So-ri (Oasis).
[edit] Cast
- So-ri Moon - Mira
- Tae-woong Eom - Hyung-chul
- Du-shim Ko - Mu-shin
- Hyo-jin Kong - Sun-kyung
- Tae-gyu Bong - Kyung-suk
- Hye-ok Kim - Sun-kyung's mother
- Yu-mi Jeong
- Heung-chae Jeong
- Hie-bong Jo
- Jin-mo Ju
- Dong-yeong Kim
- Seung-beom Ryoo - Sun-kyung's ex-boyfriend
- Hyeon-a Kim
- Kkot-bi Kim
- Kyu-pil Ko
- Na-ri Lee
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