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Jeon Kyu-hwan

Jeon Kyu-hwan

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Biography

Jeon Kyu-hwan (Korean: 전규환, Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnɡjuɸʷan]; born 1965) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Besides being the first Korean film to win the 2012 Queer Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, The Weight (2012) also won various awards at film festivals, including Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Silver Peacock Award for best director at the 43rd International Film Festival of India in 2012. Jeon started his career in a talent management company as a manager for actors such as Cho Jae-hyun and Sol Kyung-gu, before making his directorial feature debut with Mozart Town (2008), followed by Animal Town (2009) and Dance Town (2010). These films formed the 'town trilogy' that shed light on the scars that city leaves on the people living in it and vice versa. In From Seoul to Varanasi (2011), he experimented with melodrama genre and shot the film in India after being fascinated by the country when he was there to attend a film festival. The Weight (2012), about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister, won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme" at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. It is also the first Korean film to win the prize.

Known For

The Weight
5.4

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

The Weight

2013
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
4.2

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

2011
Dance Town
6.2

A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.

Dance Town

2011
Angry Painter
3.3

A mysterious man, "Painter" is a chaser, who is always with "Driver." Driver is in a relationship with an Estonian girl, who works at the US soldier’s club. She was drifting several regions because of her father’s gambling debt. One day a soldier goes mad for their relationship, and kill her and her boyfriend in front of Painter. Being so angry Painter turns into a mad creature and mysterious power leads him to Estonia.

Angry Painter

2015
Animal Town
6.5

Oh Sung-Chul has been released on parole. He wears an ankle bracelet that monitors his movements as well as reminding himself of his horrifying past deeds. Sung-Chul lives in an apartment complex about to be demolished. He loses his construction job and is screwed over for half of his last paycheck. He takes medication to suppress his urges. Kim Hyung-Do is a religious family man who runs a printing company. The printing business is going through hard times. Kim Hyung-Do also goes through heavy emotional turmoil due to a horrendous crime inflicted upon his daughter by Oh Sung-Chul. On a fateful day, Hyung-Do spots Sung-Chul out on the street.

Animal Town

2011
The End
5.3

He is a murderer in his head and he is losing himself by actually killing people.

The End

2018
From Seoul to Varanasi
4.3

Youngwu and Jiyoung have been married for ten years and have long since grown apart. He, a publisher, is having an affair with a writer and she, a housewife, feels drawn to a gentle young Muslim she meets named Kerim. When he is obliged to leave the country she decides to follow him to Varanasi. Leaving her husband a note saying that she is away visiting relatives, she spends her time wandering along the banks of the Ganges and down the busy streets of this Hindu city in search of Kerim. When he turns on the television her husband is astonished to see his wife covered in ashes, emerging from a restaurant that has been bombed by terrorists. Youngwo decides to head for India to find his wife and obtain an explanation for her behaviour.

From Seoul to Varanasi

2012
Wolves
6.5

Brutal and bloody violence of the yakuza and the Koryo mafia. Women who feed the wolves. Detectives and gangs chasing serial killers stained with wolves blood.

Wolves

2022
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N/A

The 20 horses that the old man Kim cared for all his life have suddenly disappeared from his pasture on Jeju Island. Kim looks for them for more than a month, but to no avail. One day he hears that illegal immigrants are secretly butchering stolen horses and livestock in the forest to sell their meat. Kim puts together a crackdown squad to raid the forest.

Old Man Blues

2024
Mozart Town
6.0

Pianist Sara arrives in the city of Seoul as an exchange professor. She can't see the sad loneliness of the city. Sarah enjoys her time as a well-to-do tourist. Others, born in the city, fight against loneliness and sorrow. Illegal workers are exploited and cops extort money from adult entertainment establishments. Among these, gang member Il-Hwan collects money from room-salons for protection. Deok-Sang drives a tourist bus instead of his father and Ji-Won sells food items by a station. These three people become connected.

Mozart Town

2011
Wonderful Woman
7.5

Kyeong-sook who lives a hard life working as a therapist at an adult massage parlor, is suffering from thyroid cancer at her menopausal stage. Upon learning about her daughter's marriage that she missed, Kyeong-sook goes to Taebaek, Gangwon-do to find her husband, Yoo Byeong-ho who ruined her life and her family because of gambling. Amid the rough blizzard, her husband could not be found anywhere... Suddenly, an outpour of sorrow and rage made her heart and head spin.

Wonderful Woman

2020
My Boy
5.0

Impulse disorder patient Icheon fantasizes about playing with his brother Yucheon in the hospital. But to those who don’t know about his fantasies, Icheon is just a strange boy. His mother struggles with paying the hospital bills, and barely gets by, receiving help from her husband’s friend.

My Boy

2014
Man In The Fog
N/A

This man's paradise has been shattered, torn apart by a demon. God holds a man's fate in His hand, but peace is nowhere to be found within it. To Him, the whispered prophecies of seers are like fleeting mist, mere petals scattered on the ground. His silence is a scream.

Man In The Fog

2024