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83% Rotten Tomatoes Hangul 취화선 Revised Romanization Chwihwaseon Produced by Lee Tae-won Initial release 10 May 2002 (South Korea) Box office 6.906 million USD | 7.3/10 IMDb 78% Metacritic Hanja 醉畫仙 McCune–Reischauer Ch'wihwasǒn Written by Kim Yong-ok Do-ol Director Im Kwon-taek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay Im Kwon-taek, Do-ol, Min Byung-sam Awards Cannes Best Director Award Cast Son Ye‑jin, Choi Min‑sik, Ahn Sung‑ki, Yoo Ho‑jeong, Kim Yeo‑jin Similar Chunhyang (2000 film), Seopyeonje, Oasis (2002 film) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, (also known as Painted Fire, Strokes of Fire or Drunk on Women and Poetry), is a 2002 South Korean drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek about Jang Seung-up (Oh-won), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art.
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It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.
These events are set against the struggle for reform within Korea, caught between China and Japan (annexed by Japan in 1910, outside the film's time-frame).
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