Product Description

Set in the futuristic Inner City of a unified Korea circa 2020 A.D., a series of grisly murders propel an overworked police investigator and a celebrated forensics profiler into a nightmarish spiral of death and discovery. Can they unravel the mystery, which has haunted authorities for nearly 30 years?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79477 in DVD
• Brand: ADV Films
• Released on: 2004-09-28
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English, Korean
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Customer Reviews

just not memorable...
... wait a year or so, then try to remember the three best scenes from the movie. i tried, then having failed that, i traded the movie in.

i must agree with a fellow reviewer that there was some relatively wooden acting (standing tensely does not equate dramatic tension). i might say the editor was at fault for making this movie boring more than the director's choices.

if you like decent Korean sci-fi, i would heartily recommend Natural City (yes, it's a Matrix-meets-Bladerunner movie but it is definitely more memorable than 'Yesterday').

Turned out to be good but....
This movie was quite hard work. I love Korean movies and I prefer a plot which requries some thought rather than being led by the hand to an obvious conclusion. However I have to admit I spent about half this movie trying to figure out what was going on.

A movie will generally start by 1) introducing the characters and then having events take place, or, 2) by throwing you to a situation with the characters and then revealing more about them over time. "Yesterday" didn't really do either.

The opening scenes are interesting but you have no clue as to the relationship of the characters (which in the case of the Captain and the young boy just means you dont understand the significance of the scene at all). You don't realy start getting a feel for the characters until about two thirds of the way through the movie.. which feels like quite a long time. This makes it hard going watching the movie. You spend more time wondering whats going on instead of trying to figure out whats going on (if you know what I mean).

Overall the movie is worth watching.. it is well filmed, has good acting, etc... it just feels like hard work wtaching all the way through.

Could have been better
It's rare to find a good sci-fi movie from Korea, so I really tried to keep an open mind. However, I must admit to being disappointed. The premise is intriguing. It's reunified Korea and a string of murders are happening with the victims being once-prominent government-employed scientists. The story deals with cloning and genetic experiementation and could have been a tightly-crafted futuristic thriller in the vein of 'The Minority Report'. Also, the inherent cultural struggles of a newly reunited country that developed differently for over 50 years. However, the wooden acting from the cast (it's worse if you watch in original Korean) and the lack of direction sink the movie. The action scenes are adequate, but otherwise a disappointment.