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Secret.Sunshine.2007.Criterion.NTSC.DVDR-DVDR
Milyang

THEATRE DATE....: 12/22/2010, USA
RELEASE DATE....: 8/15/2011
STORE DATE......: 8/23/2011
GENRE...........: Comedy/Drama/Romance
RATiNG..........: 7.3/10 (1,693 votes)
NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???

RUNTiME.........: 142 Minutes
ViDEO BiTRATE...: 3816 kBit/sec 6-pass CCE
AUDiO BiTRATE...: 448 kBit/s AC3 DD 5.1 at 48KHZ, KO
ASPECT RATiO....: 16:9
ARCHiVES........: dvdr-secret.sunshine.rar  *95x50MB*
DVD SiZE........: *4.371 GB* *4,476 MB* *4,583,436 KB*
SUBTiTLES.......: EN

In this somber Korean drama, a young mother and widow, Shin-ae, moves with her young son, Jun, from
Seoul to a small town called Miryang following her husband's death. Having given up on her career
as a concert pianist when she married her husband, she starts up a piano school, but soon it begins
to feel like the polite people who inhabit her new home aren't as friendly as they seem on the
surface. Judgmental whispers and disapproving gossip begin to reach Shin-ae's ears, and pressure to
join the Christian cult that thrives in the town begins to mount. She's hesitant until an
unimaginable tragedy alters her life forever, setting Shin-ae on a dark path of withdrawal from
society as a whole.

Director         ...     Chang-dong Lee

Do-yeon Jeon        ...         Shin-ae
Kang-ho Song        ...         Jong Chan
Yeong-jin Jo
Mi-kyung Kim
Yeong-jae Kim
Seo-hie Ko
Myeong-shin Park

Because of the length of the film, the extras were removed. They included a director interview, a
'Making Of' docu, and a theatrical trailer. This has to be one of the poorer Criterion releases
I've seen and almost certainly the transfer was provided by the Koreans. Every fifth frame was a
dupe (fixed), the blacks were crushed and the whites blown out (fixed), it had a soft
picture (not much can be done there), edge enhancement (partially fixed) and sometimes this weird
sort of aliasing on diagonal lines that shouldn't be there (not fixed at all).

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817225/fullcredits#cast
RETAIL DVD: http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=1575317

FILM REVIEW: http://www.cinescene.com/howard/quietdesperation.htm#secret
FILM REVIEW: http://www.beyondhollywood.com/secret-sunshine-2007-movie-review/