KO Club
Synopsis
A feature film loosely inspired by a 2011 essay by the late Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, titled "How Old People Survive."
- Director
- Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Writers
- Hwang Dong-hyuk
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