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Nowhere to Hide (Hangul: ???? ? ? ??; RR: Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda) is a 1999 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Myung-se.
Nowhere to Hide | |
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Hangul | ???? ? ? ?? |
Hanja | ???? ? ? ?? |
Revised Romanization | Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda |
McCune–Reischauer | Inj?ng saj?ng pol k?t ?pta |
Directed by | Lee Myung-se |
Written by | Lee Myung-se |
Starring | Park Joong-hoon Ahn Sung-ki Jang Dong-gun Choi Ji-woo |
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Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
The film is set in Incheon in South Korea. A murder is committed, and the cops search for the killer.
Opening up in monochrome but with occasional flashes of colour, the first action scene is a disorientating strobe-like affair. From there the movie proceeds in color, with many innovative editing techniques, including slow-motion, jump cut, step-printed slow motion, "jump dissolves," still frames, and layering images on top of one another.
Park Joong-hoon stars as the obsessive Detective Woo. Jang Dong-gun won the best supporting actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for his role as Detective Kim.
The film was a hit at both the inaugural Asia Pacific Film Festival in Sydney, and the Sundance Film Festival, but its American release was limited, brief, and unsuccessful.