Thursday 12 October 2017

MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7 By Lee Hwan-kyung











Movie: Miracle in Cell No. 7
Director:  Lee Hwan-kyung
Producer: Kim Min-ki, Lee Sang-hun
Cinematographer: Kang Seung-gi
Release Date:  January 23, 2013
Run Time: 127 minutes
 Language:  Korean



STORY :


Lee Yong-go is a mentally ill father living with his six-year-old daughter Ye-seung. One day, he gets into a physical altercation with the police commissioner, who has just purchased the last Sailor Moon backpack for his daughter, a gift Yong-go was saving up to buy for Ye-seung. Soon after, the police commissioner's daughter dies in a freak accident, in which she slips on ice and suffers a fatal blow to the back of her head while she is taking Yong-go to another store that sells the same backpack. When he tries to rescue  a woman witnesses him and mistakes him to be molesting her. Yong-go is falsely accused of the abduction, murder, and rape of a minor. The police quickly take advantage of his disability and force him to admit to the crimes, while ignoring exonerating evidence. Yong-go is imprisoned and assigned to Cell No. 7, the harshest cell in  prison.