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Summertime (2001 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Summertime' is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Park Jae-ho and starring Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun. A remake of the controversial Philippine film 'Scorpio Nights' (1985), the film was also inspired by the Gwangju massacre.
Plot
Set in the 1980s, Sang-ho is a student activist hiding out in a small rural village. He accidentally witnesses, through a hole on the floor of his second story room, a married couple having sex. He discovers he is a voyeur at heart and becomes bolder and bolder in his actions. One day, he gets an opportunity to play out his fantasies. When the husband is not home, Sang-ho goes downstairs. Imitating the husband's manner of foreplay even down to the sequence, the young man has sex with the wife. She, like Sang-ho, is a prisoner of the house. The second time he comes to her, he touches her in a different way which makes her turn around and discover that there is a stranger in her bed. But this does not deter her as she reaches out to him for an intense embrace. The husband, Tae-yeol, is an ex-policeman fired for alleged corruption, and his wife Hee-ran, who was raped by him as a young girl, for the sake of status quo has ended up as his wife and prisoner.
Cast
*Ryu Soo-young as Sang-ho
*Kim Ji-hyun as Hee-ran
*Choi Cheol-ho as Tae-yeol
*Song Ok-sook as Gi-ok
*Bae Jeong-yun as Young-mi
*Choi Seong-min
*Yun Yeong-keol
*Jang Seong-won
*Kim Seon-hwa
*Lee Seung-hun
*Ahn Byeong-kyeong
*Park Hoon-jung as child in the playground
References
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