Summary
Antarctic Journal is a 2005 South Korea survival psychological horror film. It is the feature film debut by director Yim Pil-sung. The film mixes elements of psychological thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern Korean antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility. The film generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget (over US$6.5 million) and notable cast, but wasn't a box office hit.
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| Hangul | 남극일기 |
| Hanja | 南極日記 |
| Revised Romanization | Namgeukilgi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Namgŭkilgi |
| Directed by | Yim Pil-sung |
| Written by | Yim Pil-sung Bong Joon-ho Lee Hae-jun |
| Produced by | Cha Seung-jae Noh Jong-yun Chae Hoe-seung |
| Starring | Song Kang-ho Yoo Ji-tae |
| Cinematography | Chung Chung-hoon |
| Edited by | Kim Sun-min |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Distributed by | Showbox Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$6,500,000 |
| Box office | US$5,568,811[1] |
Plot edit
During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung, discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter?
Cast edit
- Song Kang-ho - Choi Do-hyung
- Yoo Ji-tae - Kim Min-jae
- Choi Deok-moon - Seo Jae-kyung
- Kim Kyeong-ik - Yang Geun-chan
- Park Hee-soon - Lee Young-min
- Yoon Je-moon - Sung-hoon
- Kang Hye-jung - Yoo-jin
- Sam Hammington - English expedition party (voice)
- Oh Hee-joon as Person
Reception edit
Derek Elley from Variety wrote, "Some awesome widescreen lensing, with New Zealand convincingly repping the polar wastes, can't compensate for the dramatic emptiness of Antarctic Journal, in which the script gets lost along with the explorers."[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Antarctic Journal". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Elley, Derek (16 June 2005). "Antarctic Journal". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
External links edit
- Antarctic Journal at the Korean Movie Database
- Antarctic Journal at IMDb
- Antarctic Journal at Rotten Tomatoes
- Kyu Hyun Kim's review at Koreanfilm.org
