Paju

Paju (2009)

파주

So close to want but forbidden to love.

A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.

Date of release
2009-10-28
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Park Chan-ok

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $818.7K
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Paju (Korean: 파주) is a 2009 South Korean film. It tells the tale of a teenage schoolgirl and her complex relationship with her older sister's husband. Set in the city where it takes its name from – a longtime military area and now a developing city located close to the North/South Korean border – its narrative deals with guilt, mystery, love and redemption, as well as the psychological layers of its characters. The film also offers a glimpse into South Korean society and the struggles some residents of Paju face.

Production

This is Park Chan-ok's long-awaited follow-up to her critically praised 2002 debut Jealousy Is My Middle Name.

Park had found it difficult to secure funding for her sophomore film amidst Korean cinema's currently declining investment environment, and though her screenplay won the Kodak Award and received ₩20 million (US$19,000) worth of negative film from the Pusan Promotion Plan in 2005, it would eventually take almost seven years to complete Paju. Park said, "I stopped (filming) because I could not make any more modifications to it.

Park said Paju is the perfect backdrop for this mysterious and gripping story. "When I think of Paju, I always view it as a mysterious place because it was always foggy whenever I visited there and it also sits right next to the border area dividing the two Koreas. I wanted to portray that mysterious feeling in the film."

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