Smile Bus (Smile Bus)
Special Screening - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2011
Sang-joon Park / Short Narrative / Japan / 2011 / 23 min / Colour / HDCAM / In Japanese, Korean / Arabic, English subtitles / Qatar Premiere
Rated: General Audiences. Suitable for ages 4 and up.
Synopsis
One day a young Korean girl, Yuna, decides to pack up and leave. She heads for Japan where she works as a tour guide for visiting Koreans. Hot on her trail is her ex-boyfriend Sang-ho who follows her to Japan in order to win her back. "Smile Bus" is a contemporary re-working of the classic Kamakura and Enoshima love story.
About the Director
Sang-joon was born in 1967 in Korea. He graduated from Yonsei University, Dept of Philosophy. “A School Rep.,” his first short film has screend and won awards in South Korea, Singapore and Italy.
Credits
- Director
- Sang-joon Park
- Screenwriter
- Sang-joon Park
- Producer
- Hiroki Taniguchi, Ryo Murata
- Editor
- Dong-Hoon Lee, Akiko Mitsugi
- Executive Producer
- Hiroyuki Saeki
- Music
- Eun-Jeong Kim
- Cinematographer
- Hui-Suk Nah
- Cast
- Gun-hyung Park, Hyun-kyung Ryu, Yohji Tanaka