Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells - 히말라야 : 바람이 머무는 곳 [2009]

Release Date:11 June 2009
Origin :South Korea
Genre: Drama
Director :Jeon Soo-il (전수일)
Starring:Choi Min-sik(최민식),Tsering Kipale Gurung (츠링 키펄 구릉),Tenjing Sherpa (텐징 셀파),Namgya Gurung (남가 구릉),Hamo Gurung (하모 구릉),Tseptam Gurung (쳅탕 구릉)

Synopsis
Kim is on the way home after divorce procedure. He feels obsessive, watching TV news about suicide in the subway of an illegally staying labor of Nepal, Sham. He sleeps, returning home. As he dreams a small mountain village of the Himalayas, he wakes up. He goes to Sham's funeral home. He asks people of a human rights organization in charge of the funeral arrangements to take Sham's ashes to his family in Nepal. As Kim arrives in Zomsom, mountain region in Nepal, asks around about Sham's home. He leaves for Jharkot with a map and a bag. Kim walks long, dry and winding roads. Climbing highlands, he suffers from nasal haemorrhage and headache because of mountain sickness. It's in two days that he arrives in Sham's hometown, which is located on the top of a mountain in the Himalayas with snow. There are Sham's ill mother and his three sisters living in a ragged house. As Kim gives Sham's ashes to the first sister of Sham's, Sunita, she gulps down tears, but runs to a hill outside, and cries out loud in sorrow. Sunita asks Kim not to tell her families about Sham's death. While Kim stays a night in Sham's, he suffers from serious illness from fatigue and stomach-ache. He stays more under Sunita's careful nursing.

Kim accompanies Sunita, who sells wild honey (found in the crevices of rocks). As they travel around for selling wild honey, they starts having a good feeling for each other. Kim accustoms himself to the surroundings of the village. After a while, everyone in the village gets to know the relationship of Kim and Sunita. A council of elders of the village is held. As Kim is noticed to marry Sunita or leave, he feels conflict. And …

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