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| ‘Ode to my Father' took the number two spot on the list of most-watched Korean films, as it surpassed 13 million in ticket sales, Saturday. / Korea Times file |
Director Youn Je-kyoun's ‘Ode to my Father' took the number two spot on the list of most-watched Korean films, as it surpassed 13 million in ticket sales, Saturday.
It made an accumulated 13,023,664 in ticket sales as 89,809 people viewed it at 489 theaters across the nation that day, according to the Korea Film Council, Sunday. The milestone comes 53 days after the film's release in mid-December.
The sales figure surpasses that of ‘The Host,' which was previously number two in ranking with 13,010,000 viewers.
The Korean film that attracted the most viewers so far is ‘Roaring Currents' released last year and had 17,610,000 in ticket sales.
Ode to my Father ranks third in number of viewers when foreign films released here are taken into account. ‘Avatar' is in second place with 13,620,000 viewers.
Ode to my Father is still playing at some 500 theaters, eight weeks into its release, generating speculation that it could surpass Avatar's record.
The film centers on the life of a man played by Hwang Jung-min, who sacrifices his dreams as the main breadwinner for his family through the 1950s to the present. It was selected to be screened in the Panorama section of the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival that kicked off Feb.5 and runs through Feb. 15.
