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Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (US Version)

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The late Lee Eun Joo, who went on to appear in such films as Bungee Jumping Of Their Own and Taegukgi, gives a wonderfully compelling performance in this unconventionally told romance. Filmmaker Hong Sang Soo, director of The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well and The Power Of Kangwon Province, follows up those two highly acclaimed films with the provocatively titled, Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors. Shot in beautiful black and white, the film centers on Soo Jung (Lee Eun Joo), a twenty-four-year-old cable television writer and assistant at a small video company. As the story develops, Soo Jung finds herself being pursued by both her boss, Young Soo (Moon Sung Keun, from Princess Aurora), and his friend/ benefactor, the wealthy socialite Jae Hoon (Jung Bo Seok, from Don't Tell Papa and Everybody Has Secrets).

As Jae Hoon begins to pursue a relationship with Soo Jung, the two begin to have decidedly different perspectives on how their relationship is developing, as each character is given a chance to narrate events from their own point of view. What really happened between them? As Soo Jung's and Jae Hoon's memories begin to conflict, viewers will begin to wonder where the truth lies. Perhaps answers will be given in the film's final segment, in which both Soo Jong and Jae Hoon narrate together! As the winner of Best Screenplay at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival and Special Mention at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors is a bittersweet look at how memories are constructed, relationships develop, and innocence is lost!

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Product Title: Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (US Version) 等待的日子 (美國版) 等待的日子 (美国版) Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (US Version) Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (US Version)
Artist Name(s): Lee Eun Joo | Moon Sung Keun | Jung Bo Suk | Hong Sang Soo 李恩宙 | 文盛瑾 | 鄭普碩 | 洪尚秀 李恩宙 | 文盛瑾 | 郑普硕 | 洪尚秀 イ・ウンジュ | ムン・ソングン | チョン・ボソク | ホン・サンス 이 은주 | 문 성근 | Jung Bo Suk | 홍상수
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Region Code: 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Release Date: 2004-12-31
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, English
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, English, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Duration: 126 (mins)
Publisher: Tai Seng Video (US)
Package Weight: 100 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1003937189

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* Screen Format : 1.85:1 (Anamorphic Widescreen)
* Sound Mix : Dolby Digital
* DVD Type : DVD-5
* Extras : N/A

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Director: Hong Sang Soo

　　故事是男女主角各自的回憶。電視編劇素珍與監製泱洙好像有點傾慕之情。泱洙帶素珍跟朋友在勳見面，希望在勳可資助他拍戲，在勳對素珍有興趣，希望發展感情關係，二人開始交往。在勳漸漸不滿足於普通交往，但仍是處女身的素珍對性愛煞有介事，令在勳很無奈。另一方面，泱洙和素珍之間關係又變得有得曖昧，令素珍周旋在兩個想奪去她貞操的男人之間。

　　In this cryptic romance directed by acclaimed Korean director Hong Sang Soo, a love triangle-like relationship between a filmmaker, his enigmatic young female assistant, and his friend is told twice, with second version retelling their affair in a different light. Shot in grainy black and white, Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors is a raw, unflinching look at our search for companionship and how our innocence is lost over time.
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (1)

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February 19, 2008
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 Bleak, wintry love story Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
"Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors" is a very peculiar viewing experience. The film is shot in black and white, but this is not the glorious black and white of films from the 1940s and 1950s, with the mastery of shades of grey typical of that era. Instead, here the film stock is deliberately overexposed to create a stark world of washed-out white and detail-obscuring black. Moreover, director Hong Sang Soo shunned the use of close-ups, shooting nearly the entire film in the middle distance. The effect of these techniques is to distance the viewer from the film's action by shutting the viewer out of the characters' interior lives.

This distance is furthered by the fractured way in which the film's story is presented. Scenes are presented out of order, then scenes are repeated with slight variations, as the story is told first from the perspective of the male lead, then retold from the perspective of the female lead.

In short, the story is as follows: Soo Jung (the late Lee Eun Joo) works as an assistant to an artist named Young Soo (Moon Sung Keun), who is struggling to make some kind of a movie. (The viewer never is given a glimpse of the movie being made.) There appears to be some kind of romantic involvement between Soo Jung and Young Soo. Jae Hoon (Jung Bo Seok) is Young Soo's friend and the financier of the movie he is making. Jae Hoon quickly becomes attracted to Soo Jung and, on an occasion when Young Soo becomes very drunk, Jae Hoon takes advantage of the opportunity to make his feelings known. We then see the pursuit of the relationship between Jae Hoon and Soo Jung, mostly through a series of Jae Hoon's ham-handed attempts to grope the young woman.

While viewing the film was an intriguing experience, the interest generated by the film is not so much due to the relationship between the characters as it is due to the puzzle-like story. One keeps watching primarily to figure out what the heck is going on. Indeed, at the film's end, the viewer is left feeling that these characters, who profess such strong feelings for each other, still barely know each other.

It is a testimony to the exquisite acting skills of Lee Eun Joo that we come to care very much about her character in this oblique tale. Those who seek a conventional love story will find "Virgin Stripped Bare" to be a frustrating experience. Those who seek more off-beat, elliptical fare may find this film engrossing.
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