Radiance: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Splendid Outing

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Radiance: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Splendid Outing

Posted November 26, 2025 07:38 PM by Webmaster

Radiance Films has provided us with an exclusive trailer for the new 4K restoration of Kim Soo-yong's Splendid Outing (1978), which will be released on Blu-ray on December 9.

Description: Following a dream about her dead twin sister, thriving corporate tycoon Gong Do-hee (Yoon Jeong-hee, Poetry) takes a drive to the seaside. But her splendid outing becomes a nightmarish one when she is kidnapped and forced to live with a gruff island fisherman who insists that she is his runaway wife. Featuring a timely message about political oppression that evaded the stringent censors of the day, this daring modernist work from prolific Korean cineaste Kim Soo-yong (Mist) stands as one of the boldest works of Korean cinema's darkest era — the 1970s.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
  • NEW 4K RESTORATION BY RADIANCE FILMS
  • Uncompressed mono PCM audio
  • Audio Commentary by Ariel Schudson (2025)
  • Interview with filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (2025)
  • Interview with assistant director Chung Ji-young (2025)
  • Stranded but Not Afraid: The Island Women of Classic Korean Cinema - a visual essay by Pierce Conran
  • Newly improved English subtitles
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
  • Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Chung Chong-hwa and Pierce Conran and archival writing by Director Kim Soo-yong
  • Limited edition of 2500 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
U.S. AND CANADA STREET DATE: DECEMBER 9.
UK STREET DATE: DECEMBER 8.