The Day He Arrives (2011)

A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.

Director:

Sang-soo Hong

Writer:

Sang-soo Hong

Stars:

Joon-Sang Yoo, Sang-Jung Kim, Seon-mi Song

3 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Joon-Sang Yoo	...	Sungjoon
Sang-Jung Kim	...	Youngho (as Sang Jung Kim)
Seon-mi Song	...	Boram
Bo-kyeong Kim	...	Kyungjin / Yejeon
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jae-hong Ahn	...	(as Jaehong Ahn)
Yoo-ram Bae	...	Student 2 (as Yuram Bae)
Hyeon-jin Baek	...	Composer
Jong-hak Baek	...	Director
Kim Eui-sung
Hyun-Jung Go	...	Movie fan
Jeehyung Jung
Joobong Kee
Hyunjin Koo
Jonghak Paik
Sumin Park

Storyline

A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.

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Plot Keywords:

piano playing | piano | kiss | male female relationship | movie director | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

The opening credits are in color.

User Reviews

Fascinating film about how we write our lives...

This is me second Hong Sungsoo film. The first, Alone on the Beach At Night, was very good with an excellent performance by Kim Min-hee..

This is in similar territory. In real life Sungsoo had an affair with Min-hee, which became a tabloid scandal. He has apparently made several films set in and around the film world dealing with fictional variations of their story.

In The Day He Arrives, a former director returns to Soule to see an old friend and encounters a combination of former acquaintances, and new people, some of whom know him by reputation.

In very subtle ways events replay with variations. People seem unaware of previous conversations, encounters are slightly too dramatic and revealing, women react - more or less like they might be in a movie.

The movie never directly says that it's about constructing stories but there are hints. We see him writing, we hear him doing voice over that seems no more aware of other events than characters are. The overall sense is of the director character reworking his entangled life and trying to put it into a story.

Just as the real director. Hong Songsoo is doing in film after film. Highly recommend this moving, intelligent film

Details

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

8 September 2011 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

The Day He Arrives

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$3,311, 22 April 2012

Gross USA:

$13,746

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$322,348

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jeonwonsa Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

79 min

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1