On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
	Theatrical poster
Hangul	생활의 발견
Hanja	生活의 發見
Revised Romanization	Saenghwalui balgyeon
McCune–Reischauer	Saenghwal ŭi palgyŏn
Directed by	Hong Sang-soo
Written by	Hong Sang-soo
Starring	Kim Sang-kyung ; Chu Sang-mi ; Ye Ji-won
Release date	March 22, 2002;
Running time	115 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	$883,312

Last updated April 07, 2024

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, also referred to simply as Turning Gate, is the fourth film by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo.^{[ citation needed ]}

Plot

In the dreary and rigid city of Seoul, Gyung-soo is an actor who's fairly well known on stage. He has trusted a director he knows well and acted in his movie, but it flops. He insists on receiving his actor's fee, but all he gets is a mere grand's worth. He also misses out on his chance to act in director's next movie. The future looks cloudy for him.

Gyung-soo goes down to Chuncheon to meet an old friend who's a writer, Seong-wu. They go out to the town and Gyung-soo's friend introduces him to a pretty dancer named Myung-sook. After having a drink with Gyung-soo and his friend, she suddenly hits on Gyung-soo and on the spur of the moment they hit it off and go to a motel. But Gyung-soo doesn't know that Seong-wu has long had feelings for Myung-soo, even though he has never revealed his true feelings for her. Gyung-soo's relationship with his friend turns sour as Myung-sook becomes obsessively infatuated with Gyung-soo.

Gyung-soo tries to put his bad memories of Chuncheon behind him and gets on a train headed for Gyeongju. Sitting next to him on the train is a woman named Sun-young who entices him after recognizing his face. After she gets off the train, he chases after Sun-young and stops her, but she gives him mixed signals. Gyung-soo follows Sun-young to her house and on the next day he works up enough courage to knock on her door. This time Gyung-soo falls in love.

Reception

Turning Gate has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[2]

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References

↑ "Box office by Country: Find a Life Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04
↑ Turning Gate , retrieved 2017-11-18

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[1] "Box office by Country: Find a Life Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04

[2] Turning Gate , retrieved 2017-11-18

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v t e Films directed by Hong Sang-soo
1990s	The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996) The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
2000s	Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000) On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002) Woman Is the Future of Man (2004) Tale of Cinema (2005) Woman on the Beach (2006) Night and Day (2008) Like You Know It All (2009)
2010s	Hahaha (2010) Oki's Movie (2010) The Day He Arrives (2011) In Another Country (2012) Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013) Our Sunhi (2013) Hill of Freedom (2014) Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) Yourself and Yours (2016) On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) Claire's Camera (2017) The Day After (2017) Grass (2018) Hotel by the River (2018)
2020s	The Woman Who Ran (2020) Introduction (2021) In Front of Your Face (2021) The Novelist's Film (2022) Walk Up (2022) In Water (2023) In Our Day (2023) A Traveler's Needs (2024)