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

City of the Rising Sun

KIM Sung-soo|Korea|1998|108min |18+ |No Eng-Subtitle

Code Time Theater Rate GV
102 7/13  13:20 - 15:08 Bucheon City Hall, Main Theater(2F) 18  X
102 7/13  13:20 - 15:08Bucheon City Hall, Main Theater(2F)
18  X

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Program Note

Two people who have to do anything to make ends meet wander around the city. They share few characteristics or values, but still embrace and understand each other. Despite their differences, they develop strong friendship.

Program Note

For Do-cheol (Jung Woo-sung), he is all about boxing. However, Do-cheol loses the match against his junior and leaves the ring showing symptoms of a punch-drunk. Do-cheol meets his age, Hong -gi (Lee Jung-jae), at the private detective where he visits for a job. If boxing is everything for Do-cheol, it is money for Hong-gi. He is willing to do whatever it takes to make money. As he continues to cheat and lie, getting into trouble with a local gang, Do-cheol gets caught up in the vortex. The two people, who seemed totally unlikely to get along, are now bound to have a relationship that can only be explained by friendship. And Do-cheol tries to do the boxing again. Jung Woo-sung starring in the film The Asphalt Man (1995) and Beat (1997) completes the epic of youth in this film by the native honesty of Jung Woosung with the spirit of no compromise. Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae made a wonderful harmony with each other in the buddy film, City of the Rising Sun, where the collaboration is particularly important as well as the attractions of the two characters, Do-cheol and Hong-gi. The friendship between the two actors has continued after this film. (JEONG Ji-hye)

Director

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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).

Credit

Producer Tcha Sung-jai
Screenplay Kim Sung-soo, Sim San
Cinematographer Kim Hyung-koo
Editor Kim Hyeon
Music Park Young, Kim Jae-won
Production Design Kim Ki-chul
Cast Jung Woo-sung, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Beom-soo
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