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World Premiere The Friends

Open Cinema

Literature · Coming of Age · Children · Psychology

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2007
  • Running Time105min
  • Format35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
This second feature by LEE Young-jae is adapted from a Japanese novel. As in his previous film The Harmonium in My Memory, he visualizes the innocent emotion of a human in delicate sentiment. Ye-jun, Dong-hee, and Young-tan are curious 6th graders. One day, they decide to visit an old man who lives alone and is expected to die soon, to satisfy their curiosity about death. After some quibbles and misunderstandings, a friendship grows between the boys and the old man. The children spread cosmos seeds to commemorate him and he presents them with a show of firecrackers at the end of the summer. These scenes are those of eternal memory and beautiful moments of human relationships that transcend death. The film draws these moments of connections in quiet visuals.
Director
Director
Young-jae Lee
LEE Young-jae graduated from Yonsei University with a major in Korean literature and was in the third graduating class of the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He made his debut with Harmonium in My Memory (1999), and took take part in the Twentidentity (2004) project and the omnibus film 1,3,6 (2004).
Credit
  • Director
    Young-jae Lee
  • ProducerLEE Dong-Ha
  • CastOH Hyun-kyung
    BAEK Seung-Do
    JANG Joon-Young
    LEE Seung-Hyun
  • ScreenplayLEE Young-Jae
    LEE Young-A
    HWAN-Bae Kim
  • CinematographyKIM Cheol-Ju
  • EditorPARK Kok-Ji
    JUNG Jin-Hee
  • MusicLEE Han-Na
  • Production CompanyCinemazenith
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  • World SalesActivers Entertainment
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