Cinema
Sopyonje
서편제
Im Kwon-taek · 1993
Synopsis
In the early sixties, in South Jeolla, Dong-ho, a middle-aged man, hears a pansori singer in a mountain inn, and his past comes back to him. As a child, after his mother's death, he was brought up by Yu-bong, a poor pansori singer, together with the latter's adopted daughter, Song-hwa. Yu-bong trained the two children, she in singing, he on the drum, and the little troupe travelled the countryside, ever poorer as this art went out of fashion, under the anger and drinking of the father.
Context
The film adapts stories by Yi Cheong-jun, from a screenplay by Kim Myung-gon, who also plays Yu-bong; Oh Jeong-hae plays Song-hwa and Kim Kyu-chul Dong-ho, Jeong Il-seong is on camera and Kim Soo-chul on music. Released on 10 April 1993 in a single Seoul cinema, the Dansungsa, it stayed there 196 days according to WikiTree and became the first Korean film to exceed a million admissions in Seoul; it revived interest in pansori. It was shown at Cannes in 1993, and at Nantes the same year, out of competition.
Who it is for
A film of one hundred and twelve minutes, with long sung sequences; released in France on 29 November 1995 by Films du Paradoxe.
Prizes and reception
Six Grand Bell awards, including best film and best director, and six Korean critics' awards in 1993.
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