Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather starve than give up playing. Several people have to bowl as much as they want, jump out of the window with their lives, and dance with real dancers at a rock cafe.
Direction
Jang Sun-woo's docudrama chaos — part fiction, part anthropological fever dream
Acting
Non-professional street cast delivering devastating naturalism
Editing
Jarring animated interludes that refuse to let you settle
Director
Jang Sun-woo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during South Korea's IMF crisis, the film captures a generation of 'throwaway kids' abandoned by rapid economic collapse.
Director Jang Sun-woo lived with actual street children for months; many cast members play versions of themselves.
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