| DIRECTOR: |
Park Chul-Soo |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Kim Sang-Soo |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Choi Jung-Woo |
| EDITION: |
Cho Ki-Hyoung |
| MUSIC: |
Byun Sung-Ryong |
| CAST: |
Choi Sung, Moon Jung-Sook,
Park Chul-Soo, Jung Ha-Hyun |
| PRODUCER: |
Kim Yongman |
| FESTIVALS: |
Berlim |
| PRODUCTION: |
Parl Chul-Soo Productions
627 Han-nam Dong - Young-Poong Bldg #503
Yong-San Ku ROK-Seoul 140-210
Tel: 00 82 2 794 8367
Fax: 00 82 2 795 2015 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Kim's International
350 Bleeker St. NY 10014
Tel: 00 1 212 255-2143
Fax: 00 1 212 675-9025 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Hak Saeng Boo Geun Shin Wei |
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Col., 116 min., 1997 |
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Born in 1948, in the province of Kyong-Buk, Park graduated from Sung Hyun-Gwan
University in 1972. He made his first feature film Night Rain in 1979, after
completing several productions for TV MBC in Korea where he worked from 1980 until 1986.
He started his own film company in 1994. 301-302 is his eleventh feature film.
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Director
Park Chul-Soo depicts a Korean funeral as a mode of celebrating life itself and
counterpositions traditional values to modern trends. With the death of an ancient member
of the Park family after a long and tranquil existence, his relatives, friends and
acquaintances organize a funeral in the traditional Korean manner. Many of them arrive
from distant places. Their children have left home a long while previously, and contact
with the father was sporadic. The daughter and her fiancé are resident in Pusan; the
oldest son lives with his wife and children in Seoul with purely western habits; the
second son is in Chicago. When they meet, it is evident that the family structure has
disintegrated. All of them, however, try to place differences and contradictions aside as
a last tribute to the father. It is thus that old Park's funeral, in spite of the
inevitable shock between tradition and modernity, brings about an uncommon celebration of
life.