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The Emperor

Korean Cinema Today

Road Movie · Social Criticism · Suspense/Mystery  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2016
  • Running Time88min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
Early one morning in Gangnam, three grim-faced individuals get into a black van. They will face their final moments in life in a secluded countryside motel. In the hushed silence of the motel room, the three are set to spend their farewell night, telling his or her life story to the others, each with a pillcontainer in front of them. At some point, a mysterious attraction leads them onto an illusory journey beyond time and space, following the pianist Kim Sun-wook’s footsteps. The dreamy piano melody keeps sounding in the distance, in different spaces of Mother Nature, along old European streets, and in concert halls. Can music save the three, each driven to their catastrophe by the shackles of present reality and the fractures of the past, and restore their will to live? Director Min Byunghun, after I’m Feng, a film about Chinese artist Feng Zhengjie, planned this film as part of a series on artists, this time focused on the charms of music. (NAM Dong-chul)
Director
Director
MIN Byunghun
Min Byunghun, a graduate of VGIK, Russia, debuted with his graduate project film Flight of the Bee (1998), which won him prizes at overseas film festivals. He directed Let’s Not Cry! (2001), Pruning The Grapevine (2007),Touch (2012), Love Never Fails (2015), and I′m Feng (2015). A constant theme in both his feature and short films is the troubled lives of artists.Min Byunghun, a graduate of VGIK, Russia, debuted with his graduate project film Flight of the Bee (1998), which won him prizes at overseas film festivals.
Director
LEE Sanghun
The Emperor, co-directed with MIN Byunghun, is Lee Sanghun’s directorial debut. He’s been working with MIN for a long time, as the AD on Touch (2012) to Love Never Fails (2015) and I′m Feng (2015) as AD and in camera and editing work. At the same time he continues to make short films and image works.
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Credit
  • Director MIN Byunghun 민병훈, LEE Sanghun 이상훈
  • Cast Sunwook KIM, Jangwon SEO, Gayoung PARK, Bitsaenal KIM, Yijoo HONG, Ilhan YOO, Yujin OH
  • Screenplay Byunghun MIN
  • Cinematography Sanghun LEE
  • Editor Sanghun LEE
  • Music Myunghwan KIM
  • Production Company MIN BYUNG HUN FILM
    Korea #301, 30, Hakdong-ro 105-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
    mbhfilm@gmail.com