2009 – 28 min – California – Japanese w/ English subtitles – color
Manhattan Premiere
Distinctions
Best of Fest LA Shorts Fest, among many others.
Synopsis
Japan, 1953. A Japanese director is about to begin his next samurai epic. Nanshu lands a lead role as one of the eight samurai that will save a village from bandits. Then, the director changes his mind and there is only one thing Nanshu didn’t prepare for -being fired.
Director’s Bio
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Justin’s one-act plays THE PROCESS and THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF AN ARTIST have been staged in Manhattan and Staten Island, NY. He was a production assistant for numerous films including THE DEPARTED and THE PRODUCERS. He is also a published film journalist for Ioncinema.com. Justin graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory where he received the prestigious Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell Scholarship and completed The 8th Samurai as his thesis. Currently he is in pre-production of this first feature IT STARTED IN SEOUL, produced by the director the Korean film, Marrying the Mafia III. The film would be one of the first major Korean pictures directed by an American.
Editor’s Bio
Soojin Chung has worked in film, broadcasting, and music videos in Korea since 2000. She was an On-Set Editor on 8 major feature films including Park Chan-Wook’s SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE. She received her Master in Fine Arts for Film Editing at the American Film Institute, where she edited three thesis projects: THE 8TH SAMURAI, LUCKY LOTUS, and HALF KENNETH which have gone on to win awards at various film festivals.
In 2008, Soojin was awarded the American Cinema Editor Eddie Award for Best Student Editor and was nominated for Best Editor at the Show Off Your Shorts Film Festival. Currently, Soojin is attached to edit the feature film It Started in Seoul.
