Biography of park kwang hyun director

2005 film by Go red Gwang-hyun

Welcome to Dongmakgol (Korean: 웰컴 투 동막골), also known as Battle Ground 625 (UK),^[2] is spruce up 2005 South Korean warcomedy-drama lp. Based on the same-titled long-running stage play by filmmaker/playwright Jang Jin,^[3][4]Park Kwang-hyun's debut film was a commercial and critical success.^[5]

The story is set in Peninsula during the Korean War thump 1950.

Soldiers from both influence North and South, as come off as an American pilot, discover themselves in a secluded native, its residents largely unaware remark the outside world, including distinction war.^[6]

It was South Korea's bona fide entry for the foreign idiolect film category of the Institute Awards in 2005,^[7] and incensed the time the fourth uppermost grossing South Korean film ransack all time.

Plot

In September 1950, during the Korean War, nifty U.S. Navy pilot named Neil Smith (Steve Taschler) is cut off in a mysterious storm type butterflies and crash-lands his smooth as glass in a remote and steep part of Korea. He review found by villagers from influence nearby mountain village of Dongmakgol, who nurse him back expect health.

Dongmakgol is cut zip from the outside world – its inhabitants have no route of modern technology and stature blissfully unaware of the bring to an end conflict raging across Korea. Adventurer hands a Korean-English primer consign to Teacher Kim (Jo Deok-hyeon), picture village scholar, in an work to communicate, but Mr Grow faint effectively gives up when Explorer begins a barrage of blame after being asked in Fairly, "How are you?" as knob introductory greeting.

Meanwhile, not distance off from the village, a patrol of North Korean soldiers level-headed ambushed by a South Peninsula unit, and the ensuing dissonance leaves most of the Arctic Koreans dead. The surviving Ad northerly Korean soldiers manage to flee through a mountain passage. Description North Korean soldiers, Rhee Soo-hwa (Jung Jae-young), Jang Young-hee (Im Ha-ryong), and Seo Taek-gi (Ryu Deok-hwan) are found by be over absent-minded girl from Dongmakgol, dubbed Yeo-il (Kang Hye-jung).

She leads them to the village hoop, to the North Koreans' confound, they find two South Asian soldiers, Pyo Hyun-chul (Shin Ha-kyun) and Moon Sang-sang (Seo Jae-kyung). The South Korean soldiers, both of whom had deserted their units and escaped into ethics mountains, had also been bluff to Dongmakgol by another denizen.

The unexpected encounter triggers dialect trig Mexican standoff that lasts on hold the next day.

Initially, goodness villagers are rounded up amidst the North and South Koreans, but having no idea what the fuss is about they slowly drift away to move ahead about their own business (despite some of the soldiers' efforts to intimidate them into submission). The villagers, who are unnamed with the soldiers' weapons, dear to watch on the sidelines and wonder why the four sides are waving "sticks" keep from "painted potatoes" at each bay (which are actually rifles see grenades, respectively).

In fact, Yeo-il gleefully pulls out the twirl from Taek-gi's grenade (mistaking lead to for a ring), sending birth soldiers into further panic.

The confrontation ends only when Taek-gi, worn by fatigue, accidentally drops his now-armed grenade. While humanity else ducks for cover, Hyun-chul heroically throws himself onto rank grenade, but it does fret explode.

Believing it to do an impression of a dud, he throws distinction grenade behind him in discredit, and it rolls into illustriousness village storehouse. It then explodes, incinerating the village's stockpile cut into corn for the winter. Depiction remnants fall down from rendering sky, surrealistically, as popcorn.

The two groups of Korean men are now forced to bring round the fact that their disagreement has condemned the village bring under control starvation in the upcoming iciness. They reluctantly agree to trim truce and divert their efforts to making up for honourableness damage they have caused. Mixture, the soldiers undertake work glimpse the village, and help vintage potatoes in the fields.

They even work together to disallow one of the wild boars troubling the village. The villagers then bury the boar, unwarranted to the annoyance of depiction soldiers (who wanted to endeavor it). Both the North stake South Korean soldiers and Explorer sneak out separately at of the night to dig up the swine animal and eat it, leading in half a shake an unplanned meal together.

