MAD SAD BAD - A 3D three-part omnibus film
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Title: Mad Sad Bad
Revised romanization: Shinchozombimanhwa
Hangul: 신촌좀비만화
Directors: Ryoo Seung-wan (segment "Ghost"), Han Ji-seung (segment "I Saw You"), Kim Tae-yong (segment "Picnic")
Release date: May 1, 2014 (premiere at Jeonju International Film Festival), May 15, 2014 (Korean wide release)
Runtime: 120 minutes
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Production: KAFA
Distribution: CJ Entertainment
Official Site: www.facebook.com/madsadbad3d
Plot
Overview
Directors Ryoo Seung-wan ("The Berlin File"), Han Ji-seung ("Alone in Love"), Kim Tae-yong ("Late Autumn") collaborate to make a 3D omnibus film. Tragedies and fantasies unfold in the city, the woods, and the future. The 3D technique is used in scenes where the characters have fantasies to get over suffering in reality. This movie attempts to highlight the possibilities and realities of 3D film in Korea. It's the new vision of KAFA's project, KAFA+.
Ghost
Overview
Directors Ryoo Seung-wan ("The Berlin File"), Han Ji-seung ("Alone in Love"), Kim Tae-yong ("Late Autumn") collaborate to make a 3D omnibus film. Tragedies and fantasies unfold in the city, the woods, and the future. The 3D technique is used in scenes where the characters have fantasies to get over suffering in reality. This movie attempts to highlight the possibilities and realities of 3D film in Korea. It's the new vision of KAFA's project, KAFA+.
Ghost
Seung-ho (David Lee), who is a high school student and lives with his father, doesn't adapt himself to reality and is interested only in a girl named Yeo Woo-bi (Son Soo-hyun) who he met on SNS. One day she sends him a desperate message. Believing her words, he starts to gather his online friends to help her. This is a tragic portrait of realities based on a true story of the murder of a college student in Sinchon.
I Saw You
In the future, zombies receive treatment, allowing them to live and work together with humans. However, a side effect of the medication is memory loss. Yeo-wool (Park Ki-woong) supervises the cured zombies and despises them, but former zombie Shi-wa (Nam Gyu-ri) follows him around even though he mistreats her. One day, Shi-wa collapses from overwork and Yeo-wool goes to see her.
Yeo-wool and Shi-wa come face to face and Shi-wa remembers something she
had forgotten. Han Ji-seung's 'I Saw You' is a zombie romance that mixes musical and horror genres with his own sensibility.
Picnic
Soo-min (Kim Soo-an) is a first grader who lives with her mother (Park Mi-Hyun) and autistic brother in a small village by the sea. Her only enjoyment is reading comic books under the covers, but one day, her brother ruins her favorite comic book. She decides to take her brother on a picnic, and leaves him behind. She searches for him and beautiful fantasies answer her desperate calls for him.
I Saw You
Picnic
Park Mi-hyun as Soo-min's mother
Yu Ji-seong as Soo-min's brother
Trailer
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Trailer
Links
MAD SAD BAD page on Jeonju International Film Festival site
Hancinema
Asianwiki
Daum
Naver
(all information and photo credits to above sources and official site)