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The King of Pigs

Dwaejiui Wang

2011, Movie, 1 ep, 61%

Recommended by 5 The Fake fans on AniList.

After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyung-Min (Oh Jung-Se) kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Suk (Yang Ik-June). Jong-Suk now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own…

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About The Fake

2013, Movie, 1 ep, 61%, Studio Dadashow

Who is good and who is evil? What is the boundary between them? An animated thriller about the tension between a good-hearted person speaking falsely and an evil-natured person speaking truthfully, and of those that surround them.

(Source: Hancinema)

Winner of the Platinum Grand Prize during the 2014 Future Film Festival, held in Italy.

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