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Peppermint Candy

Original title: Bakhasatang

“A travel back in time to find a man's lost innocence.”

1999 · 2 h 9 min
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Drama

Cast

Sol Kyung-gu Moon So-ri Kim Yeo-jin

Credits

Written by: Lee Chang-dong

Plot

A man stands on a railway track, and the story of the twenty years that led him there is told in reverse, back through Korea's modern history.

Sinekatalog’s take

Lee Chang-dong's drama is told in reverse, tracing a broken man back through twenty years of Korean history. Sol Kyung-gu is superb, and the film's structure makes its heartbreak and cruelty hit all the harder.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (13,083 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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