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Memories of a Dead end
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- LEE Eun-kyoung , BAE Yoon-hee
Producer LEE Eun-kyoung
Korea-Japan projects
<AV Idoll (2012)>Producing
<A Record of Sweet Murder (2013)>Producing
<Mad Movie (2014)>Producing
<AV Idol 2 (2014)>Producing
<Butterfly Sleep (2017)>Producing
Korean Movies <Notebook from my Mother (2017)>Producing
Producer BAE Yoon-hee
Korean movies
< The Warriors (2001)> Marketing
<Crazy Marriage(2002)> Marketing
<Save The Green Planet(2003)> Marketing
<Romance Of Their Own(2004)>Marketing
< The Yellow Sea (2010)> Marketing
< Love 911 (2012)>Planning
<Love Forecast (2015)>Planning
<Notebook from my Mother (2017)>Planning
Director:KIM Bo-Jeong
Producer:LEE Eun-Kyoung , BAE Yoon-Hee
Production firm:ZOA FILMS
Screenplay:KIM Da-Hyun
Category:Motion picture
Genre:Drama
Production stage:Scenario adaptation
Scenario type:Novel adaptation
Total Budget: USD 888,494
Secured budget: USD 10,661.93
Purpose of entry:Sales, Pre-production sale, casting, investment, distribution
Scenario status:6thedit by writer completed, director conducting dramatization
Company:ZOA FILMS
Project manager:BAE Yoon-hee
Address:510, Donwhamun-ro 11-ga gil, Jongro, Seoul
Contacts:Telephone: +82-70-4739-3367 , Mobile: +82-10-4430-7265
E-mail :uni4@naver.com
Korea-Japan projects
<AV Idoll (2012)>Producing
<A Record of Sweet Murder (2013)>Producing
<Mad Movie (2014)>Producing
<AV Idol 2 (2014)>Producing
<Butterfly Sleep (2017)>Producing
Korean Movies <Notebook from my Mother (2017)>Producing
Producer BAE Yoon-hee
Korean movies
< The Warriors (2001)> Marketing
<Crazy Marriage(2002)> Marketing
<Save The Green Planet(2003)> Marketing
<Romance Of Their Own(2004)>Marketing
< The Yellow Sea (2010)> Marketing
< Love 911 (2012)>Planning
<Love Forecast (2015)>Planning
<Notebook from my Mother (2017)>Planning
Director:KIM Bo-Jeong
Producer:LEE Eun-Kyoung , BAE Yoon-Hee
Production firm:ZOA FILMS
Screenplay:KIM Da-Hyun
Category:Motion picture
Genre:Drama
Production stage:Scenario adaptation
Scenario type:Novel adaptation
Total Budget: USD 888,494
Secured budget: USD 10,661.93
Purpose of entry:Sales, Pre-production sale, casting, investment, distribution
Scenario status:6thedit by writer completed, director conducting dramatization
Company:ZOA FILMS
Project manager:BAE Yoon-hee
Address:510, Donwhamun-ro 11-ga gil, Jongro, Seoul
Contacts:Telephone: +82-70-4739-3367 , Mobile: +82-10-4430-7265
E-mail :uni4@naver.com
LOGLINE
Everything that consoled her when she lost her love, and found herself at a dead end in life.
PRODUCTION INTENT
1. The first Yoshimoto Banana novel to be made into a film in Korea!
<Memories of a Dead End> is Yoshimoto Banana’s favorite among her works.
The novel conveys elegant and sad emotions in Yoshimoto Banana’s characteristically delightful way.
In terms of genre, this movie is a melodrama.
The movie begins as melodrama, but develops into a humorousand deep coming-of-age drama.
The protagonist loses her love, but she finds solace in many different loves.
2. A sentimental movie set in Nagoya made by a female Korean director, and a Korean actress!
In <Memories of a Dead End>, sentimentality stands out.
People who have been hurt in life like unfamiliar places.
A story of healing through meeting new people in an unfamiliar place can easily induce empathy from the viewer no matter what city the story take place.
3. Everyone comes to a dead end at least once in their lifetime!
We all come to a dead end at least once in our lives.
When we are hurt by love, when we are sick, when old wounds are uncovered, we need to take rest in order to go forward again.
Behind each negative, and each unhappiness awaits a positive, and happiness of the same scale.
A message of healing found at a dead end awaits.
<Memories of a Dead End> is Yoshimoto Banana’s favorite among her works.
The novel conveys elegant and sad emotions in Yoshimoto Banana’s characteristically delightful way.
In terms of genre, this movie is a melodrama.
The movie begins as melodrama, but develops into a humorousand deep coming-of-age drama.
The protagonist loses her love, but she finds solace in many different loves.
2. A sentimental movie set in Nagoya made by a female Korean director, and a Korean actress!
In <Memories of a Dead End>, sentimentality stands out.
People who have been hurt in life like unfamiliar places.
A story of healing through meeting new people in an unfamiliar place can easily induce empathy from the viewer no matter what city the story take place.
3. Everyone comes to a dead end at least once in their lifetime!
We all come to a dead end at least once in our lives.
When we are hurt by love, when we are sick, when old wounds are uncovered, we need to take rest in order to go forward again.
Behind each negative, and each unhappiness awaits a positive, and happiness of the same scale.
A message of healing found at a dead end awaits.
SYNOPSIS
It willbe okay, no, Idon’t want to be okay!
27-year old Na-Young is a teacher in training, who is preparing for the examination for middle school teacher’s certificate.
Her family is ordinary but they share a strong bond, and, although far away, she has a fiancé.
However, difficulties in finding a job makes her feel trapped.
She wants to escape from her situation, and takes off to Nagoya to see her fiancé.
