In the Sea of Strange Thoughts

2025 · 116 min · Documentary

19-year cinematic footprint of Kim Uchang, South Korea's leading humanist

A 21-year chronicle exploring the strange life and the cosmic thinking about death and life of Kim Uchang, one of Korea's foremost thinkers, who leads a life in complete agreement with his philosophy. What meaning do things and a house have to the scholar who cannot throw away his parents' belongings and cannot leave the house he has lived in for 40 years? Can he ever complete his final book?

Director: Choi Jeong-dan
Released: September 19, 2025
Language: Korean

Cast

Kim U-chang
Self
Sul Soon-bong
Self
Kim Jun-hyong
Self
Kim Yun-mie
Self
Kim Min-hyong
Self
Kim Yun-hyong
Self

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