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A Cheonggyecheon dog / directed by Kim Kyung Mook.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Kyung Mook., Director.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Korean
- Subjects (All):
- Transsexuals--Korea (South).
- Transsexuals.
- Transgender people--Korea (South).
- Asian LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- LGBTQ+ films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (61 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 2008.
- Language Note:
- In Korean.
- Original language in Korean.
- Summary:
- In telling the story of a man and his contemplative walk along the river that divides Seoul, director Kim Kyung-Mook is using his setting of the Cheonggyecheon River; so notoriously polluted since the Japanese occupation but recently recovered enough to constitute a tourist attraction; to speak for South Korea's shifting and alternating identity between the old and the new Seoul. He centers his surrealistic comic drama on a transsexual who is just at the point of becoming a woman, and who one day gets out of his house feeling that someone is observing him. While wandering in the streets, he meets a talking dog, after which he is chased by a mysterious man. Hiding in a shop, he is transformed into a woman. Thus transformed he anticipates love but his body reverts to that of a male. The male side of the protagonist perceives the city very differently from the female side, and man-woman and dog-that-talks walk the changing city together.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Aug. 6, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 865004148
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