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Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

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Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)
DVD9(cust.) | Korean + Russian | 720x480 | mpeg2, ~8410 kbps | Kor(DTS, ~768 kbps) | Ru(AC3, ~384 kbps) | 7.5 GB
Subs: English, Spanish, Russian | Drama, Romance

A sixty and something year old captain has been raising for ten years a girl since she was six in his old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore with the intention of marrying her on her seventeenth birthday. He survives bringing fishermen to fish in the vessel and predicting the future using his bow and shooting arrows in a Buddhist painting on the hull of the vessel while the girl moves back and forth in a swing. He also uses the bow and arrows to protect the girl against sexual assault of the fishermen. They live happily until the day that a teenage student comes to the ship and the girl feels attracted for him. When the teenager discovers that the girl was abducted when she was six and does not know the world, he returns to the vessel to bring the girl back to her parents.

The Bow is set entirely on a rotting 40-foot boat anchored off the coast of Korea. An old man (Jeon Seong-hwang) maintains it as a fishing platform for tourists with the help of a beautiful 16-year-old girl (Han Yeo-reum) who appears to be mute. Visitors to the boat chat about the rumors. He brought her out when she was just six years old. Her parents are looking for her. He plans to marry her on her 17th birthday. The stories sound farfetched, as does the idea that the old man is also a fortune teller, but they all turn out to be basically true. She is everything to him: a kidnap victim/daughter/girlfriend/fiancée. The old man fends off the fishermen to who try to cop a feel by shooting arrows at them while the girl just smiles. He predicts fortune by shooting three arrows at a Buddha image on the side of the boat as the girl swings dangerously in front of it. The girl whispers in his ear and he whispers in the persons ear his fortune. She's not a bad archer either and is more than capable of protecting herself. When he's not wielding the bow as a weapon, the old man converts it into a musical instrument and plays it like a violin.

IMDB info
Stars: Yeo-reum Han, Si-jeok Seo, Gook-hwan Jeon
Production land: South Korea | Japan
Run time: ~89 min
NTSC 16:9
Title: 698Gb
Size: 7.50 Gb ( 7 867 694 KBytes ) - DVD-9
Enabled regions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
VTS_01 :
Play Length: 01:28:42
Video: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed
Audio:
Russian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)
Korean (DTS, 5 ch)
Korean (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles:
Espanol
English
Russian
VTS_02 :
Play Length: 00:37:10
Video: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR
Audio:
Korean (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles:
English
VTS_03 :
Play Length: 00:00:19
Video: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed
Audio:
Korean (Dolby AC3, 6 ch)


Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)

Hwal / The Bow - by Kim Ki-Duk (2005)