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Nov. 27, 2002  Seeing the big picture in Pusan  Last week,
during the 7th Pusan International Film Festival, I was in the
lobby of the Daeyoung 2 Cinema, which was about to screen Jang
Sun Woo's "Resurrection of the Little Match Girl," and ran into
Donald Richie, this year's jury chairman for the New Currents
Award. "We're going to watch the movie that almost brought down
the Korean film industry," he said jocularly.  News photo Stand-
out films from the Pusan International Film festival include
"Too Young to Die" (above) and "Oasis." News photo  Four years
in the making and costing $10 million -- the most expensive
Korean movie ever -- Jang's film hasn't done well since it was
released domestically in July. Fashioned as a role-playing
computer game with "Matrix"-like special effects, the film's
subject is the little match girl of the fairy tale who dies of
cold and hunger. The object