Peppermint Candy

Peppermint Candy
Theatrical poster
Hangul
박하사탕
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBakha Satang
McCune–ReischauerPakha Satang
Directed byLee Chang-dong
Written byLee Chang-dong
Produced byMyeong Gye-nam
Makoto Ueda
StarringSol Kyung-gu
Moon So-ri
Kim Yeo-jin
Distributed byShindo Films
Cineclick Asia
Release dates
  • October 14, 1999 (1999-10-14)
(Busan International Film Festival)
January 1, 2000 (South korea)
Running time
130 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box office$77,197[1]

Peppermint Candy (Korean박하사탕; RRBakha Satang) is a 1999 South Korean tragedy film by Lee Chang-dong. The film opens with the 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.[2]

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.[3]

  1. ^ "A Peppermint Candy (2000)". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. ^ "2000". koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  3. ^ "Grand Bell Awards (Daejong)". korean-drama-guide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08.