Synopsis

Ppongddol dreams to form a band and have a successful career. He names his band 'Golden Chariot’ after a worn-out, orange cart he found on the street, giving it exaggerated meaning. Ppongdol suggests his village friends to join the band, using this cart to carry instruments as well as cabbages. Although they readily accept the offer, the band is in conflict from the first moment when all eight of them meet. Meanwhile, Ppongddol is the youngest of four brothers. He was thrown out of his family with his second eldest brother. One day, the second eldest brother visits him after a long time. Reminiscing the past, they blame each other for being kicked out of their family. The poor two brothers decide to visit their eldest brother, sick with terminal cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, to apologize and ask for some fortune. While they try to sell his house to make money, the third eldest brother is also after inheritance. Knowing that he has not long to live, the eldest brother announces that he will give out his property only if the three brothers go on a trip together. ‘Golden Chariot’ is also on a trip to make up with each other. What will they get from these special trips?

Golden Chariot in the Sky is a debut feature film of the director O Muel, famous for *Jiseul*, shown at as many as 19 international film festivals. This is also a music film after a long interval since *Nostalgia* was released. Both the three brothers who love and hate each other, and Golden Chariot, so frequently in conflict that making their debut seems far away, choose to ‘travel’ with each other to overcome their troublesome situation. The story of two trips heads for the climax as they meet and say goodbye, quarrel and reconcile over and over again. With ‘O Muel Division,’ actors express humor, sorrow, anger, and brotherhood, while a Korean ska band Kingston Rudieska makes their debut as actors. Their merry tunes in the film will make the audiences dance.

Director

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  • O Muel
  • O Muel has been a prominent figure in the cultural movement since 1998, serving as the representative of the cultural group ‘Terror J’ and the street arts festival ‘Flowers in the Head’. After his short films Lipstick Darkly Applied and Flowers in the Head, he gained recognition with his 2009 feature film Hey, That Sound, which won a Special Jury Award at the 6th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival. In 2011, his works Ppongdol and Ieodo followed, and Jiseul – Unfinished Time 2 won three awards, including the CGV Movie Collage Award at the 17th Busan International Film Festival. O Muel also won the Jury Prize at the 29th Sundance Film Festival. His fifth film, *Golden Chariot in the Sky*, is preparing for release, and he is currently planning his next project.