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Coin Locker Girl

HAN Jun Hee

Korea2015 110min D-Cinema Color

Synopsis

Il-young, her name was made because she was abandoned just-born-baby in a coin-locker #10(Il-Young sounds in Korean) in s subway station. After eight years, she is sold off to the godmother of Chinatown syndicate a.k.a ‘Mom’ and becomes a member of her ‘family’. Only the useful one can survive there, in Chinatown. Coinlocker Girl is a story of two women who is struggling their own ways to survive in a cold blooded, brutal world.

Diretor

HAN Jun Hee

HAN Jun-hee, who is one of the rookie directors of 2015 that the Korean cinematic world is focusing on, wrote his first writing a screenplay for The Gifted Hands(2013) and has made his directorial debut with Coin Locker Girl. He creates an unprecedented character that proves his exceptional directing skills. His first feature film Coin Locker Girl was nominated for Cannes Critic's Week