Park Kwang-soo (박광수)

Shiny Day (Movie, 2006) 눈부신 날에 Staff • Director • Scriptwriter	Wild Animals (Movie, 1997) 야생동물 보호구역 Staff • Producer	A Single Spark (Movie, 1995) 아름다운 청년 전태일 Staff • Director • Scriptwriter	To the Starry Island (Movie, 1993) 그 섬에 가고 싶다 Staff • Director • Scriptwriter

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  [Guest Film Review] "Declaration of Fools" with Full Movie
  2018/06/16
  In an era (the 80's) where Korean national cinema was relegated to rapidly produced films whose sole purpose was to earn the quota in order to screen Hollywood movies, Lee Jang-ho's  effort stands out for its experimental nature and social critique, which eventually netted it the 9th (11th) place in the list with the 100 Best Korean Films of All Time, as comprised by the Korean Film Archive. The film received favorable reviews both domestically and internationally at the time, and was actually a box-office success,...More

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  [Guest Film Review] "Black Republic" with Full Movie
  2018/05/19
  As we saw in the review of his debut, "Chilsu and Mansu", Park Kwang-soo explored the socioeconomical and political aftermath of the Gwangju massacre, in a style filled with realism and pessimistic drama, which has nothing to do with the kind of happy-go-lucky approach of current movies about the subject, such as "A Taxi Driver". This approach is even more intense and pessimistic in "Black Republic",...More

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  [Guest Film Review] "Chilsu and Mansu" with Full Movie
  2018/05/12
  If one was to look for the direct roots of contemporary Korean, one should not look much further than Park Kwang-soo's debut, a wonderful sociopolitical allegory based on a rather unusual friendship between two men. 1988 was the year of the Seoul Olympics, and a time of great political and social change for South Korea. Massive street protests against the military government and on behalf of workers' rights had recently reached their peak. However, the Korean society portrayed through cinema in those days little resembled the passions on display in the street. Government censors, wielding an iron grip over the film industry, ensured that the slightest hint of social criticism was clipped in the screenplay or in the editing room before reaching audiences,...More

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