Kim Ki-duk, Director's Note: "“Everyone wishes to be born into an honest life, to live and die an honest life. But then there are events that strike without warning, acts by other people that thrust you into a life that you never expected, a life to which you become accustomed against your will. In 2001, in this frenzied city, despite my best efforts to contain it, I discovered, to my surprise, that I too am living as a bad man. Here, there is a bad man who from birth until death has emanated an air of misfortune. A man covered in blackness… who with untarnished eyes drags a woman into misfortune. An act so cruel that it seems like divine will. In this film I wanted to show the destiny behind this event." - Kim Ki-duk Biography FILMOGRAPHY 1996 Crocodile CAST/CREW Han-gi........................CHO
Je-Hyun Director.......................Kim
Ki-Duk
The dangerous will of a lowlife HAN-GI: "What
does a scumbag know about love?" A surprising performance in a role without any dialogue. At this year's Pusan International Film Festival, programmers from Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, and Karlovy Vary all commented on Cho Jae-hyun's acting, and they all did so with the same words: "Great actor!" His stunning performance making use of only his eyes and face epitomized perfectly the sort of "bad guy" director Kim Ki-duk set out to depict. As Kim Ki-duk sets on the path to international fame, Cho Jae-hyun is proving a perfect companion, with the skills to recreate the "Kim Ki-duk persona" to perfection. In a national poll conducted by a Korean film magazine, Cho was selected as the nation's most underrated actor. Filmography 2002 Sword in the Moon The gentle snobbery of the petit bourgeoise
SUH WON : An assertive new face We have seen this actress once before, when she played the young prostitute in Kim Ki-duk's acclaimed film The Isle. In Bad Guy she was faced with many challenging scenes, from the first customer she receives in the brothel to the episodes where she screams at Han-ki. Throughout the shooting of this film, she kept to herself and did not speak to the other actors in order to prepare herself mentally for the challenge. Following in the steps of Suh Jung, she has transformed into a striking new Kim Ki-duk heroine. Born in 1981, a graduate of Seoul University of the Arts Filmography: 2001 Bad
Guy
"Sun-hwa seems to keep getting prettier. I've always wanted to date a college girl." Han-ki's underling, the man who controls violent customers, bribes the plain-clothes policeman and runs various errands. The strength of his feelings for Sun-hwa gives him the courage to stand up to Han-ki. His cunning eyes and amusing exploits are played by Choi Duk-moon, an up-and-coming theatre actor. Graduate of Seoul University of the Arts, Drama and Film Department
"It's too bad about Sun-hwa. I feel sorry for her." Standing silently beside Han-ki, he's the most trustworthy of the film's characters. Played by Kim Yoon-tae, a theatre and musical actor with many talents for whom people have great expectations. Graduate of Seoul University of the Arts, Drama and Film Department | Member of the Seoul Arts Troupe
"That bitch should learn she's only worth $50 a pop." This is the second film of Kim Jung-young, who also acted in Kim Ki-duk's Real Fiction. Here she plays the mistress of the brothel, who at times is tender-hearted like an older sister, and at times is as cold as ice. Member
of the Han River acting troupe
"Hey honey, come on over." "Do you want to become a regular?" The tinted streets of a red light district.. At the cue of the director, a crowd of women calls out to passersby. When Bad Guy was being filmed at an outdoor set of the Seoul Studio Complex, the convincing realism of the scene caused the crews of other productions to stop and wonder. The actresses' actions looked so real, they weren't taken from a real red light district, were they? AWARDS BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002
CATALONIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SITGES, SPAIN 2002 GRAND BELL AWARDS, SOUTH KOREA 2002 BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004
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