14th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 26 - Jul 11, 2015

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North American Premiere

Coin Locker Girl

차이나타운

Straight outta Cannes comes this high velocity mash-up of Mommie Dearest and Goodfellas. Veteran Korean diva, Kim Hye-soo (The Thieves), has won 33 "Best Actress" awards since her career kicked off in 1986, and she brings all that high caliber thesping to her star turn as the most toxic mommy on earth. Back in 1996, a corrupt cop in her employ found Il-young (Kim Ko-eun, recipient of our Rising Star Award at NYAFF 2013) abandoned in a coin locker, and he brought her to the criminal queen bee played by Kim Hye-soo. Discovering that the foundling has a talent for mayhem, mom raises her up and trains her to go after the people who owe her money and snap their fingers like breadsticks. But, one day, her kid meets a guy she'd rather not mutilate, and so she defies her adoptive mom's orders. Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned, and soon they're tearing the city apart as they work out their mother-daughter issues with fists, guns, and knives.

Director: Han Jun-hee
Cast: Kim Ko-eun, Kim Hye-soo
Languages: Korean with English subtitles
2015; 110 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 11, 9:00pm
SVA Theatre

Director Han Jun-Hee will attend the screening.

Han Jun-hee
한준희

Born in 1984, Han Jun-hee started his film career as a screenwriter on Kim Ho-young’s psychic thriller The Gifted Hands (2013). He quickly joined the ranks of top Korean talent to watch with his directorial debut, Coin Locker Girl (2015), which successfully updates the Korea thriller genre to reflect new realities in Korean society.