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Music director
  
Jang Young-gyu

Country
  
South Korea

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Short, Fantasy

Duration
  

Language
  
Korean

Night Fishing (film) movie poster

Director
  
Park Chan-wook Park Chan-kyong

Release date
  
January 27, 2011 (2011-01-27)

Writer
  
Chan-kyong Park, Chan-wook Park

Initial release
  
January 27, 2011 (South Korea)

Directors
  
Park Chan-wook, Park Chan-kyong

Screenplay
  
Park Chan-wook, Park Chan-kyong

Cast
  
Lee Jung-hyun
(Woman),
Kwang-rok Oh
(Man),
Yong-nyeo Lee
(Mother of Kee-seok),
Kim Hwan-hee

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Night Fishing (Original Korean title: 파란만장; Paranmanjang, lit. "Ups and Downs." or "A Checkered Past") is a 2011 South Korean fantasy-horror short film directed, produced, written by PARKing CHANce (brand name of the brothers, Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong). The lead role is played by K-pop star, Lee Jung-hyun.

Contents

It was shot entirely on the Apple iPhone 4, and was financially supported by KT (South Korea's exclusive distributor of the iPhone at the time), which supplied the duo with 150 million Korean Won (US$133,447). It was screened to over 100 reporters on January 11, 2011, and opened for public release on January 27.

The film won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.

Trailer for park chan wooks iphone 4 short film night fishing


Plot

A man casually sets up for a fishing trip at the water's edge. Evening comes and a tug on his line presents him with the body of a woman. While he tries to disentangle himself from the fishing lines, she comes alive. The scene changes and the woman is now a shaman priestess in a funeral ritual for a man who drowned in a river. He speaks through her to his relatives, asking for forgiveness.

Cast

  • Lee Jung-hyun as a female shaman
  • Oh Kwang-rok as Oh Kee-seok, a fisherman
  • Lee Yong-nyeo as mother of Kee-seok

    • Production

    The film was captured entirely using iPhone 4, with the additional extra lenses and otherwise regular filmmaking equipment.

    References

    Night Fishing (film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Night Fishing (film) IMDb Night Fishing (film) themoviedb.org