Park Jung-bum

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Park Jung-bum

Born February 24, 1976 · Seul, Corea del Sud (age 50)

Park Jung-bum (박정범) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and actor.

Known For

PoetryPoetry · 2010
Poetry
7.62010
MovieDrama
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
The Policeman's LineageThe Policeman's Lineage · 2022
The Policeman's Lineage
6.62022
MovieCrime
A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the rules shouldn't stop an investigation. As the officer investigates further, his own attitudes begin to mirror the team leader's.
The Asian AngelThe Asian Angel · 2021
The Asian Angel
6.82021
MovieDrama
Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their families somehow end up in a truck heading off into the Korean countryside.
The Journals of MusanThe Journals of Musan · 2011
The Journals of Musan
6.72011
MovieDrama
North Korean defector Seung-chul is a refugee living on the harsh edges of Seoul. Bewildered by exploitative employers and cynical urbanites, he’s no good for business. A powerful realism underscores this prize-winning feature debut about the struggle to survive in a strange new world.
All the Things We Never SaidAll the Things We Never Said · 2020
All the Things We Never Said
5.42020
MovieDramaRomance
Atsuhisa lives with wife Natsumi and daughter Suzu. He and friend Takeda study languages to become businessmen. When Natsumi reveals an affair and wants divorce, their lives change.
Father never criesFather never cries · 2023
Father never cries
2023
MovieDrama
63-year-old Jong-chil has been re-employed as a senior water purifier engineer after retiring from public service, and is working as a trainee. While under pressure for sales profits, his co-worker Hyun-suk informs Jong-chil of his business secret-selling a new water purifier under the pretext of repair to a customer, and making a profit by selling the customer’s used water purifier. But Jong-chil doesn't want to do the job.
If You Were Me 6If You Were Me 6 · 2013
If You Were Me 6
5.52013
MovieDrama
In this omnibus film series produced by the National Human Rights Commission, Park Jungbum explores relating to the handicapped, Lee Sangcheol and Shin Aga turn their camera on the elderly and Min Youngkeun looks at conscientious objection to military service. In Dear Duhan, Duhan suffers from brain lesions. His friend has always felt bad for Duhan but nonetheless steals an iPad from him one day. Director Park explores the conflict and friendship between a so-called normal and a handicapped person. In Bong-gu on Delivery Shin and Lee tell the tale of an old man who helps a child find his way home, only to be accused of kidnapping. And Min talks about a Jehovah’s Witness who has just been drafted and must say goodbye to his mother in Ice River, a melodrama about a man who chooses to go to prison for his conscientious and religious objections to bearing arms. Having divorced her husband in order not to send her son to prison, his mother cannot accept her son’s choice.
MatryoshkaMatryoshka · 2015
Matryoshka
2015
MovieDrama
Dae-il is a student majoring in film, and about to filming his graduate film. His professor, however, does not like his screenplay. And his producer Young-jin picks on that, saying the film is unrealistic and exaggerated. The main actress So-eun also keeps arguing that she cannot feel empathy with her character. Does he can complete this film?

Filmography

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If You Were Me 6If You Were Me 6 · 2013
If You Were Me 6
5.52013
MovieDrama
In this omnibus film series produced by the National Human Rights Commission, Park Jungbum explores relating to the handicapped, Lee Sangcheol and Shin Aga turn their camera on the elderly and Min Youngkeun looks at conscientious objection to military service. In Dear Duhan, Duhan suffers from brain lesions. His friend has always felt bad for Duhan but nonetheless steals an iPad from him one day. Director Park explores the conflict and friendship between a so-called normal and a handicapped person. In Bong-gu on Delivery Shin and Lee tell the tale of an old man who helps a child find his way home, only to be accused of kidnapping. And Min talks about a Jehovah’s Witness who has just been drafted and must say goodbye to his mother in Ice River, a melodrama about a man who chooses to go to prison for his conscientious and religious objections to bearing arms. Having divorced her husband in order not to send her son to prison, his mother cannot accept her son’s choice.

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