Smoking Tigers
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Overview
Over one summer at an elite academic boot camp, a lonely Korean-American teenager hides her true identity to fit in, only to discover the bittersweet pains of adulthood.
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Review
Early 2000s in Los Angeles, Hayoung is a lonely 16-year-old Korean-American girl who lives in a small apartment with her mother and sister. Her father who is in temperate separation with mother sells carpet for living, tries to stay cheerful in front of Hayoung. She also enjoys the time with him once in a while. On the other hand, there is tension between the relationship with her mother who struggles to pay for Hayoung's after school lessons. After all, her father returns to Korea and Hayoung's study also struggles. Personal crisis factors like the unstable relationship between parents and children entering puberty in an low-income immigrant family shows anxiety of not knowing when and what will happen. Director Shelly Yo carefully describes various situations and characters' personalities with this debut feature film. In particular, Ji-young Yoo in the role of Hayoung and Abin Andrews as her mother make us look forward to their next work. (CHUN Jinsu)
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Credit
- DirectorSo Young Shelly YO
- ProducerGuo GUO
- ScreenplaySo Young Shelly YO
- CinematographyJUN Heyjin
- GafferRyan KERR
- Production DesignZHAO Yiming
- MusicFUJITA Masayoshi
- EditorZHANG Mengyao Mia
- SoundCHOI Sung Rok
- CastYOO Ji-young, JUNG Junho, Abin ANDREWS, Erin CHOI
Film Source
Smoking Tigers LLC⎜smokingtigersfilm@gmail.com
Director
So Young Shelly YO
So Young Shelly Yo is a Korean American filmmaker whose work has been supported by Tribeca, HBO, San Francisco International Film Festival and more. Smoking Tigers is Shelly's first feature.
