A Dirty Carnival
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A Dirty Carnival | |
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Directed by | Yu Ha |
Produced by | Cha Seoung-Jae Kim Mi-heui Choi Seon-jung |
Written by | Yu Ha |
Starring | Jo In-seong Cheon Ho-jin Nan-gung Min Lee Bo-yeong |
Music by | Jo Yeong-wook |
Cinematography | Choi Hyeon-gi |
Editing by | Park Kok-ji |
Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
Release date(s) | June 15, 2006 |
Running time | 141 min. |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
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Korean name | |
Hangul | 비열한 거리 |
Revised Romanization | Biyeolhan geori |
A Dirty Carnival (Biyeolhan geori) is poet Yu Ha's fourth feature film. Released in 2006, this film noir sold 1.6 million tickets.
[edit] Plot
A Dirty Carnival is the story of Byung-du, a small-time gangster in his late 20s, for whom life is going to take a different turn. To save his family from getting evicted, Byung-du accepts to murder public attorney Park, who was standing in the way of his superior, President Hwang. Fascinated by the violent life of Byung-Du, one of his high-school friends, Min-Ho, now a movie director, decides to interview him and adapt his real-life story to improve his script, for a film about gangsters. Meanwhile, old flame Hyun-Joo reappears and brings with her the hope of a happier life...
[edit] External links
- A Dirty Carnival at the Internet Movie Database
- A Dirty Carnival at HanCinema
- Darcy Paquet's review at koreanfilm.org
- Film review at "Tracking the Blue Dumplings", the Korea Society Film Journal
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