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The Faceless Man

LEE Wonsik
Korea 100min 4K color Fiction
Production StatusScenario Development
Goal of ParticipationFinancing, Production meeting, Distribution meeting
LOGLINE

Mystery thriller about a man who lost his memory after the accident and a woman caused the accident.

SYNOPSIS

A man gets seriously injured in a traffic accident on a quiet national highway. After he regains consciousness, the man undergoes facial plastic surgery. He gets a new face but loses his memory. Then the woman who caused the accident visits him. The police try to find the man’s family but to no avail. Out of guilt and hidden trauma, the woman begins to take care of the man. His brain damage endows his new powers, which makes him popular in the hospital. Meanwhile, the man and the woman develop romantic feelings for each other within the delicate offender-victim relationship. They go and visit the site of the car accident together. Back in the hospital, terrible news awaits them. It turns out that the man is a prime suspect in the recent serial murder case. Yet, because his memory has been clinically removed, he can neither remember nor admit his crime. Controversy arises in society as to how to make him pay for his sin. Then, they encounter a shocking revelation about their relationship.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Is it possible for the victim and the perpetrator to fall in love? If the latter loses memory due to medical procedures, is that person still a criminal? Is the victim’s revenge justified? These are some of the questions that this film asks. It’s a mystery thriller that deals with the irony of human sin and looks into men’s consciousness of original sin.

DIRECTOR
LEE Wonsik
Majored in film directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. His graduation film Time Machine was screened at the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, the Torino Film Festival (Detours), the Image Forum Festival in Japan, and the Singapore International Film Festival. After graduation, he took on various roles—scriptwriter and assistant director of April Snow (2005); dramatizer of Happiness (2007) and Open City (2007); and assistant director of Five Senses of Eros (2009). He wrote and directed A Boy’s Sister, which was released in 2013, and invited to the Montreal World Film Festival. In 2015, he wrote and directed Traveler from the North, a feature-length film about the human rights of North Korean defectors. His other directorial credits include the short film Growing Point (2018), and the feature-length documentary Bethesda in Japan, which was screened at the Seoul International Agape Film Festival.
Screenwriter·Director: A Boy’s Sister (2013), Traveler from the North (2015)
Director: Bethesda in Japan (2019)
PRODUCER
JUNG Jinmi
She produced A Boy’s Sister in 2013 and won the Pitch & Catch Megabox Award at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival in 2014 with Secret Palace. In 2015, she planned and produced Traveler from the North, the story of a North Korean defector who becomes a single mother. In 2019, she produced Bethesda in Japan, which was shot entirely in Japan.
Producer: A Boy’s Sister (2013), Bethesda in Japan (2019)
Planner·Producer: Traveler from the North (2015)
CONTACTukicineyo@naver.com
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