Eunjin who is a living legend among the gangsters dominates the male-centered underworld wielding only a pair of her trademark blades. One day, Eun-jin finds her sister from whom she was separated at an orphanage during childhood, and her sister tells Eun-jin that her last dying wish is to see that Eun-jin gets married.
One day, Eun-jin's henchmen discover Soo-il, an ordinary civil servant and Soo-il appears to be the only man naive enough to be dominated by Eun-jin, and the two are married.
After the wedding, Soo-il learns that what is waiting for him a life of constant household chores and a bride who refuses to sleep with him instead of a blissful honeymoon. Eun-jin, on the other hand, is finding the life of the leader of gang more demanding than ever before. To make matters worse, Eun-jin's sister asks Eun-jin to have a child with Soo-il for her. There is nothing Eun-jin will not do for her sister...
With the Beijing Olympics over, broadcasting networks face the challenge of filling the void. Both KBS and MBC have already stepped up to the plate with two brand-new dramas: "Love and Marriage" and "East of Eden".
Despite the recent dismissal of the network's former head, Jung Yun-joo, KBS is determined to prove that it will continue to air quality shows. The channel's latest Monday and Tuesday night installment, "Love and Marriage", seeks to boost viewer ratings.
KBS faces some stiff competition. MBC, which failed to score high viewer ratings with their last Monday and Tuesday night series "When It's At Night, is aiming high with its epic drama, "East of Eden".
Featuring a star-studded cast, including heartthrob Song Seung-heon, this 50-episode series reportedly racked up 25 billion won ($23 million) in production costs. Like the novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, this drama charts the tumultuous struggles between two households. The similarities, however, end there...| More
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It all started with a TV drama series - "Winter Sonata". In 2002, one of Indonesia's TV stations aired the series, introducing one of Korea's cultural products to a wide public in this part of the world. Later on, another TV station, Indosiar - which specializes in Asian dramas from Japan, Taiwan and Korea - aired about a dozen Korean dramas. The latest favorite was "Princess Hours" in 2006.
"The rating is not constant. It depends on the drama. When we air a TV drama that is very popular in Korea, the rating of Korean dramas subsequently rise above other Asian dramas", Gufron, a public relations officer at Indosiar, said.
Gufron said the highest rating in Indosiar is held by local reality shows, followed by local TV dramas. Asian dramas came fifth after feature-length movies produced for TV and music programs. Among Asian dramas, Korean dramas' ratings fluctuate, depending on the popularity of each series being aired at a certain time.
"We now air reruns of the Korean drama 'F...| More
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Korean cinema is increasingly becoming a landmark in the movie world. Avid fans can now learn all about the past and present of the local film industry at the new Korean Film Museum.
Korean Film Museum
The Korean Film Archive (KOFA), a state-funded organization devoted to collecting, preserving and reviving domestic films and movie data, inaugurated last Friday the Korean Film Museum.
Located in Sangam-dong, northern Seoul, it's the city's first museum devoted to movies. Walking around the circular room, you'll zip through 100 years of film history.
It's small but compact and full of small treasures. Cineastes donated precious personal items for the museum. You'll find legendary screen beauty Choi Eun-hee's (1926~) jewelry and make-up brushes as well as celebrated director Im Kwon-taek's signature on-site outfits and the Honorary Golden Berlin Bear trophy he won at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival....| More
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Kim Ji-hyeon, who used to be in the group Roo'ra, will visit the screen.
Juggling her solo singing career, acting, and personal business, she has finished filming independent film "Purple Rain".
Director Jang Dong-hyeon, who was the assistant director for "My Wife is a Gangster 2" and "Gohae", is directing "Purple Rain", the story of Yong-dae, a director of erotic videos, and Young-hee, a worker at a bar. The main characters are Choi Hak-rak, who has shown his acting in "Raybang" and "Lump Sugar", and Choi Eun-joo, who starred in "My Wife is a Gangster" and "The First Amendment". Kim Ji-hyeon plays the wife of Yong-dae.
More than anything else, the actors and staff were captivated by the perfect scenario and participated for no pay.
Those from the producing company said, "The actors including Kim Ji-hyeon saw the script and decided to participate with no salary out of their pure hearts rather than commercial profit".
Mid-last month, they finished filming the last scene w...| More
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The Korean actor Choi Min-soo will co-star with Hollywood stars Robert De Niro and Andy Garcia in the film "Street of Dreams", Korea's Yonhap news reported Tuesday (March 18).
