SYNOPSIS:TIME is KIM Ki-duk's 13th feature and one that questions the most basic foundation of love and human nature. It deals with a woman in doubtful agony over her lover's love - can they love each other forever? Won't he get sick and tired of her looks as time goes by? The movie delicately describes the correlation between time and human relations, and the changes in the relationship itself. To explore the human's struggle against the passage of time, KIM makes his female character employ the most extreme method - changing her look and her own body through plastic surgery to continuously be loved by the man she adores.

SEONG Hyeon-ah (HONG Sang Soo's WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN) was cast for So-hee, the female lead. For SEONG's counterpart, KIM Ki-duk chose HA Jung-woo, who earned world-wide recognition for his role in the 2005 film, YOON Jong-bin's THE UNFORGIVEN. KIM also renewed his partnership with the Japanese production company HAPPINET PICTURES with whom he has worked since 2004, on 3-IRON and THE BOW.

SYNOPSIS: (from IMDB.com) "A brutal Survivor-style reality show produced by the publicity-obsessed promoter of the Paris Hilton sex tape was shut down suddenly in September 2005 when a contestant was critically injured. Closely following the train-wreck production and the industry that spawned it, this film documents the human cost of popular entertainment."-- Perry Grebin

(fromr the American Cannibal website) American Cannibal pushes beyond Fahrenheit/911 and Supersize Me to break new ground in documentary territory.
Rather than forcing situations and twisting facts to tell a story, filmmakers Perry Grebin & Michael Nigro spent two and a half years twisting real life itself, and the result is the story.
The filmmakers began American Cannibal in 2004 as a bold social experiment with reality. The set in motion real events that allowed them unlimited access to the results, pushing their cameras deep into the glitterdome of reality-TV production to emerge with an equally bold exposé.
They watch as struggling writers earnestly pitch TV ideas, eventually selling out to the man behind the Paris Hilton sex tape. The sadistic, shameless reality show they churn out is documented from start to finish: from throwaway pitch to manic auditions through train-wreck production.
Alongside the drama, the filmmakers interview prominent producers, psychologists, network execs, celebrities and “D-lebrities,” who offer candid insight and scathing judgements on our society.
American Cannibal is a documentary as wild as the story behind it: a shocking, hilarious, bona fide portrait of our celebrity-driven culture and the appalling lengths we’ll go to for entertainment.