Failan (2001)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Hae-sung Song

Guionista:

Jiro Asada (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 abril 2001 (South Korea)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Gangster | Sham Marriage | Funeral | Foreign Language Adaptation

Premios:

3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

For romantics everywhere

Reparto

Min-sik Choi	...	Kang-jae (as Min-shik Choi)
Cecilia Cheung	...	Failan
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Dae-Hoon Jeong
Hyeong-jin Kong	...	Kyung-Su
Byung-ho Son

Duración:

115 min

País:

South Korea

Idioma:

Coreano | Cantonés | Mandarin

Color:

Negro y Blanco (some sequences) | Color

Clasificación:

Australia:MA | France:-12 | South Korea:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Inchon, South Korea

Compañía:

Tube Pictures

Trivialidades:

When Failan is outside the video shop, a poster of the movie Siworae (2000) can be seen.

Conexiones de Película:

References Siworae (2000)

For romantics everywhere

This movie has a very strong story, somehow its both sentimental and not at the same time. Kang-jae is a lowlife gangster who to get some money marries a Chinese immigrant who he doesn't even care to look at. Failan pays for the arrangement in order to seek out her remaining relatives after her other passes away. Even though Kang-jae don't care for her at all, she is to him forever grateful for what he has done and keeps writing him letters like a loving wife.

This movie is very well done. By the end of it I shed a few tears and felt really moved by it. The devotion and hardship of Failan is very touching and the indifference of Kang-jae makes it all tragic. Tragic in a realistic way that is, not as in the TV drama variety. Also this is the movie which made me a fan of Choi Min-sik, not the little overrated 'Oldboy' in which he is cool, but too remote to make an impact. In here he is like Kitano Takeshi in his seedy gangster-don't-care fashion, but rawer and even cooler. Cynthia Chung ain't bad either, she makes a good character and is very pretty, but I couldn't stop wishing that she didn't do her nose like that. I don't get it, why surgically make a western nose when whats there from before is much more beautiful?? Asians (and others of course) everywhere, please stop the foolish surgery, people are beautiful as they are, not as they are created in a fashion image.