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Gangster High

11th(2006) Korean Cinema Today

 

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2006
  • Running Time100min
  • Format 35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Sang-ho is an ordinary high school student. His dream is to enter the military academy under the influence of his father who is an army colonel. As entering high school, he became friends with Jae-gu, Chang-bae, Kyung-chul, Hong-kyu and Sang-sik. They grouped a soccer team called `Tiger`, building up friendship by playing soccer. Sang-ho and his friends ran into group of fight with seniors, these incidents made everybody in school to misunderstand them as they were serious group of gangster. When Sang-ho gets becomes close with a girl whose boyfriend is a boss of another school`s gangster group, things are going worse. Although Gangster High deals with high school gangs, its depiction of violence is no less fierce than any Jopokyeonghwa, Korean gangster films. However, the film never romanticizes violence. Sang-ho is not romantic at all, and he turns into a cruel fighter when violent actions are unavoidable. As in his previous film A Whispering Corridor, a horror film of fearful, nightmarish girlhood, director Park depicts reckless teenagers living in the world without compassion through cruel, cold eyes. (Huh Moon-yung)
Director
Director
Park Ki Hyung
PARK was born in 1967. When he quit studying industrial engineering, he started his career as a director`s assistant for films including [Cutting the Sorrow with a Knife Stuck in the Chest](1992) and [Kumiho](1994). His short [Great Pretenders](1996) won at many short film festivals and his feature debut [Whispering Corridors](1998) made a huge success.
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Credit
  • Director Park Ki Hyung 박기형
  • Producer CHUNG Tae Won
  • Cast JUNG Kyung Ho, LEE Tae Sung, JANG Hee Jin
  • Screenplay PARK Ki Hyung
  • Cinematography KIM Eung Taek
  • Production Design JUNG Sung Gun
  • Editor KIM Sun Min
  • Music LEE Seung Il
  • Production Company Taewon Entertainment
    10F. Daedong Tower, 93 Nonhyeon-2-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
    tang@taewon.com

  • World Sales Taewon Entertainment
    10F. Daedong Tower, 93 Nonhyeon-2-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
    tang@taewon.com