'Coin Locker Girl' wins top movie awards
Kim Go-eun in a scene from "Coin Locker Girl" / Courtesy of Naver
Korean crime movie “Coin Locker Girl” has drawn global attention, winning awards at two international movie festivals.
The movie won the Jury’s Choice Award in the Bucheon Choice: Feature category at the 19th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival that ended Sunday. The movie also won a Gryphon Award and the British Film Institute Certificate at the 2015 Giffoni Film Festival in Italy that ended Sunday.
The Italian film festival said the movie, directed by Han Jun-hee, dramatically portrayed the life of the movie’s protagonist, Il-young (played by Kim Go-eun), who was abandoned as a baby at a subway station and grows up to work for a criminal gang. It praised the film’s storyline, actors’ performance and camera techniques that worked together well to captivate viewers.
The film has attracted more than 1.4 million viewers in Korean theaters.