Film Awards
The 3rd Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (2009,Korea)
The 6th Florence Korea Film Fest (2008,Italy)
The 11th Busan International Film Festival (2006,Korea)
The 31th Seoul Independent Film Festival, Opening Film (2005,Korea)
Synopsis
Fisherman, Young-chul, who lives on the island, arrives at a city in the hot summer to show a white shark to his friend, Jun-gu. Jun-gu, busy gambling somewhere does not show up and the shark in Young-chul's bag begins to go bad.
Young-chul runs into Yu-su, a man recently released from prison and wandering from street to street searching for home. .
Crazy woman, Eun-suk praying for rain in the middle of the park under glaring sunshine starts to chase Young-chul and Yu-su. She thinks the stink of the rotting shark is her dead baby's smell.
Director's Note
The substantial relation with another person does not start from superficial interaction between you and me but from incidents that your another self and the self you did not recognize cause. I imagine that even the will without will that might be in vain in the end becomes the cornerstone of each other's happiness. The story's characters are so-called minor class of the society including a manual laborer, fisherman, released convict, crazy woman, tearoom hostess, and gambler. Those who seem to be one step away from living on the right track start to find the way to come back to their forgotten home(nature) by changing awkward meeting into substantial relation.
Director's Bio / Filmography
- KIM Dong-hyun
1997 [From Island] 16mm, color, 33min.
2004 [A Starving Day] 35mm, color, 20min.
6th Persons with Disabilities Film Festival (2005, Korea)
Grand Prize, 3rd Seoul Christianity Film Festival (2005, Korea)
Grand Prize, 30th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)
2006 [A Shark] 35mm, color, 109min.
3rd Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (2009, Korea)
6th Festival of Korean Cinema In Italy (2008, Italy)
11th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2006, Korea)
2007 [Hello, Stranger] 35mm, color, 112' 53"
22nd Black Movie Film Festival (2009, Switzerland)
2nd Public Award for Best Film, 14th Lyon Asian Film Festival (2008, France)
31st Mill Valley Film Festival (2008, USA)
18th Focus on Asia – Fukuoka International Film Festival (2008, Japan)
13th Los Angeles Film Festival (2008, USA)
15th TITANIC Budapest Filmfest (2008, Hungary)
Time and Tide, 37th Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam (2008, The Netherlands)
NETPAC Award, 12th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2007, Korea)
2013 [The Dinner] color, 125min.
Closing Film, 18th Busan Int’l Film Festival (2013, Korea)
Staff
Director/screenwriter/music KIM Dong-hyun
Production KIMDONGHYUNFILM
Producer NAM Tae-woo
Cinematography/lighting GO Jung-ho
Editor LEE Do-hyun
Mixing KIM Soo-derk
Recording SUNG Woo-joon
Composer LEE Jun-ho
Art SER In-kyung
Costume/make-up PARK Sun-ji
Cast
HONG Sueng-Il as Yu-su
KIM Mi-Ya as Eun-suk
GU Sung-Hwan as Yeong-cheol
