<Waste Land (Hwangmooji)> (1988)

Director : Kim Tae-young
Year of Production : 1988
Genre : Drama/Fiction
Format : 16mm/Color
Running Time : 90 minutes

Crew :
Screenplay/Director: Kim Tae-young
Adaptation: Jeong Heung-soon
Cinematography: Kim Sung-bog
Lighting: Kim Young-soo
Music: Shin Dae-cheol
Art Director : Hwang Ho-yeon
Props : Lee Dong-won
Makeup : Park Hye-jeong

Cast :
Cho Seon-mook, Yang Jae-man, Seo Kap-sook, Kim Young-seok, Moon Chang-keun, Han Young-sook, Lee Young-ja, Bang Eun-hee, Lee Hyeon-lan, Sun Dong-hyuk, Kim Jeong, Yoo Moon-sun, David Tilley, Mack Anderson, Mack Loo

Synopsis

In May of 1980, Kim Ui-gi, who has deserted the army and has been on the run for 6 months, gains employment at a bar in a town surrounding a U.S. military base in Gunsan. The bar is full of people who make their living selling themselves to the soldiers of the military base. Ui-gi sees the lives around him being gradually destroyed with each passing day and he is also in agony from the guilt of having killed a girl in Gwangju. He confesses all of his sins to a priest and sets himself on fire in a cemetery in Mangwol-dong. (Excerpt from Notes on Waste Land)

Director Bio : Kim Tae-young

Director of such films as Mr. Kant’s Presentation (1987), Waste Land (1989) and 2009 Lost Memories (2009 Lost Memories) (2001)