''Foxy Festival'' (; "Festival") is a 2010

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n film with an all-star ensemble cast. It is a character-driven comedy of manners about the discreet sexual lives of a group of interconnected people in an upper-middle class district of

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Plot

Loose cannon Kwak Jang-bae ( Shin Ha-kyun), a neighborhood policeman, is obsessed with his sexual prowess and continually wants to have sex with his live-in girlfriend, Ji-su (

Uhm Ji-won Uhm Ji-won (born December 25, 1977) is a South Korean actress. Career Uhm Ji-won made her acting debut in the late 1990s, and after an early role in the Korean tokusatsu series ''Vectorman'', went on to appear in a number of films and televi ...

), an English teacher at a private school who is bored with his macho behavior. Forthright high-school student Ju Ja-hye ( Baek Jin-hee) sells her sweat-stained panties on the internet and wants to lose her virginity to scruffy fish-sausage seller Choi-kang Sang-du (

Ryoo Seung-bum Ryoo Seung-bum (born August 9, 1980) is a South Korean actor. He made a name for himself in his older brother director Ryoo Seung-wan's eclectic films, notably '' Die Bad'' (his acting debut in 2000), ''Arahan'' (2004), '' Crying Fist'' (2005), ...

); the older man is uninterested in her advances but Ja-hye cannot work out why. Ja-hye's mother (

Shim Hye-jin Shim Hye-jin (born February 6, 1967) is a South Korean actress and model. She was one of the leading actresses of the 1990s in South Korea. Shim started her career as a model and achieved stardom with a Coca-Cola commercial in the late 1980s. D ...

), who sells

hanbok The (; term used in South Korea), also called () n North Korea and China, is an umbrella term which is used to refer to traditional ethnic Korean clothes, including the traditional clothing of the (Korean Chinese), an officially recognized ...

(traditional Korean female dress), discovers the owner of a hardware shop opposite, Gi-bong (

Sung Dong-il Sung Dong-il (born April 27, 1967) is a South Korean actor. Sung made his acting debut in theater in 1987, then was recruited at the 1991 SBS open talent auditions. He rose to fame as the comic, Jeolla dialect-speaking character "Red Socks" in ...

), is into S&M and starts having sessions with him in the back of his shop, assuming a

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role. Kim Gwang-rok (

Oh Dal-su Oh Dal-su (born 15 June 1968) is a South Korean actor. Career Oh Dal-su began his acting career in theater in Busan, and since 2001 has been the head of theater company ''Singiru Manhwagyeong'' ("Mirage and Kaleidoscope"). His rich experience ...

), Ja-hye's teacher, is a married man who is secretly into wearing women's clothes when his wife is not around. When Jang-bae discovers Ji-su has ordered a vibrator, he has a major crisis over his manhood and stops sleeping with her. Meanwhile, as his neighborhood has been marked for a moral clean-up campaign by the police, it's only time before Jang-bae also bumps heads with its denizens' licentious goings-on.

Cast

* Shin Ha-kyun ... Kwak Jang-bae, policeman *

... Ji-su, Jang-bae's girlfriend *

.... Ju Seon-shim, hanbok shop owner *

... Gi-bong, hardware shop owner *

... Choi-kang Sang-du, fish-sausage hawker * Baek Jin-hee ... Ja-hye, Seon-shim's daughter *

... Kim Gwang-rok, teacher * Choi Kwon ... In-su * Mun Se-yun ... Deok-gu *Jo Gyeong-suk ... Gwang-rok's wife *Oh Yun-hong ... flower-shop lady *Kim Tae-jong ... hairdresser *

Kim Ah-joong Kim Ah-joong (born October 16, 1982) is a South Korean actress, model and singer. She is best known for playing the main character in the romantic comedy '' 200 Pounds Beauty''. Education Kim graduated from Korea University with a master's degr ...

... air doll (cameo) *

Han Sang-jin Han Sang-jin (born January 17, 1978) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for starring in television dramas such as ''Behind the White Tower'' (2007), '' Yi San'' (2007), ''My Too Perfect Sons ''My Too Perfect Sons'' (; lit. ''The Sons o ...

... delivery man *Park So-hyeon

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130826203752/http://www.festival2010.co.kr/
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