Shoot Me in the Heart

2015 South Korean film
  • January 28, 2015 (2015-01-28)
Running time
101 minutesCountrySouth KoreaLanguageKoreanBox officeUS$2.5 million[1]

Shoot Me in the Heart[2] (Korean: 내 심장을 쏴라; RR: Nae Simjangeul Sswara) is a 2015 South Korean drama film directed by Mun Che-yong, and starring Lee Min-ki and Yeo Jin-goo.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] It is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Jeong Yu-jeong, which won the Segye Literature Award in 2009.[10][11]

Plot

Soo-myung and Seung-min, both 25 years old, meet for the first time at Soori Hope Hospital, a run-down psychiatric facility located on a mountain. Soo-myung has been institutionalized since he was nineteen after the trauma caused by his mother's suicide, and has a phobia of scissors. Seung-min is a sane and champion paraglider, but was forcibly committed by his greedy half-brother to get Seung-min's share of the family inheritance. Soo-myung is a model patient, peacefully and passively spending his days in the hospital despite its abusive nurses, unlike Seung-min, who is a walking time bomb. Soon, Soo-myung gets roped into Seung-min's reckless plan to break out of the hospital.

Cast

  • Lee Min-ki as Seung-min
  • Yeo Jin-goo as Soo-myung
  • Yu Oh-seong as Choi Ki-hoon
  • Kim Jung-tae as Kim Yong
  • Kim Gi-cheon as Man-sik
  • Shin Goo as Ascetic Sibwoonsan
  • Song Young-chang as Director of psychiatric hospital
  • Park Choong-seon as Depressed cleaner
  • Park Doo-shik as Jeom Bak-yi
  • Han Hye-rin as Yoon Bo-ra
  • Kim Jae-hwa as Princess Buckingham
  • Choi Yoon-Bin as Patient 1
  • Kim Seon-ha as Patient 2
  • Lee Jun-hyeok as Street musician

Production

Filming began on May 1, 2014, and wrapped three months later on July 27 in Jeonju.[12][13]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2015 52nd Grand Bell Awards Best New Actor Yeo Jin-goo Nominated

References

  1. ^ http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20148553 [dead link]
  2. ^ Also translated as Shoot My Heart.
  3. ^ "Shoot Me takes aim at viewers' emotions". Korea JoongAng Daily. 23 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-24.
  4. ^ Jin, Eun-soo (8 April 2014). "Shoot Me leads are cast". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  5. ^ Choi, Song-hee (12 June 2014). "Interview: Lee Min Ki, "I'm Acting With Yeo Jin Gu In My Next Film"". BNTNews. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
  6. ^ Jeon, Ah-ram (31 May 2014). "Interview: Yeo Jin Goo Hopes that One Day He Can Look Younger than His Age". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  7. ^ Jo, Yeon-kyung (11 December 2014). "Yeo Jin Goo Worried about Acting as Same-Age Friends with Lee Min Ki in Shoot My Heart". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  8. ^ "In-depth: Yeo Jin-goo, a nice high schooler". Hancinema. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-24.
  9. ^ Kwon, Ji-youn (27 January 2015). "Actor Yeo Jin-goo, 17 going on 25". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  10. ^ "Nae Shimjangeul Sswara". Alibris. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  11. ^ Sung, So-young (9 September 2011). "Fueled by need for fresh material, best-sellers become box office hits". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  12. ^ Hong, Grace Danbi (14 April 2014). "Shoot My Heart Confirms Cast Including Yeo Jin Goo and Lee Min Ki". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  13. ^ Kim, Erika (29 July 2014). "Lee Min Ki and Yeo Jin Goo Finish Shooting Movie Shoot My Heart". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2014-12-12.