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One Shining Day

2005, Color, 133', Live Action

Dir: KIM Sung-ho, KIM Jong-kwan, MIN Dong-hyun

Keyword: Drama, Comedy, Youth, Romance, Omnibus

Release: 2006-02-24

Film Awards

The 1st Festival Franco Coreen du Film (2006,France)
The 19th Sapporo Film Festival (2006,Japan)
- (2006,)
OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL (2006,Japan)
The 2nd CJ ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (2005,korea)
The 5th RESFEST Digital Film Festival (2005,Korea)
The 10th Busan International Film Festival (2005,Korea)

Synopsis

Episode 1. The Treasure Island dir_KIM Sung-ho
Mie comes to Korea in search for a keepsake, which her grandpa left behind when going back to Japan from Jeju Island due to Korean Liberation. She and her friend, Eiko meet a variety of Korean on their journey to Jeju Island. One day they get threatened by rowdies, but they find the way out of the dangerous situation.
The journey to Jeju Island makes two Japanese girls realize what friends are good for even in a difficult time and find out who really they are.

Episode 2. Good-bye dir_KIM Jong-kwan
Jong-hwan defrauds people of money with a laptop-computer to make money for meeting his mother who lives in Japan. He is a kind of trouble maker home and even at school, but keeps taking a risk of doing a dangerous defraudation looking forward to reunion of his mom and him.

Episode 3. The Beautiful Strangers dir_MIN Dong-hyun
On arriving at the airport, Ishida starts running to catch the flight to Japan. He ends up missing his flight by bumping against Go-ny, working at a duty-free shop at the airport.
After a while, they get to meet up once again at the airport and spend some time together.
It' s a story about a conversation of two people from different countries and different languages.

Director's Note

“One Shining Day” is a digital omnibus feature in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Korea Independence Day. Three Korean young filmmakers show a closer relationship between Korea and Japan with their own vision.

*Three magical stories told by Korean and Japanese young generation, Korea-Japan youth omnibus film “One Shining Day”
“One Shining Day” is an omnibus style Korea-Japan youth story told by three young directors, KIM Sung-ho, KIM Jong-kwan and MIN Dong-hyun who are known for their characteristic films going back and forth mainstream ChoongMuRo and independent film territories.
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Korean Independence Day, “One Shining Day” was produced in the summer of 2005 with Seoul, Tokyo and Jeju Island as its background settings. It is an omnibus feature film portraying Korean and Japanese youth living the present day through their one day journey.
‘Korean Independence Day’ and ‘Korea-Japan Relations’ is somewhat a broad and big theme, however, each director, with their magical stories in cities according to their characteristic, will guide the audiences into totally new and special Korean and Japanese youths’ stories.
“One Shining Day” will show a new perspective on Korean and Japanese relationship through the growth process as the youths in both countries – youths currently living in Korea, youths currently living in Japan, and youths currently stuck in between the relationship of Korea and Japan – overcome their confusing adolescence and find their identities.

*What does Korea-Japan Relations mean to Korean and Japanese young generation?
Based on the fascination and interest on omnibus films, independent film distributor INDIESTORY Inc. produced its first feature film, an omnibus film, “One Shining Day”. Just last year, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Korean Independence Day the media dealt sporadically about the new prospective on Korea and Japan relations, but what does Korean Independence Day and Korea-Japan Relations really mean to the young generation and how strange must this be to them? These were the questions in which the omnibus film “One Shining Day” began with.
In reality today’s young generation think of Korean Independence and Korea-Japan issue as a conflict between generations rather than a historical fact. Hence in the film “One Shining Day”, it decided not to directly show the historical cover outwardly that these issues possess. Leaving the historical background behind, it decided instead to focus on the delicate conflict between the ‘youth generation’ of Korea and Japan living in today’s society. The conflict between the generations appearing in the Korea-Japan relations, and the conflict between the young generation in both countries who have not had any historical experience or any impressions are the core theme, and thus the objective of the film “One Shining Day” is to show the growth process of the youths as they go through this confusing adolescent period in search for their identities. As an attempt for a new approach on the Korea-Japan relations, the Korea-Japan youth omnibus film “One Shining Day” is a film in which is inside the boundaries of the big frame of Korean Independence Day and Korea-Japan Relations and meanwhile the characteristics of each three directors is well represented in each episode providing to the audiences much joy in this totally new genre film.

