Family Ties
2006 · Movie · 113 min. · South Korea
South Korean writer-director Tae-Yong Kim's Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) constitutes a bittersweet drama of broken and dysfunctional suburban relationships. Kim divides his narrative into three sections. In the first, horticulturist and restaurateur Mira's (Moon So-ri) gentle and ordered life gets turned inside out with a bevy of houseguests who pop in and plop down indefinitely, from her strident, chain-smoking sister-in-law Mu-shin (Ko Doo-shim), to her ex-con brother Hyungchul (Eom Tae-woong). In the second, Sunkyung's (Kong Hyo-jin) failure to come to terms with her partially estranged mother's terminal illness brings her to the point of expatriation - a plan thwarted by her half brother. And in the third, these first two stories suddenly intersect with great volatility.
Direction Kim Tae-yong
Cast Bong Tae-gyu · Uhm Tae-woon · Heung-chae Jeong · Jeong Yu-mi · Jo Hee-bong · Joo Jin-mo · Dong-yeong Kim · Kim Hye-ok · Ko Du-shim · Kong Hyo-jin · Moon So-ri · Ryu Seung-beom
Soundtrack Sung Woo Cho
Screenplay Kim Tae-yong · Sung Ki-yeong
Cinematography Yeong-gyu Jo
Original title Gajokeui tansaeng (Family Ties)
6.2
23 votes (FilmAffinity)
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