Chihwaseon (Painted Fire)
Saved from a street gang's fists by a wealthy patron, young Ohwon+¯-+-+s raw talent, as demonstrated in a sketch thanking his rescuer, opens the door to a world that would otherwise be forbidden to the dirt-poor outsider. As Ohwon's artistic abilities develop to near supernatural perfection, his carnal appetites grow into self-immolation. But whether imprisoned in a gilded cage as a reluctant Court Artist or painting Kama Sutra pillow book porno for booze money, Ohwon's personal dissolution and political innocence yield artworks that one awestruck admirer says +¯-+-+emanate divine strength as if ghosts were dancing around them.