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경계인

By Seewoo KIM

NEW HOUSE CINEMA - as PROD

Biography - Completed 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Biography, Drama
- Countries
- KOREA (South), CHINA
- Languages
- KOREAN, CHINESE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Seewoo KIM
- Writer(s)
- Seewoo KIM
- Cast
- Heo SUNG-TAE, Man Seok OH, Jenny ZHANG
- Producer(s)
- Seewoo KIM (NINE TALES KOREA), Frank PARK (NINE TALES KOREA)
- Synopsis
- Jeong, Yul Sung is first introduced to western music through western missionaries during the period of Japanese rule in Korea. Soon after, he leaves his hometown Kwang Ju to Nanjing China with his older brother, an anti Japan Activist. There he graduates the Chosun Revolutionary Academy. He proactively engages in anti Japan movements, at the same time furthering his musical studies between Nanjing and Shanghai. An Italian professor recognizes Jeong’s genius in music and offers him a place in a university Italy but Jeong insists on returning to his homeland. In the end he is given an assignment in Chosun but after witnessing the first hand deaths of his fellowmen and his nephew, Jeong abandons his hopes to return.
  
  Back ground of the film from the point of view of
  Jeong, Yul Sung as a Japan antagonist.
  
  He joins the Communist head quarters in Yenan and participates actively in Anti Japanese Movement whilst composing his nationally acclaimed pieces such as Yenan Song and the Palou March. Independence of Chosun is declared while Jeong is pursuing a career as a professor in Noshin Music University. However, those who participated in the anti Japan movement as part of the Chinese communists are refused entry back into Chosun (by then, South Korea). The anti Japanese Chosun fellowmen who were part of the Chinese Palou Army are ordered to join the North Korean Army to assist in their national reconstruction. Jeong writes many musical pieces wduring his say in North Korea. However, when the domestic war reaks out between the North and the South, he returns to China.
  Kim, Young Man, a public servant in the City of Kwang Ju (Arts and Culture Department) stumbles upon information that the composer of official military songs in China as well as North Korea was not only a Korean but was a man of Kwang Ju origin. Feeling mortified at the fact that not only the Koreans but the people of his own hometown knew nothing about a man who is celebrated as a hero in China, he began to explore the life of Jeong. He soon learns despite the fact that his eldest brother has been awarded the national commendation as a rightful liberation activist, Jeong was still under a precarious situation for his role in the communist army.
  
  Characters from the point of view of Kim, Young Man
  
  Kim, Young Man becomes deeply moved by the musical genius and the anti Japanese activist, not only from his musical achievements in China but also his eventful life. He actively engages in leading academic conferences acknowledging Kwangju’s Anti Japanese Activists, and organising music festivals under the banner of Jeong Yul Sung.
  
  However, his efforts do not go unchallenged. The central government refuses to give consent to his activities in the view that Jeong was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and due to his musical involvement in North Korea. (**The first part of the film reflects how the historical figure, Jeong Yul Sung is interpreted in the present day.)