R-Point
| R-Point | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical poster | |
| Hangul | 알 포인트 |
| Revised Romanization | Al pointeu |
| McCune–Reischauer | Al p‘oint‘ŭ |
| Directed by | Kong Su-chang |
| Produced by |
Choi Kang-hyeok Jang Yun-hyeon |
| Written by | Kong Su-chang |
| Starring |
Kam Woo-sung Son Byung-ho Oh Tae-kyung Park Won-sang Lee Sun-kyun Ahn Nae-sang Kim Byeong-cheol Jeon Kyeong-ho Mun Yeong-dong |
| Music by | Pa-lan Dal |
| Cinematography | Seok Hyeong-jing |
| Editing by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | $6,744,984[1] |
R-Point (Hangul: 알 포인트) is a 2004 Korean horror film written and directed by Kong Su-chang and starring Kam Woo-sung and Son Byung-ho. It is set in 1972 Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. However, most of the movie was shot in Cambodia. Bokor Hill Station plays a prominent part of the movie, in this case doubling as a colonial French plantation.
Synopsis
On 7 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead. The high-command assigns the veteran and decorated Lieutenant Choi Tae-in to lead a squad with eight other soldiers and rescue the missing soldiers from the R-Point. When they arrive in the location, they have a shooting and defeat a Vietnamese woman with a machine gun in a trench. Later, they find a tombstone telling that one hundred years ago, Chinese killed Vietnamese, dropped them in a lake and built a temple over the place, being a sacred location to the Vietnamese. They find an immense, but empty mansion, where they set up their base. They have a week to find the missing soldiers, but time is passing slowly when one of them dies in a horrible way, and instead of finding answers, they encounter more mysteries...
Marketing
Before the film was released, filmmakers conducted various viral marketings to promote the film. The official website, www.rpoint.com, carried several fictional articles such as journal written by an American war correspondent, statements made by various soldiers who witnessed events from the film, radio transmission received by Korean soldiers, internet news links about missing Korean soldiers in Vietnam, and the fictional timeline of R-Point.
Cast
- Kam Woo-sung - Lt. Choi Tae-in
- Son Byung-ho - Sgt. Jin Chang-rok
Awards and nominations
- 2004 Grand Bell Awards[2]
- Best Sound
- Nomination - Best New Director - Kong Su-chang
- Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Son Byung-ho
- Nomination - Best New Director - Kong Su-chang
- 2004 Korean Film Awards
- Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Son Byung-ho
- Nomination - Best New Director - Kong Su-chang