Members of the Funeral
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Profile
- Movie: Members of the Funeral
- Revised romanization: Jangresikui Maembeo
- Hangul: 장례식의 멤버
- Director: Baek Seung-Bin
- Writer: Baek Seung-Bin
- Producer: Yeong-hwa Kim
- Cinematographer: Kyung-woo Lim
- World Premiere: October 2008 (Pusan International Film Festival)
- Release Date: March 12, 2009
- Runtime: 99 min.
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
A group of people are gathered at a boy's funeral. Jun-ki, a closet gay and physical therapist; Jeong-hee, a high-school teacher and struggling crime-story writer; A-mi, a mute teenage girl with a part-time job as a mortician. These are also the leading characters in the novel that a boy named Hee-jun has been writing. Each of them recollects threads of the past connected with the boy. The young author, a mysterious teenage boy, is writing a novel, titled "Members of the Funeral." He wants to gather its leading characters into one place for the perfect ending to the story. He thinks his own funeral would be the right place to gather them. Finally, Jun-ki, Jeong-hee and Aimee come together at Hee-jun's funeral. They don't know why eacho f them visits the funeral. Maybe they are family.
Cast
- Lee Ju-Seung - Hee-jun
- Song Ha-Yoon - A-mi
- Oh Gwang-Rok
- Park Myeong-Sin - Jeong-hee
- Kwon Hyeong-Ju
- Oh Ji-Eun
- Kim Jung-Suk
- Park Jin-Young - Professor Oh Won-Woo
- Yoo Ha-Bok - Joon-Ki
Trailer
Film Festivals
- 2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 2nd-10th - New Currents (World Premiere)
- 2009 (11th) Deauville Asian Film Festival - March 11th-15th - The Features Competition
Awards
- "NETPAC Award" - 2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 2nd-10th
- Special Mention ("New Currents") - 2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 2nd-10th
