The long awaited Air Doll starring Korean actor
Bae Doona is to get its Korean release. The actor has received a positive reception both internationally and in Japan where she has received 2 awards, including Best Actress at the Japanese Academy Awards and another at the Takasaki Film Festival.
The film, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and based on a Japanese manga, premiered at Cannes last May. It will be released in Korea April 8.
Back in Korea BAE is better known for her role as Nam-ju, the quietly spoken but competitive archer in
Bong Joon-ho's
"The Host", Korea's biggest ever grossing film. She also appeared in the same director's earlier effort "
Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000), in the
Jeong Jae-eun directed "
Take Care of My Cat" (2001) and as a heady social activist in
Park Chan-wook's "
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance".
Air Doll, which recently played at Rotterdam, stars BAE as Nozumi, an inflatable doll owned by a middle aged man named Hideo who lives alone. Even though a doll, Nozumi is created with a heart and goes in search of the world when Hideo leaves for work each day. Encountering residents, ironically, more empty then she, Nozumi finds herself at a video store where she meets Junichi and falls in love.
David Oxenbridge KOFIC
