Country: South Korea
Year: 2007
Duration: 109'
Lee Kang-sik is serving a life sentence for murder. For the last fifteen years he has been on his best behaviour and now he has been granted a one-day leave to visit his family. He wishes to meet his teenaged son, whom he hasn’t seen since incarceration, and as the day draws closer and closer, he thinks with both excitement and nervousness to all the things he would like to say to him. But his feeling isn’t exactly reciprocated: forced to grow up at an early age, his son has had a tough life, taking care of his grandmother on his own. In his eyes, he sees not a father, but a stranger, a criminal. How can Lee Kang-sik make up for fifteen years with just one day’s time and show all his love to his son? “For me Adeul marks the first time I’ll be taking on a family issue as the main subject for a film. I attempted to paint a portrait of a fatherson relationship that is simultaneously universal and wholly special.”
Biography
film director
Jin-pyo Jang
(Seoul, South Korea, 1971) is a writer and a director known as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge out of the Korean cinema renaissance that began in the late 1990s. He began working in the realm of theatre and in 1995 he made his first experience in film assisting the screenplay of A Hot Roof (1995) by Min-Yong Lee. After directing a short film, in 1998 he directed his first feature, The Happenings: Amazing Men, that was screened at the Pusan International Film Festival. Jang’s biggest box-office success was with Guns & Talks (2001), followed by three other feature films wich all geined a good commercial success.
FILMOGRAFIA
Gimaghin sanaedeul (The Happenings: Amazing Men, 1998), Gancheob Li Cheol-jin (The Spy, 1999), Killerdeului suda (Guns & Talks, 2001), Aneun yeoja (Someone Special, 2004), Baksu-chiltae deonara (Murder, Take One, 2005), Daseot gae ui shiseon (If You Were Me 2, 2006), Georukhan gyebo (Righteous Ties, 2006), Adeul (My Son, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Jin Jang
fotografia/director of photography Choi Sang-ho
montaggio/film editor Kim Sang-bum
musica/music Lee Byung-woo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Cha Seung-won (Lee Kang-sik), Ryu Deok-hwan (Lee Joon-suk), Kim Ji-young (la madre di Lee Kangsik/Lee Kang-sik’s mother)
produttore/producer Lee Eun-ha, Kim Jin-young
produzione/production Cinema Service, CJ Enterteinment & CJ Asset Management Co., Knj Enterteinment, Film It Suda
fotografia/director of photography Choi Sang-ho
montaggio/film editor Kim Sang-bum
musica/music Lee Byung-woo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Cha Seung-won (Lee Kang-sik), Ryu Deok-hwan (Lee Joon-suk), Kim Ji-young (la madre di Lee Kangsik/Lee Kang-sik’s mother)
produttore/producer Lee Eun-ha, Kim Jin-young
produzione/production Cinema Service, CJ Enterteinment & CJ Asset Management Co., Knj Enterteinment, Film It Suda
