''Height of the Wave'' () is a 2019 South Korean drama film directed by

Park Jung-bum Park Jung-bum (born 1976) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and actor. Park wrote, directed, and acted in his directorial debut '' The Journals of Musan'' (2011), which won the New Currents Award and FIPRESCI Award at the 15th Busan ...

. It was first aired as part of

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's 2019 ''Drama Stage'' television series. Unlike the television drama, the newly edited film features the guilt and greed between the characters. It premiered at the 20th

Jeonju International Film Festival Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) is an Asian film festival. It was launched in 2000 as a non-competitive film festival with partial competition. It introduces independent a ...

on 3 May 2019. It made its international premiere and won the Special Jury Prize in the International Competition section of the

72nd Locarno Film Festival The 72nd annual Locarno Festival was held from 7 August to 17 August 2019. The debut feature by Italian director-producer Ginevra Elkann's ''Magari'' opened the festival, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's ''To the Ends of the Earth'' was screened as clos ...

in August 2019.

Plot

Police Officer Yeon-soo (

Lee Seung-yeon Lee Seung-yeon (born August 18, 1968) is a South Korean actress and talk show host. Career Lee Seung-yeon graduated from Inha Technical College in Incheon with a degree in Airline Navigation, and became a flight attendant for Korean Air. In 1992 ...

) is dispatched to an island with her daughter after her divorce. When she witnesses the strange relationship between orphan Ye-eun and the island workers in the closed island village community, it terrifies her.

Cast

as Yeon-soo *

Lee Yeon Lee Yeon (born 27 February 1995) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her portrayal of male character Baek Seong-woo in 2022 Netflix-produced South Korean drama ''Juvenile Justice''. Career Lee Yeon first made her debut as an actre ...

as Ye-eun * Choi Eun-seo * Park Yeong-deok * Shin Yeon-sik *

* Ryu Hae-joon as Seong-dae

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Height of the Wave 2019 films 2010s Korean-language films Films directed by Park Jung-bum South Korean drama films 2010s South Korean films