Failan

Failan is a film South-Korean carried out by Song Hae-seong, left the April 28th 2001.

Synopsis

Has just purged a small custodial sentence to have sold vidéos porns to teenagers, Kang-jae is a looser which enjoys to ridicule the weak ones in order to forget humiliation that the young people with the long teeth make him undergo belonging to the same gang as him. The situation in the medium is currently with drawn knife and at the time one night spent with saouler with his/her friend and chief, Yong-sik, this last is irritated violently on a small striking by a rival gang and, carried, tabasse it with death. The following day, Yong-sik begs Kang-jae to assert this crime. And this one ends up accepting in exchange of an amount of money to be able to acquire a fishing vessel and to return at his place to remake its life.

The day when it decides to go to the police force, it receives the visit of two police officers which announce the death of his wife to him, Failan, which it ignores. He married with her without never meeting it in order to make it possible this Chinese young person to obtain his visa. He must go far from Incheon to identify the body of this one. Progressively from its voyage, Jang-jae learns how to know Failan, this woman who could have changed her life.

Data sheet

Title: Failan
original Title: Failan (파이란)
Realization: Song Hae-seong
Scenario: Song Hae-seong, Ahn Blood-hun and Kim Hae-gon, according to a news of Jiro Asada
Production: Ahn Blood-hoon
Music: Lee Jae-jin
Photography: Kim Yeong-cheol
Assembly: Park Gok-ji
Country of origin: South Korea
Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Dolby DIGITAL - 35 mm
Kind: Drama, lovesong
Lasted: 115 minutes
Comings out date: April 28th 2001 (South Korea), December 18th 2002 (France)

Distribution

Choi Min-sik : Kang-jae
Cecilia Cheung : Failan
Kong Hyeong-jin : Kyung-known
Its Byeong-Ho: Yong-sik
Kim Ji-hyung
Ji Tae-han
Its Jin-Ho
Kim Known-hyeon

Around film

Failan is the adaptation of a news of Jiro Asada, entitled Love letter , published in a collection entitled the railwayman .

Rewards

Price of the best actor (Choi Min-sik) at the time of the Blue Dragon Film Awards 2001.
Lotus of Gold (Price of the Jury), Lotus of the Public (Price of the Public), Lotus of the best actor (Choi Min-sik) and Lotus of the best realizer, at the time of the Festival of Asian film of Deauville 2002.
Price of the jury and price of the best realizer, at the time of the Large Beautiful Awards 2002.

External bonds

Critique Sancho does Asia
Critiques Cinemasie
Critiques HK Handled

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