Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
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A salaryman, his wife, and their young daughter win the lottery and move into a newly built suburban home, living the capitalist dream. But after the father embarks on an illicit encounter with a nightclub singer, his daughter is suddenly seized by violent fits and hallucinations as an unseen presence begins to take hold.
Before K-animation went cute, it went full tae kwon do. Two feral kids, Maruchi and Arachi, grow up in a mountain cave after their grandfather is murdered by the villainous Blue Skull 13, until a kindly master drags them off to Seoul and turns them into unstoppable kicking machines.
By the early 1970s, Park No-sik had appeared in hundreds of films and become one of Korea’s go-to tough guys, headlining a whole mini-franchise built around his bumpkin-hero Yong-pal. In Why?, the actor-director goes all in: Yong-pal heads to Japan in the wake of a young woman searching for the father she’s never met, and both tumble into a Chongryon-linked gangster maze where Park also plays the cold-blooded Korean-Japanese boss running the show.
