DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS (Korea, 2006)
New York Premiere
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103 minutes, 35mm, in Korean with English subtitles Watch [the trailer] on YouTube. |
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Showtimes: SAT June 23, 8:20pm at the IFC Center; Director E. J-yong will attend the screening - SOLD OUT! |
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| Presented with the generous support of the Korean Cultural Service New York | |
Burt Bacharach once sang, "What the world needs now/Is love, sweet love..." Wrong. What the world needs now is a candy-colored rain of kinky sex and carefree perversion to wash all its sins away and DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS is a tsunami of sex, a hurricane of horniness, a tidal wave of titillation and it’ll leave you feeling minty fresh like you’ve just had a naughty shower. Based on a hugely popular webcomic, this musical (!) about Dasepo ("Useless") High School, revolves around the plight of Poor Girl (KIM Ok-bin), a new student who has poverty, literally, hanging off her back. She’s in love with "the transfer student from Switzerland" Anthony (PARK Jin-woo), but he’s in love with Double Eyes, the sister of One Eye (LEE Kyun), the class cyclops. One problem: Double Eyes is actually a boy. Another problem: a cult is abducting students and forcing them to dirty dance for the Erotic Goddess. Third Problem: the headmaster is hypnotizing students and installing an "Instant Virgin Chip" that turns them into church-going nerds. For the kids of Dasepo High, who are constantly ducking out of class to hit the VD clinic or meet a customer, this is the ultimate insult. Who will save these perverted pupils from being transformed into model students? This flick’s jokes run the gamut from corny to horny, but underneath it all it’s got a heart of gold and it proclaims that the biggest enemies to world peace are a closed mind, a lack of style and a lack of lubricant. |
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| Also of interest: Director E. J-Yong has personally recommended How to Operate a Polaroid Camera short film to NYAFF, which will be screened as a part of MGFF at NYAFF Program 3: MGFF Favorites. | |
Writer/Director E. J-yong (also credited as LEE Jae-yong) (Born in 1966) Lee garnered local and international critical acclaim with his short film Homo Videocus. He made his feature debut in 1998 with An Affair. His movies An Affair and Untold Scandal brought gorgeous visuals to taboo subject matter and he became known as one of Korea¹s most stylish directors. With the comic strip "Dasepo Naughty Girls," Lee was inspired by the story and subject matter to challenge society¹s conventions and make a film that breaks creative, social and moral boundaries. |
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Filmography 2006: DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS |
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Winner, New Director Award from 22 nd Grand Bell Awards for An Affair |
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| For more information, make sure to visit The E J-yong Page at Koreanfilm.org. | |
