Oki's Movie | |
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Hangul | |
Hanja | 옥희의 |
Revised Romanization | Ok-hi-eui Yeonghwa |
McCune–Reischauer | Ok-hi-ŭi Yŏnghwa |
Directed by | Hong Sang-soo |
Produced by | Kim Kyeong-hee |
Written by | Hong Sang-soo |
Starring |
Lee Sun-kyun Jung Yu-mi Moon Sung-keun |
Music by | We Zong-Yun |
Cinematography | Park Hong-yeol Ji Yoon-jeong |
Edited by | Hahm Sung-won |
Production
company |
Jeonwonsa Films
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Distributed by | Sponge Entertainment |
Release date
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Running time
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80 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Oki's Movie (Hangul: 옥희의 영화; RR: Ok-hi-eui Yeonghwa) is a 2010 South Korean drama film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo.
In a multipart narrative divided into four chapters, Hong fashions a new kind of love triangle. Oki is a young and beautiful college student majoring in film production and torn between the affections of two men: an older cinema professor and a former student/budding filmmaker. As the story shifts perspectives and timelines, Hong depicts each relationship with the authentically awkward rhythms of real life.
A Day for Incantation (Hangul: 주문을 외울날): In Seoul, winter, the present day. On his way to a screening of one of his films, struggling shorts director Nam Jin-gu (Lee Sun-kyun) is nagged by his wife Jang Su-yang (Seo Yeong-hwa) about his drinking, and he wonders if she is having an affair with a guy called Yeong-su. Nam's onetime professor at film school, Song (Moon Sung-keun), tells him that filmmaking as an art is now dead. Nam remembers his first meeting with his wife, then an impressionable amateur photographer, on a park bench. At a dinner with film-school staff, Nam gets drunk and into a quarrel with Song, about whom he's heard a disquieting rumor. Afterwards, at the Q&A for his film, Nam is asked by a member of the audience (Lee Chae-eun) whether it's true he was dating the actress at the time and is therefore responsible for ruining her life. Nam says he has quit directing.
King of Kisses (Hangul: 키스왕): Some years earlier, Nam sees fellow student Jung Ok-heui (Jung Yu-mi) at film school and tries to go out with her, claiming he's never dated a woman before. When they smooch in a greenhouse, she says he's a good kisser. She's still getting over a relationship with an older man but finally gives in to Nam's persistence, and they sleep together and date.