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Fly, Penguin (DVD) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Moon So Ri (Actor) | Park Won Sang (Actor) | Park In Hwan (Actor) | Lim Soon Rye (Director)
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Fly, Penguin (DVD) (Korea Version)

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Directed by Lim Soon Rye (Forever the Moment), Fly Penguin is a humanist drama produced by the National Human Rights Commission, which is well known for the If You Were Me series. Following the If You Were Me formula, Fly Penguin strings together multiple stories of daily lives and struggles, discriminations and difficulties that are easily overlooked in society because they're so common. Forever the Moment's Moon So Ri, Park Won Sang, Park In Hwan, Jeong Hye Sun, Son Byung Ho, and Choi Kyu Han are among the film's talented ensemble cast.

Seung Yoon is just a kid but he's stressed out from school, private lessons, and his mother's constant nagging about him not doing well enough. Joo Hoon is a vegetarian and doesn't drink, which creates distance between him and his co-workers who find him strange. Soo Hyung sent his wife and children overseas so they could have better lives, but now his life is quiet and lonely. Ready to start over in her twilight years, Song asks her overbearing husband for a divorce.

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Product Title: Fly, Penguin (DVD) (Korea Version) Fly, Penguin (DVD) (韓國版) Fly, Penguin (DVD) (韩国版) 飛べ、ペンギン （韓国版） 날아라 펭귄 (DVD) (한국판)
Also known as: 飛上去，企鵝 飞上去，企鹅
Artist Name(s): Moon So Ri (Actor) | Park Won Sang (Actor) | Park In Hwan (Actor) 文 素利 (Actor) | 朴翁尚 (Actor) | Park In Hwan (Actor) 文 素利 (Actor) | 朴翁尚 (Actor) | Park In Hwan (Actor) ムン・ソリ (Actor) | パク・ウォンサン (Actor) | パク・インファン (Actor) 문 소리 (Actor) | 박원상 (Actor) | 박 인환 (Actor)
Director: Lim Soon Rye 任順禮 任顺礼 イム・スンレ 임순례
Release Date: 2010-07-23
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Publisher: Ein's M&M CO., LTD
Other Information: 1-Disc
Package Weight: 100 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1022953529

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날아라 펭귄 (DVD) (한국판)

*Screen Format: 1.85:1 아나모픽 와이드스크린
*Sound Mix: 한국어 돌비 디지털 5.1 / 2.0 임순례 감독 음성해설
*Extras:
-제작 과정
-감독과의 대화
-개봉 홍보 영상
-응원 멘트
-예고편 모음 (극장, 티저, 웹)
-포토 갤러리
-뮤직 비디오

*Director: 임순례

-400만 관객 이상을 모았던 <우리 생애 최고의 순간> 임순례, 문소리 그녀들이 다시 뭉치다!
-<워낭소리> <똥파리>를 이어가는 인디 영화의 힘!
-희망 프로젝트 <날아라 펭귄> 오늘보다 더 밝은 내일을 기약하는 영화!
-충무로/TV 실력파 배우들이 모두 모였다! 문소리, 박원상, 손병호, 최규환, 박인환, 정혜선 주연!
-지금을 사는 우리들에게 작지만 깊은 울림을 주는 네 개의 에피소드로 구성!
하나. 학원가기 싫은 초등생과 베타맘이 되고싶은 알파맘 이야기
둘. 왕따 당하는 베지터리안과 눈치보는 스모킹걸의 이야기
셋. 기러기 아빠와 떨어진 거리만큼 서로 멀어지는 가족 이야기
넷. 자신만의 인생을 살고픈 아내와 달라진 아내가 무서운 퇴직 가장의 이야기

SYNOPSIS

갑갑한 현실 속에서 조금 더 나은 미래를 꿈꾸는 우리들의 이야기!

소방관이 꿈인 9살 승윤이는 교육을 위해 고군분투하는 엄마의 기대가 너무 버겁다. 채식인에 술은 입에도 못 대는 신입사원 주훈은 넉살 좋은 성격만으로는 회사생활이 녹록치 않다. 아이들과 아내와 떨어져 사는 기러기 아빠 권과장의 하루는 너무나 길고 외롭다. 아내와 엄마로서의 삶보다 자신만의 삶을 멋지게 살고 싶은 송여사. 한평생 권위만 내세웠던 퇴직가장 권선생은 그런 송여사의 태도가 못마땅하다.
우리 주위에서 쉽게 볼 수 있는 이야기를 공감할 수 있게 그려내며, 차이를 다름으로 인정할 수 있는 사회를 소망하는 영화 <날아라 펭귄>은 우리 모두의 오늘의 문제를 따스한 시선과 유쾌한 웃음으로 그려낸다
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August 22, 2010
If you were a penguin
If you've watched any of the If You Were Me anthologies, then you already have a pretty good idea of what awaits in Fly, Penguin. This small and sincere ensemble drama is the first full-length feature produced by Korea's National Human Rights Commission, which has done an admirable job of exploring human rights and discrimination issues on film through the long-running If You Were Me short film series. Fly, Penguin covers less hot-button issues than the If You Were Me shorts, but it's no less effective at identifying and exploring significant societal and familial problems. By focusing on daily difficulties and familiar situations, Fly, Penguin actually connects with audiences even better than the If You Were Me entries.

Fly, Penguin is divided into four stories about an interconnected circle of normal, everyday people, not too different from you and me. And they all go home to problems not too different from yours and mine. At a typical office, there's a working mother (Moon So Ri) who spends so much time worrying about her child's education and future that she can't step back and let her overwhelmed son enjoy his childhood. There's a new worker (Choi Kyu Hwan) who sticks out at meals because he doesn't drink alcohol or eat meat, and soon he finds himself being mocked and ostracized by the other men in the office. There's the manager (Son Byung Ho) who sent his family abroad to give them a better life, and in return, what he gets is an empty house, estranged children, and a quietly deteriorating marriage. Finally, there's the manager's stubborn father (Park In Hwan) who's stuck on his ways and constantly criticizes his outgoing wife (Jeong Hye Sun), driving her to leave home and threaten divorce.

Fly, Penguin deals with marriage, family, and office relations in a realistic manner, without any cinematic conflict or melodrama. Director Lim Soon Rye milked populist emotions in her previous blockbuster Forever the Moment, but she applies a light hand to Fly, Penguin. Both the direction and camerawork are very unobtrusive in the film, letting lives unfold naturally through straightforward set pieces and dinner table conversations. Real life might not be all that exciting, but the film manages to be consistently engaging through believable characters, multiple storylines, and compelling dilemmas that appeal to empathetic audiences. Even if you don't share the exact same problems as the characters, you can still easily identify and commiserate with the situations presented in the film.

The film's title is a reference to Son Byung Ho's dilemma as the flightless father of a transnational, split-household family. In East Asia, many men send their children and spouses overseas, be it for education or emigration, and then stay behind in their home country to work and support the family. Those who fly back and forth occasionally to see the family are called "wild goose fathers" in Korea. And then there are the fathers who can't afford to fly and may go years without seeing the family he works so hard to support, the "penguin fathers". This image of the bird grounded by sober reality applies not only to Son Byung Ho's character, but also all the other characters whose wings are clipped by pressure, fatigue, and misunderstandings.

By laying out the stories together on screen, Fly, Penguin takes a positive and proactive attitude about these common, overbearing challenges faced by people on a daily basis. The film might not give flight to the grounded, but it succeeds in giving voice and identity to the humble penguin who waddles home everyday carrying unspoken burdens.
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