21st Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 18-28, 2024 Globe Cinema

12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 20-24, 2024 Globe Cinema

A Hard Day

South Korea, 2014 : Alberta Premiere
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In Cinema Globe Cinema
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description

A divorce notice from his wife. His mother dies. An alleged embezzlement investigation at his office. Committing a fatal car crash. These all happen to Detective Go Geon-soo in one hard day. Trying to coverup the car accident, the police detective uses his deceased mother's coffin to hide the corpse of the victim and flees the scene. Soon after Go Geon-soo gets a mysterious call from a supposed witness to the hit-and-run and he realizes that someone has been watching him all along.

This South Korean crime action thriller film was selected to compete in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.


OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Cannes Film Festival 2014

DIRECTOR BIO: 
Kim Seong-hun was born in South Korea. He got his start in features as an assistant director on OH: HAPPY DAY (2003), and was writer and first AD on HE WAS COOL (2004). His made his debut as writer-director with HOW THE LACK OF LOVE AFFECTS TWO MEN (2006).

press for A Hard Day

"An amusingly sick South Korean thriller."
- Los Angeles Daily News
"An all-out, over-the-top bad cop vs. bad cop Korean thriller"
- Film-forward.com

screened with a short film

The Garage

Canada, 2014, 9 Minutes, Director Patrick White

details

Action / Crime / Award at CUFF

18+
Korean with English Subtitles
111 Minutes

credits

Director/Screenriter:
Kim Seong-Hun

Producer:
Cha Ji-Hyun, Billy Acumen

Cast:
Lee Sun-Kyun, Cho Jin-Woong

community

awards

WINNER: Jury Award, Best Narrative Feature - CUFF 2015

Best Editing, Blue Dragon Awards 2014
Best Director, Grand Bell Awards, South Korea 2014