Na-young hopes to surpriseher finance, but she finds a strange woman at his apartment.
The woman is attractive in a way completely different from Na-young.
The woman tells Na-young that she and Na-young’s fiancé have been together for some time, and plan to get married soon.
Sadness goes away, slowly, but surely!
Na-young has nowhere to go, but she does not want to go back to Korea like this.
A distant relative who lives in Nagoya introduces her to a cafélocated on a dead end, and Na-young decides to stay there.
At the café, Na-young meets a free spirit named Shaw.
Shaw is effectively in charge of running the café.
Na-young spends her days crying over old photos of herself and her fiancéin the attic of the café, and helps Shaw run the café during the evening.
Slowly she comes to know the café’s many patrons.
And slowly, her wounds begin to heal. She has come to enjoy unfamiliar emotions in an unfamiliar place.
Shaw’s openness also begins to influence and change Na-young.
27-year old Na-Young is a teacher in training, who is preparing for the examination for middle school teacher’s certificate.
Her family is ordinary but they share a strong bond, and, although far away, she has a fiancé.
However, difficulties in finding a job makes her feel trapped.
She wants to escape from her situation, and takes off to Nagoya to see her fiancé.
Na-young hopes to surpriseher finance, but she finds a strange woman at his apartment.
The woman is attractive in a way completely different from Na-young.
The woman tells Na-young that she and Na-young’s fiancé have been together for some time, and plan to get married soon.
Sadness goes away, slowly, but surely!
Na-young has nowhere to go, but she does not want to go back to Korea like this.
A distant relative who lives in Nagoya introduces her to a cafélocated on a dead end, and Na-young decides to stay there.
At the café, Na-young meets a free spirit named Shaw.
Shaw is effectively in charge of running the café.
Na-young spends her days crying over old photos of herself and her fiancéin the attic of the café, and helps Shaw run the café during the evening.
Slowly she comes to know the café’s many patrons.
And slowly, her wounds begin to heal. She has come to enjoy unfamiliar emotions in an unfamiliar place.
Shaw’s openness also begins to influence and change Na-young.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Korea National University of Arts, Film. TV & Multimedia
SHORT FILMS
<Mcdonald’s Boy (2003)>screenplay, director
<Flowering Day (2005)>screenplay, director
<Flowering Day (2005)>screenplay, director
AWARDS
7thSeoul International Women’s Film Festival: Grand Award, Audiences’ Award
5thGwangju International Film Award: Best Korean Short Film
14thSeoul International Women’s Film Festival: Artreon Award
5thGwangju International Film Award: Best Korean Short Film
14thSeoul International Women’s Film Festival: Artreon Award
PROJECT PROGRESS
2015 February: Obtained rights to Korean dramatization of Yoshimoto Banana’s <Memories of a Dead End>
~ 2017 February: Planning for 2 years, completed 6th edit of the scenario
~ 2017 March:Stressed that the film is based on Yoshimoto Banana novel in contacting Japanese partners
~ 2017 April:Korea Creative Content Agencychose the project for a support program
~ 2017 April:Held a meeting with Nagoya TV to discuss joint-production
->Obtained agreement on Korea-Japan joint production, plans for investment and distribution in Japan under review
->Reasons for choosing Nagoya
①Along with Tokyo and Osaka, the city has film production infrastructure
②The city is familiar to Koreans, it is the location of Shinhan Bank’s Japanese HQ, and many Korean-Japanese and Koreans live there
③The city is the home to Nagoya Castle that holds historical significance
Such elements gives the city diverse and unique color that matches the atmosphere of the movie.
-> 2018:After release, plans for Nagoya TV airing the movie exclusively and selecting the movie as opening piece of Aichi International Women’s Film Festivalare under review
~ 2017 May:Japan’s Cinema Skholejoined as co-production
~ 2017 June: Newcomer KIM Bo-Jeong chosen as the director
~ 2017 present: director KIM Bo-Jeongcurrently working on dramatization
2017 ~ 2018 June: Pre-production to completion
~ 2017 February: Planning for 2 years, completed 6th edit of the scenario
~ 2017 March:Stressed that the film is based on Yoshimoto Banana novel in contacting Japanese partners
~ 2017 April:Korea Creative Content Agencychose the project for a support program
~ 2017 April:Held a meeting with Nagoya TV to discuss joint-production
->Obtained agreement on Korea-Japan joint production, plans for investment and distribution in Japan under review
->Reasons for choosing Nagoya
①Along with Tokyo and Osaka, the city has film production infrastructure
②The city is familiar to Koreans, it is the location of Shinhan Bank’s Japanese HQ, and many Korean-Japanese and Koreans live there
③The city is the home to Nagoya Castle that holds historical significance
Such elements gives the city diverse and unique color that matches the atmosphere of the movie.
-> 2018:After release, plans for Nagoya TV airing the movie exclusively and selecting the movie as opening piece of Aichi International Women’s Film Festivalare under review
~ 2017 May:Japan’s Cinema Skholejoined as co-production
~ 2017 June: Newcomer KIM Bo-Jeong chosen as the director
~ 2017 present: director KIM Bo-Jeongcurrently working on dramatization
2017 ~ 2018 June: Pre-production to completion
PRODUCTION SCHEDULE (PRELIMINARY)
The movie <Memories of a Dead End> is based on Japanese writer Yoshimoto Banana’s essay <Memories of a Dead End> published in June 2006.
<Memories of a Dead End>, which Yoshimoto Banana has said is one of her favorite works, consists of stories of five women who are faced with critical choices.
The book was published in Korea in 2012.
<Memories of a Dead End>, which Yoshimoto Banana has said is one of her favorite works, consists of stories of five women who are faced with critical choices.
The book was published in Korea in 2012.
