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Trailer for Upcoming Korean Movie “Birthday” by Lee Jong-eon

The 2014 sinking of the MV Sewol ferry is arguably the most tragic event in recent South Korean history, which resulted in 304 deaths, most of which were high school students. Director uses the tragedy as the backdrop to tell the story of a family coping with the loss of the elder son in his debut film ““.

Synopsis

Jung-Il and Soon-Nam are a married couple. Their elder son died tragically. Jung-Il feels guilt that he was not there with his family when his son died. Soon-Nam misses her son dearly and supports her family by working at grocery store. The film explores the family dynamic as they cope with the grief and learn to embrace each other

Director Lee Jong-eon brings to the film his experience as an assistant director on Lee Chang-dong’s “Poetry” and a script supervisor on “Secret Sunshine”. The film brings back stars Sol Kyung-gu (“Memoir of a Murderer”, “Oasis”) and (“The Shameless”, “Secret Sunshine”) together 18 years after they worked on “I Wish I had a Wife”. It is scheduled to release in South Korea on April 3rd, 2019. Be sure to take some tissues with you.

About the author

Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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