Chi-hwa-seon

Chi-hwa-seon
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
취화선
Hanja
醉畫仙
RRChwihwaseon
MRCh'wihwasŏn
Directed byIm Kwon-taek
Written byIm Kwon-taek
Do-ol
Min Byeong-sam
Produced byLee Tae-won
StarringChoi Min-sik
Ahn Sung-ki
CinematographyJeong Il-seong
Edited byPark Sun-deok
Music byKim Young-dong
Distributed byCinema Service
Release date
  • May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10)
Running time
117 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box office$6.9 million

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

The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where Im Kwon-taek won Best Director, shared with Paul Thomas Anderson for Punch-Drunk Love.

In 2020, the film was ranked 13th by The Guardian among the classics of modern South Korean cinema.