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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Bleak Night
| image = BleakNight2010Poster.jpg
| caption = South Korean poster
| native_name =
| director = Yoon Sung-hyun
| producer = Yoon Sung-hyun
Kim Seung-june
Park Ki-yong
Jang Hyun-soo
| writer = Yoon Sung-hyun
| starring = Lee Je-hoon
Seo Jun-young
Park Jeong-min
Jo Sung-ha
| music = Park Min-joon
| cinematography = Byeon Bong-seon
| editing = Yoon Sung-hyun
| studio = KAFA Films
| distributor = Filament Pictures
CJ Entertainment
| released =
| runtime = 116 minutes
| country = South Korea
| language = Korean
| budget =
| gross = [https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2011W24&id=_fBLEAKNIGHT01 "Bleak Night (2011)"]. 'Box Office Mojo'. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
}}
'Bleak Night' (; lit. "The Lookout") is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards.
Plot
Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jeong-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response.
Cast
* Lee Je-hoon as Ki-tae
* Seo Jun-young as Dong-yoon
* Park Jeong-min as Baek Hee-joon ("Becky")
* Jo Sung-ha as Ki-tae's father
* Bae Jae-ki as Jae-ho
* Lee Cho-hee as Se-jung, girlfriend of Dong-yoon
Awards and nominations
References
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