Next Frame Student Film Festival

A Korean I Met In Japan by Hwang Byeng-Gug, Japan Academy of Moving Images, 16mm, 40 min, Narrative

Lee Sang-woo is a Korean student preparing to study engineering in Japan. Wanting to take a part-time job for his tuition, he happens to get a job at the noodle shop run by Korean owner. But against his expectation, the master’s behavior is not favorable. To make matters worse, he as a green, gets less pag than other part-timers. One rainy day, at last he can’t bear it anymore and explodes. In a small noodle shop old and young, native and foreigner bump each other delivering noodles in a rush.