Beyond the Years

Beyond the Years (Korean: 천년학; RR: Cheon-nyeon-hak) is a 2007 South Korean drama film. Celebrating director Im Kwon-taek's 100th film, it is based on the short fiction "The Wanderer of Seonhak-dong" by Lee Cheong-jun, and was presented at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] Despite being an informal sequel to Im's phenomenally successful Sopyonje (1993), Beyond the Years was not popular with Korean audiences.[3]

Beyond the Years
Poster
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationCheon-nyeon-hak
McCune–ReischauerCh‘ŏn-nyŏn-hak
Directed byIm Kwon-taek
Written byKim Mi-yeong
Based on"The Wanderer of Seonhak-dong"
by Lee Cheong-jun
Produced byLee Hee-won
Kim Jong-won
StarringCho Jae-hyun
Oh Jung-hae
Oh Seung-eun
CinematographyJeong Il-seong
Edited byPark Soon-deok
Music byKunihiko Ryo
Production
company
Kino2
Distributed byPrime Entertainment
Release date
  • April 12, 2007 (2007-04-12)
Running time
106 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$902,591[1]

Synopsis

Dong-ho and Song-hwa are separately adopted by Yu-bong (Im Jin-taek), a nomadic singer, and grow up as siblings. Dong-ho falls in love with Song-hwa, but he suffers from the fact that he has to call her sister and constantly fight with Yu-bong's obsession to make her a great singer. Eventually, Dong-ho leaves home. However, with his unchanging affection for Song-hwa, he keeps following traces of his love while refining his drumming skills in order to match well with her singing. This is the heart-touching love story of Song-hwa, who devotes her life and love to her talent for Pansori (a traditional Korean form of narrative song), and Dong-ho, who has devoted his life to loving her.

Cast

References
  1. "Beyond the Years 2008 Re-release". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  3. "Im Kwon-taek's 'Beyond the Years' fails to attract audiences". The Hankyoreh. May 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-17.


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