Peppermint Candy
Peppermint Candy (Korean: 박하사탕; RR: Bakha Satang) is a 1999 South Korean drama film by Lee Chang-dong, his second. The film opens with the implied suicide of the protagonist and uses reverse chronology to depict some of the key events of the past 20 years of his life that led to this point. It was the ninth-highest-grossing domestic film of 2000 with 311,000 admissions in Seoul.
| Peppermint Candy | |
|---|---|
Theatrical poster | |
| Hangul | 박하사탕 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Bakha Satang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pakha Satang |
| Directed by | Lee Chang-dong |
| Written by | Lee Chang-dong |
| Produced by | Myeong Gye-nam Makoto Ueda |
| Starring | Sol Kyung-gu Moon So-ri Kim Yeo-jin |
| Distributed by | Shindo Films Cineclick Asia |
Release dates |
January 1, 2000 (South korea) |
Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | $77,197 |
It was well-received, especially at film festivals. Spurred by the success of Lee Chang-dong's directorial debut, Green Fish, Peppermint Candy was chosen as the opening film for the Busan International Film Festival in its first showing in 1999. It won multiple awards at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Grand Bell Awards for best film of 2000.