Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, (also known as Painted Fire, Strokes of Fire or Drunk on Women and Poetry), is a 2002

2002 in film

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 South Korea

South Korea

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n drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek

Im Kwon-taek

Im Kwon-taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry.- Early life...

 about Jang Seung-up (Oh-won), a nineteenth-century Korean painter

Painting

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 who changed the direction of Korean art.

Synopsis

It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.

These events are set against the struggle for reform within Korea, caught between China and Japan (annexed by Japan in 1910, outside the film's time-frame).

Cast

• Choi Min-sik
  Choi Min-sik
  Choi Min-sik is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his critically acclaimed roles in Oldboy and I Saw the Devil.-Movie career:...
  
  : Jang Seung-up
• Ahn Sung-ki
  Ahn Sung-ki
  Ahn Sung-ki is known to the public as the "National Best Actor of Korea".-Biography:A Roman Catholic, he was born in Daegu and grew up as a child actor - graduating Kyundong junior high school, from which Cho Yong-pil also graduated - appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The...
  
  : Kim Byung-Moon
• Yu Ho-jeong: Mae-hyang
• Kim Yeo-jin
  Kim Yeo-jin
  - Political Activities :She had been active as a spokesperson of Park Won-soon during the October 2011 South Korean By-election.- Filmography :* Can You Hear My Heart * Yi San * Dae Jang Geum * A Good Lawyer's Wife...
  
  : Jin-jong
• Son Ye-jin
  Son Ye-jin
  Son Ye-jin is a South Korean actress.-Career:Son Ye-jin has taken on a variety of roles in her career to date, propelling her to fame both in Korea and in other Asian countries...
  
  : So-woon

Awards

• Best Film; Blue Dragon Film Awards
  Blue Dragon Film Awards
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• Best Director
  Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....
  
  ; 2002 Cannes Film Festival
  2002 Cannes Film Festival
  The 2002 Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski.-Jury:* David Lynch * Sharon Stone* Michelle Yeoh...
  
  

Nominations

• Golden Frog; Jung Il-sung
• Golden Palm; Im Kwon-taek
• César Best Foreign Film
  César Award for Best Foreign Film
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   (Meilleur film étranger)

External links

• Review at koreanfilm.org