Highway Star (film)
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| Directed by | Kim Sang-chan Kim Hyun-soo |
| Produced by |
Lee Kyung-kyu Park Se-jun Kim Woo-sang |
| Written by | Seon Seung-yeon Yun Sun-yong Kim Sang-chan |
| Based on |
Sharan Q no enka no hanamichi by Hiroshi Saito |
| Starring |
Cha Tae-hyun Im Chae-moo Lee So-yeon |
| Music by | Ju Young-hoon |
| Cinematography | Yoon Hong-sik |
| Edited by | Kyung Min-ho |
| Distributed by | Studio 2.0 |
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114 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$5.07 million |
| Box office | US$11.7 million |
Highway Star (Hangul: 복면달호; RR: Bokmyeon Dalho) is a 2007 South Korean musical comedy film starring Cha Tae-hyun as an aspiring rocker who achieves success as a masked trot singer.
A remake of the 1997 Japanese film Sharan Q Takes Center Stage of Enka (シャ乱Qの演歌の花道 Sharan Q no enka no hanamichi?),Highway Star was a modest hit at the box office, receiving 1,611,192 admissions and earning US$11.7 million.
Bong Dal-ho's ultimate dream is to become a famous rock star. To make a living in his small, rural town, Dal-ho's heavy metal rock band is forced to play trot (country music similar to enka, also known as bbong jjak) in tacky nightclubs. One day, Jang Joon, executive of a shabby record company, sees potential in the seemingly clueless vocalist and promises to make him a star—Dal-ho realizes too late that he's been duped into signing a contract with a label that specializes in trot music.
Jang believes that Dal-ho's talent as a trot singer is in reflecting the melodramatic sentimentality of middle-aged Koreans (the genre's target demographic), but Dal-ho persistently believes that trot music, along with the gaudy costumes and hairstyles and exaggerated stage movements associated with it, is outdated and trite.
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