Completed - KOREAN, JAPANESE - Drama - 96 minutes
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Kun-Jae JANG Writer(s) : Kun-Jae JANG Cast : Sae-Byuk KIM, Ryo IWASE, Hyung-Kook LIM Producer(s) : Kun-jae JANG (Mocushura), Naomi KAWASE
A Korean Film director, KIM Tae-hoon plans to shoot his new film in a small local city called Gojo, Japan. He travels with his assistant director, PARK Mi-jeong to do research prior to scriptwriting. They travel through several villages that are declining, and interview some local residents there. Most people say there is nothing special about Gojo. Along the way, KIM and PARK meet a municipal official, Yusuke and a middle-aged man, Kenji, and are deeply impressed by their stories. The night before director Kim is to leave Japan, having a strange dream, he wakes up in the middle of night, and looks up at the night sky in Gojo.
Country(ies) : KOREA (South)
Hong Kong Int'l FF 2014Rotterdam IFFR 2014Seoul Independent FF 2014 (Special Mention)Busan - BIFF/APM 2014 (Best Director Award by Director's Guild of Korea)Nara Int'l FF 2014Mar Del Plata IFF 2015 Mar de chicosLos Angeles Film Festival 2015Zurich FF 2015Vancouver IFF 2015Asiatica Film Mediale 2015 (Best Feature Award)South Taiwan Film Festival 2015 (Opening Film)