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Pa-myo

Exhuma
Forum 2024
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Young shaman Hwa-rim and her partner and co-medium Bong-gil respond to a call for help from the USA, where the wealthy Park family, Korean exiles, is plagued by irritations: something is wrong with the family’s descendants and the head of the family himself is hearing screams. The duo accept the job – after all, it’s well paid – and, along with a feng shui expert and an undertaker, they start to exhume the ancestors’ grave in the north of Gangwon-do province. In the process, something escapes from the coffin, people die, others prove to be obsessed and the real problems haven’t even started yet. Jang Jae-hyun’s third feature film is a horror mystery thriller full of humour and verve, addressing issues of class, history, tradition, religion and superstition. Unfolding around the strange coffin in this odd place is an episodic series of lushly staged incantation rituals with linguistic analyses of grave lids, that relishes in cinematic effects and is carried by a great cast – besides Oldboy star Choi Min-sik as the geomancer, above all Kim Go-eun.
by Jang Jae-hyun
with Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin, Lee Do-hyun South Korea 2024 Korean, Japanese, English 134’ World premiere

With

  • Choi Min-sik
  • Kim Go-eun
  • Yoo Hai-jin
  • Lee Do-hyun

Crew

Director Jang Jae-hyun
Screenplay Jang Jae-hyun
Cinematography Lee Mo-gae
Editing Jeong Byeong-jin
Music Kim Tae-seong
Sound Kim Byung-in
Production Design Seo Sung-kyung
Costumes Choi Yoon-sun
Make-Up Lee Eun-ju
Producers Charlie Shin, Jang Jae-hyun, Kim Young-min, Kim Jee-hye
Executive Producer Charlie Shin
Co-Production MCMC Seoul

World sales

Showbox Corp.

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Produced by

Showbox Corp.

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Pinetown Production

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Jang Jae-hyun

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Born in 1981 in South Korea, he studied at the Korean National University of Arts. His short film 12th Assistant Deacon won the Best Director award at the Jeonju International Film Festival and Best Short Film at the Paris Korean Film Festival. Continuing his directorial journey, he wrote and directed The Priests in 2015 and Svaha: The Sixth Finger in 2019.

Filmography

2009 Indoeseo on Malli (Maley from India); short film 2010 Bus; short film 2014 12 Beonjjae Bojosaje (12th Assistant Deacon); short film 2015 Geomeun Sajedeul (The Priests) 2019 Svaha: The Sixth Finger 2024 Pa-myo (Exhuma)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2024