Chi-hwa-seon
Promotional poster
Hangul	취화선
Hanja	醉畫仙
Revised Romanization	Chwihwaseon
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'wihwasŏn
Directed by	Im Kwon-taek
Written by	Kwon-taek Im Do-ol Byung-sam Min
Produced by	Lee Tae-won
Starring	Choi Min-sik Ahn Sung-ki Yoo Ho-jeong
Cinematography	Jeong Il-seong
Edited by	Park Sun-deok
Music by	Kim Young-dong
Distributed by	Cinema Service
Release date	May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	$6.9 million[1]

Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon (also known as Painted Fire, Strokes of Fire or Drunk on Women and Poetry) is a 2002 South Korean drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek about Jang Seung-eop (commonly known by his pen name, Owon), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art.

Synopsis

It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.

These events are set against the struggle for reform within Korea, caught between China and Japan (annexed by Japan in 1910, outside the film's time-frame).

Cast

• Choi Min-sik as Jang Seung-up
• Ahn Sung-ki as Kim Byung-Moon
• Yoo Ho-jeong as Mae-hyang
• Kim Yeo-jin as Jin-jong
• Son Ye-jin as So-woon

Awards

• In 2020, the film was ranked by The Guardian number 13 among the classics of modern South Korean cinema.^[5]