Visitors

Name: Visitors
Genre: Drama
Released: 12 Nov 2009
Rating: 4.90
Cast: Dante Perez, Kristine Kintana, Joel Ferrer, Willy Fernandez, Lois Goff

Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor, who Mi-Sook once dated herself. The level of social embarrassment goes off the scale. In Naomi Kawase’s Koma (Japan, 34min), Kang Jun-Il travels to a village in rural Japan to honour his grandfather’s dying wish by returning a Buddhist scroll to its ancestral home. Amid ancient superstitions, a new relationship forms. And in Lav Diaz’ Butterflies Have No Memories (Philippines, 42min) ‘homecoming queen’ Carol returns to the economically depressed former mining town she came from – and becomes the target of an absurd kidnapping plot hatched by resentful locals. Serving as his own writer, cameraman and editor, Diaz casts the film entirely from members of his crew and delivers a well-seasoned mix of social realism and fantasy. —bfi

Year: 2009

Genre: Drama

Studio: Jeonju International Film Festival

Director: Lav Diaz, Hong Sang-soo, Naomi Kawase

Cast: Dante Perez, Kristine Kintana, Joel Ferrer, Willy Fernandez, Lois Goff, Edward Porta

Crew: Lav Diaz (Director), Hong Sang-soo (Director), Naomi Kawase (Director), Lav Diaz (Writer), Hong Sang-soo (Writer), Naomi Kawase (Writer)

Runtime: 110 minutes

Release: Nov 12, 2009

IMDb: 4.90/10 by 9 users

Popularity: 6

Country: South Korea

Language: 日本語, 한국어/조선말