Chunhyang (film)

Chunhyang
Directed byIm Kwon-taek
Written byKim Myung-gon
Produced byLee Tae-won
StarringLee Hyo-jeong
Cho Seung-woo
CinematographyJung Il-sung
Edited byPark Soon-deok
Music byKim Jung-gil
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • January 29, 2000 (2000-01-29)
Running time
133 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$2.5 million
Box officeUS$798,977 (USA)[1]

Chunhyang (Korean: 춘향뎐; RR: Chunhyangjeon) is a 2000 South Korean period romantic drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek, with a screenplay by Kang Hye-yeon and Kim Myung-gon. Distributed by CJ Entertainment, the film was released on January 29, 2000 in South Korea. Lee Hyo-jeong plays Chunhyang and Cho Seung-woo plays Mongryong.

It is a film adaptation of the pansori Chunhyangga, one of the most notable works in the pansori tradition. To date, there have been more than sixteen works based on this narrative, including three North Korean films. Im Kwon-taek's Chunhyang presents a new interpretation of this oral tradition with a focus towards a more global audience.[2] It is the first Chunhyang adaptation that uses lyrics of pansori as a major part of the screenplay. The film uses the framing device of a present-day pansori narrator who, accompanied by a drummer, sings the story of Chunhyang in front of a responsive audience. The film flashes back and forth between the singer's presentation and scenes of Mongryong.

It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[3] The film is the first Korean film which was presented at the 2000 Telluride Film Festival.[4] At the 2000 Asia Pacific Film Festival, it won a Special Jury Award.[5] It also won an award for Best Narrative at the Hawaii International Film Festival in 2000.[6]

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  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Chunhyang". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
  4. ^ "Chunhyang (2000)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
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  6. ^ "Hawaii International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.