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Aimless Bullet

7.1/10
TMDB39 votes
1961Original: Korean108 min

Two brothers—Cheol-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.

Genres: Drama
Cast: Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Mu-ryong, Seo Ae-ja, Kim Hye-jeong, No Jae-shin

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Aimless Bullet (1961) is a film in the drama genres. Directed by Yu Hyun-mok. The cast includes Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Mu-ryong, Seo Ae-ja, Kim Hye-jeong.

Released
1961-04-13
Original language
Korean
Runtime
108 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
South Korea
Production companies
KTV
Directors
Yu Hyun-mok
Writers
Lee Jong-gi, Lee I-ryeong

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Audience reviews

7.1/10 from 39 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

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TMDB member review

I’m struck by how Yoo Hyun-mok fuses Italian Neorealism with a distinctly Korean sense of moral paralysis, creating a portrait of post-war despair that still feels uncomfortably present. The film’s cramped interiors, handheld street scenes, and jarring cuts trap the viewer inside the same psychological claustrophobia that consumes its characters. Rather than depicting dramatic collapse, Obaltan shows a slow…

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I’m struck by how Yoo Hyun-mok fuses Italian Neorealism with a distinctly Korean sense of moral paralysis, creating a portrait of post-war despair that still feels uncomfortably present. The film’s cramped interiors, handheld street scenes, and jarring cuts trap the viewer inside the same psychological claustrophobia that consumes its characters. Rather than depicting dramatic collapse, Obaltan shows a slow erosion—lives quietly worn down by debt, trauma, and a social order struggling to rebuild on spiritual ruins. Its bleakness isn’t decorative; it functions as a diagnosis, an autopsy of a society trying to move forward while still bleeding internally. What fascinates me is how the aesthetic mix of documentary immediacy and expressionist anxiety makes even brief moments of hope feel intrusive, almost inappropriate.

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What is Aimless Bullet about?

Two brothers—Cheol-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.

Who stars in Aimless Bullet?

Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Mu-ryong, Seo Ae-ja, Kim Hye-jeong, No Jae-shin, Moon Jeong-suk. See the cast cards above for character names.

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