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    by b.o.m. film production

About the production company:
Established in 1999, b.o.m film production has strived to present challenging new stories, new ideas, and to explore new territories. Despite its fairly short life as a film production company, b.o.m. film production has grown to be a major force in Korean cinema through commercially and critically successful films such as An Affair and The Foul King. Now b.o.m. film production is setting a new record with the first Korean feature shot on 6mm DV, Tears which introduces the raw reality of teenage runaways.
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The Cast and Characters:
HAN (Jun Han)
A naive virgin who runs away from home and follows his friend, Chang, into the runaway district of Garibong-dong. By chance, he meets Sari whom he becomes attracted to and shacks up with. He seems fragile, yet when Yong-ho taunts Sari, he fights back with surprising force. To him, life is empty.

CHANG (Tae-Kyu Bong)
Ran's boyfriend is a 17 year old boy leeching off of her and living in her room in the 'beehives'. He is incapable of showing compassion, especially towards Ran except when he explodes at the sight of parents beating their children. To him, life is exhausting.

SARI (Keun-Young Park)
A hard tomboy whose traumatic past of incestuous violence drives her to refuse men and love until she meets Han. She rides her motorcycle, sniffs glue and inhales gas to forget and to escape. With the help of Han, she slowly opens up. To her, life is repulsive.

RAN (Eun-Ji Cho)
A girl who loves Chang unconditionally despite the fact their first meeting was through rape, and that he continues to use and abuse her. She works as a bar girl/prostitute at Bar Rome managed by Yong-ho. She may seem a worldly girl, yet there is a tragic innocence. To her life is lonely.

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About the director:
"Everything they do is an imitation of adulthood. In the tired and desolate lives of the kids we see the image and behavior of adults."

This perhaps explains his longtime desire to tell the story of these teenagers through film. He joined the world of runaway kids by peddling glasses on the street and developed a screenplay, a realistic portrayal of their lives, incorporating his own experience of living with them for a year. The director refuses a warm perspective. He stands back without prejudice to present a portrait of so many teenagers who even now, waste their adolescence in pain and despair.

"The kids in this film have forgotten how to cry. In this sense, the title, Tearsrepresents my own tears as an adult which are shed for these young adolescents."

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A cast of a new generation:
Twenty-odd auditions in search of the right actors were unsuccessful until the four teenagers who became the main cast, were found in the streets. Although they are total novices to film acting, the professionalism they showed during the 4-month shooting, exposing themselves to heated scenes of violence enabled them to become the four characters of Tears themselves. Furthermore, Director of Photography, LEE Du-man whose works include, A Bit Bitter/ invited to the Vancouver Int'l Film Festival, and Baby/ invited to the Venice Int'l Film Festival, brings his experimental and fresh talent to this film.
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