The Journals of Musan(무산일기)

Name: The Journals of Musan
Genre: Drama

Korea · 2010
2h 7m
Director Park Jung-bum
Starring Park Jung-bum, Jin Yong-uk, Kang Eun-jin
Genre Drama

North Korean defector Seung-chul is a refugee living on the harsh edges of Seoul. Bewildered by exploitative employers and cynical urbanites, he’s no good for business. A powerful realism underscores this prize-winning feature debut about the struggle to survive in a strange new world.

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Village Voice by

Group scenes, meanwhile, often suffer from a peculiar handheld drift, as if in troubling over which insult to add to which injury, the filmmakers neglected to attend to rudimentary blocking.

Time Out by David Fear

An attempt to detail the plight of North Koreans in their new homeland, The Journals of Musan doesn't soft-pedal the hardship; Park, however, apparently felt obligated to stack the deck against the film's passive protagonist to a ridiculous degree.

The New York Times by Mike Hale

Mr. Park's screenplay, pedestrian direction and stolid performance don't set us up to care.