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The rest of the films played throughout the day on the 9 , with The
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Plan Man(플랜맨) at 1:30 pm. Released in 2014, the film tells the romantic
and absurdly comedic story of an obsessive-compulsive librarian, who must
set rigid plans for everything he does, falling in love with a rock-musician
convenience store clerk who is his polar opposite. The film features the
prolific Jae-young Jung in the lead role alongside Ji-min Han, who’s played
in countless dramas, including the famous 2003 series dae Jang geum.

This was followed at 4:30 pm by detective K: Secret of Virtuous Widow
(조선명탐정: 각시꽃투구의 비밀), the first in the comic detective K series,
featuring Myung-Min Kim as detective K, the best detective, who must
solve a series of murders related to a woman who is also played by Ji-min
Han. The film was released in 2011 and spawned a sequel just this year.

The final film, at 7:30 pm, was 2013’s The Face Reader(관상), featuring
a star-studded cast and also telling a detective story, albeit with a much
more serious tone. Kang-ho Song plays the best face reader in Choseon.
He must detect traitors to the king by using his face-reading abilities — a
traditional practice that was thought to determine someone’s characteristics
and traits by examining their facial features.

The best part about this festival is that all the tickets were free! all you had to do was
book your spot in advance. For those of who couldn’t spare the time that weekend, from
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May 26 to 31 , the Toronto Korean Film Festival hosted its 4 annual event, “all Strings
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attached,” featuring a number of themed screening days at Innis Town Hall at the
University of Toronto.
The theme of this year’s festival was “ggeun(끈)”, which means as “string, wire or
rope” but is also a motif denoting connectedness among individuals. Each film
deals with this connectedness theme in some way, and the series offered a
considerable amount of variety. To this effect the festival was showing a
number of local Korean films, as well as numerous films from myriad
countries by members of the Korean diaspora living there.

These films range from documentaries and short films to dramas and animations. The
festival even set aside a day for screening films produced by Korean-Canadians as well.

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