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Writers:
Kwon-taek Im (writer)
Yong-ok Kim (writer)
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Release Date:
10 May 2002 (South Korea) more
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The Life of Painter Jang Seung-up
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In a time of political and social unrest in 19th century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him. | add synopsis
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2 wins & 3 nominations more
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Visual poetry more (16 total)

Cast

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Min-sik Choi ... Jang Seung-up
Sung-kee Ahn ... Kim Byung-Moon
Ho-jeong Yu ... Mae-hyang
Yeo-jin Kim ... Jin-jong
Ye-jin Son ... So-woon
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Drunk on Women and Poetry (UK)
Owon Jang seung-eop Chihwaseon (South Korea) (recut version)
Painted Fire (USA)
Strokes of Fire (International: English title)
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120 min
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Chosen by "Telerama" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2002 (#10) more

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Visual poetry, 22 May 2005
Author: Atavisten from Tellus

A portrait on the very fine Korean painter Ohwon that shows him in struggle, but always redeemed by his reputation, with the leaders. He is bold and does not want anything to come between him and his vision and so he says nay to the king and aristocrats if they want him to copy his previous successes. Him being a moody drunkard doesn't help him much with personal matters either. But he gets along fine.

There some really strong poetry in these images, not only are the pictures very focused on the process of creating the paintings and the paintings themselves, we also see the nature and the beauty that inspires him, namely the Chinese and Korean masters, his teacher, the gisengs and their love and alcohol.

People around him don't get much focus, the movie is about him and his art, but what we see of them they are independently thinking not backdrops for Ohwon. Choi Min-shik is good in acting out the temperamental artist and the supporting actors are good also. Ahn Sung-ki fits his role perfectly.

The love scenes here were very, very hot and one image out in the reeds will stick to my irises for a while.

This is the kind of movie that should represent Korea abroad, not the likes of 'Taegukgi'. Korean culture is shown in a wide variety of facets here. I would like to see more of this kind of movie, first maybe one about haiku poet Matsumoto Basho?

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