Bungee Jumping of Their Own

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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
Poster for Bungee Jumping of Their Own
Hangul
번지점프를 하다
Revised RomanizationBeonjijeompeu-reul hada
McCune–ReischauerPŏnjijŏmpŭ'rŭl Hada
Directed byKim Dae-seung
Written byGo Eun-nim
Produced byChoi Nak-kwon
StarringLee Byung-hun
Lee Eun-ju
Yeo Hyun-soo
CinematographyLee Hu-gon
Edited byPark Yoo-kyeong
Music byPark Ho-jun
Distributed byCineclick Asia
Release date
  • February 2, 2001 (2001-02-02)
Running time
99 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Bungee Jumping of Their Own (

romantic drama film starring Lee Byung-hun and Lee Eun-ju.[1] The film had 947,000 admissions, making it the 10th most attended film of the year.[2]

Plot

Seo In-woo (Lee Byung-hun) unexpectedly falls in love with In Tae-hee (Lee Eun-ju), a fellow student at the same university, when she asks to share his umbrella in a rainstorm. It is love at first sight for In-woo, and they start dating after only a couple of weeks. Tae-hee dies suddenly when she is hit by a car.

17 years later, In-woo is a high school teacher, married with a child. He starts to notice similarities between a new student of his, Hyun-bin, and Tae-hee. In-woo struggles with the concept of falling in love with another man, and they get bullied by students at the school for appearing to be

homosexual
.

They overcome their fears with the realization that Hyun-bin is Tae-hee reincarnated, and they are eternal soulmates. The movie ends with a shot of them in New Zealand jumping off a bridge hand in hand. It is unclear whether they are bungee jumping or mean to end their lives together and be reincarnated again.

Cast

Awards

2001 Baeksang Arts Awards[3]
2001 Grand Bell Awards
  • Best Screenplay: Go Eun-nim
2001 Blue Dragon Film Awards

Film festivals

It was selected to appear in the 2002 Frameline Film Festival and the 2004 Korean Film Festival DC.

Adaptation

A stage musical entitled Bungee Jump was produced in 2012, with lyrics by Hue Park and music by American composer Will Aronson.[4] The production was successful[5] and won the award for best score at the 7th Musical Awards and the 18th Korea Musical Awards.[6]

It has been

Sukollawat Kanarot.[7]

On November 2, 2021, it was announced that

newly found christian beliefs, which are against the theme of homosexuality, suicide and rebirth which is a main plot point in the film.[10]

References

  1. ^ Paquet, Darcy. "Bungee Jumping of Their Own". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  2. ^ "The Best Selling Films of 2001". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  3. ^ "Bungee jumping of their own - Awards". Cinemasie. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  4. Korea Times
    , July 29, 2012.
  5. ^ Patrick Healy, "Heartthrobs Rule the Korean Stage: K-Pop Stars Selling Stage Musicals in Korea", The New York Times, December 26, 2013.
  6. ^ Winners of The 7th ‘Musical Awards’, K-popculture (accessed 2016-08-26); "Musical ‘Bungee Jumping of Their Own’ to be Back", K-popculture (accessed 2016-08-26).
  7. Bright TV (Thailand)
    (in Thai). 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  8. ^ Jeon, Hyeong-hwan (November 2, 2021). "[단독]NCT 재현, '번지점프를 하다' OTT리메이크 주연..여현수役 연기" [[Exclusive] NCT's Jaehyun, 'Bungee Jumping' OTT remake starring... Acting as Yeo Hyeon-soo]. StarNews. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  9. Naver News
    (in Korean). Retrieved 2021-12-09.
  10. ^ "'K 다양성'의 두 얼굴… '번지 점프를 하다' 리메이크는 왜 무산됐나". Hankook Ilbo. 2021-12-13.

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