Spring in My Hometown

Spring in My Hometown
Poster for Spring in My Hometown (1998)
Hangul	아름다운 시절
Revised Romanization	Areumdaun sijeol
McCune–Reischauer	Arŭmdaun sijŏl
Directed by	Lee Kwangmo[1]
Produced by	Jung Taesung Kang Sungkyu
Written by	Lee Kwangmo
Starring	Ahn Sung-ki Bae Yoo-jung
Music by	Won Il
Cinematography	Kim Hyung-koo
Edited by	Ham Sung-won
Distributed by	Korean Film Art Center BaekDu-DaeGan Company Ltd.
Release dates	November 21, 1998 (1998-11-21)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Spring in My Hometown (Hangul: 아름다운 시절; RR: Areumdaoon shijeol) is an award-winning 1998 South Korean film.

Synopsis

A story about two village boys, Sungmin and Changhee, in the summer of 1952, during the Korean War.^[2]

Cast

• Ahn Sung-ki ... Sungmin's father
• Bae Yoo-jung ... Changhee's mother
• Cho Jae-hyun
• Kim Jungwoo ... Changhee
• Lee In ... Sungmin
• Myeong Gye-nam
• Myeong Sun-mi
• Oh Ji-hye ... Teacher
• Song Ok-sook ... Sungmin's mother
• Yu Hye-jeong
• Yu Oh-seong ... Sungmin's uncle

Awards

Wins

• Entrevues Film Festival (1998)^[3]
  • Grand Prix Foreign Film (Lee Kwangmo)
• Hawaii International Film Festival (1998)
  • Best Feature Film (Lee Kwangmo)
• Pusan International Film Festival (1998)
  • FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention (Lee Kwangmo) "For the director's mature approach to the consequences of recent Korean history on common people's lives."
• Thessaloniki Film Festival (1998)
  • Special Artistic Achievement (Lee Kwangmo)
• Tokyo International Film Festival (1998)
  • Gold Award (Lee Kwangmo)
• Fribourg International Film Festival (1999)
  • Don Quixote Award (Lee Kwangmo)
• Grand Bell Awards (1999)
  • Best Film
• Kerala International Film Festival (1999)
  • Special Jury Prize (Lee Kwangmo)

Nominations

• Stockholm Film Festival (1998)
  • Bronze Horse (Lee Kwangmo)
• Thessaloniki Film Festival (1998)
  • Golden Alexander (Lee Kwangmo)

Notes

Bibliography

• Areumdawoon sheejul (1998) at the Internet Movie Database
• Kim, Kyung-hyun (2004). "3. 'Is This How the War is Remembered?': Violent Sex and the Korean War in Silver Stallion, Spring in My Hometown, and The Taebaek Mountains". The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 87–93. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1. 
• Paquet, Darcy. "Spring In My Hometown". www.koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 
• "Spring in my Hometown(Aleummda-un sijeol)(1998)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 
• "아름다운 시절 Spring in My Hometown, 1998". www.cine21.com. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 
• "Hope, Despair, and Memory of the Koreans' War: Spring in My Hometown," Minjung Kim and Trenia Walker, Education About Asia 7.1 Spring 2002 (Free access after registration)