Hill of Freedom (2014)
Overview
Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had proposed to her two years ago. She turned him down. Mori had immediately gone back to Japan, but now was back in Korea looking for her. The envelope enclosed letters he had written to her during his search through Seoul. After Kwon finishes the first letter in the lobby, she grows faint coming down the staircase and drops the letters. She gathers them off the floor and sees there are no dates on the letters. She now has no way of knowing the order in which they were written.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ko |
| Popularity | 3.756 |
Directed By
Hong Sang-soo
Crew
Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang-soo
Hahm Sung-won
Park Hong-yeol
Hong Sang-soo
Kim Jin-yeong
Jeong Yong-jin
Kim Cho-hee
Lee Eui-haeng
Kim Su-min
Lee Jea-han
Song Ye-jin
Kim Mir
Son Yeon-ji
TOP CAST
Ryo Kase
Mori
Moon So-ri
Young-sun
Seo Young-hwa
Kwon
Kim Eui-sung
Sang-won
Youn Yuh-jung
Innkeeper
Jung Eun-chae
Nam-hee
Gi Ju-bong
Byeong-joo
Jeong Yong-jin
Yeom-gu
Lee Min-woo
Gwang-hyun
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