Chung Ji-young

South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.

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In 1999, a robbery-murder case occurs in a small supermarket in Samnye, Jeonbuk province. The police investigation quickly narrows down to three boys from the neighborhood, and these boys are falsely accused of being murderers overnight and are imprisoned without understanding what is happening. The following year, veteran detective Hwang Joon-cheol is newly appointed as the head of Crime Investigation Division. He receives a tip about the real culprits and embarks on a reinvestigation to clear the boys' names. However, the interference of the detective responsible for the case at the time, Choi Woo-sung, leads to everything falling apart, and Hwang is demoted. Sixteen years later, the sole witness of the case and daughter of the victim, Yoon Mi-sook, and the boys return to Hwang, seeking justice...

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A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.

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"A Journey with Korean Masters" is an omnibus film compiling four shorts created by directors who once dominated Korean cinema: Park Chul-soo, Lee Doo-yong, Lee Jang-ho, and Chung Ji-young. This modest project is the product of collaboration between professional and amateur actors of all ages and the masters. The aim was to promote the city of Seoul and the harmony of old and new. The project began as a promotional event, but its cinematic quality is equal, if not superior, to any Korean films officially invited to BIFF this year. That is by no means simply being polite. This special screening is the perfect opportunity to enjoy the unique characteristics of masters experiencing a cinema renaissance in their twilight years.

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On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

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Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.

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A broadcasting company hosts an actor/actress contest and 30 contestants are pre-selected. Yong-Woo and Eun-Sook are two of them and they are also lovers. Eun-Sook desperately wants to be a TV star and approaches a producer. Yong-Woo discovers this and argues with her. In the meantime, Eun-Sook happens to meet Yu-Suk and spends a night with him, after he tells her that he knows a lot about broadcasting companies.

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Three people are caught in a deadly game of greed, lust, and murder.

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While the government watches everything and everyone, Myonggil and Pyongsok organize a movie club called The Magnificent Seven. Later in life, after Myonggil is released from military service, he goes to visit his childhood friend and finds out that their lives have taken very different paths.

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A Vietnam war veteran writes a series of articles about his war experiences for a local newspaper. As he does so, another veteran, drawn by the articles, begins randomly appearing in his life.

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In a quite mountain temple Chim-hae follows a path of asceticism under the instruction of the High Priest, Pop-yon. One day, the high priest sends him on an errand to another mountain temple known as Sowondang. Sowondang was widely renowned for the beautiful Buddhist nun, Myo-hon who lived there. On Chi,-hae's way back he spots the delightful Myo-hon in the distance. From that moment he realizes her existence is overpowering to his. Days later, his craving is fulfilled when he gets to meet her in their mist at Sowondang. They are immediately attracted to each other in this wonderful first rendezvous. However, they foresee a grim future lying ahead. While returning to his temple, Chim-hae gets lost in the mist causing great concern and confusion among the other followers. Three days later Chim-hae awakes to find himself at home in the temple after having been rescued by the monk. Known as Mubul who had found him in the mountains.

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Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.

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Tansil, a native of Hwajeongol in the back of Jirisan Mountain, goes to the house of President Woo Man-chan in Anguk-dong, Seoul, as introduced by his relative. President Woo, who had been away from home for a long time, returns and begins to approach Tansil, who was listening to the remnants of the disabled wife. The wife, who did not notice this, intentionally forces Tansil to take care of Woo in order to catch Woo, who returned. Tansil, who was pregnant due to his relationship with President Woo, was confined to a remote apartment, eventually gave birth to a son, and returned to his hometown after losing his son to his wife.

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Dong-hoon, a CF director, decides to marry Su-hee, a young lady, with the introduction of Jun-seok, a neuropsychiatrist. Dong-hoon, whose women's relationship is complicated, reveals his last night with Ji-eun the day before marriage in the sense of ending all relationships. Su-hee, who saw Dong-hoon's naked body at first night, runs out of the bedroom in shock, but eventually Dong-hoon experiences a maiden from Su-hee and is moved. One day while living a happy honeymoon, Su-hee accidentally learns about the relationship between Dong-hoon and Ji-eun. Su-hee, who was agonizing, shivers the moment she sees the commercial made by Dong-hoon. After that, Su-hee, who goes out on the street, begins to seduce the men. Is it out of revenge for her husband's affair? She meets a swimming coach on the street and a zookeeper and burns a fantastic, wild zest.

