Jang Sun-woo retrospective

Overview of films

• Gilwe ui younghwa

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 52' | South Korea | -

  Chronological documentary report of Jang’s quest for the identity of South Korean cinema.

• Hwa-om-kyung

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 116' | South Korea | -

  Moving, imaginative film version of a novel by Ko Un is a fictional biography about a leader of a Buddhist sutra.

• Kyotip

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 101' | South Korea | -

  Jang’s latest film is a metaphorical investigation – through events in the life of a nameless woman – of the traumatic Kwangju bloodbath in 1980.

• Neoege narul bonenda

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 107' | South Korea | -

  Salacious contemporary social satire exposes the dark side of the nineties in a masterful way.

• The Road to the Racetrack

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 138' | South Korea | -

  Masterful film about a contemporary relationship between a man and woman who were lovers in Paris and have now returned to Korea.

• Seoul Jesu

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  Jang Sun-Woo, Sun-Woo Wan | 102' | South Korea | -

  Jang and his example Sun-Woo made films about religion, politics and/in the city of Seoul. They emerged from the Korean underground and were banned by

• Songgong sidae

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 105' | South Korea | -

  Jang’s début is a rough satire about the consumer society, in which super salesman Kim turns a failing company into market leader.

• Woomuk-Baemi ui sarang

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  Jang Sun-Woo | 110' | South Korea | -

  Warm tragi-comedy about a forbidden relationship in an outer suburb and the embarrassing social consequences.