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Shi
| Duration | 135 |
| Year | 2010 |
| Categories | Drama |
| Cast | Jeong-hee Yoon, Nae-sang Ahn, Da-wit Lee, Hira Kim |
| Written By | Chang-dong Lee |
| Directed By | Chang-dong Lee |
| Produced By | Pine House Film |
| Distributed By | Arrow Films Cinema |
| Film Details |
An elderly lady in her 60's Yang Mija (played by Yun Jeong-Hee) works as a carer for a disabled man and she also raises her grandson alone. She has to endure the onset of Alzheimer's disease and also learns that her grandson was one of the attackers of a junior high school girl that committed suicide.
Through all of this and to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a poet the elderly woman starts to take a poetry class and starts writing…
Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed Secret Sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowermentâ€"and moral compassâ€"of an older woman that refuses to give up on life.