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Forbidden Floor

KWON ll-Soon

Korea2006 97min HD Color World Premiere

Synopsis

Min-young is a single mom, who recently moved into a newly built apartment on 5th floor with her six-year old daughter. One floor down lives a griping neighbor Han Chang-soo, who complains noises coming from the upper floor when Min-young leads a discreet life with her quiet daughter. The residents of the apartment building show out of ordinary behaviors, a murder is committed with the killer at large. Ju-hee demonstrates odd behaviors herself. Min-young runs into a creepy woman in the apartment building. These events start to add up and Min-young has become psychologically more unstable since the moving into this neighborhood. Min-young is now so convinced that her daughter's mysterious symptom and un-explainable events around her all point to the apartment building. She decides to take the matter to her own hands and solve the mystery.

Diretor

KWON ll-Soon

Borin in 1970, he studied movie at Dankook Iniversity. He was invited to Venice Film Festival to screen his short film Hide and Seek (2001). He participated in the production of No Blood, No Tears as directing staff and has been working with Korea's leading directors such as Lee Hyeon Seong and Huh Jin Ho.