Night Fishing

1/23/2026

This was definitely a film of two halves for me, and I much preferred the first. From the opening few minutes with a lively performance from a Korean hybrid of the Fab Four and the Rolling Stones we shift down to the waterside where me meet a gent (Oh Kwang-roc) setting up for some night fishing. Now I don’t know about you, but having a pee in water you’re hoping to fish from maybe isn’t the best idea, but he’s got about twenty rods and enough light to illuminate a football stadium so the chances are the fish won’t be nearby anyway! What he does catch, though, is a woman. Not the Daryl Hannah sort, just an ordinary woman with whom he becomes entertainingly entangled thanks to his fishing lines and some really quite cleverly choreographed antics in the mud. Then we have some scenes with som