OLDMEN NEVER DIE Picks Up Yubari Prize

NEWS & REPORTS
News
Korean Film News

Korean Film News

NEWS & REPORTS

OLDMEN NEVER DIE Picks Up Yubari Prize

Mar 05, 2014

Writer by Pierce Conran
View7073

International Premiere for PiFan Awardee

The 24th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, which wound to a close on March 3rd in Hokkaido in Northern Japan, gave its top prize to Lisa TAKEBA’s The Pinkie. While most of the awards were taken by local films, the Korean feature Oldmen Never Die by indie filmmaker WHANG Cheol-mean squeezed in to pick up the Sky Perfect Movie Channel Award.

WHANG’s feature debuted at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival back in July, where it picked up the LG HiEntech Award for Best Korean Film. Oldmen Never Die had its international premiere as part of Yubari’s Off Theater Competition.

The film stars CHA Rae-hyoung as an opportunistic young man who goes to live with his ailing grandfather (LEE Bong-gyu) in the countryside in the hopes of currying his favor (and inheritance) before he shuffles off his mortal coil. Over time the old man’s condition only seems to improve. Frustrated, the young man briefly heads back to Seoul. He returns to the countryside and soon after a young woman he met during his trip comes to visit. He offered her money to help him get rid of his grandfather but soon his plan doesn’t go how he expected it to.

Director WHANG has steadily producer half a dozen features over the last decade. Oldmen Never Die was released domestically on August 8th last year.

Any copying, republication or redistribution of KOFIC's content is prohibited without prior consent of KOFIC.

Related People