Kim Eung-soo
1966 (60 лет)
아버지 없는 삶
Kim Eung-soo
Two Japanese women, who have lived in Korea with a difference of a half century, go to Japan. They are Yoko in Kawashima Watkins’ [So Far from the Bamboo Grove] and Masako living in Korea after the marriage with a Korean. The audience will follow their journey through the views of the two women.
Without Father
욕망
Kim Eung-soo
Jang So-yeon, Ahn Nae-sang
A couple is set in their monotonous life until the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the same young man. Their desire has a new meaning.
Desire
물속의 도시
Kim Eung-soo
There's a man aged 93 years. He was born in the "City in the water" and lived there all his 90-plus years. You can see him always sitting under the zelkova tree beside the lake. However, he doesn't look at the beautiful lake. Instead, he looks the opposite side, where hills, walls and roads are. There's a quizzical eye of a man, observing him. One year passes. Seasons change. One day, the old man stares at a certain point in the lake, for the first as well as the last time. That was the location where the house he had been born in was. And he happens to get hospitalized soon afterwards. Then the exploration of the 'City in the water' began based on the old man's story.
The City in the Water
옥주기행
Kim Eung-soo
In One Fine Spring Day, a Korean melodrama, it wasn't the handsome main characters' love that remained most vividly in my memory, but the scene in which the main male character was recording Jeongsun Arirang, sung by an old couple in a mountainous village. At that time whilst seeing the movie, I asked myself why this sound, not the romance, makes me shudder. I was in my 30s. And, as coincidences become inevitability, I came to know the strange village.
The Journey to OKJU
초현실
Kim Eung-soo
Kim Gwang-bae is an over-anxious father. He tags along on his son's school MT trips because he worries about his son. In his eyes, his son is still a mere teenager. Gun-ho died but his soul admitted to the department of psychology at the Woosuk University. To Kim Gwang-bae, his son is alive and he wishes that his son wouldn't grow up because when he does, he has to leave his father's arms forever. Kim wants his son to remain with him no matter how much trouble he causes. However on one hand, he tries to let his son go because he knows he can't keep his son with him forever. In the evening, he returns home with his son still at the MT trip. He accepts that his son is a grown-up now. His son can make it on his own but in his heart, his son will always be a young boy.
The Real
과거는 낯선 나라다
Kim Eung-soo
Kim Eung-soo, Jeon Ho-sik
On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no nuclear weapons, Yankee go home,” “U.S. sign the peace treaty with North Korea,” and “Expel American imperialists.” This took place in the midst of a public demonstration against the forced conscription of students, joined by approximately four hundred students and held at the Sinrim crossroads facing the Seoul National University main gate. The manner of their deaths, the radicalness of their slogans (they were the first overtly anti-American statements to be heard in public since the conclusion of the Korean War) deeply shocked Korean society at the time. Twenty years have since passed. The world has changed.
The Past is a Strange Country
산나리
Kim Eung-soo
Yoon Youngsang
Deep in the mountains, a gold-rayed lily (Sannari) is in bloom in front of a dark cave. The red lily looks hideous in the middle of deep greens. It beckons to people to come over and see it so as to learn about peace. Sannari tells you to ‘look aside, not far from you,’ ‘look at the half of people who got sacrificed by anti-communist ideology,’ and says that ‘I am your wound,’ ‘How can you coexist with North Koreans, unless you accept even me.’ Peace begins with this enlightenment.
Sannari
마지막 풍경
Kim Eung-soo
A journey to find the beauty of the body I wrote my question about aesthetics. Pretending to be great, Why is Idea hiding in shabby? Pretending to exist separately, Why is beauty parasitic to pain? Is there no ldea of beauty? Why does it only appear like this? Why.
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