Daytime Screening

Celebrating Puchon and the Great PiFan Film Festival

Each month the KCCUK library have been spotlighting cities or provinces of Korea with daily screenings of films set or filmed in those places. This month is no different as we celebrate the wonderful area of Puchon and, in particular, the Puchon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan).

Puchon is deemed the cultural centre between two of Korea’s biggest and most popular areas, Seoul and Incheon, containing two of the area’s biggest cultural events/location with the PiFan festival and the Pucheon Philharmonic Orchestra. The area also boost many tourist attractions such as the world famous Architecture Theme Park, the Kim Deoksu Samulnori Theatre and the Dongchun Circus Theatre.

This year marks the 15th year the PiFan festival, happening every July, which highlights fantasy, thriller and horror films from around the globe. It has steadily become one of the biggest and most influential festivals of its kind, in the world. The films screened as part of this season are ones that have either screened as part of the festival’s in the past or are in the vein of the PiFan. Visit here to see what’s happening at this year’s event.

 Below are the films playing through this season;

A Boy Who Went To Heaven (2005)

Director: Yoon Tae-yong

Genre: Fantasy/Drama

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 114 mins

Date & Time:  Mon 12.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

Nemo, 13, lives with his single mother who dies in a train crash. He soon meets Boo-ja, a woman in her 30’s who is similar to his mother. He decides there and then that he loves her and will marry her. He constantly sends her anonymous letters eventually revealing himself to her but also dies in an accident. Left in shock Boo-ja spends her days drinking, but after a time realises Nemo’s love for her has survived his death and reaches out to her.

 

Yobi The Five Tailed Fox (2007)

Director: Lee Sung-gang

Genre: Animation

Certification: PG (South Korea)

Running Time: 86 mins

Date & Time: Tue 12.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

Aliens crash land at a mountain where Yobi, a five tailed, shape shifting, fox lives. She becomes close to the aliens and decides that she wishes to leave with them. However one of them runs away and is taken in by a class of school kids. Yobi disguises herself as a girl to rescues the alien but quickly finds herself attached to a student named Geum-ie but her life is in danger when a fox hunter comes calling.

 

My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2005)

Director: Lee Sung-gang

Genre: Animation

Certification: PG (South Korea)

Running Time: 80 mins

Date & Time: Wed 12.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

In a secluded seaside village, Namoo, 12, finds that everyone eventually leaves him whether its his best friend leaving for Seoul or his mother paying more attention to her new boyfriend. One day he finds a mysterious shining marble in a lighthouse which transports him to a wonderful dream world where he meets Mari.

Magic (2010)

D-War (2006)

Director: Shim Hyung-rae

Genre: Action/Fantasy

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 92 mins

Date & Time: Fri 12.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

Based on the Korean legend where unknown creatures are said to return and devastate the planet. Reporter Ethan Kendrick is called to investigate an explosion and arrives at the conclusion that this is a sign of their return and a girl named Sarah is suppose to help him. While the Imoogi, a giant snake, makes its way to LA, wrecking havoc and destruction. With the entire city under siege, will Ethan and Sarah make it in time to save everyone.

Private Eye (2009)

Director: Park Dae-min

Genre: Mystery

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 111 mins

Date & Time: Mon 15.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

Seoul, 1910, Jin-ho travels around solving trivial family problems for money as a P.I. His dream is to save enough money to travel to America. One night a medical student,Gwang-soo, finds a body in the woods and secretly practices his dissections. The corpse’s happens to be the son of Seoul’s most powerful man. Afraid of being branded the killer, Gwang-soo, meets Jin-ho and asks him to find the real murderer.

 

Radio Dayz (2007)

Director: Ha Ki-ho

Genre: Comedy

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 111 mins

Date & Time: Tue 15.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

Korea’s first radio station established in the thirties is given the mission of producing the first live serial, radio play; “Flames of Love”. In charge are the unlikely team of; Lloyd, a good for nothing producer, Man-cheol, an announcer, Bong-al, a writer who never writes an ending, K an activist and sound tech, Myeong-wol a former prostitute, Mari a jazz singer and Sun-deok the stations gopher. How will this strange group make anything let alone a radio show.

 

Midnight Ballad For Ghost Theatre (2006)

Director: Jeon Kye-soo

Genre: Musical

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 120 mins

Date & Time: Wed 15.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

So-dan is a girl bored with her life but manages to escape her humdrum world by visiting the run-down, Three Corners Theatre. Initially she goes to the theatre in search of her grandmother who is said to of disappeared upon entering the building. The theatre is not a regular theatre as when night falls ghost come out to play, preforming cabaret for the brave souls that enter.

 

Today and Other Days (2008)

Director: Choi Nak-kwon

Genre: Drama

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 120 mins

Date & Time: Thu 15.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

On the outskirts of town where the government’s re-development plan is being carried out an unmarried daughter lives with her father. He suffers from dementia, and plays cards all and every night. The daughter wishes to escape but the reality of her world will not allow her too.

 

Try To Remember (2010)

Director: Lim Jin-pyung

Genre: Romance

Certification: 12 (South Korea)

Running Time: 00 mins

Date & Time: Fri 15.00

Venue:The Library, KCCUK

Admission Free

 

Synopsis

A man and a woman, despite hardly knowing each other, have been suffering from the same dream and the same sense of deja vu. A magnetic force leads them to Andong, the historical and elegant city, where they find an anonymous woman’s 450 years old letter in a museum.