Coin Locker Girl
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| 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 |
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Pollux Pictures
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| Distributed by | CGV Arthouse |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$10.7 million |
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. It was selected to screen in the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
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