''Green Chair'' (
녹색 의자 - ''Noksaek uija'') is a South Korean film directed by
Park Chul-soo
Park Chul-soo (November 20, 1948 – February 19, 2013) was a South Korean film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. He was one of the most active filmmakers in Korean cinema in the 1980s and '90s.
Career
Park Chul-soo wa ...
, that was released in
2005. It is about an affair between an attractive thirty-two-year-old woman and a youth just short of
legal majority
The age of majority is the threshold of legal adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when minors cease to be considered such and assume legal control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thus terminating the contro ...
. Interlaced with explicit scenes of love making, the movie watches the two lovers trying to come to grips with their mutual attraction, sexuality and societal disapproval.
This
Mirovision film is in color on 35 mm film and runs 98 minutes. The production budget was US$2,000,000.
It was a 2005
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection, a 2005
Berlin Film Festival selection and was also shown as the opening movie at the Los Angeles Korean International Film Festival in the same year. A DVD with English and Korean sub-titles came out in 2005 and is accompanied by a second disk on making of the film. Running time is listed as 103 minutes.
ImaginAsian Pictures acquired the rights for the film in North America. A release was expected in late 2007.
Plot
Kim Mun-hee is a 32-year-old divorced woman. She engages in an affair with 19-year-old Seo-hyun, who considers Kim to be his first love. However, under Korean law, the age of consent for sex is 20.
Kim is arrested and has to spend a few days in prison for seduction of a minor, before she is set free and sentenced to do some hours of community service. When she is released, the press and Seo-hyun wait for her outside the prison.
Kim and Seo-hyun rent a room and stay there for some time, spending much of their time having sex. Kim slowly starts to understand that this relationship won't work forever, and wants to split up with Seo-hyun. But he insists that he really loves her, and that he won't let her go. The two find shelter at the home of a friend of Mun-hee, Su-jin.
Cast
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Suh Jung as Kim Mun-hee
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Shim Ji-ho
Shim Ji-ho (born May 2, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He began his entertainment career as a model, then turned to acting. He has starred in television dramas such as ''School 2'' (1999), ''My Lovely Family'' (2004), ''Our Stance on How to Trea ...
as 19-year-old Seo-hyun
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Oh Yoon-hong
Oh Yoon-hong is a South Korean actress and model. She is best known for her roles in dramas such as '' Who Are You: School 2015'', ''Solomon's Perjury'' and ''The Scholar Who Walks the Night
''The Scholar Who Walks the Night'' () is a 2015 So ...
as Su-jin
* Jeon-han Kim as journalist
* Jung-hee Nam as Kim Mun-hee's grandmother
See also
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List of Korean films
External links
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2005 films
2000s erotic drama films
2000s Korean-language films
South Korean romantic drama films
South Korean erotic drama films
2005 romantic drama films
Films directed by Park Chul-soo
2000s South Korean films
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