- Lightereul Kyeora
Infobox Film | name = Lightereul Kyeora
caption = Poster for "Lightereul kyeora"
director =Kang Hang-jun
producer =Lee Jun-taek
writer =Park Jeong-woo
starring =Kim Seung-woo Cha Seung-won
music =Yun Jong-shin
cinematography =Kim Sung-bok
editing =Go Im-pyo
distributor =
released = 2002
(South Korea )
runtime = 105 mins.
language = Korean
budget =
imdb_id = 0325743Lightereul Kyeora (라이터를 켜라, "Laiteoreul Kyeora"), also known by the English titles Spark the Lighter and Break Out, is a
2002 South Korea n comedic action film.A loser, Bongu (
Kim Seung-woo ), attends a high school reunion, where he is ridiculed for his lack of accomplishments. The next day he goes to the country for army reserve training, where he encounters further humiliation and failure. With his last few won he purchases a cheap cigarettelighter . With no other way home, he shares a taxi toSeoul train station with a fellow reservist and malcontent named Bum-soo (Kang Sung-jin ).While at the station, Bongu leaves his lighter in a bathroom stall, where it is purloined by a gangster, Yang Chul-gon (
Cha Seung-won ). Enraged beyond endurance, Bongu demands the lighter back, provoking a beating from the gangster's underlings. Undeterred, he follows Chul-gon onto a train. There, Chul Gon has more important business to attend to, waylaying a Senator (Park Yeong-gyu ) whom he had helped into office but who has since refused to reciprocate with any political favors. When the Senator stubbornly refuses to concede, Chul-gon takes the entire train hostage. Meanwhile, Bongu will stop at nothing to recover his lighter.Trivia
*The film contains many allusions to "". In one scene, a character compares the situation to that movie, but misremembers the title.
ee also
*
List of Korean language films
*Cinema of Korea
*Contemporary culture of South Korea
*List of Korea-related topics
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