Kim Nam-gil shed his stage name & found success in TV and a film out next month
Actor
Kim Nam-gil has earned the right to be called the busiest actor of this year. After his role in the hit TV drama "
Queen Seon-deok", which came to an end late last year, he narrated a documentary trilogy about people living in the Amazon, finished shooting for the film "
"The Day Before"", which will be released next month, and toured countries including Indonesia, Japan and Las Vegas in preparation for a new TV drama that will air this May. He also published a book of essays and recorded a song that was released online.
But life wasn't always so glamorous for Kim. He was once an awkward 24-year-old newcomer with the stage name
Lee Han, which he made up to give himself a more sophisticated image. (The name Nam-gil is considered to be somewhat old fashioned.)
As Lee Han, Kim landed the role of the clueless young husband who dies in a car crash in the 10th episode of the TV drama "
Be Strong, Geum-Soon!", which aired in February 2005. After his tragic hero role, Kim did six more dramas, playing mostly supporting roles, but he failed to leave a strong impression on viewers.
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
Following the footsteps of "
Radio Dayz", "Once Upon a Time" and "
The Good, the Bad, the Weird" comes "
Modern Boy", another purely entertainment-driven movie set during the Japanese colonial era (1910-45). Gyeongseong, the name of Seoul at the time, is home to flamboyant flappers (so-called "modern boys and girls"), radio stars and charming bandits who aren't necessarily working for Korea's independence.
The symbolic power of cinema is extensive, as it often showcases a given country's aesthetics, technical achievements and entertainment factors, and moreover portrays to varying degrees its cultural, historical and social values. Period pieces in particular become the subject of scrutiny as they speak for the shared history of a people.
A Japanese newspaper made a misleading report about "
Modern Boy" and the above-mentioned Gyeongseong movies in January this year. Katsuhiro Kuroda, managing editor of Sankei Shimbu...
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Movie "Portrait of a Beauty" has finished casting!
Kim Nam-gil who has been filming as "Lee Han" will be joining this movie.
This new movie set in the Chosun era contains the creative idea that the genious artist Sin Yoon-bok is actually a woman!...More
Korean production company KM Culture has announced plans to make a sequel to the popular romantic comedy "
200 Pounds Beauty".
A script is currently being written by
Lee Han I, the screenwriter responsible for the TV drama
"Bodyguard". In the sequel, the main character Hanna once again gains weight and struggles to establish herself as a real singer.
The director and main cast for the film have yet to be determined, although actress
Kim Ah-joong has expressed an interest in seeing the completed script.
The announcement is one in a long list of popular Korean films for which sequels are being planned. Production house Chungeorahm is readying a...
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In the midst of sequels being planned for
The War Of Flower and
Le Grand Chef, there is also a sequel being planned for '
200 Pounds Beauty', which reached 6.62 million viewers last year.
The producing group of the movie, KM Culture, has revealed that they are currently making a scenario due to overflowing requests from fans.
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