B-rate Dal-gung (B급 달궁)

2006/08/13 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter

"Dasaepo Naughty Girls" ("Dasepo Girl") ( Tasepo Sonyo), an unconventional high school comedy directed by Lee Jae-young, has been invited to the prestigious 57th Berlin International Film Festival in February next year.

The film, based on a popular Internet comic by Chae Jung-taek or better known by his penname B-rate Dal-gung, will be screened at the Panorama section of the Berlinale. The film festival will run Feb.8-18.

E's film, which stars young actors such as Kim Ok-bin, Park Jin-woo and "Lee Kyeon", is about high school students and teachers who enjoy free sexual relations portrayed with colorful and quirky images.

This is the second time E's film has been invited to the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival. His film "Untold Scandal", which stars Bae Yong-joon and Jeon Do-youn, was shown at the 2004 film festival.

The Panorama section features films from both well-known and new directors from around the ...

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2006/08/06 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

Love and sex in unconventional relationships and settings has been the main motifs of director Lee Jae-yong's films.

His 1998 film "An Affair" told the story of a tragic love between a married woman and her sister's fiancee. His 2003 hit historical piece "Untold Scandal" set in the Choson Kingdom revolved around a playboy from a noble family who meets a fatal love.

His favorite theme has gotten more experimental and twisted and contains wackier elements in his upcoming film "Dasepo Naughty Girls (Tasepo Sonyo)" ("Dasepo Girl"). Set in a high school, the film tells a story of students and teachers who enjoy free sexual relationships.

"I followed my instinct in making this film", the director said Wednesday during a news conference after the preview screening of his new film at Seoul Theater in downtown Seoul. "Ever since my 20s, I dreamed about making this kind of challenging film, full of free spirits".

The film is based on an Internet com...

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2006/08/03 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Do not dismiss the movie "Dasepo Girl" (or Multi-cell Girl) as childish. It comes to you as an intentionally light movie as if it is claiming to be a "B-rated movie".

The film is about comic episodes of bizarre and lively high school students who fully enjoy their lives. It is based on comic strips published on the Internet written by Chae Jeong-taek whose nickname is B-rate Dal-gung. The cartoon was loved by a group of maniacs who enjoyed the harmony of the drawings which one may expect in a boy-meets-girl story cartoons and explicit jokes.

Remade Internet Comic Strips-

The background of the film is Musolmo High School, which is prestigious in terms of seeking pleasure. A teacher and students leave school early citing sexually transmitted diseases and a teacher wearing lace underwear during class asks his student to whip and lash him, which reeks of sado–masochism. A "girl burdened with poverty" (Kim Ok-bin) who takes care of her family by selling sex to elderly men has a cru...

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