Korean Fantastic: Features

The Hand

CHOI Yunho|Korea|2020 |52min |World Premiere |15+

Code Time Theater Rate GV
431 7/13  20:00 - 20:52 CGV Sopung 10 15 GV
615 7/15  14:00 - 14:52 CGV Sopung 10 15
431 7/13  20:00 - 20:52CGV Sopung 10
15  GV
615 7/15  14:00 - 14:52CGV Sopung 10
15

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Program Note

There are hands living in my toilet! A man opens his eyes in the morning and goes to the bathroom, where he’s faced with a weird scenario of a hand shooting up out of the toilet. Thinking he must have drunk too much the night before, he rubs his eyes and looks down at the toilet again, but the hand is still there. His wife, their apartment security guard and paramedics arrive in the bathroom one after the other, but rather than revealing its identity, they are attacked by the strange hand in the toilet. 

Do not mock the hand; it may never come out of the toilet, but you can never be free of its grip, and the attacks are surprisingly terrifying. With the movie beginning and ending with the titular ‘hand’, there is tension built in the restricted space of the bathroom. Together with the extraordinary setting, the special effects and the actors' passionate performances evoking humor and fear, it is also worth noting this formal attempt to expand the short form-style series, which has been tried in various guises leading up to the theatrical version. (MO Eun-young)

Director

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CHOI Yunho

Born in 1969. He graduated from Seoul Institute of the Arts majoring in film. He directed and produced more than 200 commercials and music videos. His first feature The Hand (2020) was selected as a support project of Korea Creative Content Agency in 2019.

Credit

Producer Lim Sungwon, Hwang Yucheol
Screenplay Jang Jak, Choi Yunho
Cinematographer Hwang Sungyun
Editor Choi Heeyoung
Sound Lee Kyungjun
Music Ryu Jaein(YODA)
Production Design Jang Ryukun
Cast Lee Jaewon, Park Sangwook, Jeong Seoha
Sales R2D2 Studio