Phone (film)
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Hangul | 폰 |
| Revised Romanization | Pon |
| McCune–Reischauer | P'on |
| Directed by | Ahn Byeong-ki |
| Written by | Ahn Byeong-ki |
| Starring |
Ha Ji-Won Kim Yoo-Mi |
| Music by | Sang-ho Lee |
| Cinematography | Yong-shik Mun |
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| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | $21,784,403[1] |
Phone (폰, Pon) is a 2002 South Korean horror film directed and written by Ahn Byeong-ki and starring Ha Ji-Won and Kim Yoo-Mi. The film is a complex and disturbing love story that involves possession and ghosts.
Plot
After writing a series of articles about pedophilia, the journalist Ji-won receives threatening calls on her cellular and she changes her number. Her close friend Ho-jung and her husband Chang-hoon invite Ji-won to move to their house in Bang Bae that is empty and closed. When the young daughter of her friends Young-Su answers a phone call in her mobile phone, the girl screams and changes her behavior, feeling a great attraction for her father and rejecting her mother. Meanwhile Ji-won receives weird phone calls and sees and listens to a teenager playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. After investigating her phone number, Ji-won discovers that the original owner of the number, Jin-hee, had vanished and the two next owners of the number have mysteriously died in unusual circumstances. Her further investigation about Jin-hee discloses that the teenager was absolutely disturbed with her obsessive love for a man that had broken the relationship with her...
Cast
- Ha Ji-won... Ji-won, a young journalist
- Kim Yoo-mi... Ho-jeong
- Choi Woo-jae ... Chang-hoon
- Choi Ji-yeon ... Jin-hie
- Eun Seo-woo ... Yeong-ju
- Choi Jeong-yoon
Remake
Imprint Entertainment planned an American remake with a 2010 releasing,[2] Imprint talks current with Mirovision over the co-financing.[3]
See also
- K-Horror
References
External links
- Phone at the Internet Movie Database
- Phone script (dead link)
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