Facing an oncoming train, he exclaims "I want to go back again!" in a freeze frame. After causing general mayhem with his deranged antics, he leaves and climbs atop a nearby train track one of the friends tries to convince him to abandon suicide, but the others ignore him and dance. A middle-aged Korean man named Kim Young-ho wanders to the group the members have not heard from him in many years and have limited knowledge of his past 20 years. Each section is preceded by a 10 to 15 second-long shot from the top of a train as it heads out of a tunnel towards mountains, with variations.Ī group of friends have gathered by a river for a picnic for the first time in 20 years. They are presented in the order in which they are presented in the film. The film is divided into 7 sections, each dated and titled. It won multiple awards at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Grand Bell Awards for best film of 2000. Spurred by the success of Lee Chang-dong's directorial debut, Green Fish, Peppermint Candy was chosen as the opening film for the Busan International Film Festival in its first showing in 1999.
It was well-received, especially at film festivals. It was the ninth-highest-grossing domestic film of 2000 with 311,000 admissions in Seoul. The film opens with the implied suicide of the protagonist and uses reverse chronology to depict some of the key events of the past 20 years of his life that led to this point. Peppermint Candy ( Korean: 박하사탕 RR: Bakha Satang) is a 1999 South Korean drama film by Lee Chang-dong, his second.
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