Despite the harsh realities of successive dictatorships, compulsory military service, and expectations of marriage and childbirth, six elderly gay men converted second-run theaters and nearby bars into popular sites of erotic liberation and same-sex friendships. Using rare footage of Seoul’s only extant second-run movie house and historical animation, Paradise documents South Korea’s vibrant gay underground in the 1970s and 80s, before the consolidation of democracy and the introduction of the internet in the 1990s.