Coin Locker Girl

Coin Locker Girl
Directed by	Han Jun-hee
Produced by	Ahn Eun-mi Cho Dong-ki
Written by	Han Jun-hee
Based on	Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami
Starring	Kim Hye-soo Kim Go-eun Park Bo-gum Go Kyung-pyo
Music by	Jang Young-gyu Kim Sun
Cinematography	Lee Chang-jae
Edited by	Shin Min-kyung
Production company	Pollux Pictures
Distributed by	CGV Arthouse[1]
Release dates	April 29, 2015 (2015-04-29)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$10.7 million[2]

Coin Locker Girl (Hangul: 차이나타운; RR: Chainataun; lit. Chinatown) is a 2015 South Korean film written and directed by Han Jun-hee, starring Kim Hye-soo and Kim Go-eun with Park Bo-gum and Go Kyung-pyo.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} It was selected to screen in the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Plot

A baby is found abandoned inside a coin locker at Western Seoul train station in 1996. A beggar takes her and names her Il-young, then when she turns 10, she is sold off to a woman referred to simply as Mother. Mother is the boss of a loan shark and organ trafficking crime ring in Chinatown, Incheon; she has held on to her position of power by being dispassionate and calculating, and by keeping by her side only those of use to her. Mother raises the young child, eventually grooming her for a position in her organization. By the time Il-young is 18 years old, she has become Mother's trusted right hand. One day, Il-young is given a task: to get close to Suk-hyun, the son of a debtor. Over the course of a few days, she becomes friends with the boy and is exposed to a world she never knew existed. She envies the normalcy that other teenage girls enjoy and opens her heart to Suk-hyun. But when his father flees, Mother orders her to kill Suk-hyun. Il-young cannot go through with it and by making that single choice, she must now flee from the only family she has ever known.

Cast

• Kim Hye-soo as Ma Woo-hee ("Mother")
• Kim Go-eun as Ma Il-young
• Park Bo-gum as Park Seok-hyun
• Go Kyung-pyo as Chi-do
• Um Tae-goo as Woo-gon
• Lee Soo-kyung as Ssong
• Jo Hyun-chul as Hong-joo
• Lee Dae-yeon as Dr. Ahn
• Jo Bok-rae as Detective Tak
• Jung Suk-yong as Mr. Woo
• Baek Soo-jang as Number 2
• Lee Jang-won as Chubby
• Oh Dae-hwan as Bruiser
• Lee Sang-hee as Bruiser's wife
• Kim Su-an as young Il-young
• Park Ji-bo as young Ssong
• Wi Ha-jun as young Woo-gon
• So Sang-seop as young Hong-joo
• Ki Guk-seo as Man in uniform
• Gi Ju-bong as Man in suit

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Official website (Korean)
• Coin Locker Girl at the Korean Movie Database
• Coin Locker Girl at the Internet Movie Database
• Coin Locker Girl at HanCinema