If You Were Me 2 DVD

$ 14.00
Sales: $ 11.90

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Sales: $ 11.90 + $ 3.50 (shipping fee)

Korean

English / Traditional Chinese / off

DVD Box Set (NTSC - All Region)&

Various

2006 Release

1. Seaside Flower (Director Park Kyung-Hee / 22min)
2. Hey, Men~ (Director Ryu Seung-Wan / 21min)
3. A Boy with the Knapsac (Director Jung Ji-Woo / 26min)
4. Someone Grateful (Director Jang Jin / 24min)
5. Jongno, Winter (Director Park Kyung-Hee / 18min)

The last decade has seen incredibly rapid social and economic changes in South Korea, and it's rather wonderful to see the country's film industry doing its bit to help keep the moral maze in focus. Like the original If You Were Me (screened in the 2003 Festival), this is an anthology of shorts made for the National Human Rights Commission. It's a measure of the vitality of Korean film culture that leading directors think it's worth making such shorts without pay, and that their films are sharp enough to be marketed as entertainment.

This is another ace collection, with subjects ranging from the problems faced by North Korean refugees in the south to the case of a Chinese-Korean worker who froze to death while demanding unpaid wages. Its twin peaks are both comic. Ryoo Seung-Wan (director of Crying Fist) shows a drunken salaryman rubbing up against all his worst prejudices: intellectuals, gays, women... And Korea's wittiest writer-director Jang Jin upends one of the Left's most cherished myths: he shows the police torture of a student activist in the 80s - and focuses on the human rights of the cop.