Puzzle (film)

Infobox Korean Film
name = Puzzle


director = Kim Tae-kyeong
producer = Choi Nak-kwon
writer = Kim Tae-kyeong, Yun Yeo-su
starring =
music = Woody Kim
cinematography = Kim Tae-sung
editing = Kyeong Min-ho
lighting = Yoon Kyung-hyun
production = Noon Entertainment
distributor = Cinema Service
released = September 14, 2006
runtime = 91 min
country = South Korea
language = Korean
admissions =
kmdb_id =
imdb_id = 0870915
hangul = 두뇌유희 프로젝트, 퍼즐
hanja =
rr = "Dodoiyuheui peurojekteu, peojeul"
mr =

Puzzle ("Dodoiyuheui peurojekteu, peojeul") is a Korean film directed by Kim Tae-kyeong and written by both Kim Tae-kyeong and Yun Yeo-su.

Plot synopsis

The film opens with an image of a man being burned alive on the floor of a warehouse. A figure, shrouded in darkness, walks away from this burning body in the down pouring rain.

Suddenly, the film cuts to two men in the middle of a bank heist who, coolly and efficiently, partake stacks of bonds from a safety deposit box. The two men with two more accomplices, along with a hostage in their trunk, drive towards some unknown location away from the city, soon to be revealed as the very warehouse in which the man was previously seen being burned alive. Upon their arrival, one of the criminals, whose name is Ryu, enters the warehouse to discover, to his horror, that the man in which they were supposed to pass the bonds off to now is a charcoaled corpse lying in the middle of the floor. The other three criminals enter as well and are shocked as well at the sight.

Questions begin to arise: what is their next plan of action? Do they wait until the mysterious man who hired them arrives, whom none of the criminals have met? Do they simply split the bonds and make a run for it? But soon the questions give way to accusations as the criminals begin to turn on one another, suspecting that one of them may, in fact, be the very man who hired them, and who must have set ablaze the now smoldering corpse.

The rest of the film is told in a series of flashbacks that explain events that led up to the bank heist, which are intercut with scenes in the present as the criminals begin to probe one another for answers to this confusing puzzle...

Cast

*Hong Seok-cheon - Noh
*Ju Jin-mo - Ryu
*Kim Hyun-sung - Jung
*Mun Seong-kun - Hwan
*Park Jun-seok - Kyu

Trivia

Box office

*Release Date in South Korea: 2006/09/14 [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Puzzle.php] , "HanCinema".]
*South Korea Box Office: 214,426 admissions [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Puzzle.php] , "HanCinema".]

Technical specs

*Film Negative Format: 35mm [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870915/technical] "imdb.com".]
*Aspect Ratio: Cinemascope 2.35:1 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870915/technical] "imdb.com".]

Miscellanea

*This film marks the feature film debut of short film director Kim Tae Kyung.James Mudge, [http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1340] , "Beyond Hollywood".]
*The film crew started and completed the shooting of the film without a single word written about it, with no mention on TV or elsewhere, keeping the plot under wraps and eschewing any kind of publicity.James Mudge, [http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1340] , "Beyond Hollywood".]
*This unconventional approach to distribution unfortunately wasn't a success as it failed to generate enough viewer interest to increase its box office intake.James Mudge, [http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1340] , "Beyond Hollywood".] .
*CJ Entertainment sold its package of Four Horror Tales and "Puzzle" to Blitz Entertainment for rights in Indonesia and Malaysia. [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Puzzle.php] , "HanCinema".]

References

ee also

*Cinema of Korea

External links

* [http://www.cinemaservice.com/puzzle/ Official Website] (in Korean)
*imdb title|0870915|Puzzle
* [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Puzzle.php "Puzzle"] at HanCinema
* [http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/KOFIC/Channel?task=kofic.user.eng.a_filmdb.command.FilmDB1Retrieve2Cmd&MainGBN=1&MVIE_CD=T060234N&pageSize=5 "Puzzle"] at Korean Film Council
* [http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1340 "Puzzle" review] at Beyond Hollywood
* [http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/puzzle.htm "Puzzle" review] at Molodezhnaja (in German)