K-Movie: Moss

                   credit:  KMDb01


movie links:
http://www.mysoju.com/korean-movie/moss/
http://www.dramastyle.com/movie/Moss-2010/


Synopsis:

Movie remade from a popular internet cartoon. The story of the few people who live in a village, and a man who comes to the village for his father's funeral. He tries to figure out the mystery of his father's death, but the villagers watch his every move.

RYU Mok-hyeong, a member of a small prayer house located in a remote mountain village, is well-respected for his leadership and gift of speech. In order to build a new prayer house Mok- hyeong leaves the mountains to build a new village with the help of his friend, Yong-duk. Many years pass and Mok-hyeong is discovered dead after sharing a bottle of rice wine with Yong-duk. Mok-hyeong’s good for nothing son, RYU Hae-guk, arrives from Seoul to attend his father’s funeral. Hae-guk soon realizes that the villagers are trying to hide something from him leading him to seek the help of PARK Min-uk, the public prosecutor responsible for his demotion to a local branch during his more reckless past. Hae-guk plans to conduct his father’s autopsy himself, but arrives at his father’s grave only to find his corpse missing. Hae-guk suspects that Yong-duk is responsible.

Cast:
Park Hae-il 박해일 As Ryoo Hae-gook (류해국)
Jeong Jae-yeong 정재영 As Cheon Yong-deok (천용덕)
Yoo--Seon 유선 As Lee Yeong-ji (이영지)
Yoo Joon-sang 유준상 As Public prosecutor Park (박 검사)
Yoo Hae-jin 유해진 As Kim Deok-cheon, villager (김덕천, 마을 주민)
Kim Sang-ho 김상호 As Jeon Seok-man, villager (전석만, 마을 주민)


Credits: http://www.koreanmovie.com


My Take:

Almost 3 hours long, though I hardly noticed. Grabe! I love this movie, it'll keep you guessing til the end. So did the guy just died, or someone killed him? If the latter, who did? Why? So much so that at one point I even thought, ok, so is it possible this woman was just imagining things after all? I was with the protagonist the whole time, in his every suspenseful moves. I couldn't even help myself but warn him like "Mok, be careful!". Very, very edge of you seat film and just when you thought you had it all figured out, the ending just grabs ahold of you and never lets go, even long after the movie ended.