Director's Bio / Filmography

- KIM Sung-ho

Born in 1970, Korea
Graduated from Brooklyn College / City of University of New York, Dept. of Production Film, USA
New School University in New York, Master of Arts in Media Studies, USA

1997 [Ketchup Story] 16mm, 4min. clay-animation
           Best Animation Prize, Brooklyn College Film Festival (1997, USA)
          [Shall We...] 16mm, 2min.
           Jury’s Prize, Brooklyn College Film Festival (1997, USA)
1998 [Mirror] 1min., 3D animation
           Jury’s Prize, Brooklyn College Film Festival (1998, USA)
            National Students Film and Video Festival (1999, USA)
1999 [I the Eye] 16mm, 7min.
           25th Korean Indie & Short Film Festival (1999, Korea)
           Competition, 12th BBC Int’l Short Film Festival (2000, UK)
           IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2000, Korea)
2000 [Home Video] DV 6mm, 15min
           Competition, 2nd Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2001, Korea)
           Competition, 2nd Seoul Net Festival (2001, Korea)
2001 [Chase] DV 6mm, 5ཚ"
           Resfest Digital Film Festival (2001, Korea)
          [Love Virus] DV 6mm, 5ཚ"
           Resfest Digital Film Festival (2001, Korea)
2003 [Into the Mirror] 35mm, color, 117min.
            Audience Award, 12th Fantastic Film Festival of Gerardmer (2005, France)
          Competition of Spiritual Cinema, 23rd Fajr Int’l Film Festival (2005, Iran)
           Montreal Fantasia Film Festival (2004, Canada)
           Grand Prize, 1st Seogang Film Festival (2004, Korea)
           Tartan Asian Extreme Film Festival (2004, UK)
          58th Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival (2004, UK)
         19th Mar del Plata Int’l Film Festival (2004, Argentina)
           22nd Brussels Int’l Festival of Fantastic Film (2004, Belgium)
          New York Asian Film Festival (2003, USA)
          36th Sitges-Int'l Film Festival of Catalonia (2003, Spain)
          Competition, 4th Tokyo Filmex (2003, Japan)
           Movie Zemiro Award in NDIF (New Directors in Focus), 6th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2001, Korea)
2005 [The Treasure Island -an episode of omnibus film; One Shining Day] DV 6mm, color, 133min (50min.)
           2006 Festival Franco-Coreen du Film (FFCF) (2006, France)
           19th Sapporo Int’l Film Festival (2006, Japan)
           Osaka Asian Film Festival (2006, Japan)
           Resfest Digital Film Festival (2005, Korea)
           Wide Angle, 10th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
2007 [Happy Birthday-an episode of omnibus film; Fantastic Parasuicides] HD, color, 93min (38min)
           22nd Leeds International Film Festival (2008, UK)
           24th Warsaw Int’l FilmFest (2008, Poland)
           55th Sydney International Film Festival (2008, Australia)
           34th Seattle Int’l Film Festival (2008, USA)
           4th Riverside Int’l Film Festival (2008, USA)
           6th Festival of Korean Cinema In Italy (2008, Italy)
           10th Barcelona Asian Film Festival (2008, Spain)
           37th Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam (2008, The Netherlands)
           12th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2007, Korea)
2009 [Penny Lover-an episode of Show Me the Money] HD, color, 112min. (12཮" )
          4th International College Peace Film Festival (2009, Korea)
          IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum 2009 (2009, Korea)
          Opening Film, 10th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2009, Korea)
2010 [She Came From] HD, color, 82min.
         Jury’s Prize, 9th Florence Korea Film Fest (2011, Italy)
          11th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2010, Korea)

2014 [How To Steal A Dog] 109min.

- KIM Jong-kwan

Graduated from Seoul Institute of Arts, Dept. of Film

2000 [Street Story] DV 6mm, color, 15min.

2002 [Wind Story] 16mm, color, 10min.

[Wounded..] DV 6mm, color, 3min.

5th Misen-en-scène’s Genres Film Festival (2006, Korea)

Jeju Tmong Film Festival (2004, Korea)

Puchon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (2004, Korea)

Korean Shorts: Critic’s Week, 5th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)

16th Broke in Seoul Video Festival (2003, Korea)

Indie Video Festival (2002, Korea)

Bremen City Zooms Festival (2003, Germany)

Busan Asia Short Film Festival (2003, Korea)

4th Seoul Net & Film Festival (2003, Korea)

2003 [Tell Her I Love Her] DV 6mm, color, 19' 50"

2nd CJ Asian Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)

3rd Jeju Tmong Film Festival (2004, Korea)

8th Puchon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (2004, Korea)

Korean Shorts: Critic’s Week, 5th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)

29th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2003, Korea)

Indie Video Festival (2003, Korea)

2004 [How to Operate a Polaroid Camera] DV 6mm, color, 6' 20"

38th Tampere Int’l Short Film Festival (2008, Finland)

Special Program, 6th New York Asian Film Festival (2007, USA)

Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (2005, Hong Kong)

6th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)

