Lee Hyun-seung (director)
| Lee Hyun-seung | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 18, 1961 South Korea |
| Alma mater |
Hongik University Korean Academy of Film Arts |
| Occupation |
Film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1986-present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이현승 |
| Hanja | 李鉉升 |
| Revised Romanization | I Hyeon-seung |
| McCune–Reischauer | I Hyŏnsŭng |
Lee Hyun-seung (born August 18, 1961) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed The Blue in You (1992), Sunset Into the Neon Lights (1995), Il Mare (2000) and Hindsight (2011).
Lee Hyun-seung studied Visual Communication Design in the Department of Fine Arts at Hongik University, then filmmaking at Korean Academy of Film Arts. In 1986, he began working as an assistant director for Park Chul-soo and Park Kwang-su. Lee made his feature directorial debut with The Blue in You (1992), which drew praise for its lush, sensual images and strong use of color. Starring Kang Soo-yeon and Ahn Sung-ki as a businesswoman and photographer who fall in love despite their equally uncompromising personalities, it is considered among the first Korean feminist films of its era.
His second film Sunset Into the Neon Lights (1995), starring Moon Sung-keun and Chae Shi-ra, was less well received. Lee said the film was slightly autobiographical about his college experience in the turbulent 1980s, and it tackled issues of capitalism versus art in the advertising world, and sexism that a recently graduated female copywriter encounters in her workplace.
But it was Il Mare (2000) that made Lee into a household name. A melancholic love story between an architect and a voice actress (played by Lee Jung-jae and Jun Ji-hyun) who are mystically connected by a mailbox across two different time periods, Il Mare displayed Lee's knack for crafting subtle nuances by juxtaposing the characters' emotions with beautiful cinematography, framing and mood. Though not a commercial hit during its theatrical run, Il Mare later attained the status of a minor classic among Korean cinema fans, and became the first domestic film to be remade in Hollywood (2006's The Lake House starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock).
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