By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
Amid the high tide of summer action movies, five star directors are bringing a modest omnibus project with a different sensibility.
"
Five Senses of Eros", each depicting unique aspects of sensuality and sexuality, as well as featuring a host of high-profile actors, will provide moviegoers with a more colorful audiovisual experience.
Contrary to expectations, the five shorts don't deal with each of the five senses, nor are they pure erotica. Rather, participating filmmakers experiment with a distinct language and style, be it B-rate comedy or subtle melodrama, to deliver deliciously short episodes about human desire and its perceived complexities ― or basic simplicity.
Daniel H. Byun (
Byeon Hyeok, "
The Scarlet Letter") opens "Eros" with a stylish urban romance about the thrills of chance encounters and first dates. "His Concern" unfolds like a live journal ― or a guy's version of chick lit ― as it follows the stream of consciousness of a single man, played by heartthrob
Jang Hyeok.
During a business trip, the young man meets an attractive woman on the train and they plan th...
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New rising actress, Lee Si-yeong will be the main character for the new omnibus film, "Five Senses of Eros".
It is about 5 different characters who have different personalities and traits and share their most intimate lives.
Lee is one of the female high school students who takes on a challenge in a game of changing their boyfriend or girlfriend.
It would be only for a day that these 3 couples would change their partners which reveal ...More
The 'Remembrance Night' was held on 22nd, in a café in Seoul Kang-nam to commemorate the third anniversary of
Lee Eun-joo's death.
On this 'Remembrance Night', a large number of film producers, directors and colleagues whom she worked with, visited and spend time recollecting the memories of the actress. The visitors include, director
Kim Dae-seung of the film "
Bungee jumping of their own", director
Kim Jong-hak,
Lee Hyeon-seung,
Byeon Hyeok and script writer ...
MoreThe Korean Film Council has announced the recipients of the first phase of its 2006 Marketing Support for Arthouse and Digital Films fund. The fund provides financial support to arthouse works or digital features to promote diversity on the nation's screens and to help such films compete in a marketplace with increasingly stringent commercial demands.
In the case of arthouse films, 50 million won (~$54,000) will be provided to pay for advertising and other kinds of marketing costs, including the cost of striking prints for release. In Korea's competitive distribution environment, low-budget works face a particularly difficult struggle in getting noticed by viewers, and so this fund is in...
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