< 31st Korean Film Night > 

- Title : 번지 점프를 하다 (Bungee Jumping of Their Own, 2001)

- Director : 김대승 KIM Dai-seung

- Casting :  이병헌 LEE Byung-hun, 이은주 LEE Eun-ju

- Runtime :  117 mins

- Venue : Multi-purpose Hall, KCC

- Time :  Thu 10th September, 19:00p.m.

Synopsis

The summer of 1983. SEO In-woo, majoring in Korean language & literature, has not believed in love and fate, but he falls in love with IN Tae-hee majoring in sculpture at first sight. However farewell comes unexpectedly just as his love came before. In-woo is waiting for Tae-hee at the platform where he is supposed to leave for his military service. But Tae-hee doesn't arrive up until the very last. 17 years later. In-woo has forgotten Tae-hee and married another woman. Now he has become a high school teacher. However love hits him again ,and the object of his love is his 17 year-old male pupil, named LIM Hyun-bin. He can't accept his emotion at first, but he feels the IN Tae-hee of 17 years ago from Hyun-bin's every action. Her unique curiosity, peculiar habits and especially the lighter of 17 years ago which Tae-hee made! Now, they drown themselves off a beautiful cliff in New Zealand.

<Hamburg Film Festival 2001>, Won Golden Tesafilm Roll

The source of the information   KMDB

Director Biography

KIM Dai-seung graduated from Chung-Ang University majoring in theatrical arts. He entered the film scene as the assistant director for directed by CHUNG Ji-young, then went on to work as the assistant director to Korea's renowned director, IM Kwon-taek in most of his films. His first work as director, Bungee Jumping of Their Own was (2001), which was acclaimed as the finest melodrama of the contemporary era by viewers and critics alike. Blood Rain (2005) is his second work, a startling shift to a new genre of suspense thriller in the Joseon era.

The source of the information   HANCINEMA

Actor Lee Byung-hun

LEE Byung-hun’s Hollywood Flick GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra Opened Aug 7th. This is the latest international film to star a Korean actor in an English role. This is not Lee Byun-hun’s first English speaking role. LEE plays character Storm Shadow in the film directed by Stephen Sommers of The Mummy Returns (2001). The Brussels-based Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity (GI Joe) is a world-wide organization dedicated to fighting evil.  The film focus on the battle between GI Joe and the rising criminal organization ‘Cobra’ run by arms dealer Destro.

Filmography

2009 GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra

2008 The God, The Bad, The Weird

2006 Once in a Summer

2004 A Bittersweet Life

2004 Everybody has secrets

2004 Three… Extremes

2002 Addicted

2001 Bungee Jumping of Their Own

2000 Joint Security Area / JSA

1995 Run away

1995 Sunset into the neon lights

1995 Who Makes Me Crazy

The source of the information   KOFIC