Title: Children…
Year: 2011
Original title: A-i-deul...
Runtime: 131 minutes
Country: Korea
Language: Korea
Subtitles: English, Korean
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director: Lee Kyu Man
Cast
Park Yong-woo
Ryoo Seung-yong
Seong Dong-il
Seong Ji-roo
Plot / Synopsis
There were high expectations for the movie “Children...” even before it hit theaters. Although the cast of well-known actors like Park Yong-woo and Seong Dong-il has drawn attention to the film, it is the story’s plot that has generated the most interest.
The film is based on a true yet unsolved murder case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the “disappearance of the frog children.” In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs. They never came back.
In the movie, a TV producer, the devastated parents of the missing children, a professor and a detective all take different stances on the case. In reality, the case morphed into a national scandal.
But just as the case hurt the parents in real life, the movie could touch off nerves. In style, “Children...” resembles the 2003 hit “Memories of the Murder,” which was based on another unsolved mystery of a serial killing in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, in the early ’90s.
Audiences familiar with the case may have a difficult time with the plot, which gives the story a fictional ending even though the case remains unsolved to this day.
Screen
Technical Specs
Source...........: DVD9
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD Size.........: DVD9
Screen Format....: Widescreen
Audio Language...: Korean
Audio Format.....: DD 5.1
Subtitles........: English, Korean