- Acacia (film)
Infobox Korean Film
name = Acacia
director =Park Ki-hyeong
producer = Kang Sung-kyu
Park Ki-hyeong
Yu Yeong-shik
writer = Seong Gi-young
Park Ki-hyeong
starring = Shim Hye-jin
Kim Jin-geun
Moon Woo-bin
Jeong Na-yun
music = Choi Man-sik
cinematography = Oh Hyun-jae
editing = Ham Seong-weon
distributor = Show East
released = flagicon|South KoreaOctober 17 ,2003
flagicon|TaiwanFebruary 27 ,2004
flagicon|PhilippinesApril 14 ,2004
flagicon|ThailandJune 17 ,2004
flagicon|TurkeyJanuary 21 ,2005
runtime = 103 mins.
country =South Korea
language = Korean
budget =US$ 2.2 million
gross =
website =
amg_id = 1:325041
imdb_id = 0380164
hangul = "아카시아 "
hanja =
rr = "Akasia"
mr ="Acacia" is a 2003 South Korean horror film, directed by
Park Ki-hyeong and starring Shim Hye-jin and Kim Jin-geun.Plot
Unable to have children of their own, married couple Mi-sook and Do-il adopt a young boy named Lee Jin-seong. His name soon gets changed to Kim Jin-seong when he moves with Mi-sook and Do-il. The boy is drawn to an
acacia tree in his new home's backyard, which soon becomes the focal point for an increasing number of strange occurrences.Jin-seong befriends an older girl named Min-jee. She tells Jin-seong that she cannot go to school as she has lost a lot of blood. After she kisses Jin-seong, he becomes even more aggressive and violent. He turns even worse as Mi-sook becomes
pregnant and has a new baby named Hae-sung. Jin-seong is so angry that he tries to beat the baby to death. He appears to run away.Soon Min-jee starts changing and becoming more obsessed with the acacia tree as well. She finds herself in unnatural situations, like making ants attack another person. Mi-sook gets so frustrated that she decides to chop the tree down, only to find a bleeding and passed out Jin-seong.
It is revealed that his mother killed Jin-Seong by accident while she was trying to chop down the tree. Her husband sees this and helps her bury their adopted son's body. Jin-Seong's mother, out of guilt and stress, creates an illusion for herself that her son has run away and she desperately tries to find him.
Cast
* Shim Hye-jin ... Choi Mi-sook
* Kim Jin-geun ... Kim Do-il
*Moon Woo-bin ... Kim Jin-seong
* Park Woong
* Jeong Na-yun ... Min-ji
* Lee Young-hee
* Min Hye-ryeongExternal links
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* [http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm03.html#acacia Review] at Koreanfilm.org
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