7 Women (2005)

Synopsis: This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and... This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is actually an alien from the planet Andromeda. Lee's frumpy acrobat girlfriend (Hwang Jung-Min) helps him abduct the "alien" and torture him into confessing. Meanwhile, a hangdog detective is following a trail leading to Lee's hideout high in the mountains. Let the timid be warned: this is not the antipollution comedy that the title might indicate. Man's inhumanity to man is certainly depicted--as in events like Korea's 1980 Kwangju riots--but there's more going on here than any one summation could describe: bees attack, a pet dog named Earth dines on human remains, alternate theories of evolution are posited (i.e. Noah's Ark was a deep submarine carrying DNA samples); an entire lifetime of films, political turmoil, anime and manga are boiled down and distilled into one profound, multi-textual allegory. Adventurous viewers will be in for one hell of a ride, as this film dares go where few have gone before, yet it does so with heart and intellect to match its wicked humor and headlong momentum. [More]

Starring: Shin Ha-gyun, Baek Yun-Shik, Hwang Jung-Min, Betty Field

Starring: Shin Ha-gyun, Baek Yun-Shik, Hwang Jung-Min, Betty Field, Anna Lee, Eddie Albert, Mike Mazurki, Woodrow Strode, Irene Tsu

Director: Jang Jun-Hwan

Director: Jang Jun-Hwan
Screenwriter: Jang Jun-Hwan
Producer: Cha Seung-Jae
Composer: Michael Staudacher
Studio: MGM/UA

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