Bleak Night (2011)

Name: Bleak Night
Genre: Drama
Released: 2011-03-03
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Lee Je-hoon, Seo Jun-young, Park Jeong-min, Cho Seong-ha, Lee Cho-hee

Bleak Night (2011), directed by Yoon Sung-hyun, starring Lee Je-hoon and Seo Jun-young.

03/03/2011 BR Drama 1h 57m

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A world of troubled youths.

Synopsis

The suicide of a former high-school bully puts the boy's father on a quest for answers.

변봉선Cinematography
Yoon Sung-hyunDirector, Editing, Writer
Jang Hyeon-suProducer
Park Min-junOriginal music

About the film

Bleak Night (Korean: 파수꾼; RR: Pasukkun; lit. 'The Lookout') is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age psychological drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-Hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards.

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Plot

Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jeong-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response.

Cast

Lee Je-hoon as Ki-tae

Seo Jun-young as Dong-yoon

Park Jeong-min as Baek Hee-joon ("Becky")

Jo Sung-ha as Ki-tae's father

Bae Jae-ki as Jae-ho

Lee Cho-hee as Se-jung, girlfriend of Dong-yoon

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References

External links

Bleak Night at IMDb

Bleak Night at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)

Bleak Night at HanCinema

Bleak Night at Rotten Tomatoes

Text from Bleak Night on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_Night

Trivia

It premiered on March 3, 2011, a Thursday.
It runs 1h57 — a typical feature length.
Its original title is "파수꾼".
This film's quiz has 10 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.