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Park Kwang-su, leader of the "Korean New Cinema"
Topic Started: Aug 7 2014, 09:29 AM (332 Views)
Karl
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Considered one of the most important directors in Asia in the late 1990s, Park Kwang-su made films that confronted Korea's brutal recent history and was thought of as the leader of what became dubbed the "New Korean Cinema," a group that included Park Cheol-su, Jang Sun-woo, Lee Chang-dong, and Hong Sang-soo that came to prominence in the mid-'90s and early '00s. He was the first Korean director to found his own production company. His success both domestically and in the international film festival realm ended with THE UPRISING, Korea's first international co-production (with France), a critical and box office disaster.

A SINGLE SPARK is one of the saddest films I've ever seen.

Eight years later he got to work again, directing a soft comedy with the particularly humiliating title MEET MR. DADDY. Here's a particularly humiliating poster for that movie:

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An interview:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041022001740/cinekorea.com/filmmakers/parkkwangsu.html

An overview of his career and films for a Harvard showing:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2012janmar/kwang-su.html
Edited by Karl, Aug 7 2014, 09:31 AM.
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Any particular film of his you'd recommend, Karl?
To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I'm concerned, I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.

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Read my intro, WBA, then pick yr poison. I almost ran A SINGLE SPARK for my "genre." BLACK REPUBLIC I like too. But they're both political films - their program is to indict the former regimes in the characters of a factory worker who sets himself on fire to protest conditions (SPARK) and an intellectual on the run (REPUBLIC) - so they may not be up yr alley, seeing as how you don't like films to be about stuff. I've also see THE UPRISING, but the subs are so shoddy on the DVD (the subtitler looks to have had less than a year of English instruction) that all you can hope for is to roughly be able to follow the plot. Two of the films that made his reputation, CHILSU AND MANSU and TO THE STARRY ISLAND, I haven't seen.
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Thanks. Read your links. Very informative.
Think I'll jusr start chronologically, with the first one. Also: can't go wrong with the 80s.
To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I'm concerned, I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.

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there's a dvd of a single spark at the asian library here. will check it out! (heh, 'check it out')
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jeon tae-il / a single spark

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geu seome gago shibda / to the starry island

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rec these strongly
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