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still Nowhere to Hide (Lee Myung-Se, KR 1999)

Nowhere to Hide

Myung-Se Lee / KR, 1999 / 112 min.

Stylish, magic-realist cop-vs.-killer film in which a narco kingpin flees from a team of cops led by the cunning detective Woo. For 72 days, the crook artfully dodges the police’s clutches.

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Accompanying the VR experience Missing Pictures, in which Lee Myung-Se discusses his dream, the unmade debut film Father is Gone, Eye will screen his cop-vs.-killer film Nowhere to Hide. Detective Woo is tracking the mysterious gangster Chang Sungmin, a master of disguise. During the manhunt, Woo and his men encounter a plethora of serious criminals.

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This movie contains scenes of violencePersons under 16 years must be accompanied by an adult

Director

Myung-Se Lee

Production year

1999

Country

KR

Original title

Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda

Length

112 min.

Language

Korean

Subtitles

ENG

Format

DCP

Part of

Missing Pictures

For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures, Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Naomi Kawase, and Lee Myung-Se give us a guided tour of a story they were not able to tell.

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