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Grain in Ear

{{about|a Chinese-South Korean film|East Asian calendar term|Mangzhong}}

{{Infobox film

|name = Grain in Ear

|image = Grain_in_Ear.jpg

|caption = Grain in Ear poster (2005)

|director = Zhang Lü

|producer = Choi Do-yeong

|music =

|writer = Zhang Lu

|starring = Liu Lianji
Jin Bo
Zhu Guangxuan
Wang Tonghui

|editing = Kim Sun-min

|cinematography = Liu Yonghong

|distributor =

|released = {{Film date|2005|5|18|Cannes|2006|3|24|South Korea|df=y}}

|runtime = 109 minutes

|country = China
South Korea

|language = Mandarin
Korean

}}

Grain in Ear ({{zh|s=芒种}}; {{Korean|hangul=망종|rr=Mang Jong}}) is a 2005 Chinese film written and directed by Korean Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lü.{{cite web|title=Grain in Ear (2006)|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20060062|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=20 May 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Hartzell|first1=Adam|title=Grain in Ear|url=http://koreanfilm.org/kfilm06.html#graininear|website=Koreanfilm.org|accessdate=20 May 2015}} The title refers to the solar term in the traditional calendars of China and Korea.{{cite web|title=The Twenty-four Solar Terms |url=http://www.xinghui.com/english/other/Twenty-four.htm |website=Beijing Star-Light Translation Center |accessdate=20 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305020632/http://www.xinghui.com/english/other/Twenty-four.htm |archivedate=5 March 2015 }}

Plot

Cui Shun-ji is a Chinese woman of Korean ancestry. A single mother bringing up a young son, she lives away from her hometown, and makes a living by selling kimchi. In the course of living her life, she meets three men who betray her. When her son dies in an accident, she decides to take revenge.

Location

Grain in Ear was filmed in a small industrial town, an area 45 minutes' drive away from Beijing, yet just on the edge of farmland."{{cite web|last1=Yu|first1=Gu|title=Grain in Ear|url=http://www.schemamag.ca/viff2005/2005/10/grain_in_ear.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223215032/http://www.schemamag.ca/viff2005/2005/10/grain_in_ear.html|website=Schema Magazine|date=11 October 2005|archivedate=23 February 2012}}

Theme

Grain in Ear examines the interplay of sex, economics, social class and race in a newly industrialized Chinese provincial backwater. Korean Chinese are one of the recognized ethnic minorities in China, comprising about 2.7 million citizens. Korean Chinese are spread throughout the country, and their group situation is consequently invisible to other Chinese, though many have difficulties integrating into society. Televised folklore celebrations and popular Korean foods such as the world-famous kimchi serve as one of the few common reminders of Korean Chinese culture for other Chinese. Zhang, in his brutal focus on the challenges of assimilation for his native ethnic group, explains that "his film is essentially anti-terrorist. Not at all in the way of Bush's political agenda, but on the scale of everyday life, how we as humans terrorize those around us."

Festival appearances and awards

See also

References

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External links

  • {{kmdb film|06762|Grain in Ear}}
  • {{IMDb title|0781421|Grain in Ear}}
  • [http://www.dianying.com/en/title/mz-2005 Grain in Ear] at the Chinese Movie Database
  • {{hancinema film|Grain_in_Ear|Grain in Ear}}

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Category:2000s South Korean films