Splendid Outing

Following a dream about her dead twin sister, thriving corporate tycoon Gong Do-hee (Yoon Jeong-hee, Poetry) takes a drive to the seaside. But her splendid outing becomes a nightmarish one when she is kidnapped and forced to live with a gruff island fisherman who insists that she is his runaway wife. Featuring a timely message about political oppression that evaded the stringent censors of the day, this daring modernist work from prolific Korean cineaste Kim Soo-yong (Mist) stands as one of the boldest works of Korean cinema’s darkest era — the 1970s.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• High-Definition digital transfer from a 4K scan by the Korean Film Archive
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Audio Commentary by Ariel Schudson (2025)
• Interview with filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (2025, 15 mins)
• Interview with assistant director Chung Ji-young (2025, 21 mins)
• Stranded but Not Afraid: The Island Women of Classic Korean Cinema - a visual essay by Pierce Conran (2025, 16 mins)
• Newly improved English subtitles
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Chung Chong-hwa and Pierce Conran and archival writing by director Kim Soo-yong
  
• Limited edition of 2500 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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Year: 1978
Country: South Korea
Cert: 15
Format: Blu-ray
Region: ABC
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EAN: 5060974682751
Release date: 08/12/25