Stateless Things gets a Korean release date

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

Stateless Things 줄탁동시
Year: 2011
Director: Kim Kyung-mook
Screenplay: Kim Kyung-mook
Cinematography: Kang Kookhyun
Cast: Paul Lee, Yeom Hyunjoon, Kim Sae-byuk, Lim Hyungkook, Kim Jeongseok, So Heejeong, Son Inyong
Runtime: 135/117 min
Release date in Korea: 2012/03/01

Summary: "Stateless Things" follows three young people - a teenage North Korean defector named Joon who wanders the streets in Seoul, an ethnic Korean girl living in China and a gay boy named Ah-In who exchanges sex for money. These three come together to commit suicide, but find meaning in their lives ...

Here's the Korean trailer with some different footage, but no subs.

It went through the film festival circuit last year, here's the list of places that it showed.

2011 (68th) Venice Film Festival - August 31-September 10, 2011 - Orizzonti *World Premiere
2011 (30th) Vancouver International Film Festival - September 29-October 14, 2011 - Dragons and Tigers *North American Premiere
2011 (55th) BFI London Film Festival - October 12-27, 2011 - World Cinema
2011 (37th) Seoul Independent Film Festival - December 8-16, 2011 - Feature Length
2012 (41st) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 25-February 5, 2012 - Spectrum *Dutch Premiere

Sadly, it looks like the Korean version was edited from 135 minutes down to 117. I'm not sure if that's for a theatrical release of what you'll get off the DVD.

source: Jultakdongshi, Thirtytoes33, asianmediawiki, hancinema, alualuna @ wordpress (go there for a review of the movie)

Comments

[spread.livejournal.com]

Sucks that I'll probably never be able to watch this now..
All my asian cinema download sites are either taken down or irrelevant.
I'm still trying to cope with this lost :-(
Thanks government!

[valieleen.livejournal.com]

same here :(

[dori-liv.livejournal.com]

Bleak Night made it to youtube, maybe this will too.
hopefully

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

There's a good chance it'll pop up, it'll just take some time.

[anthonymarie.livejournal.com]

read alualuna's review, and impressed to learn that the director's only 27.

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

ikr. He has a lot of promise. Here's an interview he did (http://bit.ly/wiyZku), super interesting and I'm already looking forward to what he has planned next.

[a-perfect-shade.livejournal.com]

really want to watch it but megaupload is gone ;___;
has anyone found good alternatives? aezone has some stuff up...

[baeby-bloo-skys.livejournal.com]

this looks really good, hopefully i'll be able to watch it somehow

[ohprecioustime.livejournal.com]

lol why do half of movies with gay characters revolve around prostitution

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Because sadly that seems to be a recurring case in modern society.

[lobotronic.livejournal.com]

They can't find acceptance in society, which pushes them to the fringes. They have to do what they can to survive.

[jeit91.livejournal.com]

sounds interesting.

[luvey.livejournal.com]

it looks interesting, i wonder if dramafever will get it eventually

[kawaiineyo.livejournal.com]

oh, i really want to see this, the gay story line looks interesting.

[scream-yourpain.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to watch it, but I guess it will be pretty difficult. |: