Radio Star
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- Movie: Radio Star
- Revised romanization: Radio Seuta
- Hangul: 라디오 스타
- Director: Jun-ik Lee
- Writer: Seok-Hwan Choi
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: September 26, 2006
- Runtime: 115 Min.
- Production Budget: US$ 3M
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Synopsis
Choi has known fleeting but intense moments of fame and glory, shown in the opening sequence., but this is not the story we are going to be told here. Without transition, the film takes us to a bleak present, 15 years later, a time when things have changed in a rather dismal way. The singer has aged... just a tad. But his music has now completely grown out of fashion and he now has to content himself with providing background live music for cafés and restaurants. In a nutshell, Choi Gon is a has-been. His sycophantic but selfless manager spends most his time patching up drunk driving incidents, old drug-involving scandals and generally bad behavior-related problems, for which he frequently volunteers to take the blame. A modern-day Pylades, Min-Soo sticks to his bad-tempered friend through thick and thin, going as far as neglecting his wife and child.
Out of luck, out of ideas, and short of cash, the only way out for Choi Gon is to become a radio DJ in the small provincial town of Yongwol. Hardly a respectable option for the singer, his career seems to have reached rock-bottom for good, with this lowly job in a small station that is about to close doors within three months into the bargain. However, despite his exile from Seoul, from music itself (last but not least humiliation: he has to play the music of others, while he is relegated behind the “real” scene), Choi actually finds in the very banishing/vanishing of his own songs a way to give new life to his voice, and to himself. In other words, this is the beginning of generosity for him: by giving center stage to ordinary people (what MTV would call “real people”, whatever the expression means, these days), by letting them speak in their own voices, the singer reinvents himself as a host, in the strongest sense of the word. With a little help from his friends, manager Park, and producer Kang (also in “exile”), the improvised radio DJ grants a voice to a community that finds itself redefined and revived, channeled through the unity of a shared program, to the point that the whole town of Yongwol seems to become a character of its own. -- Korea Society
Cast
- Park Joong-Hoon - Choi-gon
- Ahn Sung-Kee - Park Min-su
- Choi Jung-Yoon - Kang Suk-young
- Han Yeo-Woon
- Hyeon-seong Hwang
- Jeong Gyu-Su
- Jung Suk-Yong
- Yong-won Jo
- Kang-san
- Kim Jang-Hun
- Kim Hyeon-A
- Kim Ji-Heon
- Lee Jae-Gu
- Jun-ik Lee
- Seong-woo Lee
- Yu Jun-Sang
- Kim Kwang-Sik
- Shin Jeong-Keun
- Jo Kyeong-Hun
- Oh Seo-Won - nurse
- Kim Tan-Hyun - Co. President Choi
- Son Young-Soon - Hyo-Young's grandmother
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Awards
- 2006 (26th) Critics Choice Awards - November
- Best Actor Ahn Sung-Kee
- Best Music
TOK Says:
Jul 16 2011 4:23 pm
Two Veteran Actors of South Korea who have real talent and struggling in lot of movies and have become legend. But Not those kind of actors that you see in drama with one hit wonder or fangirls idol and become popular. Anyway, Movie is awesome.