Program

JUNG Woo-sung: The Star, the Actor, the Artist

Beat

Korea|1997|113min | |

Code	Time	Theater	Rate	GV	Ticketing
103	7/13 15:30	Bucheon City Hall, Main Theater(2F)
1032	7/22 20:30	CGV Sopoong 6

103	7/13 15:30Bucheon City Hall, Main Theater(2F)	Ticketing
1032	7/22 20:30CGV Sopoong 6	Ticketing

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Synopsis

This film follows a teenager drifting around an unjust society created by adults. Typical of actor Jung Woosung, it is seen as an icon of Korean society in the 90s – a Korean version of Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

Program Note

In 1997, young people in Korea were known as the X-generation; a new generation that couldn’t be defined by existing terms. Facing their own hardships, Beat (1997) became the Korean equivalent of Rebel Without a Cause. Hong Kong action films a major influence and Beat never hid the fact it was affected by this genre. It had the newest, most outstanding mise-en-scène for the time, with the director attempting to combine youth film, school movies and romance in the film. Beat follows the lives of Min (Jung Woo-sung), his girlfriend Romi (Ko So-young), his friends Hwan-gyu (Im Chang-jung) and Tae-soo (Yu Oh-seong), from high school into their early twenties; an account of the X-generation’s frustrations at the time and a realization of powerful fantasy. Beat was the first film director Kim Sung-soo made together with actor Jung Woo-sung, they also teamed up on City of the Rising Sun (1998), Musa-The Warrior (2001) and Asura: The City of Madness (2016). (JEONG Han-seok)

Director

KIM Sung-soo

Born in 1961 and mastered in film production at Dongguk University after earning a bachelor degree in English Literature at Sejong University. Actor Jung Woo-sung, known as Kim’s persona, starred in more than half of Kim’s filmographies starting from 1993 that includes Beat (1997), City of the Rising Sun (1998), Musa-The Warrior (2001) and Asura: The City of Madness (2016).