Joe Odagiri (オダギリジョ)

[ChanMi's star news] Song Hye-kyo's LEVI's model shoot

Source | 2009/09/13 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Song Hye-kyo and Joe Odagiri are in a photoshoot together.

They have come together for LEVI'S PREMIUM COLLECTION.

Two stars have the modern cynical look and seem to be in some movie set rather than a photoshoot set.

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Kim Ki-duk's 'Dream' provocative, deep

Source | 2008/09/24 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Award-winning director Kim Ki-duk has built up an international reputation with his films that starkly differ from other mainstream movies in Korea and elsewhere. He stands out largely because he never veers off from his obsessive pursuit of provocative styles and thought-provoking themes.

For better or worse, Kim did not pull any punches in making his 15th feature, "Dream" (Bi-Mong), to be released on Oct. 9. The movie is drawing keen media attention by signing on high-profile actors -- Lee Na-young from Korea and Joe Odagiri Japan -- but viewers should be aware of the cinematic puzzles director Kim routinely inserts in his films in order to grasp what is really going on in this mixture of reality and fantasy.

In the film, Odagiri plays Jin, an artist who sees himself causing a car crash in his dream. What he discovers, however, is that his dream is not a mere creation of his brain because all the details he witnessed while sleeping turns out to be true in the reality. Or that's...| More

'Adrift' Is Unsentimental Yet Touching

Source | 2008/09/04 | 0 comments | Permalink |

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

Last November, Japanese heartthrob Joe Odagiri ("Tokyo Tower") caused a traffic jam in Seoul as local fans flocked from one theater to another to catch a glimpse of him. Before the Oct. 9 release of his South Korean film debut, Kim Ki-duk's "Dream", he visits the big screen through the brilliantly manic film, "Adrift in Tokyo".

Odagiri can, in Hollywood parlance, be compared to Johnny Depp with his mass appeal despite (or perhaps because of) his eccentric outfits and unusual roles in independent or experimental genres. "Adrift" is no exception, and the unshaven actor sports wild curls that make him look like an aging Elvis who has just rolled out of bed. Joining him is the veteran actor Tomokazu Miura ("The Taste of Tea").

Odagiri and Miura play roles they could easily have done with their eyes closed, but bring that magical combination of tragedy and comedy, calamity and zaniness. Takemura (Odagiri) is a lonesome orphan who, after eight years i...| More

[ChanMi's movie news] Lee Na-young in "Dream" with Japanese actor Joe Odagiri

Source | 2008/08/27 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Lee Na-young represents Korea and Joe Odagiri represents Japan in their new movie "Dream" which is to be released this October.

Their official teaser poster has been released for the public.

This movie directed by Kim Ki-duk who always produces groundbreaking films ...| More

Pretty boys overtake the screen... this fall is the season for them

Source | 2008/07/03 | 0 comments | Permalink |

After the female-dominated last year and after this summer filled with men, it will be the season for pretty boys.

The faces are brilliant.

Kang Dong-won, who had stayed inactive after "M", will come back with "The War of Flower" Director Choi Dong-hoon's "Jeon Woo-chi". He is the first of the pretty boys, and will play a character who is born again into modern times after being trapped in a picture due to his wasteful life.

People look forward to Kang Dong-won's special comedy, which he showed in "Too Beautiful to Lie" and "M", and how it will tie in with his innocent appearance.

"JEON WOO CHI : The Taoist Wizard" will be released early next year, but it is already popular due to the union of Director Choi Dong-hoon, Kang Dong-won, Kim Yoon-seok, and Im Soo-jeong....| More