The Boys Who Cried Wolf (), also known as The Shepherd, is a 2015 South Korean crime thriller drama film. Written and directed by Kim Jin-hwang in his first feature-length for his Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)'s final year undergraduate film project, it depicts how a former stage actor becomes involved in a murder case.
It made its world premiere at the 20th Busan International Film Festival in 2015 and won the DGK Award. It was also invited to the 15th edition of New York Asian Film Festival in 2016 to be screened as the North American premiere.
Synopsis Wan-joo (Park Jong-hwan), enraged at being replaced by another actor, quits theatre school and now works as a role play in "real-life". One day, a woman asks him to be a witness for her son's murder case. Desperate for money for his mother's surgery, he agrees. When he realizes his false testimony implicates an innocent young man as the murderer, and discovers the murdered victim is an orphan and the woman who hired him isn't who she claims to be, he decides to search for the truth.
Cast Park Jong-hwan as Ji Wan-joo Cha Rae-hyung as Myung-woo Ha Jun as Kwang-suk Yoon Jung-il as Young-min Kim Ye-eun as Mi-jin Oh Chang-kyung as Homicide detective Park Ryu Jun-yeol as Dong-chul Lee Ga-sub as Joon-ho
Production The Boys Who Cried Wolf is director Kim Jin-hwang's final year undergraduate film project at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). In addition to the original story and directing, Kim also wrote, edited, and co-produced the film.
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result 2015 20th Busan International Film Festival DGK Award The Boys Who Cried Wolf 2016 25th Buil Film Awards Best New Actor Park Jong-hwan Best New Director Kim Jin-hwang 2017 22nd Chunsa Film Art Awards Best New Director Kim Jin-hwang Best New Actor Park Jong-hwan 4th Wildflower Film Awards Best Actor Park Jong-hwan Best Screenplay Kim Jin-hwang Best New Director (Narrative Films) Kim Jin-hwang
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