If you loved Passage to Buddha, try A Petal

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Jang Sun-woo, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Passage to Buddha, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What A Petal is

518 goes to jail. 15 years later she’s still counting bullet casings. A Korean Taxi Driver if it remembered the bodies.

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