Bleak Night
title: "Bleak Night" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2010-films", "2010s-high-school-films", "south-korean-independent-films", "south-korean-coming-of-age-drama-films", "2010s-teen-drama-films", "south-korean-high-school-films", "films-about-school-violence", "films-about-bullying", "films-about-suicide", "2010s-korean-language-films", "2010s-coming-of-age-drama-films", "2010-directorial-debut-films", "2010-drama-films", "2010-south-korean-films"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_Night" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Bleak Night |
| image | BleakNight2010Poster.jpg |
| caption | South Korean poster |
| native_name | |
| director | Yoon Sung-hyun |
| producer | Yoon Sung-hyun |
| Kim Seung-june | |
| Park Ki-yong | |
| Jang Hyun-soo | |
| writer | Yoon Sung-hyun |
| starring | Lee Je-hoon |
| Seo Jun-young | |
| Park Jeong-min | |
| Jo Sung-ha | |
| music | Park Min-joon |
| cinematography | Byeon Bong-seon |
| editing | Yoon Sung-hyun |
| studio | KAFA Films |
| distributor | Filament Pictures |
| CJ Entertainment | |
| released | |
| runtime | 116 minutes |
| country | South Korea |
| language | Korean |
| gross | |
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| name = Bleak Night | image = BleakNight2010Poster.jpg | caption = South Korean poster | native_name = | director = Yoon Sung-hyun | producer = Yoon Sung-hyun Kim Seung-june Park Ki-yong Jang Hyun-soo | writer = Yoon Sung-hyun | starring = Lee Je-hoon Seo Jun-young Park Jeong-min Jo Sung-ha | music = Park Min-joon | cinematography = Byeon Bong-seon | editing = Yoon Sung-hyun | studio = KAFA Films | distributor = Filament Pictures CJ Entertainment | released = | runtime = 116 minutes | country = South Korea | language = Korean | budget = | gross = Bleak Night () is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards.
Plot
Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jeong-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response.
Cast
- Lee Je-hoon as Ki-tae
- Seo Jun-young as Dong-yoon
- Park Jeong-min as Baek Hee-joon ("Becky")
- Jo Sung-ha as Ki-tae's father
- Bae Jae-ki as Jae-ho
- Lee Cho-hee as Se-jung, girlfriend of Dong-yoon
Awards and nominations
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| Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. | 15th Busan International Film Festival | 20th Buil Film Awards | 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival | 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam | 48th Grand Bell Awards | 32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards | 12th Busan Film Critics Awards | 5th Asia Pacific Screen Awards | 21st Black Movie Festival | Cine 21 Awards | 19th Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards | 3rd KOFRA Film Awards |
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| 2010 | New Currents Award | Bleak Night | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Best New Actor | Park Jeong-min | |||||||||||||||
| Seo Jun-young | |||||||||||||||||
| Best New Director | Yoon Sung-hyun | ||||||||||||||||
| Best Screenplay | |||||||||||||||||
| FIPRESCI Prize | Bleak Night | ||||||||||||||||
| SIGNIS Award | |||||||||||||||||
| Tiger Award | |||||||||||||||||
| Best New Director | Yoon Sung-hyun | ||||||||||||||||
| Best New Actor | Lee Je-hoon | ||||||||||||||||
| Seo Jun-young | |||||||||||||||||
| Best New Director | Yoon Sung-hyun | ||||||||||||||||
| Best Screenplay | |||||||||||||||||
| Young Adults Jury Awards | |||||||||||||||||
| Best New Director | |||||||||||||||||
| Best New Actor | Lee Je-hoon | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | |||||||||||||||||
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References
References
- [https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2011W24&id=_fBLEAKNIGHT01 "Bleak Night (2011)"]. ''[[Box Office Mojo]]''. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
- Beck, Una. (3 March 2011). "PREVIEW: Film ''Bleak Night''". 10Asia.
- Lee, Claire. (18 October 2011). "Kim Ha-neul, Park Hae-il get top honors at Daejong Film Awards". [[The Korea Herald]].
- Kim, Jessica. (2 December 2011). "''Late Autumn"''to take best pic for Busan critics award". 10Asia.
- Elley, Derek. (11 January 2011). "Bleak Night". [[Film Business Asia]].
- Cho, Jae-eun. (25 March 2011). "No easy answers in complex portrait of teen angst". [[Korea JoongAng Daily]].
- Young, Neil. (15 February 2011). "Bleak Night: Film Review". [[The Hollywood Reporter]].
- Bourne, Christopher. (31 August 2010). "The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival". Meniscus Magazine.
- "Winners of the 35th HKIFF competitions". [[Hong Kong International Film Festival]].
- (18 October 2011). "Kim Ha-neul, Park Hae-il get top honors at Daejong Film Awards".
- (27 November 2011). "'The Unjust' best picture at Blue Dragon Awards".
- (3 January 2012). "Cine 21 Awards 2011".
- (1 February 2012). "Film Industry Reporters Pick ''Crucible'' As 2011′s Best Film". [[Soompi]].
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