Antarctic Journal

Antarctic Journal is a 2005 South Korean film. It is the feature film debut by director Yim Pil-sung. The film mixes elements of psychological thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern Korean antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility. The film had generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget (over US$6.5 million) and notable cast but wasn't a box office hit.

Antarctic Journal
Korean theatrical release poster
Hangul남극일기
Hanja南極日記
Revised RomanizationNamgeukilgi
McCune–ReischauerNamgŭkilgi
Directed byYim Pil-sung
Produced byCha Seung-jae
Noh Jong-yun
Chae Hoe-seung
Written byYim Pil-sung
Bong Joon-ho
Lee Hae-jun
StarringSong Kang-ho
Yoo Ji-tae
Music byKenji Kawai
CinematographyChung Chung-hoon
Edited byKim Sun-min
Distributed byShowbox Entertainment
Release date
  • May 19, 2005 (2005-05-19)
Running time
114 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$6,500,000
Box officeUS$5,568,811[1]

Plot

During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung, discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter?

Cast

Reception

Derek Elley from Variety wrote, "Some awesome widescreen lensing, with New Zealand convincingly repping the polar wastes, can't compensate for the dramatic emptiness of Antarctic Journal, in which the script gets lost along with the explorers."[2]

See also
  • List of Korean language films
  • Cinema of Korea
  • K-Horror
  • Contemporary culture of South Korea
  • List of Korea-related topics

References
  1. "Antarctic Journal". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  2. Elley, Derek. "Antarctic Journal – Variety". Variety.com. Derek Elley. Retrieved 25 October 2018.


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