Heo Jong-ho (허종호)

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  Updated cast for the Korean movie "Countdown"
  2011/12/10, Source,
  Updated cast for the Korean movie "Countdown",...More

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  Movie About N.Korean Defector Wins Award at Tokyo Film Fest
  2011/11/30, Source,
  Director and lead actor Park Jung-bum's "The Journals of Musan" won the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Filmex Festival that ended on Sunday. The movie deals with the harsh reality of adjusting to life in South Korea from the point of view of a North Korean defector, and serves as a bitter portrayal of the prejudices he faces in his newly adopted home,...More

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  Heo Jong-ho, director of "Countdown"
  2011/10/24, Source,
  He has a mere 10 days. Ruthless debt collector TAE Geon-ho (Jeong Jae-yeong) can only survive if he can get a liver transplant from compulsive scam artist CHA Ha-yeon (Jeon Do-yeon). This is the set-up of newcomer Heo Jong-ho's crime thriller "Countdown", a film that made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.   Q: How did you come to make this film? A: The financial crisis that started two to three years ago provided the motif. The film industry was having a hard time attracting investment, too, and I was one of the many that were effected and had to give up a film that I had been preparing. So I had decided to make film that was firmly based on reality,...More

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  Festivals News
  2011/10/06, Source,
    Tokyo IFF invites "Sector 7" and five other Korean films 3D sea creature film Sector 7 will have a Special Screening while KONG Quee-hyun's mystery "U.F.O". and Na Hong-jin's thriller The Yellow Sea will be in the Winds of Asia section. A restoration of master filmmaker Kim Ki-young's 1961 "Hyeon-hae-tan Knows" (a.k.a. "The Sea Knows") will have a screening in the Discovering Asian Cinema: Film History á La Carte section. One Shining Day and Two Rabbits in Osaka will both screen in the SUGINO Kiki: Muse of the Asian Indie Cinema section,...More