Movie Information
Release year.........: 2007
Genre................: Drama/Horror
IMDb rating..........: 6.2/10
IMDB Link............: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124378/[/url]
Language.............: Korean
Subtitles............: English .srt
Duration.............: 1h 41mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 778 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 1 069 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.8
Video/Audio Attributes
Format................: AVC
Format profile........: High@L3.0
Codec ID..............: avc1
Bit rate..............: 1 000 Kbps
Width.................: 720 pixels
Height................: 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio..: 3:2
Frame rate............: 24.652 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)....: 0.117
Writing library.......: x264 core 120
Format/Info...........: Advanced Audio Codec
Bit rate mode.........: Variable
Bit rate..............: 64.2 Kbps
Channel(s)............: 2 channel
Channel positions.....: Front: L R
Sampling rate.........: 48.0 KHz
Compression mode......: Lossy
Plot summary
Epitaph is a 2007 South Korean film directed by brothers Jung Sik and Jung Beom-sik. The film is a horror film set primarily in 1942,
while South Korea was under the colonial rule of Japan. It is framed by scenes set in 1979.
Browsing an old photo book in 1979, Park Jeong-nam travels back with his memories to 1942, when Korea was occupied by Japan, when he
was a young and immature intern doctor in Anseong Hospital. During those four days, strange events will happen, when corpses brought
to the mortuary are not able to rest in peace.
Three intertwined stories follow, starting in reverse order(the second starts the day before):
One: While awaiting for his bride-to-be to arrive from Japan(the daughter of the hospitals director), Jeong-nam is fascinated by a
recently diseased young woman. He spends time near the corpse in the morgue and draws her face. It is then time for the diseased to
return his appreciation.
Two: Asako is a young girl who was the only survivor of a car accident which killed all her family. She does not speak and appears
to be in a state of shock, but what the doctors can not see is that she is drowning in guilt and being visited by the ghost of her
mother.
Three: Serial killings of Japanese soldiers continue and a married couple, Kim Dong-won and Kim In-yeong, both surgeons, are involved
in the autopsies. Meanwhile, Dong-won finds out that his wife has no shadow, and that the killer is much nearer than he could possibly
imagine.
The films production designers, Min-bok Lee and Yu-jeong Kim, were nominated for a 2008 Asian Film Award for the work in 'Epitaph'
Epitaph is noted for its classic portrayal of Kyongseong(now Seoul) life in the 1940s, when Japanese cultural influences remained
strong. A few techniques used by the directors to recreate the 1937 setting were: - utilizing 16mm film, - utilizing vintage camera
from that era, - placing scratches and dust on the film surface.
Production
Release date: August 1, 2007
Distributor: Studio 2.0
Studio: Dorothy Film
Budget: $2.8 million
Box office: $4,443,849
Director...............: Beom-sik Jeong
Writer.................: Bum-Sik Jung
Producer...............: Jang So-Jung
Cinematography.........: Yun Nam-joo
Film Editing...........: Sang-beom Kim
Production Design......: Yu-jeong Kim
Costume Design.........: Kyung-hwa Chae
Art Department.........: Sung-hoon Kim
Visual Effects.........: Jeong Jaehoon
Cast
Ku Jin................: Jeong-nam Park
Tae-woo Kim...........: as Dong-won Kim
Dong-kyu Lee..........: as Su-in Lee
Bo-kyeong Kim.........: as In-yeong Kim
Ju-yeon Ko............: as Asako
Eung-soo Kim..........: as Akiyama
Soo-jung Ye
Ji Yeo
Jin-an Jeong
Choi Jae-Hwan
Ho-seok Kong
Mu-song Jeon..........: Professor Park Jung Nam
David Lee McInnis.....: Onji Koshiro
Ji-a Park.............: as Mother
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