Topics / Oct. 19, 2020
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During the past few years, gay and lesbian content has been significantly increasing in both quantity and quality. And yet, films regarding transsexuality remain a minority, especially in Asia. For an Asian entertainment powerhouse, Korea’s productions regarding sexual minorities have long been absent from mainstream entertainment. This makes 2017’s transsexual film Lost to Shame, which was nominated for the Blue Dragon Film Awards, almost priceless.
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Lost to Shame follows Songjun, a struggling actor who is busy preparing to audition for a transsexual role in an internationally renowned play. To understand more his transgender character, he reaches out Ina, a transgender woman he saw in a documentary, and asks for her help. Thanks to these efforts he wins the leading role, receives praises for his sincere performance, and becomes a star. However, when he unexpectedly witnesses a secret relationship between the two people he feels closest to, Songjun begins to doubt his own sincerity.
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The actor who plays Songjun is also the film’s writer and director, Nam Yeon-woo. Graduated from Korea National University of Arts, he helped adapt The Devotion of Suspect X, a Keigo Higashino novel, into the film Suspect X in 2012; in 2013, he starred as a leading role in a feature film in Lee Don-ku's indie Fatal, which won him Best Actor at the Korean Wildflower Film Awards.
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After that, he had also played roles in other famous Korean films such as Steal My Heart, No Tears for the Dead, Train to Busan, and Champion. But 2017’s Lost to Shame which he wrote, directed and starred was the one that got him nominated for one of the most prestigious and influential film festivals of Korea, the Blue Dragon film awards. Albeit not the winner, the man is only 37 years old and incredibly talented. He has no doubt still quite a bright future ahead of him.
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