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Bookmark this pageMotel Cactus (1997)
Director: Park Ki-Yong
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Thanks to Chris Doyle's typically fluid, sensuous camerawork, this never looks less than terrific; it is, however, a little low on narrative drive as it charts four sexual/emotional encounters in a Seoul 'love hotel'. Intriguingly, the couplings involve only six characters, so that the episodes are subtly (even obscurely) linked, but while Park is clearly adept at establishing and sustaining a variety of moods, there's nothing particularly original in what he has to say about male-female relationships.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Park Ki-Yong
Producer: Tcha Sung-Jai
Cast: Jin Hee-Kyung, Jung Woo-Sung, Kim Seung-Hyun, Han Woong-Soo, Lee Mi-Yeon, Park Shin-Yang full cast
Duration: 91 mins
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