Year: 1993
Genre:
Drama, Music
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,9 (NEVAZUT)
Country: South Korea
Language:
Director: Kwon-taek Im
Writer: Myung-gon Kim, Chung-Joon Lee
Composer: Soo-Chul Kim
Producer: Tae-won Lee
Actors: Myung-gon Kim, Jung-hae Oh, Kyu-chul Kim, Sae-kil Shin, Byeong-kyeong Ahn, Jae-Hyun Cho
Description: 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 ...
Comments:
Duration: 112 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\04770 - Sopyonje - Seopyeonje (1993)\Sopyonje - Seopyeonje (1993).avi
Filesize: 1385 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 640x384
Audio:
Subtitles: English