Synopsis

THE COAST GUARD 해안선
(Hae an seon) 2002, 91 min.
Thursday, May 1, 8:30 pm / Sunday, May 4, 3:00 pm

Production: LJ Film
Executive Producer: Soma H.Z. Chung
Producer: KIM Sang-keun, KIM Sang-keun
Screenplay: KIM Ki-Duk
Cinematography: BAEK Dong-hyun
Cast: JANG Dong-kun, KIM Jung-hak

One night at the military patrol zone near the D.M.Z., Private Kang spots a drunken man having sex with his lover. Under fear, he mistakes the man as a spy and shoots him to death. Kang’s commanding officers award him a period of leave “for catching a spy” in order to escape the responsibility for the civilian’s death. Returning to his unit, Kang displays increasingly violent behavior and is eventually discharged for medical reasons. After roaming around Seoul, he goes back to the military area where an ominous tension develops between Kang, who still believes himself to be serving in the army, and the people around him who criticize him for shooting a civilian. Meanwhile, having witnessed the gruesome death of her lover, Mi-young goes mad and mistakes random men in the military for her lover and a bizarre intimacy develops between Mi-young and Kang.