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Marc Kim (a.k.a. Kim Hyeon Seong) grabbed the attention of the international film audience in 2003 with his directorial debut feature, Mr. Butterfly, which screened in the Critics Week section at the 60th Venice Film Festival. The writer/director assembled an A-list cast with Kim Jung Eun ( Marrying the Mafia, Lovers in Paris) and Kim Min Jong ( Windmill Palm Grove, Guardian Angel) in the leading roles. Kim Jung Eun took on a weighty role as a disheartened woman in a bold attempt to shed her comedic, girl-next-door image. It was a risky choice for the actress given the phenomenal success of her previous comedy Marrying the Mafia which attracted over five million moviegoers nationwide. Kim Min Jong, who reached fame and popularity through his TV drama appearances, stars as the male protagonist.

Set in the 1980s during the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan, Mr. Butterfly portrays a gloomy picture of two young people struggling to find each other in the midst of the country's democratic movement. Min Jae (Kim Min Jong) promises Hae Mi (Kim Jung Eun) that he will return within a year. Hae Mi looks on with tears rolling down her face as his train destined for Seoul pulls away. Their matching butterfly tattoos serve as a constant reminder for his return, but five years roll by with no sign of Min Jae. One day, fate reunites Min Jae, now a nightclub gigolo, with Hae Mi, now the kept woman of a high-ranking military officer. Tragedy befalls the two lovers when suspicious soldiers drag Min Jae off, leaving Hae Mi tormented and helpless.

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Product Title: Mr. Butterfly 蝴蝶君 (韓國版) 蝴蝶君 (韩国版) Mr. Butterfly（ナビ：蝶） 나비
Artist Name(s): Kim Min Jong | Kim Jung Eun | Lee Jong Won 金旼鐘 | 金政恩 | 李鍾原 金旼钟 | 金政恩 | 李锺原 キム・ミンジョン | キム・ジョンウン | イ・ジョンウォン 김민종 | 김 정은 | 이 종원
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Release Date: 2003-08-08
Language: Korean
Subtitles: Korean, English
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration: 120 (mins)
Publisher: Spectrum DVD
Other Information: 2 discs + booklet
Package Weight: 280 (g)
Shipment Unit: 2 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1002845808

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완벽하게 재현된 성당 & 삼청교육대 세트장!
1년 후, 돌아온다는 약속 “기다려 꼭 다시 올게” : 80년대 초 산골마을 허름한 기차역. 가방 손잡이가 떨어지도록 붙잡고 우는 혜미에게 서울 행 기차에 매달려 1년 후 다시 돌아오겠다고 약속하던 민재. 혜미는 사랑하는 연인을 태우고 멀어져 가는 기차를 하염없이 바라보며 눈물 흘린다.

5년 후, 운명적 재회 “다시 떠나지마, 제발…” : 룸싸롱 제비가 된 민재와 군고위간부 허대령의 여인이 된 혜미. 운명처럼 두 사람은 다시 만나고, 사랑은 또 시작된다. 혜미의 바람으로 두 사람은 여행을 떠나기로 한다. 그러나 여행 전 날 민재는 군인들에 의해 어디론가 끌려가고… 혜미는 또 다시 오지 않는 그를, 기차역에서 기다린다.

Special Features
* 감독 & 주연배우 음성해설(김현성, 김민종)
* 조연배우 음성해설 (김승욱, 이문식)
* 메이킹 필름(1~4)
* 현장스케치
* OST
* 뮤직비디오
* 삭제장면 & 아웃테이크
* 예고편 모음
* 스토리보드
* 감독 및 배우 인터뷰(김현성 감독, 김민종, 김정은, 김승욱 & 이문식)
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10 (2)
Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9.7 out of 10 (3)

Rhoda
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September 14, 2006
wow!!!! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
i REALLY ENJOYED THIS LOVE STORY THRILLER ACTION MOVIE. ITS A COMBINATION OF EVERYTHING. TWO YOUNG LOVERS WHO WERE SEPARATED IN TIME AND EVENTUALLY MEET AGAIN.

BUT THE GIRL IS A LOVER OF A VERY POWERFUL MAN WHO IN THE END KILLED THEM BOTH. SAD ENDING.. BUT YOU;; REALLY SEE HOW THE TWO OF THEM SACRIFICE ALL TO BE TOGETHER UNTIL THE END.

LOVE IT!!! IT'S A FILM YOU WON'T REGRET BUYING.
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June 5, 2005

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excellent Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
I find that the story is very nice. Kim Jung Eun is extremely pretty and sexy in this movie. She has the best feature as compare to other korean actress. Her acting in this movie is different from her other movies, she very lady and classic, whereby most of her other movies are more to cute side. I like both of her classic and cute act, she can carry very well for both of them. Wow she looks really very pretty and gorgeous in this film. Please enrol her for more movies and drama as she has fanastic acting. I will like to see her more.
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Anonymous

September 7, 2003
Very good film Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
Execellent actors, music and cinematography. The pacing is quite good and you wont feel bored even you dont know that part of Korea history where the country is under military dictatorship. The director tells the sad love story in a calm fashion like a cup of lukewarm water instead of stirring up your emotion. Action, passion, greed, power struggle, jealousy, torture... all are just made and finely balanced.

Nabi was selected as one (among seven from around the world) of the selected features films in the International Critics' Week section of the 60th Venice International Film Festival. Below is an abstract on Nabi (Mr. Butterfly) provided by the official site of the 60th Venice International Film Festival:

Far-East cinema has always been evocative, choreographic and melodramatically sanguinary, in which Sirk cinema style is merged with a poetic vision of action. Mr Butterfly, is a perfect example of this tradition with clear references to John Woo, reintroducing the formula according to South Korean culture. This film institutes a perfect and dynamic harmony between the different Seoul cinema typologies: exasperated romanticism, the mythical transfiguration of the underworld, psychological introspection, martial art cinema and the use of symbolic and plastic violence. Following a dreamy and yearning opening the film suddenly changes scene utilizing the codes of jail cinema. The love story leaves room for bullets, physical torment and blood, in which the good guys and the bad guys, the lost lovers, the courageous and cowardly participate in and derive from the same, contradictory and articulated humanity.
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