2009: Lost Memories (2002)
- Original title
- 2009 로스트메모리즈
- Directed by
- Lee Si-myeong
- Genre
- drama film, action film, science fiction film, thriller film, dystopian film, political thriller film
- Country
- South Korea, Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 81 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In an alternate 2009 where Japan still rules the Korean Peninsula, a Korean police officer uncovers a conspiracy linked to a time travel incident from 1909. He must choose between loyalty to the regime and the truth about his country's lost independence.
alternate-historytensebroodingsuspensefulaction-packeddystopianfuturisticpolitical
What happens
2009: Lost Memories (Korean: 2009 로스트 메모리즈) is a 2002 South Korean science fiction action film directed by Lee Si-myung, adapted from the 1987 novel Looking for an Epitaph by Bok Geo-il. The film takes place in an alternate 2009, where the Korean Peninsula is still part of Imperial Japan due to a time-travel incident in 1909. It was distributed by CJ Entertainment and was released on February 1, 2002. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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