Yeon Sang-ho

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Yeon Sang-ho (2016)
Yeon Sang-ho (2016)

Korean spelling
Hangeul 연상호
Hanja 延 尚 昊
Revised
Romanization 		Yeon Sang-ho
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yon Sangho

Yeon Sang-ho (* 1978 in Seoul ) is a South Korean film director . He wrote and directed the animated films The King of Pigs (2011), The Fake (2013) and Seoul Station (2016) and directed the real-life film Train to Busan , which with over 11.6 million viewers was the most successful film of 2016 in South Korea was.

Life

Yeon Sang-ho graduated from Sangmyung University with a degree in "Western Painting". In 1997 he made his first animated short film. In 2004, Yeon founded the film production studio Dadashow. His animated short films have been invited to numerous film festivals. In 2010, Yeon shot the animated opening trailer for the Busan International Film Festival .

Yeon's first animated film in Game movie length was The King of Pigs in 2011, about a man who kills his wife after his business went bankrupt. A central topic in the further course of the film is school bullying . Yeon was inspired by Satoshi Kon and Minoru Furuya . He also took up events in his own life. The film received critical acclaim for portraying the bullying, violence, and poverty, and the characters' behavior. It is the first Korean animated film to be invited to the Cannes International Film Festival .

His next film was the 30-minute The Window , based on his experiences during military service . In 2013 he returned with the animated feature film The Fake , in which the leader of a cult leads an entire village behind the Lucht and robs them of their money. Yeon said he wrote the script for the film in 2009 in an attempt to express dissatisfaction with the South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and President Lee Myung-bak's Four Great Rivers project.

In 2016 he was promoted to the ranks of South Korea directing stars. First he released the animated film Seoul Station at the Edinburgh International Film Festival with speaking roles by Shim Eun-kyung and Ryu Seung-ryong . Shortly afterwards, his first real film celebrated its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival . With Train to Busan he created a zombie film and successor to Seoul Station , which was popular both nationally and internationally. Yeon Sang-ho also released the animated short film The Way Home ( 집 으로 Jibeuro ), which takes place after the events of Train to Busan .

In 2018 he released another real-life film, Telekinesis , using the leading characters from Seoul Station . Here, too, Ryu Seung-ryong and Shim Eun-kyung play father and daughter. However, the film is not about zombies. It's a social drama in which a father suddenly gains superpowers and can thereby help his daughter and improve his relationship with her. Jeong Yu-mi , who played a leading role in Train to Busan, can be seen in the role of the antagonist . In August 2019 Yeon started together with the manhwa draftsman Choi Gyu-seok with the publication of webtoons Hellbound ( 지옥 Jiok 'hell') on Naver webtoon, whom he described as Netflix will adapt series.

In 2020 he wrote the series The Cursed for the television channel tvN , which is to have a second season and a film. In addition, Yeon released the Train-to-Busan successor Peninsula that year, which takes place four years after the events of the predecessor. The film became the first blockbuster of the corona crisis .

Filmography

Awards

2011

2014

  • Wildflower Film Award: Best Director for The Fake

2016

  • Buil Film Award: Yu Hyun-mok Film Arts Award for Train to Busan
  • Korea Film Actor's Association: Top Star Awards: Best Young Director for Train to Busan

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ STATISTICS> Box Office> Yearly. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved January 7, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ 지옥. In: Naver Webtoon. Retrieved August 8, 2020 (Korean).
  3. ↑ Netflix Confirms Casting of Yoo Ah-in and Park Jeong-min for Korean Original Series Hellbound. In: Netflix. July 28, 2020, accessed on August 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Steven Schwankert: Busan International Film Festival Wraps with New Currents, Flash Forward Awards. In: The Hollywood Reporter . October 14, 2011, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Patrick Frater: 'Jiseul' Pluck's First Wildflower Korea Award. In: Variety . April 1, 2014, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  6. ^ Actors Gong Hyo-jin, Cho Jung-seok, Cho Jin-woong win top star award. In: Yonhap . December 29, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yeon is the family name here, Sang-ho is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Yeon, Sang-ho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 연상호 (Hangeul); 延 尚 昊 (Hanja); Yŏn Sangho (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul