Kim Ji-hyun's independent film Popee is a story about a director, played by famous singer/songwriter Baek Hyun-jin (who also made an appearance in Flower Island as the lead singer of a ska band), who, as a means of grieving the loss (to natural causes) of his dog Popee, decides to make a film about his relationship to Popee along with that of other dog/person relationships. (Acording to Kim, some of these other stories are "real" incidents.) All the dogs, found and lost, still live on within each of their human companions. Though it is, in fact, fiction, the film often plays out like a documentary with strong elements of autobiography from its writer/director.
