Antarctic Journal
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| Antarctic Journal | |
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 Korean theatrical release poster | |
| Hangul | 남극일기 |
| Hanja | 南極日記 |
| Revised Romanization | Namgeugilgi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Namgŭgilgi |
| Directed by | Bong Joon-ho Lee Hae-jun |
| Produced by | Cha Seung-jae Noh Jong-yun Chae Hoe-seung |
| Starring | Song Kang-ho Yoo Ji-tae |
| Cinematography | Chung Chung-hoon |
| Edited by | Kim Sun-min |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Distributed by | Showbox Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$6,500,000 |
| Box office | US$5,568,811[1] |
Antarctic Journal is a 2005 South Korea
horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern Korean antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility
. The film generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget (over US$6.5 million) and notable cast, but wasn't a box office hit.
Plot
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During their journey to the
Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung, discovers a journal that was left behind by a British
expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter?
Cast
- Song Kang-ho - Choi Do-hyung
- Yoo Ji-tae - Kim Min-jae
- Choi Deok-moon - Seo Jae-kyung
- Kim Kyeong-ik - Yang Geun-chan
- Park Hee-soon - Lee Young-min
- Yoon Je-moon - Sung-hoon
- Kang Hye-jung - Yoo-jin
- Sam Hammington - English expedition party (voice)
- Oh Hee-joon as Person
Reception
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Derek Elley from Variety wrote, "Some awesome widescreen lensing, with New Zealand convincingly repping the polar wastes, can't compensate for the dramatic emptiness of Antarctic Journal, in which the script gets lost along with the explorers."[2]
See also
- List of Korean-language films
- Cinema of Korea
- K-Horror
- Contemporary culture of South Korea
References
- ^ "Antarctic Journal". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Elley, Derek (16 June 2005). "Antarctic Journal". Variety.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
External links
- Antarctic Journal at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
- Antarctic Journal at IMDb
- Antarctic Journal at Rotten Tomatoes
- Kyu Hyun Kim's review at Koreanfilm.org
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