Obaltan
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| Obaltan | |
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 Theatrical poster to Obaltan (1961) |
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| Directed by | Yu Hyun-mok |
| Produced by | Kim Seong-chun |
| Written by | Lee Beom-seon |
| Starring | Choi Mu-ryong Kim Jin Kyu Moon Jeong-suk |
| Cinematography | Kim Hak-seong |
| Editing by | Kim Hui-su |
| Release date(s) | April 13, 1960 (South Korea) |
| Running time | 110 min. |
| Language | Korean |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 오발탄 |
| Hanja | 誤發彈 |
| Revised Romanization | Obaltan |
Obaltan (오발탄) aka The Aimless Bullet and Stray Bullet is a 1960 Korean film directed by Yu Hyun-mok. The plot is based on the same titled short novel written by Yi Beomseon. It has often been called the best Korean movie ever made.[1]
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[edit] Plot
It begins with describing a man, who lives a hard life. He has his brother, his wife and his crazy mother. The film shows the poor lives of them in the point of realism . The last part of the film has a story of a resulted impulsive crime as its climax.
[edit] Reception
The government banned Obaltan because of its unremittingly downbeat depiction of life in post-armistice South Korea. An American consultant to the Korean National Film Production Center saw the film and persuaded the government to release it in Seoul so that it might qualify for entry in the San Francisco International Film Festival. Director Yu Hyun-mok attended the film's premier in San Francisco in November 1963. Variety called Obaltan a "remarkable film", and noted that its "[b]rilliantly detailed camera work is matched by probing sympathy and rich characterizations."[2]
[edit] Quotations
The most-cited quote from the film, mentioned in the contemporary Variety review and in later texts on Korean cinema, is "Let's get outta here! Let's get outta here!"[3]
[edit] Availability
In December 2002 Obaltan was released on Region 0 DVD in South Korea with English subtitles,[4] but as of November 2007 is currently out of print.[5] Gregory Hatanaka's Cinema Epoch released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 13, 2008.[6]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Min, Eungjun; Joo Jinsook, and Kwak HanJu (2003). Korean Film : History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination (in English). Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, pp.41, 46. ISBN 0-275-95811-6.
- ^ Judy. (1963-11-13), “The Aimless Bullet”, Variety
- ^ Kim, Kyung-hyun (2004). "2. Nowhere to Run: Disenfranchised Men on the Road in The Man with Three Coffins, Sopyonje, and Out to the World", The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (in English). Durham and London: Duke University Press, p.52. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1.
- ^ 오발탄 (The Aimless Bullet) (Korean). www.mydvdlist.co.kr. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
- ^ The Aimless Bullet, or 'Obaltan' (1961) (English). seoulselection.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
- ^ STRAY BULLET (English). Cinema Epoch. Retrieved on 2008-05-20.
[edit] Sources
- Judy. (1963-11-13), “The Aimless Bullet”, Variety
- Min, Eungjun; Joo Jinsook, and Kwak HanJu (2003). Korean Film : History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, pp.41, 46. ISBN 0-275-95811-6.
- OBALTAN. The Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on 2007-11-08.
- Obaltan (1960) at the Internet Movie Database
- Ralske, Josh. The Aimless Bullet. All Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2007-11-08.
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