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VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED
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Completed - KOREAN - Fantasy, Drama - 129 minutes

Log Line

Three boys go missing while the girl left behind blames it on a time-eating monster. Then a strange man claims he’s one of the boys.

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Tae-Hwa UM
Writer(s) : Tae-hwa UM, Seul-yeah JO
Cast : Dong-Won GANG, Eun-Su SHIN

Producer(s) : Cine KWAK (Barunson E&A)

Synopsis

13-year-old Su-rin (SHIN Eun-su) and her only friend Sung-min (GANG Dong-won), venture into a cave with a group of kids and discover a magical egg; which could be holding a time-eating monster that can turn a child into an adult according to their local folktale. The boys take the egg outside and when Su-rin follows them out of the cave a minute later, she finds that her friends have disappeared. While the police assume that this is an abduction case and start an investigation to find the missing boys, a mysterious grown-up man shows up and tells Su-rin that he is Sung-min.

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Country(ies) : KOREA (South)

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