The Day a Pig Fell into the Well

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
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Hangul	돼지가 우물에 빠진 날
Revised Romanization	Daijiga umule pajinnal
McCune–Reischauer	Twaeji ka umul e ppajin nal
Directed by	Hong Sang-soo
Written by	Kyo Hyo-seo
Starring	Kim Eui-sung Lee Eung-kyung Jo Eun-sook Park Jin-song Bang Eun-hee
Music by	Ok Kil-sung
Cinematography	Cho Dong-kwan
Edited by	Park Gok-ji
Release dates	15 May 1996 (1996-05-15)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날, Dwaejiga umul-e ppajin nal) is a 1996 Korean drama film and the directorial debut of Hong Sang-soo. It stars Bang Eun-hee, Jo Eun-sook, Park Jin-song, Lee Eung-kyung and Kim Eui-sung. It was also the feature film debut of Song Kang-ho. The title derives from a 1954 book by John Cheever.

Hong earned the Best Director award at the Korean Blue Dragon Film Awards for his work as well as awards at Rotterdam and Vancouver.

Synopsis

Tong-u, a plain married man in his thirties, visits Chŏnju (4 hour bus ride from Seoul) on a business trip. After endless incidents of waiting, his purpose continually frustrated, he has to spend the night in this strange place and has a disengaging encounter with a prostitute which however leaves him with 'consequences' due to a ruptured condom.

References

External links

• The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well at the Korean Movie Database
• The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well at the Internet Movie Database
• Korean films of 1996 at koreanfilm.org
• Cine21 profile

Bibliography

• Kim, Kyung-hyun (2004). "7. New Korean Cinema Auteurs: Too Early/Too Late: Temporality and Repetition in Hong Sang-su's Films: The Day a Pig Fell into the Well". The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 223–230. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1. 
• Gateward, Frances K. (2007). Seoul searching: culture and identity in contemporary Korean cinema. New York: State University of New York Press. pp. xi, 314. ISBN 978-0-7914-7226-2.  see p. 133