Sopyonje (1993)

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Sopyonje (1993)
XviD/AVI | 224kbps AC3 | 720 x 400 (16:9) | Korean | Subs: English / Japanese / Korean | 1hr 55min | 1.46 GB
Genre: Drama
Directed by Im Kwon Taek This heart-rending and accessible melodrama concerns the relationship between two children and their adoptive 'father'/master, a travelling - necessarily poor - Pansori musician. The Pansori, a traditional music of aching love laments or upbeat festive songs, performed to the accompaniment of a lone drum, gives the movie its elegiac tone. Flashing back to the early '50s, it follows the three on their journeys through the loving photographed by Korean landscapes, in all seasons, as they fight for a living, while their music is literally drowned out by the emerging fashion for Western sounds. It's a film of looks, rhythms, intimations and feelings, expressed in pure cinematic terms, and it's almost impossible not to be moved by it. The Sopyonje is a song described as sorrowful and tender - there are few films more tender, if not more sorrowful than this. Unmissable.


Director Im Kwon Taek is regarded by many as the father of modern Korean Cinema and certainly the first Korean director to receive global critical acclaim. With around a hundred films to his credit, in a career spanning four decades, Im has crafted some of Korea's most revered and successful films.


Sopyonje, originally released in 1993, became one of the most successful Korean films of the decade. Using the traditional Korean music of pansori, Sopyonje is a rich examination of the country's modernization due to Western influence in the 1950s.


A lone pansori singer, Dong Ho, roams the countryside of Southwest Korea, searching for the young orphan girl he grew up with. They were raised together by an elderly Pansori master, but Dong Ho ran away to explore Seoul when he was still a youngster.


The girl however, has since lost her sight, and apparently still wanders the land singing Pansori. Im's film is poetic in tone, beautiful to look at and the Pansori soundtrack is a delight. Not only is Sopyonje one of Im's finest films, but is also a genuine classic of Korean Cinema.


This extremely melodramatic story was perhaps the most popular locally made film ever to be shown in South Korea. It concerns the career of a Pansori storyteller, and how he managed to pass on his vanishing lineage to an adopted daughter.


Pansori is a semi-improvised storytelling form resembling "the talking blues" of America, in that it is sung, chanted, and spoken at various times, with an accompaniment drummed out by the singer/storyteller or (more usually) his partner. These very lengthy (often over six hours) recitations are highlighted with danced storytelling gestures.


Further, in this story, it seems to be a mark of the profession that apprentices must be blinded upon attaining adulthood. In this film, Yu-Bong (Kim Myung-Kon) is traveling, as is his custom, from one town to the next and he meets a homeless girl and boy (Oh Jung-Hae and Kim Kyu-Chul) along the way. He adopts them, and attempts to initiate them into the rudiments of his artform.


The boy finds it entirely too demanding, and is no doubt none too pleased about the obligatory blinding in his future and runs away. The girl, however, remains with the older man to become a master of the art herself. The story is narrated by the boy. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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