Dir. Lee Chang-dong 129 min. | South Korea | NR Korean with English subtitles Told in reverse chronology, this heartbreaking drama unspools the life of a man driven to suicide by love, loss, and turmoil under South Korea’s militant political landscape. A profoundly moving meditation on lost innocence, Peppermint Candy is an underrated landmark of Korean cinema from one of its finest directors, Lee Chang-dong (Burning).