Korean Short Section, 4th Anchorage Int’l Film Festival (2004, USA)

Jury’s Special Prize, 3rd Tmong Film Festival (2004, Korea)

5th Gwangju Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)

30th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)

1st CJ Asia Indie Film Festival (2004, Korea)

Resfest Choice Award/Audience Award, Resfest, Digital Film Festival (2004, Korea)

8th Puchon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (2004, Korea)

5th Persons with Disabilities Film Festival (2004, Korea)

Jury’s Special Prize, 3rd Misen-en-scène’s Genres Film Festival (2004, Korea)

Competition, Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2004, Korea)

On-line Competition, 5th Seoul Net Festival (2004, Korea)

2005 [One Shining Day, “Good-bye”] DV 6mm, color, 135min.(41’ 40”)

Cinema Korea 2006 (2006, Japan)

Resfest Digital Film Festival (2005, Korea)

CJ Asia Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)

Wide Angle, 10th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)

[Waiting for Youngjae] DV 6mm, color, 4཮''

6th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)

[Slowly] DV 6mm, color, 14min.

Shorts Competition, 4th Seoul Christianity Film Festival (2006, Korea)

5th Jeju Film Festival (2006, Korea)

Competition, 5th Mise-en-scène’s Genre Film Festival (2006, Korea)

CJ CGV Prize (First Prize), 31st Seoul Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)

2006 [Monologe #1] DV 6mm, color, 10Ɗ"

Shorts Competition, 36th Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam (2007, Netherlands)

KIM Jong-kwan Collection, 32nd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2006, Korea)

[A Lonely Season] DV 6mm, b&w, 3ཤ"

EuroAsia Shorts Int'l Festival (2011, USA)

1st Asian Connection Film Festival (2010, France)

Int'l Competition, 3rd China Mobile Film Festival (2009, China)

14th Lyon Asian Film Festival (2008, France)

KIM Jong-kwan Collection, 32nd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2006, Korea)

[Dialogue of Silence] DV 6mm, color, 11min.

KIM Jong-kwan Collection, 32nd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2006, Korea)

[Screw-driver] DV 6mm, color, 11min.

Competition, 6th Mise-en-scène’s Genre Film Festival (2007, Korea)

KIM Jong-kwan Collection, 32nd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2006, Korea)

2007 [Waiting] DV 6mm, color, 22min

Short: As Long As It Takes, 37th Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam (2008, The Netherlands)

Short!Short!Short!, 8th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2007, Korea)

2008 [Memories] DV 6mm, color, 4min.

[Hey Tom] DV 6mm, color, 9min.

[Trend of This Fall] DV 6mm, color, 9min.

2010 [Whispers in the Wind] HD, color, 40min.

11th Jeonju Int'l Film Festival (2010, Korea)

[Come, Closer] HD, color, 108min.

6th Festival Franco Coreen du Film (2011, France)

15th Pusan Int'l Film Festival (2010, Korea)

2014 [Phantoms of the Archive] 33min.

2016 [Worst Woman] 94min.

Korean Feature Competition, 17th Jeonju International Film Festival (2016, Korea)

4th Muju Film Festival (2016, Korea)

FIPRESCI Award, 38th Moscow International Film Festival (2016, Russia)

1st Yalta International Film Festival (2016, Crimea)

1st London East Asia Film Festival (2016, UK)

Closing Film, 11th Korean Film Festival in Paris (2016, France)

Korea-Indonesia Film Festival (2016, Indonesia)

5th Korean Film Festival Frankfurt (2016, Germany)

11th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (2016, Indonesia)

15th Florence Korea Film Fest (2017, Italy)

6th Toronto Korean Film Festival (2017, Canada)

8th Korean Film Festival in Australia (2017, Australia)

Korean Independent Film Festival (2017, Germany)

2016 [The Table] 70min.

