A Day Off (1968)

Original title

휴일

Directed by

Lee Man-hee

Genre

drama film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man spends a single day wandering through Seoul. He encounters people and places that reflect the loneliness and disconnection of urban life.

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What happens

A Day Off (Korean: 휴일) is a South Korean drama film directed by Lee Man-hee. Shot and completed in 1968 but not released due to censorship, it opened to the public in 2005, 37 years later, after the original print was rediscovered during the reorganization of the Korean Film Archive's warehouse. Regarded as one of the masterpieces of 1960s Korean film and its representative modernist film, A Day Off was selected near the top of the top 100 Korean films list in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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