Aimless Bullet

Directed by Yu Hyun-mok

Aimless Bullet is Yu Hyun-mok’s most exemplary work and a key work of Korean realist cinema. The film captures the collective anxiety of post-war Korea through clerk Cheol-ho and his family. A commercial failure upon its initial release, it was soon banned by the military government, finally receiving its due recognition when presented at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1963. Aimless Bullet is not simply an anti-war film, rather it extends to the wider context of human existence in all its chaotic glory.

Duration:
106 minutes

Translated title:
오발탄

Languages:
Korean

Subtitles:
Full English

Country of origin:
South Korea

Year of production:
1960