Bleak Night (; lit. "The Lookout") is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards. Plot Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jeong-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response. Cast Lee Je-hoon as Ki-tae Seo Jun-young as Dong-yoon Park Jeong-min as Baek Hee-joon ("Becky") Jo Sung-ha as Ki-tae's father Bae Jae-ki as Jae-ho Lee Cho-hee as Se-jung, girlfriend of Dong-yoon Awards and nominations References External links 2010 films 2010s high school films South Korean independent films South Korean coming-of-age drama films 2010s teen drama films South Korean high school films Films about school violence Films about bullying Films about suicide 2010s Korean-language films 2010s coming-of-age drama films 2010 directorial debut films 2010 drama films 2010s South Korean films