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Strangers on the Field

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Family · Sports · History  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2014
  • Running Time103min
  • Format HDCAM
  • ColorColor
Program Note
In April 2013, unfamiliar faces appear at the Jamsil Baseball Stadium during the opening matches between Doosan and SK. The nervous middle-aged men throwing and batting the first ball are, in fact, Korean-Japanese former team members that played on that same spot in the 1982 finals of the Bong-hwang-dae-ki games. Director Kim Myeong-joon uses the four mounds of a baseball field to reproduce the happy reunion between the middle-aged men, who are no longer baseball players, just those who lead very normal lives. Their reunion begins at the batter’s box and ends at home plate, and does more than simply remember the individuals who played in the 1982 games. It shows the history of Korean baseball marked by the footprints left by the Korean-Japanese players who visited their homeland between 1956 and 1997. (KONG Youngmin)
Director
Director
KIM Myeong-joon
Kim graduated from Department of Theater and Cinema, Hanyang University. He started his film career as a staff for cinematography and worked as D.P. for several films including Flower Island(2001), Boy Meets Boy(2008) and Two Weddings And a Funeral(2012). Since his first directing documentary Our School(2006) received Woonpa Award at BIFF, he has been making films following the lives of Korean Japanese based on his relationship with Korean schools in Japan.
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Credit
  • Director KIM Myeong-joon 김명준
  • Producer Stanley KWAK, Eun-sung CHO, Toshiyuki RIKITAKE
  • Cast Geun KIM, Sichul YANG, Junhan BAE, Kiho JANG, Myeong-joon KIM, Eun-sung CHO, Toshiyuki RIKITAKE
  • Cinematography Myeong-joon KIM
  • Editor Myeong-joon KIM
  • Sound Yong-soo PYO, Eunha KOH
  • Music Sanggoo KANG
  • Production Company INDIESTORY INC.
    Korea
    amenic99@naver.com

  • World Sales INDIESTORY INC.
    Korea
    kay@indiestory.com