Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 99min

Asked, "Do you want to play football or do you want money?", the consensus of the teenage boys playing football was "money." In Thailand, where football wagering is illegal, these boys, without the means of making a good living, s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 94min

In the late 1960′s, the Korean film industry began to lose its vibrancy due to strict censorship by the dictatorial Park Jung-Hee government. Shin Sang-Ok, who had then the biggest film company and studio in Korea, was under const...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 106min

When making historical pieces, Shin Sang-Ok seems to prefer visual brilliance and dynamic interpretation over accurate historical research. Phantom Queen portrays the love between the last king of the Koryo kingdom, Gong-Min, a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 120min

The Moonhunter tells a true story of two young revolutionaries. Seksan Prasertkul, a fearless student leader, who, in October 1973, commanded the biggest mass demonstration in modern Thai history. The event led to a popular upri...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 119min

A long time ago, the population of Bang Rajan rose up and sacrificed their lives courageously fighting against the Burmese forces. With a storyline that seems plucked from a history book, this film received raved reviews and was o...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 102min

Before there were reevaluations of his filmography, this film was regarded as Shin Sang-Ok′s best work. It stills ranks high on the list of his major films. Choi Eun-Hee, who, other than in A Flower in Hell, usually portrayed a tr...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 5min

This animated film from Thailand is critical of the younger generation. They are more interested in Japanese entertainment than that produced in their own culture. The candid narration is powerfully convincing and draws an interes...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea(north)
• 2001
• 96min

Another North Korean film, presented for the first time in Busan with Runaway. After 5 years of imprisonment, director Shin Sang-Ok directed 7 films in the span of 2 and a half years. Salt is based on a short story by Kang Kyung-A...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 13min

This film begins with the indelible scene of a mother hanging herself -- right next to her child. The child′s life is then centered on death: living with an ill grandmother and seeing the daily butchering of cows in a nearby sla...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 140min

Yeonsangun is the first historic piece by the ′giant of the historical films′ director Shin Sang-Ok. Based on Park Jong-Hwa′s novel (1938), the film depicts the motivation behind Yeonsan′s atrocities, a longing for his mother. Yeo...