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Real Fiction

2000 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ562550 ↗
Source-derived summary

Real Fiction (Korean: 실제 상황; lit. 'State of Reality') is a 2000 crime-drama film from South Korean director Kim Ki-duk. It stars Joo Jin-mo, Kim Jin-ah and Son Min-seok. It was shot entirely in real-time, with no retakes, on a mixture of low quality video and purposefully "dirtied" film. The film was entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.

Plot

Real Fiction follows a South Korean artist as he systematically seeks out, and then kills his real or imagined enemies.

Editorial summary

“Real Fiction” enters the record as 2000 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Real, Fiction and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Real, Fiction and South.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q562550. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Real Fiction” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.