- MIN Dong-hyun

Born in 1976, Korea
Graduated from Seoul Institute of Arts majoring in Film Directing
1998 [DDA] video, color, 13min.
1998 [SUNㆍDAY] 16mm, color, 5ཚ"
1998 [Janitor] video, color, 10min. documentary
1999 [Ok-soo Station] video, color, 10min. documentary
1999 [Eraser Wrestling] 35mm, color, 18min.
           Sponsored by Eastman-Kodak Inc.
           3rd Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2002, Korea)
           Real to Real Canada Int’l Youth & Family Film Festival (2002, Canada)
           Competition, 12th Golden Elephant Int’l Youth Film Festival (2001, India)
           18th Chicago Int’l Children's Film Festival (2001, USA)
           BUSTER-Copenhagen Int’l Children’s Film Festival (2001, Denmark)
           Children Program, Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival (2001, Brazil)
           4th Sprockets Toronto Int’l Film Festival for Children (2001, Toronto)
           Int’l Competition, 13th Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival (2001, France)
           15th Int’l Festival of Film and Video for Children and Young Adults of Iran (2000, Iran)
           Jury Award, 3rd BUFF Int’l Children and Youth Film Festival in Sadnes (2000, Sweden)
           Children's Film Festival, 19th Uppsala Int'l Short Film Festival (2000, Sweden)
           2nd Award in 'Preludes' Section, 30th Giffoni Int'l Children's Film Festival (2000, Italy)
           Short Competition, 49th Melbourne Int'l Film Festival (2000, Australia)
           IndieForum, Korean Independent Film & Video Makers' Forum (2000, Korea)
           Wide Angle, 4th Pusan Int'l Film Festival (1999, Korea)
2000 [Plan 19 from Outer Space] 16mm, b&w, 15min.
           16th Leeds Int’l Film Festival (2002, UK)
           Korean Shorts: Critics’ Week, 3rd Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2002, Korea)
           INDIESTORY: The Korea Special, 14th Filmfest Dresden (2002, Germany)
           Competition, Fantasporto Int’l Film Festival (2002, Portugal)
           3rd Shorts! Int’l Short Film Festival (2001, The Netherlands)
           Fantastic Short Films, Puchon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (2001, Korea)
           IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2001, Korea)
           Special Jury Award, Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2001, Korea)
           Short Competition, 2nd Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2001, Korea)
2001 [Oh! Brothers : Thank You Girl] Music Video
2003 [Killing Me Softly] digi-beta, animation
2003 [Defconn : The Road] Music Video
2003 [Plastic People : 3 P.M.] Music Video
2004 [Iyagi] 35mm, animation
2004 [Oh! Brothers : A Romance Drowned to the Cool Sea Water]Music Video
2005 [The Beautiful Strangers – an episode of One Shinning Day] DV 6mm, Color, 133min.
           2006 Festival Franco-Coreen du Film (FFCF) (2006, France)
           19th Sapporo Int’l Film Festival (2006, Japan)
           Osaka Asian Film Festival (2006, Japan)
           Cinema Korea 2006 (2006, Japan)
           Resfest Digital Film Festival (2005, Korea)
           2nd CJ Asia Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
           Wide Angle, 10th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
2009 [A Green Goodbye : She & Her Mobile] HD, color, 23min.
           Asian Typhoon, 5th Sapporo Int'l Short Film Festival (2010, Japan)
         Competition, 9th Mise-en-scene’s Short Film Festival (2010, Korea)
         6th Green Film Festival in Seoul (2009, Korea)
2010 [YEOSU] HD, color, 26min.

Staff

Episode 1. The Treasure Island
Director/screenwriter/editing : KIM Sung-ho
Executive Producer : SHIN Chang-kyun
Producer : KIM Sung-ho
Line Producer : SEO Yu-jung
Assistant Director : YUN Eun-kyung
Director of Photography : PARK Jae-hong
Script Supervisor : Ando Dieske
Gaffer : CHOI Sung-won
Art director : BAEK Kyung-in
Recording : JUNG In-ho
Costume : SONG Ja-in
Makeup : KIM Hyun-hee / MOOM Jung-nan
Music : LEE Woo-sung

Episode 2. Good-bye
Director/screenwriter/editing : KIM Jong-kwan
Assistant director : KIM Heung-min
Director of Photography : LEE Hyun-duk
Gaffer : KANG Dae-hee / LEE Sun-young
Art : HONG Ji-yeon / KIM Ha-young
Recording : LEE Sun-sung / LEE Da-kyung
Costume : JUNG Hye-sung
Special Makeup : KANG Ran-ah
Music : KIM Tae-sung
Sound Mixing : PYO Yong-soo

Episode 3. The Beautiful Strangers
Director/screenwriter : MIN Dong-hyun
Producer : CHAE Bo-hyun
Director of Photography : YUN Ji-woon
Gaffer : KIM Chun-ho
Recording : KIM Sin-yong
Art director : KIM Yu-mi
Costume : PARK Hye-in
Make-up : KIM Hye-yeon
Casting director : CHOI Hyun
Editing : NOH Jae-won (Studio Kumtle)
Music : HA Reem

Cast

Episode 1. The Treasure Island
MORI Yukie as Mie
SEO Young-hwa as Eiko
HAN Bat as HAN Bat

Episode 2. Good-bye
KIM Dong-yong as Jong-hwan
JUNG Dae-hoon as Young-su
CHOI Deung-hwan as Chang-su

Episode 3. The Beautiful Strangers
LEE So-yeon as Go-ny
SHIODA Sadaharu as Ishida
KIM Ju-ryung as Hyun-ju