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Title: Silenced (2011)
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| Yoo Gong | ... | Kang In-ho | |
| Yu-mi Jung | ... | Seo Yoo-jin | |
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Hyeon-soo Kim | ... | Kim Yeon-doo |
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Kim Jee-Young | ... | In-ho's grandmother (as Ji-yeong Kim) |
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In-seo Jeong | ... | Jin Yoo-ri |
| Seung-hwan Baek | ... | Jeon Min-soo | |
| Hye-jin Park | ... | Headmaster's Wife | |
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Gwang Jang | ... | Principal / Principal's Brother |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Jin-ho Choi | ... | Prosecutor |
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Hyo-Seob Eom | ... | Police Officer Jang |
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Ji-seong Eom | ... | Young-soo (as Ji Sung Uhm) |
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Jae-Ho Heo | ... | Broadcasting Station PD |
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Suk-Youn Hong | ... | School Custodian / Guard |
| So-yeon Jang | ... | Courtroom Sign Language Interpreter | |
| Gook-hwan Jeon | ... | Attorney Hwang (as Kuk-Hwan Jeon) | |
Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter's surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children's rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yu-jin. But he and Yu-jin soon realize the school's principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth. Written by Stanislav S, Sochi, Russia
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The film is based on actual events that happened in Gwang Ju, South Korea. People assume that actual events were dramatized in the film, but apparently the actual events were more heinous than the movie. Gong Yoo read the novel The Crucible/Silenced (Dogani, 2009) while serving his mandatory military service and became involved in the film making.
The child actors were amazing. Because they had to portray deaf and mute children, they had to rely on their facial gestures, sign language, and sounds (cries and screams). They were simply amazing at depicting complex emotions.
Johan Lebbing is wrong. Gong Yoo is not holding a bible at the end of the movie (that would make no sense whatsoever in this movie). He's taking the subway and holding a cake from Tous Les Jours (a Korean boulangerie/patisserie chain) because it's Christmas. He's probably going home to his daughter.
South Korea is pretty lenient with sex offenders in general, and this movie caused an uproar in South Korea about sex crimes.