Jang Liu

My Liberation Notes

H Card employee

Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.

The Attorney

Night Student

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.

The Mimic

Ji-hye

The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.

Master and Man

After two years of casual sex, a pair of emotionally repressed lovers abruptly part ways. But as they start new lives, memories of the past remain.

Cart

Cashier 14

In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

Will You Be There

Mother

A terminally ill surgeon travels back in time through the use of unique capsules to reunite with his dead lover. He then meets his juvenile self and they try to prevent her death.

As One

Wang Ming

A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating the front runner, China.

Move the Grave

Hye-yeong

A dysfunctional family is forced begrudgingly into an instant reunion when they have to move their father's grave due to construction. Hye-yeong receives a letter of notification that her father's grave should be forcibly removed due to modernization projects. Hye-yeong and the sisters are gathered in a long time, but only the brother cannot be reached easily.

Shoot Me in the Heart

Nurse

A young man develops schizophrenia after his mother's suicide. After he meets a kindred spirit at the psychiatric hospital, he forges a plan with the man to escape.

Yoga

Front desk

After being replaced by a younger coworker, TV host Hyo-jeong enrolls in an intensive yoga course that has serious consequences for anyone who fails to follow its rules.

Swallow

Woman staff

When his mother goes missing, Lee Ho-yeon sets out to search for her. In the course of that journey, he discovers his parents' pasts during the democracy protests of the 1980s when student activists rose up against the repressive Chun Doo-hwan regime. Reading a book written by his mother, Ho-yeon uncovers a story of hope, love and betrayal, and struggles to understand painful secrets that have been hidden away for thirty years.

Re-encounter

Nurse

18 year-old Hye-hwa and Han-soo were lovers but as soon as Hye-hwa got pregnant Han-soo disappeared completely. Five years later, Han-soo suddenly appears in front of Hye-hwa and the two of them find out their baby is still alive. Hye-hwa doesn't believe Han-soo. However, after finding out her child had been adopted, she can’t help but weaken.

Gyeong-ah's Daughter

의사 [특별출연]

Kyung-ah works as a caregiver and lives alone. The only one she can rely on is her daughter, Yeonsu, but it's hard to see her after her independence. Meanwhile, Yeonsu, who was suffering from his ex-boyfriend, argues with him again and heads home. After Yeonsu left, Kyung-ah receives a shocking message.

One Night Stand

Sunglass Woman (ep.1)

Episode 1_MIN Yong-geun A young man sits on the steps of an apartment every night. He listens to a college girl coming home without her knowing. A woman who lives in the same building watches the young man every night. Episode 2_LEE Yoo-rim A newlywed couple and another younger couple go to a cabin. The husband tries to have sex with his wife who rejects him every time and he feels strangely attracted to his younger friend's girlfriend. On the day they are supposed to go home, the husband sees the younger couple having sex and feels a pang of jealousy. Episode 3_JANG Hoon Jean-Claude Romer is a well known New York critic who has come to Korea to attend an international film festival. He is quite familiar with Korea and enjoys jangguk and shopping at traditional flea markets, but what he loves most is the ttemiri(scrubbing) culture. Having had a ttemiri session with bath manager Jin-young as usual, he has dinner with her for the first time.

Work to Do

Son Kyung-yeon

Joon-hee, a fourth-year assistant manager at Hanyang Heavy Industries gets assigned to the human resources department. As the shipyard suffers a dearth of orders, the creditors instruct the HR to restructure the company. Although reluctant to do so, the team supposes that it is inevitable for keeping the company afloat. The HR proceeds to make the restructuring as smooth and efficient as possible. In an attempt to set the criteria for dismissal in company’s favor, the team first tries to elect employee's representatives who will cater for the demands of management. Some of the so-called blacklisted employees who are well aware of the conventional procedure start to put on a brake…

The Price of Goodbye

Hyo-yeon

With their father in a coma, nurse Seon-young urges her brother Il-hoe, who cannot afford his son's tuition and risks seeing him miss college, to stage a fake funeral. They forge a death certificate and deceive the hospital, but as pressure builds, their plan begins to unravel in unexpected ways.

Exhausted

Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an almost post-apocalyptic post-industrial landscape. Shot on grungy Super-8. The first hour focuses on the everyday activities of the man and woman. They consume cheap food, watch TV and nasty porno, they receive customers and combat each other with psychological power games. Despite emotional numbness, the woman tries to escape. She makes friends with another woman, but then decides that returning to the man is the easiest option. The return of the other woman heralds the very shocking finale. Not for the squeamish.

Anti-Gas Skin

Miju

A fresco mixing the satirical, the surreal and the fantastical to portray the social and political evils of today’s Korea. A gas mask-wearing serial killer is spreading terror. Four people are on his tail on election day: Miju – a wolf-girl who leads a sect of youths who are planning their mass suicide, Bosik – a traffic cop who’s convinced he is a super hero, Patrick – a US Marine on the brink of madness following the serial killer’s murder of his Korean girlfriend, and Ju Sanggeun, the favourite of the candidates for the mayoral seat of Seoul, who has received a disturbing death threat. The man behind the mask remains a mystery. The killer is everywhere or perhaps he is simply inside each of us. –Venice Film Festival

The Man of Merit

Park Ji-young

Park Il Rae, an elderly man who is at the end of the human race, challenges his last dream of becoming a man of merit before his death.

A Mere Life

Park Il-rae dreams of a better life for his family, but is cheated out of his entire family savings. In deep despair, Il-rae decides to commit suicide together.