Sopyonje (1993)
Seopyeonje (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 1h 52min
- Drama, Music
- 10 Apr 1993 (South Korea)
- Movie
- 22 wins & 9 nominations.
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Cast
| Kim Myung-gon | ... |
Youbong
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Jung-hae Oh | ... |
Songhwa
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Kim Kyu-chul | ... |
Dong-ho
(as Kyu-chul Kim)
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Sae-kil Shin |
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Byeong-kyeong Ahn | ... |
Nak-san Geo-sa
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| Cho Jae-hyun | ... |
Dong-ho
(as Jae-hyeon Jo)
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Directed by
| Im Kwon-taek | ... | (as Kwon-taek Im) |
Written by
| Chung-Joon Lee | ... | (novel) |
| Kim Myung-gon | ... | (writer) |
Produced by
| Tae-won Lee | ... | producer |
Music by
| Su-chol Kim | ... | (as Soo-Chul Kim) |
Cinematography by
| Il-seong Jeon | ... | (as Il-sung Jung) |
Editing by
| Sun-duk Park | ||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Kim Dae-seung | ... | second unit director (as Dae-seung Kim) |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Jung Nam Cha | ... | lighting technician |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Les Films du Paradoxe (1995) (France) (theatrical)
- Cine Qua Non Films (Japan)
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Storyline
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The specifically Korean tradition that is reclaimed in Sopyonje is the type of folk-song known as pansori, described as a musical sublimation of South-West Korea's collective grief and suffering - in other words, a kind of blues. The film's three central characters are itinerant pansori singers in the 1950s, a time when many aspects of Korean culture came under siege from Japanese and western influences. The story unfolds through flashbacks. A man named Dong-ho is roaming the rural hinterlands, ostensibly to find rare herbal medicines for his employer back in Seoul, but actually in search of Song-hwa, the woman he grew up with. Orphans, they were both apprenticed to the pansori master Yu-bong who pressured them to sacrifice everything for the art. Dong-ho rebelled and ran away, to become the man he is now. Song-hwa stayed, lost her sight, and outlived Yu-bong. Rumor has it that she is still traveling and still singing pansori... The tale has one truly shocking twist, but the overall one is plaintive, elegiac and serenely beautiful.
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