Poongsan (풍산개)

International Sales by FINE CUT

a KIM Ki-Duk Film production

Produced by KIM Ki-Duk

Presented by KIM Ki-Duk and the crews of POONGSAN

Written by KIM Ki-Duk

Producer JEON Youn-chan

YOON Kye-sang

KIM Gyu-ri

Directed by JUHN Jai-hong

If I talk to the camera,

can my wife in North Korea see me?

Yoon-nim.

I hope you're alive.

You have to be alive.

I thought I'd go back to you soon, but...

It has been...

Father...

- Sixty years. - Father.

I hope you're still alive.

Please forgive me.

I miss you.

I miss you.

Mother...

Say something to Dad.

What are you waiting for?

Tomorrow Dad will see this!

I have a favour to ask you.

This was precious to my mother, so please be careful delivering it.

How could you hand this valuable thing over to a kid?

You did a good job.

Kid, you're from North Korea, too?

Here you go.

Wait!

Do you have a number?

Damn it, he's asking you for your number.

What are you staring at?

Honey!

You're still alive!

Yoon-nim!

POONGSAN

Wow, these things are still around?

Freeze!

You're being arrested on smuggling charges!

You bastards, are you playing with me!

Stop lying and tell me who's the Chinese broker!

It's straight from North Korea.

From North Korea? Does that make any sense?

How do you expect us to bring it? Someone else did.

What crazy bastard would cross the DMZ and get killed for this?

Don't believe us then.

You bastard!

Fine, then tell me who it is.

We've seen him only once.

Rumours have it that he crosses the DMZ,

and delivers letters or keepsakes to separated families.

But he also smuggles goods?

He probably thought it was personal.

Tell me his name.

He smokes Poongsan cigarettes.

Poongsan? What about his number?

If you leave a note on lmjingak Bridge,

sometimes he'll contact you.

Know anything else?

He also pulls people out of North Korea.

What?

Remember that North Korean kid?

Yeah.

Hey!

Inform the National Intelligence.

Why are you always so nervous?

Oh, hello.

Look at it from my perspective.

Trust our men. They've all been specially trained.

When will you finish your report?

I'm working on it. But my memory is a bit fogged.

Focusing on this plant may help me remember.

It's urgent.

North-South Korean ties are very tense now.

I know.

There's a time for everything.

You won't be sorry for waiting.

This isn't just anyone's business.

On a big scale, it is our business.

Did you really defect for real?

Generally speaking, I did.

You never know what will happen with international politics.

You still seem to be attached to the North.

And you keep delaying the report.

Worried what will happen after you finish the report?

Once I become useless, why should you protect me?

Our country isn't that disloyal.

Anyway, what happened to my favour?

Our agent is in Pyongyang right now.

China has tightened its borders.

And crossing the DMZ is dangerous.

I thought you could do at least that much.

Was I too anticipant?

I'm looking for a way.

Don't make it dangerous.

I want to see her very much, but I don't want her to get hurt.

Yes.

What?

A strange man?

"Please help bring back my lover!"

"I will offer all the money I've earned in South Korea."

"Please help bring back the woman I love."

He said it'll take three hours.

What?

It'll take him only three hours to bring a woman from Pyongyang?

Hey! Look at him go!

Huh?

Wow, that guy's amazing.

Will he really bring her?

Isn't it too dangerous to cross the DMZ?

Okay, so how long will it take?

Three hours?

In three hours, I can embrace...

I mean, I can see my In-oak?

I can wait longer, so don't have her get hurt.

Three hours?

This bicycle is a gift from him.

Are you a secret agent from South Korea?

Are you listening to me?

Wait a minute.

Just leave it if it's not there!

You couldn't find it?

This must be just a job to you.

What's that?

Is that cremated ashes from a South Korean family?

Comrade, didn't you learn how to treat a lady?

I don't need you anymore!

I can go by myself from here on!

I didn't come out of the labour commando unit for nothing!

Are you out of your mind?

I had a strange experience.

I was falling from a deep cliff, unable to breath.

Thinking that my sorrows, pleasure and love have ended.

But then, my mother smiles and calls my name from afar.

In-oak...

In-oak...

So I ran to my mother.

But I couldn't take even one step since I was in the air.

Was I dead?

I realized that dying wasn't just a painful experience.

It would've been nice if you had just left me.

No.

I must go and meet him.

Anyway, thank you.

Come to think of it, you resemble this dog.

As if he had lost his owner long time ago.

Why are you doing such a dangerous job?

Strangely, your blood has no stench.

Are you really human?

Is this enough?

I'm sorry. It's just that I'm so scared.

I'll try my best this time. One more time.

Wait! What about me?

Hey!

The pole?

How?

What about me?

Hey!

What about me?

Hey!

Are you out of your mind?

Did you know how scared I was? I almost peed in my pants.

Why are you looking so foul at me like that?

I'm getting sick of you.

Let's have a smoke.

We're in no danger now.

It's okay if we're late a few minutes.

Idiot.

Did you hear me?

Then I'm wrong?

Don't you understand what smoking means?

What is... your number?

Don't misunderstand me.

I just thought I could have a favour to ask you.

Three minutes left.

If he really brings her, then we've got to learn from him.

He doesn't seem like a spy.

It's a waste if we put him in jail for smuggling.

That's right. I'm curious whose side he's on.

Anyway, when he brings the girl, return the Wolf to China.

Okay.

There he is!

Wow, isn't that a woman with him?

Yes!

He brings a woman from North Korea in three hours?

It's truly amazing!

How could a government agent like you say that?

You're three minutes late.

A Seiko watch is accurate.

Ms. Kim In-oak, was your journey okay?

Is this really South Korea?

Yes.

You will soon meet the man you love. How do you feel?

Where is he now?

Please get in.

Quit this dangerous job!