Yi Chong-jun

Nacimiento : 1939-08-09, Jangheung County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea

Muerte : 2008-07-31

Historia

Yi Chong-jun was a prominent South Korean novelist. Throughout his four decade-long career, Lee wrote more than 100 short stories and 13 novels. He died from lung cancer at the age of 68 on July 31, 2008.

Películas

I Am Happy
Novel
A man suffers from mental illness after having lived with a mother suffering from dementia and a brother addicted to gambling. Now institutionalized, he falls in love with a nurse at the psychiatric hospital.
Secret Sunshine
Novel
Shin-Ae (Jeon Do-Yeon) es una joven profesora de piano que acaba de quedarse viuda y quiere empezar una nueva vida con su hijo Jun en Miryang, pueblo natal de su difunto marido, cerca de Seúl. Shin-Ae abre una academia de piano y busca tierra de cultivo, preparada para afrontar valientemente a la vida. Pero todas sus expectativas de futuro se derrumban cuando de nuevo una tragedia aparece en su vida... (FILMAFFINITY)
Beyond the Years
Screenplay
A drama centered on brother-and-sister musicians trained to perform the epic Korean poems known as pansori.
Beyond the Years
Novel
A drama centered on brother-and-sister musicians trained to perform the epic Korean poems known as pansori.
Festival
Novel
A famous writer, Lee Joon-seop, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Lee's illegitimate niece, who has been ostracized from the family, has also returned home for the funeral. While the funeral ceremonies take place, various old family conflicts reassert themselves. During the action of the story, a parallel children's story written by Lee is read by the illegitimate niece. The story describes a grandmother who gives her life force to her growing granddaughter, resulting in the grandmother becoming gradually younger until she reverts into an infant and finally leaves for the next world.
Sopyonje
Novel
A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with.
Io Island
Novel
La acción tiene lugar en una isla de la costa sur de Corea, poblada por mujeres que viven del mar y que estructuran sus vidas según las viejas tradiciones. En esta isla se observan los elementos más primitivos de las experiencias humanas. De acuerdo con una trama aparentemente detectivesca que cuenta cómo uno de los nativos de la isla desaparece al regresar del continente, se estructuran historias paralelas que van desnudando, poco a poco, la verdad de otras misteriosas desapariciones.