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Fly, Penguin

Original Title: 날아라 펭귄

2009
1h 50m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

2009

Runtime

1h 50m

Storyline

Seung-yun is stressed out because he is sent to several private academies after school. His mother reproves him for not living up to her expectations. His father takes pity on him for being nagged on by his mother all the time... Ju-hun, a new employee at a company, is a vegetarian and cannot drink alcohol at all. Chang-su thinks Ju-hun is eccentric and is displeased with him... Su-hyeong sent his son and daughter with his wife to study abroad, but he grows tired of staying alone in his empty house... SONG has lived with her authoritarian husband without any serious problems, but she does not want to stay with him anymore. GWON, an old man, pretends to be calm in the face of his wife’s request for divorce. But actually he can’t do anything by himself... These are not unfamiliar fictional events but rather they reflect the lives of ordinary people in Korea at the present time. Through their stories, shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily lives.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 50m
Sep 24, 2009
Languages
Korean
Director
Yim Soon-rye
Yim Soon-rye
Production
National Human Rights Commission of Korea
National Human Rights Commission of Korea
Production Countries
South Korea

Top Cast

12 Cast Members

Moon So-ri

Moon So-ri

Song Hee-jeong

Ahn Do-gyu

Ahn Do-gyu

Choi Seung-yoon

Choi Gyu-hwan

Choi Gyu-hwan

Lee Joo-hoon

Cho Jin-woong

Cho Jin-woong

Han Chang-soo

Oh Yong

Oh Yong

Park Joong-ho

Park Won-sang

Park Won-sang

Seung-yoon's father (uncredited)

Son Byung-ho

Son Byung-ho

Manager Kwon (uncredited)

Lee Young-hee

Lee Young-hee

Young-sook's Grandmother (uncredited)

Na Hyun

Na Hyun

Sashimi Restaurant Owner (uncredited)

Choi Hee-jin

Choi Hee-jin

Jo Mi-sun

Park In-hwan

Park In-hwan

Elder Kwon

Lee Eun-saem

Lee Eun-saem

Soo-ji

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