| Small Town Rivals | |||||||||||||
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| Director: | Jang Jyu-sung | ||||||||||||
| Producer: | Kim Mi-hee Cha Seung-jae Im Chung-ryeol Yun Sang-o | ||||||||||||
| Starring: | Cha Seung-won Yoo Hae-jin Byun Hee-bong | ||||||||||||
| Music: | Choi Seung-hyun | ||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Yun-soo | ||||||||||||
| Editing: | Ko Im-pyo | ||||||||||||
| Distributor: | CJ Entertainment | ||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 113 minutes | ||||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||||||
Small Town Rivals is a 2007 South Korean film.
Cho Chun-sam and Noh Dae-gyu, now both in their thirties, are old friends who went to the same elementary school. In their school days, Chun-sam was always the ambitious class president, while Dae-gyu had to settle for a role as vice president. Twenty years later their roles are reversed: Chun-sam is now a humble farmer who has assumed the post of village chief in his hometown, while Dae-gyu is the newly elected county magistrate. At first, Chun-sam asks his old friend for favours regarding the development of his village, but these requests are turned down. Later, when Dae-gyu proposes building a nuclear waste disposal facility in the county, Chun-sam leads demonstrations against the plan, turning old friends into bitter rivals.
Small Town Rivals was released in South Korea on March 29, 2007,[2] and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 440,516 admissions.[3] The film went on to receive a total of 1,269,142 admissions nationwide, with a gross (as of May 27, 2007) of .[4]
Yang Sung-jin of The Korea Herald was critical of the film's blend of comedy and politics, saying, "Director Jang has incorporated a political satire into the film, weakening its already fragile comic underpinnings."[5]