Whang Cheol-mean

Directing

Biography

Whang Cheolmean is a graduate of the German Film & Television Academy of Berlin (DFFB). His thesis film, Fuck Hamlet (1997), was invited to both the Berlin International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival. After returning to Korea, he produced the documentaries Battle of Okcheon (2001) and King and His Sculptor (2002). In 2004, his film Spying Cam (2004) won the FIPRESCI Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the NETPACK Award at the Brisbane International Film Festival. His later films, such as Let’s Finish! (2006), MOSCOW (2009), Morning Glory (2012), Oldmen Never Die (2013), and Jung Jo Mun’s Pot (2015) have been presented at various film festivals.

Known For

5.0

Two kids have grown up, and now one is a secretary at a conglomerate, and the another is a part-time worker who just got laid off. The severe reality and the different perceptions erode their friendship and the time they spent together.

Moscow

2011Movie

5.0

A woman who calls herself 'Joaquin' meets two men by arrangement in a car park. We soon discover that they've previously 'met' on the suicide website she hosts. They pool their money and start driving; when the money runs out they'll all end their lives.

Let's Finish!

2007Movie

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Director Gi Gukseo and the actors, who are affiliated with a theater company Gukdan 76, begin to rehearse Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. The actors, including Gi Jubong, Gi Gukseo’s brother, are all experienced and professional, but the process is not so easy.

An Actor Prepares by Gi Gukseo

2021Movie

7.0

A Joseon-era urn met by chance at an antique shop in Kyoto devotes the life of Jeong Jo-mun, a Zainichi Korean businessman who succeeded in pachinko, to recovering Joseon cultural assets in Japan. Jeongjo Moon, who was not welcomed anywhere in North and South Korea during his lifetime and did not step on the lands of both countries until the end. About 1,700 cultural assets containing the dreams of his life were reborn as the Goryeo Museum in Kyoto and are there with a will to return them to the unified country. A period of liberation, division, and ideology. Family and acquaintances remember and convey the story of a Korean who tried to find traces of his motherland in Japan's Zainichi society, which was as chaotic as his motherland. And the director captured those memories crudely and plainly.

Jung Jo-mun's Pot

2015Movie

8.5

Two men, locked in a cheap hotel room together with little else but a video camera, struggle to pass the time. Nobody knows who they are or why they're there. The maid thinks they're lovers. The party girl next door thinks they're filmmakers. The truth is far more provocative. As questions of power, politics, and intertwining identities emerge, just who is controlling whom is thrown increasingly into doubt.

Spying Cam

2005Movie

5.0

Ji-hoon has been farming for 4 years for the sake of his grandfather's wealth. However, he is perfectly healthy so Ji-hoon runs away to Seoul but comes back within a week. While he was about to start over, an unexpected guest appears in front of him.