"Street of Dreams" is a 40 billion won co-production between U.S.-based FR Productions, Korea's Hyun Jin Cinema and Japan's Wides Japan. The film will be produced by Fred Roos, the producer of "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Godfather: Part III".
Hyun Jin Cinema has produced Korean films such as "Holiday" and "My Wife is a Gangster 3". Wides Japan has previously made "Deep Love" and "26 Years Diary" that showed the story of a Korean-Japanese man who sacrificed his life to save a Japanese passenger in the subway.
"Street of Dreams" is based on the true story of Montana Joe, a legendary Japanese-American gangster in the 1960s in the United States. Choi will play the role of Montana's Korean friend, Eddie. This will be Choi's first Hollywood movie.
According to FR Productions, De Niro has been cast as an...| More
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A tomboy gang boss tries to keep her day job a secret from her sappy spouse in "My Wife Is a Gangster", a likable comedy-actioner that develops in unexpected directions. Playing with role-reversal ideas in a way that still seems fresh even to blase Western auds, pic sports a striking central perf from actress Shin Eun-gyeong and a gallery of strong supports, though non-Korean viewers may be put off by the relative lack of action and leisurely pacing. Since opening in late September, film has become the second biggest local grosser of the year, bagging a hefty 5.2 million admissions (close to $30 million) on a midrange budget of $1.5 million. Pic also made headlines for its acquisition in mid-October by Miramax for remake and U.S. theatrical rights. However, any Stateside makeover presents a real challenge, as the movie is so grounded in Korean social structures and underworld genre conventions that a transplant would need to work on a completely different level. Like another recent high-concept success, "Hi, Dharma", pic opens misleadingly with a flashy, semi-abstract fight in the rain introing the hard-as-nails Cha Eun-jin (Shin), a 26-year-old orphan who's fought her way to the top to become legendary gang leader Mantis. Thereafter, pic settles back into a routinely lensed character comedy, climaxed by a bloody set-to near the end. Eun-jin, who favors mannish apparel and would rather break a leg than crack a smile, has her heart set on finding her long-lost younger sister. When she does, and sis turns out to have terminal cancer, Eun-jin accedes to her sibling's dying wish that she find a man and settle down.
Efforts to "feminize" her with sexy clothes and coquettish training end in disaster when Eun-jin keeps slipping out of character and into rough street-talk. But one night, she meets Kang Su-il (Park Sang-myeong), a nebbishy civil servant who's already flunked more than 50 blind dates. She decides to marry him and go for a quick divorce once her sister passes on. The comedy of their wedding night -- with her threatening to beat him up if he tries anything and him getting progressively drunk -- is so well played by Shin and the experienced Park that the obviousness of the jokes hardly matters. It's here the script takes the first of its unexpected turns, with Su-il morphing into a genuinely touching figure who asks only for minimal respect and Eun-jin showing small signs of her unease at taking the "male" role both at home and at work. The comic stakes escalate, however, when the sister takes longer to die than expected and asks Eun-jin to make her happy by becoming a mother. This requires the sexually inexperienced Eun-jin to undergo tutorials of a more explicit nature, unlocking a torrent of repressed carnal desire. The central relationship is played out against a background of growing aggression by a rival gang; the antics of two cocky country lads, Romeo (Ahn Jae-mo) and Boxers (Kim In-gweon), who've joined Eun-jin's group; and the loyal service of her deputy, Mazzanga (Shim Weon-cheol), who has a steel plate in his skull and is secretly in love with her. These characters, and otHERs, are given copious screen time, resulting in a virtual ensemble piece, with Eun-jin at the center -- a point underlined in the crowd-pleasing coda, where equality triumphs and Su-il comes into his own. Given the basic concept, the easy route would have been to make Eun-jin a strong, sporty type and concentrate on action set-pieces. Instead, Shin -- hardly recognizable from her role as the reporter in the Korean remake of "The Ring" ("The Ring Virus", 1999) -- is lithe rather than buff, and she plays Eun-jin's strengtH.I.Ternally rather than physically, making her later personal conflicts quite touching. She holds the screen against strong competition from Park as the nerdy but dignified husband and Shim as her devoted sidekick. Production values are pro but with no special style by first-time helmer Jo Jin-gyu, and pic would benefit from about 10 minutes' trimming, especially one sequence of Romeo and Boxers taking on some punks that's a pure diversion.
