Empress Chung (2005) - 왕후 심청 (Wang-hoo Sim-cheong)

2007/11/01 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

15 Korean films are being showcased this November at the 2nd annual London Korean Film Festival, screening at the Barbican in London's financial district. Opening the weeklong festival, which runs the 2nd to the 8th, is KIM Ki-duk's 2007 Cannes competition entry, "Breath". The film quickly sold-out as has the festival's curtain-closer, "I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK", which won the Berlin Alfred Bauer prize this year for director PARK Chan-wook.

Director PARK will present the closing film and lead a 'Screen-Talk' with the audience following the screening. Two films from PARK's famed vengeance trilogy, "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (2006) and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (2002) will also be screened, forming a mini-retrospective of the director's work.

Along with "Breath", KIM's 2006 feature Time will also be screened. Other films in the program are festival-favourite and Thessaloniki top prize winner "Family Ties" ("The Birth of a Family") by KIM Tae-yong, gangster-yarn "A...

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2005/11/30 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Moscow will host an inter-Korean film festival next month to mark the 60th anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese rule.

The Gyeoreh Ilbo, a daily published by ethnic Koreans in Russia, said Wednesday that the festival will run from December 19th to the 21st.

On the schedule are the North Korean films "Girl Selling Flowers", "Empress Chung" and "Hong Kil-dong".

"Hong Kil-dong" is based on a famous 17-century novel about a farmer who fights government corruption and helps the poor. "Empress Chung" is an animated inter-Korean production about a traditional Korean folktale.

South Korean films at the festival will include the action-fantasy film "Heaven's Soldiers" and "Fighter in the Wind", the true story of Korean-Japanese Choi Bae-dal, who founded Kyokushin karate school as Matsutatsu Oyama.

During the festival period, the organizer will also show videos of Goryeo Dynasty relics and hold events on Korean liberation.

An invitation to the festival has been sent to...

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2005/10/08 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

'The President's Last Bang' and 'Empress Chung' open in New York

Ronda Hauben (netizen2)

Several Korean films are making their U.S. debut in New York City this fall. "Empress Chung" was shown by the Korea Society on Sept. 21, 2005. This animation is directed by Nelson Shin. Much of the work on creating the animation was done as part of a joint project employing animators in North Korean to do the animation work and South Koreans to do the story line and complete the film.

At its most fundamental level, the film is about reunification. The film portrays a classic story of honest folk being fleeced by crooks. Chung's father is presented as a loyal Minister who refuses to join those plotting against the King. He loses his lovely wife in a fire started by those who are part of the plot against the King. The Minister is blinded, but manages to save his baby daughter Chung, from the fire.

Chung grows to become a lovely young woman who is willing to sacrifice even her life to ...

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2005/10/01 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

A film festival featuring films from both South and North Korea will be held during the Frankfurt Book Fair from Oct. 17 to Nov. 9 in German cities such as Frankfurt, Offenbach and Wiesbaden, according to Euko24, an online news for overseas Koreans.

Films from the South will include "Address Unknown," "My Little Bride," "A Single Spark" and "My Mother, the Mermaid." The North Korean films will include "Prince Hodong and Princess Nakrang," "Our Fragrance," and "A Girl Who Sells Flowers."

"Empress Chung," an animation film made through a co-production of the two Koreas, will also be on screen.

"Rather than films that are highly artistic or abstract, we chose the films that reflect well the reality and history of the two Koreas," Lee Eun-hee, an organizer of the festival and an official at the Korean Culture Institute in Germany, told Euko24.

"The festival has been organized to offer a chance to plunge into nostalgia for their home country for overseas Koreans and introduce ...

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2005/09/23 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The animated feature film "Empress Chung", an inter-Korean production, has opened at the French Institute in New York.

The Nelson Shin film is the first joint production between the two Koreas and was made to mark the 60th anniversary of national liberation.

The feature was also the first movie to open in both Koreas at the same time.

Director Shin, who was born in present-day North Korea, began work on the film in 1999 and had most of the animation done in the North.

Shin has produced more than 1,000 animated films including Transformers and the Simpsons and has won eight Emmy Awards.

Reported by KBS World Radio ...

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