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Biography PARK has been in the film industry as an assistant director for respected directors such as HWANG Qu-dok, LEE Jang-ho, and JANG Sun-woo. PARK is also known as a scriptwriter who has written several feature scripts and meanwhile he has prepared for his own directorial feature debut film. Thanks to his rich experience and creativity, the Korean film industry has been expecting his debut film with much anticipation. Source Open the link | |
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Pruning the Grapevine in Competition at Karlovy Vary (Source)
14 Korean Films go to Italy's Far East Fest (Source)
Korea at American Film Market (Source)
'No Mercy' Leaves Audience Hanging (Source)
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 Korean film "Pruning the Grapevine" (2006), by MIN Byeong-hoon, will screen in the Official Selection – Competition section of the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The event which is held each year in the picturesque valley also known as Karlsbad, in the western province of Bohemia, Czech Republic, opens on June 29th for a nine-day run. A total of six Korean features will screen in various sections of the festival.
Grapevine director MIN is known to Karlovy Vary programmers, after his first film, "The Flight of the Bee" (1998, co-directed by Jamshed Usmonov) and his second, "Let's Not Cry", were screened at previous editions of the festival with the latter winning both a FIPRESCI award and a main jury Special Mention in 2002. Grapevine lead SEO Jang-won is also a familiar face at Karlovy Vary after his screen debut "The Unforgiven" was shown at last year's event.
"Pruning the Grapevine" was the recipient of KOFIC's Art Film Production Support program in 2005 a...| More |
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The 9th Udine Far East Film Festival boasts one of the largest showcases of Asian cinema in Europe. This year around 60 titles from across Asia were selected to screen at the event which runs April 20th to 28th in the picturesque northern Italian city. This year 14 top Korean films were invited, of which several will have their International Premiere at the festival.
Making their International festival debut are LEE Jeong-beom's gangster-themed drama "Cruel Winter Blues", JANG Jin's comedy-noir "Righteous Ties", JANG Moon-il's romantic-comedy "A Good Day for an Affair", BYEON Seung-wook's drama "Solace". Two of Korea's top-grossing hits of late 2006 will have their European Premier: CHOI Dong-hoon's high-stakes comedy-thriller "Tazza: The High Rollers" ("The War of Flower") and KIM Yong-hwa's weighty satire "200 Pounds Beauty", a look at the culture of plastic-surgery in the entertainment industry. The latter film went on to become the highest-grossing Korean comedy of all time...| More |
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A record total of 85 Korean films were shown at this month's American Film Market (AFM), which ranks along side Cannes as one of the largest of its kind in the world. Most South Korean films this year were entered in AFM in an effort to find foreign buyers.
Among them were many local hits including BONG Joon-ho's monster-movie 'The Host' and LEE Joon-ik's human drama 'Radio Star', as well as commercially underrated films such as HONG Sang-soo's 'Woman on the Beach' and KIM Ki-duk's 'Time'.
Many in LA spoke highly of the Korean film industry, which how has a production rate of about 100 features annually, and whose overseas sales topped US$76 million last year, up from just US$7 million in 2000.
"It is now a strong national cinema and can be talked about in the same breath as, for example, French, Spanish or Japanese cinema", Tony Safford, senior vice president of acquisitions for 20th Century Fox, was quoted as saying.
Some deals already confirmed at the festival include Th...| More |
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 By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
New domestic movie "No Mercy for the Rude" (Yeuiomnun Kotdul) is a story about a lonely professional killer, who decides to eliminate those who demonstrate disrespect and coarseness in their lives.
From the very beginning the black comedy twists familiar conventions used in typical action or gangster movies to create a peculiar sense of humor and jokes.
In the film, clumsy killers are far from "being cool" and things often get messy with silly and unexpected sequences.
But such funny little moments and interesting characters are loosely combined and the story spirals off without a specific direction. The result is that audiences can't cope with the huge jump between early humor and a sudden tragic end.
Directed by Park Cheol-hee and starring Sin Ha-gyoon and Yoon Ji-hye, the film revolves around a professional killer with a speech impediment (played by Sin), who is believed to be mute. The truth is he doesn't talk because of a silly soundi...| More |
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"I don't kill just anybody. I only kill the rude ones".
Those words are uttered by a hired assassin in "No Mercy for the Rude" as he prances toward a villain to thrust a knife deeply into his chest. The villain slumps to the floor. The killer lights a cigarette and casually pulls his bloody 12-inch knife from the body and places it inside his leather jacket again.
"I am a 'killar' but I have rules of my own", he adds with a smirk while adjusting his sunglasses.
It sounds like yet another exaggerated noir genre movie that uses excessive hyperactivity and churns out the cliches, and so it is, sort of. But it is also comical if you can ignore the gruesome killings that appear occasionally to remind you that you are watching a crime drama about hired killers.
"I hate meaningless murders", says the killer again he leaves the scene of another killing. Before the film turns too brutal, you find yourself chuckling quietly (though the film also emphasizes humanity and introspective issues i...| More |
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