Why 2000 movie Joint Security Area resonates still, and why that's ‘sad'
Twenty-five years ago, director Park Chan-wook risked prison to make a film about friendship between North and South Korean soldiers, striking box office gold and beginning his actors' ascent to global stardom.
Relations between the two Koreas have since plunged, with Pyongyang renouncing its long-held goal of unification and last week destroying a venue that traditionally hosted reunions of families separated by decades of division.
Park's smash hit Joint Security Area still strikes a chord a quarter of a century later.
'It is a sad reality that this movie's themes still resonate with the younger generation,' he said in Seoul this month.
'I hope that by the 50th anniversary, we will be able to discuss it as just a story from the past.'
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