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Painted Fire is a sud coréen film of genre Drama directed by Im Kwon-taek released in USA on 10 may 2002 with Choi Min-sik
Painted Fire (2002)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 may 2002
Length 1h57
Directed by Im Kwon-taek
OriginCoree du sud
Themes Peinture
Rating70%
Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, (also known as Painted Fire, Strokes of Fire or Drunk on Women and Poetry), is a 2002 South Korean drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek about Jang Seung-up (Oh-won), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art.
Synopsis
It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.Actors
Choi Min-sik
(Jang Seung-up)
Yoo Ho-jeong
(Mae-hyang)
Ahn Sung-ki
(Kim Byung-moon)
Kim Yeo-jin
(Jin-hong)
Son Ye-jin
(So-woon)
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