Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)
- Original title
- 가려진 시간
- Directed by
- Um Tae-hwa
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film
- Country
- South Korea
- Runtime
- 2h 09m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 185 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
A girl and a boy are among a group of children who vanish while playing in a forest. Years later, the boy reappears without having aged while the girl struggles to understand what happened. The story follows their search for truth and the consequences of lost time.
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What happens
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (Korean: 가려진 시간) is a 2016 South Korean fantasy film written and directed by Um Tae-hwa and starring Gang Dong-won and Shin Eun-soo. This is the second feature film by Um Tae-hwa. The idea of the film was strongly influenced by the sinking of MV Sewol which occurred in 2014. Um explained that after the Sewol disaster, the government tried to hide the truth, and therefore he decided to shoot a film where the main theme of which is a search for truth. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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SORI: Voice from the Heart (2016)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.