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

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)

Trailer

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