City Of Fathers
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- Movie: City Of Fathers
- Revised romanization: Busan
- Hangul: 부산
- Director: Park Ji-Won
- Writer: Park Ji-Won
- Producer: David Cho
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: October 15, 2009
- Runtime: 101 min.
- Distributor: SidusFNH
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Kang-su is an alcohol and a chronic gambler. He has also never been a proper father to his rebellious teenage son Jong-cheol (Yu Seung-Ho). For 18 years, Kang-su has also held a secret from Jong-cheol - that he's not his actual biological father.
Jong-cheol's real father, Tae-sok (Kim Young-Ho), is a pimp that abandoned love for success. Now, to save his son, Kang-su must go to Tae-sok ...
Notes
- Korean movie title "Busan" has two meanings :
- "Busan" refers to the port city of Busan, South Korea, which is the backdrop for the movie.
- The Chinese character "Bu" (父) means literally "father," while "san" means mountain - or collectively "father mountain".
- "City Of Fathers" opened #8 at the South Korean box office, selling 51,417 tickets on 182 screens and accounting for 5.2% of all tickets sold during its opening Oct. 16th-18th weekend.
- Through its theatrical run "City Of Fathers" sold a total of 158,976 tickets and stayed in the weekend top ten for two consecutive weeks.
Cast
- Kim Young-Ho - Tae-seok
- Ko Chang-Seok - Kang-su
- Yu Seung-Ho - Jong-cheol
- Jung Sun-Kyung - Seon-hwa
- Lee Se-Na - Sun-ae
- Jo Jae-Yun
- Kang Yu-Jin
- Kim Jin-Hyeok
- Do Yong-Gu
- Baek Won-Gil - Jjang-Dol
- Lee Kwang-Ki - gambler 1
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