R-Point

R-Point

Kong Su-chang's directorial debut feature, R-Point, is a wartime horror film set in the early 1970s during the Vietnam War. A unit of Korean soldiers is dispatched to investigate the disappearance of an entire military squad in the desolate region known as R-Point. Terrifying events unfold as the horrific history of R-Point haunts the dispatch unit. Kong’s honest and insightful depiction of Korean soldiers in the Vietnam War is rather complicated—they are perpetrators of violent war crimes, but also victims of the war driven by imperialism. Horror triggered by global trauma is an unsettling theme explored in R-Point.

DIRECTOR: Kong Su-chang. WRITTEN BY: Kong Su-chang, Pil Yeong-woo. CAST: Kam Woo-seong, Lee Sun-kyun, Son Byung-ho. 2004. 107 min. South Korea. Color. Korean. Rated R. 35mm. Print courtesy of KOFA.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Korea Foundation.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

Donors to the Academy Museum’s fund in support of Asian American Pacific Islander programming include Esther S. M. Chui-Chao, Julia and Ken Gouw, and Dr. Peter Lam Kin Ngok of Media Asia Group Holdings Limited.

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