Gidam (2007)Epitaph.DVDrip

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