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South Korea 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 109 min. | |||
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At the end of the 20th century in Seoul, modernization and rampant capitalism have been accompanied by a noticeable weakening of moral principles. This phenomenon is illustrated in four connected stories set in the Korean capital. Do-sub, a struggling screenwriter, wants to write a thriller but must first complete a script for a melodrama. He overcomes his writer's block and finishes the work only to have a computer virus erase it all. Then he is witness to a terrible car accident involving the taxi in which he was just a passenger. He decides to return to the thriller. At her 21st birthday party, Soh-ryung, a college student who moonlights as a call-girl, ends up meeting and having an affair with Hyun-il, the son of a man whom she once had as a client. But luck isn't on her side. Her father is critically ill and the affair with Hyun-il does not have a happy ending. The affair university lecturer Kang-ho gets involved in also ends badly. First his wife finds out about it then Kang-ho's ex-lover announces that she's carrying his baby. Meanwhile his department chairman wants a hefty bribe to grant him tenure. In September 2000 we revisit the various protagonists to see what lessons they've learned. Not many. |
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| Script: Song Neung-han. Phot.: Lee Hoo-gon. Ed.: Park Gok-ji. Mus.: Shin Hae-hul. Cast: Kim Kab-su, Lee Jeh-un, Cha Seung-won. Prod.: Lee Tae-won, Taehung Pictures Co., Hannam-Dong 3-1, Yongsan-Gu, S�oul (Cor�e du Sud), t�l.: (822) 797-5121, fax: (822) 797-5125 / Mirae Asset Capital Co., Ltd., 3F, Mirae Asset B/D, 45-1, Yoido, Youngdeung, S�oul (Cor�e du Sud), t�l.: (822) 786-5930, fax: (822) 780-6065. Sales: Suh Young-joo, B1, Sukchun Bldg., 10-38, Yangjae-Dong, Seocho-Gu, S�oul (Cor�e du Sud), t�l.: (822) 577-6694, fax: (822) 578-6693, e-mail: [email protected]. | |||
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Song Neung-han Born in Seoul in 1959, Song Neung-han graduated from Seoul National University before beginning his filmmaking career as a screenwriter. Among his more notable scripts is the one for Im Kwon-taek's TAEBAEK MOUNTAINS (1995). He made his own directorial debut in features in 1997 with NUMBER 3, winner of numerous Korean awards and shown in festivals worldwide. |