| Painted Fire | |
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Poster for "Painted Fire" |
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| Hangul | 취화선 |
| Hanja | 醉畵仙 |
| RR | Chwi-hwa-seon |
| MR | Ch'wi-hwa-sǒn |
| Directed by | Im Kwon-taek |
| Produced by | Lee Tae-won |
| Written by | Kim Yong-ok Do-ol |
| Starring | Choi Min-sik Ahn Sung-ki Yoo Ho-jung |
| Music by | Kim Yong-dong |
| Cinematography | Jeong Il-seong |
| Editing by | Park Sun-deok |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
| Release date(s) | May 10, 2002 (South Korea) |
| Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, (also known as Painted Fire, Strokes of Fire or Drunk on Women and Poetry), is a 2002 South Korean drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek about Jang Seung-up (Oh-won), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art.
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It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.
These events are set against the struggle for reform within Korea, caught between China and Japan (annexed by Japan in 1910, outside the film's time-frame).
| Preceded by One Fine Spring Day |
Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Film 2002 |
Succeeded by Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring |
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