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| ▲This photo, provided by Shin Production, shows movie "Winter Story." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
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| ▲This photo shows Kim Ji-sook at the press conference of the movie. (Yonhap) |
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| ▲This photo, provided by Shin Production, shows movie "Winter Story." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Yonhap) -- The late director Shin Sang-ok's posthumous work "Winter Story" will meet the audience for the first time in 18 years.
The movie calmly depicts the conflict and love between an elderly man (Shin Gu) whose mind started to go due to the shock of his wife's death and his daughter-in-law (Kim Ji-sook).
The daughter-in-law, who has never heard a warm word from her father-in-law is in charge of taking care of her father-in-law, who suddenly became a child.
Because he, who cannot even remember his children and grandchildren, only looks for daughter-in-law, she sleeps in the same room and takes care of him, and eventually quit work to nurse him.
Although she cries in tear and says "Why should I sacrifice myself when he is not even my father?" to her husband, she takes care of him more frugally than the old man's own child.
When the husband says "I wish I would rather die" to his father who makes a fuss at night, she feels hurt and say "How can you say that?" and when the old man's daughter is angry at the smell of his feces, she changes his diaper without a complaint.
Work depicting the joys and sorrows of dementia patients and guardians throws heavy question.
Actress Kim Ji-sook, at the press conference held at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Yongsan-gu, said, "I didn't know I would cry while watching the movie I filmed, but I cried."
She continued, "In this era, it seems difficult to find a work that shows family love," adding, "This is the last family movie of this generation, which shows family sacrificing for family through the medium of dementia."
"Winter Story" is also director Shin Sang-ok's 75th work.
When the deceased died without completing the editing after finishing filming in 2004, his son director Shin Jung-kyun and other movie men including director Cho Dong-kwan completed it after 18 years.
Director Shin Jung-kyun said, "I and Cho did the last trimming part because (father director Shin) did not finish after editing," and stressed, "From one to ten, director Shin's touch is there."
Director Shin Sang-ok established "Shin Film" in the late 1950s and was loved by the public with works like "Seongchunhyang" and "My Mother and Her Guest" in 1961.
After he and his wife, actress Choi Eun-hee, were abducted from Hong Kong in 1978, he also contributed to the development of the North Korean film industry by making films like "An Emissary of No Return" and "Salt."
He successfully left North Korea in 1986, and became the first South Korean to be a judge at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994.
The movie will be released on January 18.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)
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