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Fledging photographer Min Woo (Kim Yoon Tae, Bad Guy) witnesses the death of a woman first hand at the scene of a gruesome car accident. The next day, he bumps into his former lover Jae Hee (Kim Ju Ryong, Paradise Murdered, Memories Of Murder), a married woman whom he agrees to have sex with nine times. Amid the rabid love affair, Min Woo settles into a new apartment despite having heard some strange stories about the previous tenant. One night, while engaging in a steamy bedroom romp with Jae Hee, Min Woo sees the phantom of a mysterious girl (Choi Bo Young, Mokpo the Harbor). Curiosity turns to obsession and soon Min Woo finds himself enslaved by his former lover and a ghost. As the line between fantasy and reality starts to blur, the story unravels to a new haunting discovery.
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| Product Title: | Texture Of Skin (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) 肌膚之親 (DVD) (香港版) 肌肤之亲 (DVD) (香港版) 私たちのセックスのこと （香港版） Texture Of Skin (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Also known as: | 肌 |
| Artist Name(s): | Kim Ju Ryong (Actor) 金 舟齡 (Actor) 金 舟龄 (Actor) Kim Ju Ryong (Actor) Kim Ju Ryong (Actor) |
| Director: | Lee Seong Kang Lee Seong Kang Lee Seong Kang イ・ソンガン Lee Seong Kang |
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| Release Date: | 2008-03-28 |
| Language: | Korean |
| Subtitles: | Traditional Chinese, English, Simplified Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | South Korea |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | All Region What is it? |
| Rating: | II |
| Duration: | 95 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Panorama (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 120 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1010879273 |
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* Sound Mix: Dobly Digital
A promising photographer Min-win (Kim Yoon-tae) ran into his ex-lover, Jae-hee (Kim Joo-ryung). Jae-hee proposes nine-times-only secret affair, although she was married. They begin to seek sexual relationship everyday. One Day, Min-woo witnesses runaway car accident and watches victim dying in his hands. A languid afternoon, Min-woo and Jae-hee are making love, and at the climax, Min-woo experiences strange feelings; a girl's soul is wandering in his head.
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Did anyone see this coming? After achieving significant international success with his family oriented animated feature My Beautiful Girl Mari, Korea's Lee Sung-Gang opted to make his sophomore feature a live action picture. And not just any live action picture, an experimental, supernaturally charged mystery loaded with explicit sexuality. Texture of Skin is a drastic change of pace for the director, one so dramatic that it could conceivably place his entire career at risk were he to fail. But Texture of Skin is far away from being a failure. It is a beautiful, complex, subtly nuanced film; one unlikely to rack up major box office but also one that clearly announces Lee as a significant talent in all facets of his work and one that should allow him to move in literally any direction, any sphere, he cares to for the rest of his career. The film follows Min-Woo, a photographer for an investigative journal, through several weeks of his life after a chance encounter with Jae-hee, an old friend from college days. Jae-hee, now a married businesswoman, makes an unusual proposition to Min-woo. She wants to have an affair, but limits it strictly to only nine encounters. Min-woo agrees to this only to find old feelings awakening within him as the affair progresses. He is also increasingly plagued by dreams and visions of a young woman, apparently the woman who lived in his new apartment just prior to his arrival. To say any more about the plot would take us well into spoiler territory and this is a film that should be seen and appreciated with as little advance knowledge as possible. With its reliance on surreal dream-logic, elliptical story telling and flashes of graphic sex and violence, Texture of Skin is, in many ways, reminiscent of David Lynch's work though Lee's shooting and story telling style are quite different. Lee unfolds his story slowly, gradually, giving only glimpses and guesses, forcing the audience to draw the threads together into a whole. It is a film beautifully constructed and sure to reward repeat viewings. As is the case with most animators turned live action directors, Lee has a sharp eye for detail. His compositions are simply stunning, often shot through a warm amber filter. And, as strange as this may sound in reference to a film loaded with graphic sex, what Lee doesn't show you is very often as important as what he does - a fact he telegraphs by shooting the initial encounter and proposition between Jae-hee and Min-woo from the knees down. Texture of Skin is purely an arthouse film, one made for adult audiences willing to devote some time and energy to it. Those looking for a fast pace and quick answers will find it immensely frustrating but for the rest of us, this announces Lee's arrival as a significant auteur. Very highly recommended. by Todd Brown - Twitchfilm.net |
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June 8, 2008
| The makers of "Texture of Skin" overlooked a couple of key ingredients when they cooked up this film. They gave us no characters about which we can care. And they gave us no story about which we can care. Here's the theme in a nutshell: We all live lives of solitary anguish, occasionally interrupted by adulterous or incestual sex, then we die. Sound like a good movie? Not to me, either. |
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