Alive

May 21, 2015

2h 55m

★ 6.3

Overview

You earn as much as you work, and you live off that money. This simple proposition has always been a problem for Jung-cheol. At the soybean paste factory he went to work for in the bitter winter, he dreams of travelling to warm Philippines in spring - as long as he survives the winter making his portion of the soybean paste that he promised the boss. But the more he struggles to live, the worse it gets. And soon, the fermentation room turns musty with the black mold spreading from the thousands of ferment boiled soybean lumps.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Opus Pictures

Jeonju International Film Festival

Little Big Pictures

Secondwind Film

Alive Trailers

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Cast

Jung-cheol

Park Jung-bum

Su-yeon

Lee Seung-yeon

Myeong-hoon

Park Myung-hoon

Park Hee-von

Jin-yeong

Lee Na-ra

Hana

Shin Haet-bit

Jin-sung

Joo Young-ho

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