Na Hong-Jin Traces ‘The Chaser,’ ‘The Wailing’ and ‘Hope’ to Bar Talk, Shamans and War Fears at Busan Masterclass

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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Na Hong-Jin told a Busan International Film Festival masterclass audience that his film “Hope” grew out of a conviction, around 2017, that war was about to break out on the Korean peninsula.

At the time, Na said, news reports were describing U.S. fighter jets and bombers flying in and out over Pyongyang through the night. He expected fighting to start in early 2018 or soon after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. That sense of foreboding, he explained, is one of two ingredients he needs before he will commit to a project. The other is the unease he feels around people. He has come to see their words as a mix of truth, distortion and outright lies, regardless of whether any ill intent lies behind them.

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