Bleak Night
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| Hangul | 파수꾼 |
| Hanja | 꾼 |
| Revised Romanization | Pasuggun |
| McCune–Reischauer | P'asukkun |
| Directed by | Yoon Sung-hyun |
| Produced by | Yoon Sung-hyun Kim Seung-june Park Ki-yong Jang Hyun-soo |
| Written by | Yoon Sung-hyun |
| Starring |
Lee Je-hoon Seo Jun-young Park Jung-min Jo Sung-ha |
| Music by | Park Min-joon |
| Cinematography | Byeon Bong-seon |
| Edited by | Yoon Sung-hyun |
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Production
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KAFA Films
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| Distributed by | Filament Pictures CJ Entertainment |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$143,437 |
Bleak Night (Hangul: 파수꾼; RR: Pasuggun; lit. "The Lookout") is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards.
Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jung-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response.
2010 15th Busan International Film Festival
2011 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival
2011 48th Grand Bell Awards
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