Anarchist from Colony
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Park Yeol ( Hangeul : 박열 , Hanja : 朴 烈 ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language |
Korean Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lee Jun-ik |
| script | Hwang Seong-gu |
| production | Kim Sung-cheol |
| music | Bang Jun-seok |
| camera | Park Sung-joo |
| occupation | |
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Anarchist from Colony is a biography film about the anarchist Park Yeol. Directed by Lee Jun-ik . The film opened in South Korean cinemas on June 28, 2017 .
action
The action begins in the Japanese capital Tokyo in 1923 . As Koreans , Park Yeol is only treated as a second class citizen by many Japanese . He recognizes a lot of injustice in the population and considers the monarchy and the idolatry of the Tennō as wrong. He leads an anarchist group with socialist features, the members of which are mainly Koreans, but also Japanese. One day the Japanese Kaneko Fumiko reads a poem that impresses her very much. When she hears it is from Park Yeol, she takes a great interest in him. They fall in love and live together, but do not get married. Both translate socialist and anarchist works and plan to write their own work. Park's anarchist group also meets regularly. They are planning a bomb attack on Prince Hirohito and want to smuggle a bomb from Shanghai to Tokyo.
The Great Kanto Earthquake occurs on September 1st . The population is insecure and the government fears that this situation and uprisings will be exploited. Minister Mizuno Rentarō claims Koreans are poisoning the wells, but does not name his sources. Under this pretext, he has Koreans captured. Some Japanese also hunt down Koreans and massacre them. In total, around 6,000 Koreans lose their lives. Park Yeol and his group had already been arrested by the police in advance. Park already suspected that this would happen.
With the arrests made without any evidence, Mizuno is under pressure. He needs a Korean with whom he can prove that his act was justified. This is where he comes across Park Yeol and his group. After torturing two Japanese members of the group, the police learned that they were planning a bomb attack. Park initially denies this, but Fumiko confirms the statement. Finally, Park exploits the situation for his own purposes and conveys his dislike for the Japanese monarchy to his counterparts. They planned an attack against the prince. He also says that no one else in the group knew about the plan and they will be released from custody. Park Yeol and Fumiko have already come to terms with their fate, the sentencing to death, and want to make the case as big as possible. He uses the court hearings to draw attention to the massacre after the earthquake.
As expected, both are initially sentenced to death. However, the government fears the signal that Park as a martyr would send. So the Tennō issued a mitigation of the sentence, a life imprisonment. In addition, Fumiko and park are separated from each other. Only one Korean newspaper reports the truth, while the Japanese newspapers censor, gloss over and write false reports. Fumiko wrote down her life story in her captivity. She dies in unexplained circumstances. Park remains in custody until the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
reception
In South Korea, the film had over 2.3 million moviegoers. Shim Sun-ah from Yonhap describes the film as a "dramatized but very realistic and precise [...] adaptation". However, there is only a weak character development, so that there is no emotional connection to the characters. Very different from Lee's previous hit film Dongju: The Portrait of A Poet . The film is very fact-based, but unlike other successful films in recent years that are set in colonial times , such as Assassination (2015) and The Age of Shadows (2016), it does not offer any spectacular action sequences or stunning image settings, and “just feels like that like healthy but tasteless food ”.
Awards
Daejong Film Award 2017
- Award for Best Director for Lee Jun-ik
- Award in the Best Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
- Award in the Best Production Design category for Lee Jae-seong
- Award in the category of best costume design for Shim Hyun-sup
Buil Film Awards 2017
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
- Award in the Best Screenplay category for Hwang Seong-gu
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2017
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
- Award in the Best Screenplay category for Hwang Seong-gu
- 10 best films of the year
The Seoul Awards 2017
- Award in the Best Film category
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
Busan Film Critics Awards 2017
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
Blue Dragon Awards 2018
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
KOFRA Film Awards 2018
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
Baeksang Arts Awards 2018
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
Chunsa Film Art Awards 2018
- Award in the Best New Actress category for Choi Hee-seo
See also
Web links
- Anarchist Colony from the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anarchist from Colony in the Korean Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anarchist from the Colony (2017). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Shim Sun-ah: (Movie Review) 'Anarchist from Colony': Distinct but bland. In: Yonhap . June 18, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Jin Min-ji: Stars shine at Daejong awards: A successful year for film industry celebrated at the annual ceremony. In: Korea JoongAng Daily . October 27, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ^ Winners Of The 54th Daejong Film Awards. In: Soompi . October 25, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Pierce Conran: A TAXI DRIVER Tops Buil Film Awards. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. October 17, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Pierce Conran: THE FORTRESS Dominates 37th Korean Film Critics Association Awards. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. October 30, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Kim Su-jeong: '서울 어워즈' 송강호 · 나문희 · 지성 · 박보영 주연상… · '박열' · '비숲' 대상 (종합). In: Naver . TV Report, October 27, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 (Korean).
- ↑ '1987' chosen by film reporters as the best film of 2017. In: Yonhap . January 30, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ 제 54 회 백상 예술 대상, TV · 영화 각 부문 별 수상 후보자 공개. In: JTBC. April 6, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018 (Korean).
- ↑ (23rd 춘사 영화제 종합) '남한산성' 최우수 감독상 수상… 최희 서 11 관왕 달성. In: Naver. Herald Pop, May 18, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 (Korean).