Kim Hae-sook (김해숙)

2008/04/03 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

A representative of Park Chan-wook's new movie "Evil Live" said, "In addition to Song Kang-ho, Kim Hae-sook, Sin Ha-gyoon, Kim Ok-bin and other actors have finished reading the screenplay. They are all eager to try their best".

The exciting thing is that Song Kang-ho is playing a vampire pastor. He plays Sang-hyun, who goes to his friend Kang-woo's (Sin Ha-gyoon) house and is enchanted by his wife Tae-joo (Kim Ok-bin) and falls in love.

Sang-hyun gets infected by an unknown virus, becomes a vampire, and undergoes an identity crisis. He also perceives the presence of a ghost at Kang-woo's house.

The relationship between Tae-joo and Kang-woo's mother, who is paranoid about losing her son to Tae-joo, is also interesting.

Tae-joo endures maltreatment from her mother-in-law and is torn apart as she also starts a dangerous love with Sang-hyun. Many actresses wanted the role of Tae-joo, but director Park Chan-wook chose Kim Ok-bin.

One representative said, "The mother-in-law an...

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2008/04/03 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Audiences may as well call actress Kim Hae-sook Everymom. In her many appearances in hit television shows and films, she often plays the role of an affectionate model Korean mother. Even fans in Japan know Kim for her maternal roles.
In "Viva! Love", a film that is scheduled for release next week, Kim, 53, reprises her mother role as Oh Bong-soon. But this time, she won't be sidelined as a supporting character: Kim's the lead in this bizarre romantic comedy.
Oh's life as a landlady isn't easy, but in the midst of her hard work, she manages to fall in love with one of her tenants. Problem is, Oh's property is a students' boarding house and her lover is in his 20s ― and he almost becomes her son-in-law. Anyone else hearing the faint tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson"?
The film was a challenge for Kim. It wasn't easy trying to play a 50-year-old woman in love.
"It was mentally and physically exhausting", Kim said. "I first received the script three years ago, and the...

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2008/03/20 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Middle-aged actress Kim Hae-sook will be the main character of "Viva! Love". This is her first main role in 33 years.

Her motherly image changed drastically when she came out as a pickpocket in last year's movie "Open City" and now, she will have a romance with a man 23 years younger than her.

This is a comedy telling of the romance between Bong-soon (Kim Hae-sook) and a 21-year-old man. There is interest in Kim Hae-sook's character, who falls in love with her daughter's boyfriend.

She has lived her life as a mother and a wife, but she meets her true love, who will be played by Kim Yeong-min. Kim Yeong-min has been in plays, "Hamlet", "Bad Magnet", "Rising Lovely Girl", and movies "My Right to Ravage Myself", "A Cruel Attendance", and "Ad-Lib Night".

Kim Hae-sook and Kim Yeong-min are continuing the line of older women, younger men couples, such as Moon So-ri and Bong Tae-gyu from "A Good Lawyer's Wife" and Ko Doo-sim and Eom Tae-woong in "The Birth of a Family". It will pr...

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Way to go! I love your acting so much! Ivory upthegrove 2008-03-21 11:41:36

2008/01/10 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

There is nothing special about the genre of "Open City", opening nationwide today. It is easily categorized as a crime thriller. But the subject of pickpockets operating in broad daylight is fairly unusual, perhaps the first ever Korean flick devoted entirely to the street-smart thieves.

Doubly unusual -- or strange -- is director Lee Sang-gi's attempt to incorporate a femme fatale theme into the film in a bid to turn it into an erotic crime thriller. There's no question about the beauty of Son Ye-jin ("April Snow", "The Classic") but it is an open question whether she is really up to the task of a tantalizing seductress.

Son plays Baek Jang-mi, which means "white rose" in Korean. If the name is too tacky, so be it. After all, her role is tackier -- a female boss of a small pickpocket ring keen to expand its territory in Seoul.

Baek Jang-mi draws some attention from authorities in both Korea and Japan by staging a series of high-stakes pickpocket forays in Osaka. Once she retu...

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2008/01/10 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

Loaded with action and marked by sexual tension, "Open City" is yet another urban crime story set in the gritty streets of Seoul. But what sets it apart is that the cat and mouse game involves a network of professional ― and really scary ― pickpockets.

Lee Sang-gi makes a big directorial debut with a high-profile cast and a novel subject matter. He zooms into the world of "corporate" pick pocketing, but the story soon turns sour with some poorly crafted "Basic Instinct" elements and cliched family tragedies that are inherent to Korean dramas.

Son Ye-jin ("A Moment to Remember", 2004) trades in her innocent image for a dangerous persona, going all out with the hint of sex appeal she showed as a perky playgirl in "The Art of Seduction" (2005). She's ravishing, but like her character's cheesy name Baek Jang-mi (homonym for "white rose" in Korean), the new role seems to be an awkward fit.

Jang-mi is the boss of an organized gang of pi...

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