Seopyeonje
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- Movie: Seopyeonje
- Hangul: 서편제
- Revised romanization:Seopyeonje
- Director: Im Kwon-Taek
- Writer: Kim Myung-Gon, Oh Jung-Hae
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: April 10, 1993
- Runtime: 112 min
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
The specifically Korean tradition that is reclaimed in Sopyonje is the type of folk-song known as pansori, described as a musical sublimation of South-West Korea's collective grief and suffering - in other words, a kind of blues.
The film's three central characters are itinerant pansori singers in the 1950s, a time when many aspects of Korean culture came under siege from Japanese and western influences. The story unfolds through flashbacks. A man named Dong-ho is roaming the rural hinterlands, ostensibly to find rare herbal medicines for his sick son back in Seoul, but actually in search of Song-hwa, the woman he grew up with. Orphans, they were both apprenticed to the pansori master Yu-bong (played by the film's writer, Kim Myung-gon) who pressured them to sacrifice everything for the art.
Cast
- Kim Myung-Gon - Youbong
- Jung-hae Oh - Songhwa
- Kim Kyu-Cheol - Dong-ho
- Sae-kil Shin
- Ahn Byeong-Kyeong
- Park Kil-Soo
- Kim Ki-Cheon
- Choi Dong-Joon - Song Do-Sang
Film Festivals
- 2009 (12th) Shanghai International Film Festival - June 13th-22nd
