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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Antarctic Journal
| image = Antarctic Journal.jpg
| caption = Korean theatrical release poster
| director = Yim Pil-sung
| writer = Yim Pil-sung
Bong Joon-ho
Lee Hae-jun
| starring = Song Kang-ho
Yoo Ji-tae
| producer = Cha Seung-jae
Noh Jong-yun
Chae Hoe-seung
| music = Kenji Kawai
| cinematography = Chung Chung-hoon
| editing = Kim Sun-min
| distributor = Showbox Entertainment
| released =
| country = South Korea
| runtime = 114 minutes
| language = Korean
| native_name =
| budget =
| gross = [https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&country=KR&id=_fNAMGEUKILGI%28ANTA01 "'Antarctic Journal'"]. 'Box Office Mojo'. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
}}
'Antarctic Journal' is a 2005 South Korean film. It is the feature film debut by director Yim Pil-sung. The film mixes elements of psychological thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern Korean antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility. The film generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget (over ) and notable cast, but wasn't a box office hit.
Plot
During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung, discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter?
Cast
* Song Kang-ho - Choi Do-hyung
* Yoo Ji-tae - Kim Min-jae
* Choi Deok-moon - Seo Jae-kyung
* Kim Kyeong-ik - Yang Geun-chan
* Park Hee-soon - Lee Young-min
* Yoon Je-moon - Sung-hoon
* Kang Hye-jung - Yoo-jin
* Sam Hammington - English expedition party (voice)
* Oh Hee-joon as Person
Reception
Derek Elley from 'Variety' wrote, "Some awesome widescreen lensing, with New Zealand convincingly repping the polar wastes, can't compensate for the dramatic emptiness of 'Antarctic Journal', in which the script gets lost along with the explorers."
See also
* List of Korean-language films
* Cinema of Korea
* K-Horror
* Contemporary culture of South Korea
References
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