Film Awards
The 13th Seoul International Youth Film Festival (2011,Korea)
The 14th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Best International Debut Feature Film Award (2011,Mexico)
The 4th Asian Hot Shots Berlin (2011,Germany)
The 15th Busan International Film Festival (2010,Korea)
Synopsis
The father leaves home each day bragging at the top of his lungs but crawls back home again each day, and the mother receives him silently. The oldest sister fumes at her mother for the life she is leading, while the female university student who used to rent a room from them has disappeared. The mother has a burden of making money for living because of the father who is chasing an absurd dream of being the chief of a district. 16-year-old son, Jin-woo starts newspaper delivery in order to support the family’s living after realizing the difficult life of his mother. And that’s where he happens to meet Chang-geun who turns to be the actual cause for him to first learn the habit of drinking and smoking and get to know the real world.
Director's Note
This movie is a coming-of age film about a boy who lived in the 80s. It is also about a boy's family and personal memories of the director himself at the time.
Director's Bio / Filmography
- ROH Hong-jin
Born in Seoul, Korea 1976.
He majored in media engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology.
He worked with KIM Ki-duk Kim in “Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring”(2003) and with SONG Il-gon in “Spider Forest”(2004). He was the assistant director in SONG Il-gon’s “The Magicians”(2004). “BOY” is his first feature film.
2010 [BOY] HD, color, 112min.
4th Asian Hot Shots Berlin (2011, Germany)
13th Seoul Int’l Youth Film Festival (2011, Korea)
Best International Debut Feature Film Award, 14th Guanajuato International Film Festival (2011, Mexico)
15th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2010, Korea)
Staff
Director/Screenwriter : ROH Hong-jin
Production : Open U Culture, East Sky Film
Co-production : Culture Cap Media
World Sales : INDIESTORY Inc.
Executive Producer :CHOI Soon-sik, KWAG Koung-taek, SONG Jun-houng
Co-executive Producer : KIM Hyun-chul, SHIN Jae-hyun
Producer : UM Ki-wook
Cinematography : LEE In-won
Editor : SHIN Min-kyoung
Gaffer : LEE Sang-soo
Production Designer : KIM Min-jeong
Composer : CHOI Man-sik
Recording : KANG Shin-kyoo
Mixing : JEONG Soo-yeon
Costume : OH Mi-jeung
Makeup : KIM Hyun-jung
Cast
YEOUN Joon-seok as Jin-woo
AN Nae-sang as Gyung-shik
KIM So-hee as Moon-jung
RYOO Hyon-kyoung as Jin-sook
