Fathers on Screen—Korean Movie Night New York

Co-presented by Korean Cultural Service NY and Asia Society

Korean Movie Night New York series:

Fathers on Screen (Feb. 9 – Mar. 31, 2015)

The popular, ongoing Korean Movie Night New York kicks off 2015 with the series “Fathers on Screen,” which explores different types of Korean father figures, both positive and negative, as they have been shaped by the cultural and socio-economic conditions in contemporary Korea: a hard-working, devoted family man in ODE TO MY FATHER, an authoritarian and cold-blooded murderer in HWAYI, a vengeful vigilante in BROKEN and a heroic ex-firefighter forced to commit non-heroic acts in GUARDIAN.

U.S. premiere
HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY
화이: 괴물을 삼킨 아이 Hwa-i : Goe-mu-rerul-sam-kin-a-I
Directed by JANG Joon-hwan
Starring: YEO Jin-gu, KIM Yun-seok
2013. South Korea. 125 min. DCP. In Korean with English subtitles.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 6:30 pm

Ten years after his feature debut with the fantasy thriller SAVE THE GREEN PLANET!, director JANG Joon-hwan has returned with an offbeat crime drama — HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY. A gang of cold-blooded murderous criminals, led by YUN Seok-tae (KIM Yun-seok), has raised a boy Hwa-yi (YEO Jin-gu) they had kidnapped as their own, teaching him all of their know-how and treating him as their communal son. Only when the teenager learns about his past on his first mission does he turn against them and their kind, with increasingly violent, nihilistic, and extremely bloody results.

Mostly known for his disaster film HAEUNDAE, the blockbuster filmmaker JK YOUN brings us this new epic melodrama, ODE TO MY FATHER. Selected for the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama, the film guides viewers through South Korea’s modern history by following Duk-soo (HWANG Jung-min)’s struggles to support his family, as he endures hardships during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and in German coal mines. This universal tale of loyalty and love is a tribute to the generation of Korean fathers who have sacrificed everything for the sake of their families, and have in the process set the stage for Korea’s rise as one of the world’s leading economic and cultural powers.

Korean Movie Night New York is an ongoing, twice-a-month film program that introduces the full spectrum of contemporary and classic Korean cinema to New York audiences, from popular blockbusters, independent films and documentaries to animation and family movies. Click here to learn more: http://asiasociety.org/new-york/fathers-screen-korean-movie-night-new-york

Screenings at:

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
New York, NY 10021

Free admission. First-come, first-served.











When: Tue., Feb. 24, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave.
212-288-6400
Price: Free
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Co-presented by Korean Cultural Service NY and Asia Society

Korean Movie Night New York series:

Fathers on Screen (Feb. 9 – Mar. 31, 2015)

The popular, ongoing Korean Movie Night New York kicks off 2015 with the series “Fathers on Screen,” which explores different types of Korean father figures, both positive and negative, as they have been shaped by the cultural and socio-economic conditions in contemporary Korea: a hard-working, devoted family man in ODE TO MY FATHER, an authoritarian and cold-blooded murderer in HWAYI, a vengeful vigilante in BROKEN and a heroic ex-firefighter forced to commit non-heroic acts in GUARDIAN.

U.S. premiere
HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY
화이: 괴물을 삼킨 아이 Hwa-i : Goe-mu-rerul-sam-kin-a-I
Directed by JANG Joon-hwan
Starring: YEO Jin-gu, KIM Yun-seok
2013. South Korea. 125 min. DCP. In Korean with English subtitles.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 6:30 pm

Ten years after his feature debut with the fantasy thriller SAVE THE GREEN PLANET!, director JANG Joon-hwan has returned with an offbeat crime drama — HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY. A gang of cold-blooded murderous criminals, led by YUN Seok-tae (KIM Yun-seok), has raised a boy Hwa-yi (YEO Jin-gu) they had kidnapped as their own, teaching him all of their know-how and treating him as their communal son. Only when the teenager learns about his past on his first mission does he turn against them and their kind, with increasingly violent, nihilistic, and extremely bloody results.

Mostly known for his disaster film HAEUNDAE, the blockbuster filmmaker JK YOUN brings us this new epic melodrama, ODE TO MY FATHER. Selected for the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama, the film guides viewers through South Korea’s modern history by following Duk-soo (HWANG Jung-min)’s struggles to support his family, as he endures hardships during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and in German coal mines. This universal tale of loyalty and love is a tribute to the generation of Korean fathers who have sacrificed everything for the sake of their families, and have in the process set the stage for Korea’s rise as one of the world’s leading economic and cultural powers.

Korean Movie Night New York is an ongoing, twice-a-month film program that introduces the full spectrum of contemporary and classic Korean cinema to New York audiences, from popular blockbusters, independent films and documentaries to animation and family movies. Click here to learn more: http://asiasociety.org/new-york/fathers-screen-korean-movie-night-new-york

Screenings at:

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
New York, NY 10021

Free admission. First-come, first-served.

Buy tickets/get more info now