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Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daughter, and eventually confesses her relationship with Ari to her wife and turns back. After being shocked, Jang-sang finally realizes the willingness to go alone by traveling with his daughter In-ae, who is studying abroad.

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Jae-hee, who left as a college student, and Seo-ha, who got a job at a company in a local small city, are high school alumni. Seo-ha meets and loves Yoon-soo, the company's president's son, but Yoon-soo is engaged to Jae-hee, whom he met on the train, and goes to the U.S. to study. Seo Ha, who overcame his wounds and went to drug abuse in the provinces, shows a static situation, but after joining the military, he sends news of his participation in the Vietnam War. After graduating, Seo Ha gets a job at a big pharmaceutical company with the help of Yoon Soo. Seo Ha gets into a car accident in a meeting where she declares her last to Yoon-soo, who persistently wants her due to her breakdown with Jae-hee. Seo Ha, who married Jeong Tae, who returned from Vietnam, eventually died of cancer, leaving her son Young-jin behind.

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John tries to overcome the civilization tragedy of this era by tracking the future of man, and Hyun-woo is young people who try to overcome it by tracking the human past. Between them, a woman, So-yeon, who symbolizes that only love is human salvation, intervenes and a love triangle is formed. One day, Yo-seob goes missing while flying a hang glider in Halla Mountain, and Hyun-woo and So-yeon form a family by raising Yo-seob's child, Darin. After four years, Hyun-woo and So-yeon leave for Jeju Island and reminisce about Yo-seob when they hear that Yo-seob may be alive. But Yo-seob was nowhere to be found. Hyun-woo and So-yeon head to the uninhabited island, which they considered to be an ideal island, listening to the hearing of the songs he enjoyed singing at Yo-seob's tomb. It is a movie that persistently traces the dreams, ideals, and the end of love of these three young people.

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As Sung Min gets involved with a young, attractive mistress, he becomes estranged from his wife, and begins to dream of murdering her. Finally, he carries out his plan of murdering his wife. After doing that he is tormented with the phantom of his wife without knowing that she is alive. Meanwhile, Sung Min's wife, who barely saved her life, makes a plan for revenging herself on her husband.

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A documentary that reports on the the rescue failure of the Sewol incident. In the days of media control, Park Geun-hye and her government sabotaged the screening of "Diving Bell" at the Busan International Film Festival.

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Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary about Korean movies, including the processes a Korean movie goes through and difficulites. "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" is a documentary with interviews of Korean directors, actors and actresses.

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A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.

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Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.

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Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daughter, and eventually confesses her relationship with Ari to her wife and turns back. After being shocked, Jang-sang finally realizes the willingness to go alone by traveling with his daughter In-ae, who is studying abroad.

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When viewed in public, the Kim's seem to have the perfect marriage. In private, however, their married life is filled with turbulence, fighting, cheating, and accusations.

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South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.

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The documentary production team, which was tracking the connection between Gutenberg and Goryeo metal types, finds the "Pope´s Letter to King of Goryeo" in the Vatican archives. In the face of opposition from scholars for lack of relevant evidence, they leave for Europe in search of historical traces to complement it.

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Why on earth should we use the state-authorized textbook? Many history scholars share their opinions about the nature, background and significance of the book and why history is forcibly imposed.

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Traveling to the French National Library to see Jikji, the world’s oldest movable metal type book printed in Korea, a Canadian, David Redman discovers no one knows anything about the book printed in Korea in 1377! Realizing Eurocentrism is at play, David off sets off on a journey through Europe and Korea with Sarang Ness and the Jikji team to find how the print technology transferred from 13th Century Goryeo to Europe.

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