Bleak Night () is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age psychological drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-Hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards.
Plot Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jeong-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response.
Cast Lee Je-hoon as Ki-tae Seo Jun-young as Dong-yoon Park Jeong-min as Baek Hee-joon ("Becky") Jo Sung-ha as Ki-tae's father Bae Jae-ki as Jae-ho Lee Cho-hee as Se-jung, girlfriend of Dong-yoon
Awards and nominations YearAwardCategoryRecipientsResultRef. 2010 15th Busan International Film Festival New Currents Award Bleak Night 201120th Buil Film AwardsBest New Actor Park Jeong-min Seo Jun-young Best New DirectorYoon Sung-hyun Best Screenplay 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival FIPRESCI PrizeBleak Night SIGNIS Award 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Award 48th Grand Bell Awards Best New Director Yoon Sung-hyun Best New ActorLee Je-hoon 32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards Seo Jun-young Best New DirectorYoon Sung-hyun 12th Busan Film Critics Awards 5th Asia Pacific Screen Awards Best Screenplay 21st Black Movie Festival Young Adults Jury Awards Cine 21 AwardsBest New Director Best New ActorLee Je-hoon 19th Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards 2012 3rd KOFRA Film Awards
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