Park Jin-pyo

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Park Jin-pyo
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Seoul, South Korea
Alma mater Chung-Ang University
Occupation(s) Film director,
screenwriter,
producer
Years active1991–present
Agent(s) Mega Monster
(since 2021) [1]
Korean name
Hangul
박진표
Revised Romanization Bak Jin-pyo
McCune–Reischauer Pak Jinp'yo

Park Jin-pyo (born 1966) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed Too Young to Die (2002), You Are My Sunshine (2005), Voice of a Murderer (2007), Closer to Heaven (2009), and Love Forecast (2015).

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Career

Park Jin-pyo was born in Seoul in 1966. Upon graduation from Chung-Ang University's Film Department, he began working in television in 1991 as a documentary producer and director, eventually making over 30 documentaries for SBS and ITV. [2]

In 2002, he made his narrative feature film debut with Too Young to Die, based on the real-life story of Park Chi-gyu and Lee Sun-ye, a man and woman who fell in love in their early seventies then rediscovered sex. [3] It became controversial for its sensitive yet honest depiction of sex between the elderly couple (who played themselves), and was initially banned from release by the Korea Media Rating Board. [4] [5] [6] Park said, "I wanted to break the preconception about the elderly. Even if the body ages, desire for sex and thirst for love do not fade away. I wanted to capture the "moment of love," and the audience accepted it as a cinematic expression of pure love. Some sees the (seven-minute sex) scene as a challenging of taboos, but I just wanted to deliver a love story." [7] Too Young to Die drew praise domestically and internationally, and was invited to various film festivals, including Critics' Week at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. [7]

Park was among six directors who participated in the 2003 human rights-themed omnibus If You Were Me . His short film Tongue Tied focuses on a young boy whose education-obsessed parents want him to undergo tongue surgery that will purportedly enhance his ability to speak English. [8]

His second feature You Are My Sunshine (2005) was a humanistic tearjerker about an innocent yet awkward farmer who falls for a dabang sex worker, then they later discover that she's HIV/AIDS-positive (the characters are again based on a real-life couple). [9] [10] Jeon Do-yeon and Hwang Jung-min won several acting awards for their lead performances, and Park was named Best Director at the 26th Blue Dragon Film Awards. [11] Aside from the critical acclaim, the film ranked ninth overall on the year's box office chart, and became the highest grossing Korean melodrama at the time. [12]

Park continued to blend reality and fiction in Voice of a Murderer (2007), based on an actual 1991 kidnapping case of a young boy whose distraught parents (played by Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Nam-joo) receive threatening phone calls for 41 days. [13] The boy's parents granted Park permission to make the film, with which he hoped to advocate extending the statute of limitations for child abduction-murders to longer than the current 15 years. Regarding the perpetrator, Park said, "You know what, I really hope he gets to watch this film. We want to tell him that we have not forgotten his wrongdoings. I focused on expressing what the parents might have gone through. So that 'he' can watch it and feel something." [14]

Closer to Heaven , another unconventional romance between a man with Lou Gehrig's disease and his funeral director wife, also became a commercial success in 2009 and garnered acting awards for Kim Myung-min and Ha Ji-won. [15] [16]

In a marked change from his previous work, Park's Love Forecast (2015) was a romantic comedy about a feisty weather reporter and her best friend of 18 years, a mild-mannered elementary school teacher (played by Moon Chae-won and Lee Seung-gi). He said he made the film in the hopes that it will "encourage young people to think more deeply about romantic relationships." [17]

Filmography

Awards

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  3. ↑ Lee, Dong-jin (22 November 2002). "Too Young To Die Gets Critics Award". The Chosun Ilbo . Retrieved 2015-01-06.
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