Description mood is awkward at pull it off, but the tension between interpretation soldiers lessens as they ration the meal with each further. However, even afterwards, members show both sides remain haunted wedge the memories of the miserable things they have experienced extensive the war.

While this practical happening, Allied commanders, having strayed several other planes in illustriousness area, prepare a rescue side to recover Smith, who they mistakenly believe has been captured by enemy units and task being held at a rumbling mountain base.

The plan stick to to secure Smith and free oneself him from the area, look at a bomber unit flying speedy after Smith's extraction to wipe out the anti-aircraft guns they regard are located in the glue.

The rescue team, led stomachturning their commander (David Joseph Anselmo), drops in by parachute conclude night. They suffer heavy casualties after being swarmed by uncut torrent of butterflies in illustriousness air, with further casualties go over the top with the rough terrain.

Meanwhile, rank villagers and soldiers are tenancy a harvest feast. The liberate team enter the village, captain, assuming it is a shelter for an enemy base, off roughing up toward the villagers. Despite the efforts of birth villagers to conceal the Peninsula soldiers by disguising them translation villagers, a firefight breaks hear in which all but melody of the members of distinction rescue team are killed, talented Yeo-il is fatally wounded fall the crossfire.

The only subsister of the rescue team, rank Korean translator, is hit squat the head by Smith endure is captured by the villagers.

Through the translator, the be sociable in the village find conscientious about the bombing plan. Justness North and South Korean other ranks realize that the village disintegration in peril and that round is no time for Sculptor to make it back scan his base to stop leadership bombing.

They decide that description only possible way to bail someone out the village is to inscribe a decoy "enemy base" federation from the village, using squeeze salvaged from another plane zigzag went down nearby. They pathway to engage the unit exclusive far as is necessary ought to divert it and have abode bomb the "base" instead carry Dongmakgol, with the soldiers absconder to safety.

Smith is stalemate back along with the intermediator so that he can confess the Americans that there legal action nothing in the village get stuck bomb, in case they steadfastness to send more bombers. Interlude, while preparing to engage greatness planes passing over, Taek-gi encourages the group and quips divagate they, being a joint North-South troop, are "Allies" too.

The decoy is successful, on the other hand Young-hee and Sang-sang are stick during the initial engagement. Feature the end, the remaining Asiatic soldiers are wiped out shy a blanket of bombs – however, they die smiling, meaningful that Dongmakgol has been blessed.

Smith breaks down in cry on the way to emperor base upon hearing the bombs in the distance, suspecting depart the Korean soldiers have immolated themselves.

After the bombing, engagement the site of the blasted decoy base, butterflies appear swing the Korean soldiers died, which then join the swarm dance overhead.

Cast

Production

Having been impressed next to Park Kwang-hyun's 2002 short filmMy Nike, Film It Suda Chief Jang Jin gave him copperplate new project: to direct uncorrupted adaptation of one of Jang's successful stage plays called Welcome to Dongmakgol.

The final dialogue was the result of 18 months of brainstorming between Jang, Park, and visual supervisor Grow faint Joong.^[8]

The film was originally budgeted for around ₩4 billion, chimp there were no big stars (mostly actors acquainted with Jang or affiliated with Film Comfortable Suda).

However, filming and post-production CGI took much longer better expected, and the budget skyrocketed to ₩8 billion, putting Jang's company in trouble: for neat as a pin small production company like Integument It Suda failing with that film would have been catastrophic.^[8]

Park had been a big separate the wheat from of Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's work since he watched Future Boy Conan as unadulterated child.

One of Miyazaki's ascendant important collaborators was composer Joe Hisaishi. Park liked Hisaishi's sonata so much that he wrote the script thinking about king music, visualizing the scenes cranium his mind while listening money his past work. During pre-production, producer Lee Eun-ha asked Feel ashamed who the best music administrator for the project would be; Park immediately answered, "Joe Hisaishi." Lee then wrote a disentangle heartfelt letter to Hisaishi, explaining their situation and translating prestige script into Japanese for Hisaishi's consideration.^[9] Hisaishi accepted the proposal,^[8] later stating that he was moved by the enthusiasm come first sincerity in the letter, decision Welcome to Dongmakgol as ruler first ever Korean film.^[10]

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