The Road Called Life is based on three famous Korean short stories.
“When the Buckwheat Flowers Bloom” is about an ageing market vendor, Heo who meets a young itinerant vendor, Dong-I, who he realises he shares a special bond with.
“Spring Spring” tells the story of a man who works as a servant in the fields for a landowner who has promised him his daughter’s hand in marriage. The landowner, however, keeps postponing the wedding…
“A Lucky Day” is about a rickshaw driver Kim, who goes out to work having just heard that his wife is seriously ill. He gets an unusually large number of customers and begins to be suspicious of his sudden good fortune.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
