Going My Way with KANG Je-gyu 2012/01/14, Source,
The dramatization of a true war-time story that spans years, continents, and changing friendships and enmities, "My Way" is director Kang Je-gyu's comeback after seven years. KANG Byeong-jin looks at what went into the making of the film.
"My Way" deals with a true story that is practically legend. In the late 1930s, a man from Joseon ends up going to China and the Soviet Union towards Germany and finally ends up on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Amongst the US National Archives' records of the invasion of Normandy was found a photograph of an Asian man in a German uniform at Normandy. American historian Stephen Ambrose wrote in his book "D-Day", "At the beach called Utah on the day of the invasion, Lt. Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, captured four Asians in Wehrmacht uniforms. No one could speak their language; eventually it was learned that they were Koreans",...More
Kang Je-gyu: 'I Devoted My Passion to 'My Way" 2011/12/16, Source,
The director Kang Je-gyu who has written the history of Korean movies, said during the interview with News Y (news channel by Yonhap News) on December 15, "I gave my best effort and passion that I have spared for the past seven years while taking a break to produce the movie "My Way"." He led the boom of Korean movies with his hit movies such as "The Gingko Bed" (1996) and "Shiri" (1998), and his previous movie "Taegukgi" (2004) recorded the largest number of audience members, which was 11.7 million,...More
Director Kang Je-gyu returns with war docudrama 'My Way' 2011/12/15, Source, 'One thing I can tell you is I gave my all in each of the 5,400 takes'. - Kang Je-gyuKang Je-gyu returns to the director's chair with "My Way", which opens next week. It's his second war film after "Taegukgi" (2004). [YONHAP]
Filmmaker Kang Je-gyu publicly told the media that he wouldn't make a war film again after he finished the 2004 hit "Taegukgi". But Kang changed his mind and returns to the director's chair with another war film, "My Way", which has a much larger budget of 28 billion won ($24.3 million), the highest in Korean film history, and far more crew members at about 170.
"It's very hard to make this type of genre film", Kang told the media on Tuesday when asked what made him decide to do another war film. Since "Taegukgi", Kang has mainly worked as a producer,...More
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