Kim Ki Duk once again blows me away with his ability to make such a compelling film with so little dialogue, and once again with such a tweaked concept. This is a really impressively well made and enjoyable film, with performances that don’t need dialogue to bring them along. And yes the simple storyline is a bit disturbing, but you can really believe it from these characters and how they act this out. Really worth checking out.

A 60 year old man (Jeon Seong Hwan 전성환) lives on a boat and runs a fishing business as well as giving fortunes to his clients. He lives with a 17 year old girl (Han Yeo Reum 한여름) who helps him on the boat, and who he shoots at with arrows to do his fortune telling. The man plans on marrying the girl when she turns 18 in a short time. One group of passengers comes out with a young man (Seo Ji Seok 서지석) who is attracted to the girl and who she is also attracted too, and starts to pull her away from the old man, making a bitter jealousy.

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The boy returns a second time, having found the girls parents, who want their daughter back, who went missing when she was 7, and this old man has kept. Yes he treated her well, but not letting her leave, and washing her, and keeping her as basically a prisoner.

The boy plans on taking the young girl, but the old man gets out his boy, and is going to attack, but the girl finally stands up to him, and leaves with the young boy, going to have a real life.

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Again, really an enjoyable and well done film. I really enjoyed the acting, and the lack of dialogue to tell this story, so simple, but with so much depth of acting.