Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim (2002)

Director:

Sun-Woo Jang

Writers:

Jin-mi In (writer)
Sun-Woo Jang (writer)

Release Date:

26 July 2002 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

To Chinese restaurant delivery boy 'Ju', the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room...

Plot Keywords:

Virtual Reality | Comic | Teen | Computer | Cult Favorite

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Eun-kyeong Lim	...	Little Match Girl
Hyun-sung Kim	...	Ju
Jin-pyo Kim	...	Lee
Sing Jin	...	Lala
Gye-nam Myeong
Doo-hong Jung	...	Oberan
Kang Ta	...	Special Guest Star
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cheong-a Lee
Han-garl Lee	...	Orunpal
Jae-kyeong Seo

Also Known As:

Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (International: English title)

Runtime:

Sweden:123 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | Germany:18 | Italy:T | Singapore:NC-16

Company:

Kihwik Cine

Trivia:

One of the songs played in the movie is called "Dreams Come True", by Korean trio S.E.S. The music was originally from a song by Finnish duo Nylon Beat, titled "Rakastuin Mä Luuseriin", but SMTown (S.E.S record company) took it (most likely without crediting Nylon Beat) and made "Dreams Come True" back in 1998. "Dreams Come True" is pretty much a modern classic in Korea.

Movie Connections:

References "Herushingu" (2001)

Dazzling Post-Modernist Existential Reflection

The Ressurection of the Little Match Girl is a hong-kong frenzy-paced post-modernist reflection on the human condition as a computer game in which the goal (if you decide that there is one) is to figure out which goal to pursue, through structural and explicit references builds on such films as Brazil, Matrix, Existenz & Tron. The film has humor, and gleefully manages to be cynical and sentimental, a labyrinth of stylizations and a crystal pure polyhedron of an internal structure all at the same time.

This is the best film I have seen so far this year, and might well be the best for the whole year as well.