According to
Kim Ji-suk, a programmer of the Pusan International Film Festival, on Jan. 30, film director
Lim Tae-hyeong, who directed the film "
Hello Brother" (2005), won the best director award in the "Spiritual Cinema" division of the 24th Fajr International Film Festival which ended in Teheran, Iran on Jan. 30.
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MoreEight Korean movies, including director
Ryoo Seung-wan's "Crying Fist", will be screened at the 4th New York Asian Film Festival which will take place from June 17 to July 2 in Manhattan, New York. Of the 180 movies that were submitted by China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines and other Asian countries, only the top 31 most interesting films will be shown at the festival, according to the festival's organizing committee.
Aside from "Crying Fist", the other Korean movies that have been invited to the festival are "Arahan Jangpung Daejakjeon",
A Family (by director
Lee Jeong-cheol), "Green Chair" (by director ...
MoreA total of 7 Korean moviesare being screened right now in the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival, which will be continued by June 19.
In its Asian New Talent Award, first off '
My Brother' directed by
Ahn Kwon-tae, unfolds a synopsis in which The younger brother, Jong-hyeon is a good-looking, class-A fighter. The older brother, Seong-hyeon is tender and pure, a class-A student.
They've been fighting nearly for 17 years. Trouble began when their mother favored Seong-hyeon over his younger brother. Round two began when both brothers fell for the same girl, Mi-ryeong.
When the long-simmering emotions finally explode and a huge fight breaks out, Seong-hyeon tells his younger brother something he had never ...
MoreA total of 12 Korean films have been invited to the 7th Udine Far East Film Festival in Italy, which will open on Apr. 22.
According to the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) secretariat on Apr. 15, 10 Korean films have been invited to the main division of this festival and two others invited to its special division entitled "Three Asian Directors of Photography".
The Korean films invited to the main division of the Italian international film festival include "Everybody Has Secrets" directed by ...
More■ Kajok (A Family) (2004)
At noon on Jan. 8
Seoul Selection Bookstore
Directed by
Lee Jeong-cheol, the movie is a moving story of a father, his ex-convict daughter and her 10-year-old brother. Since the mother died six years previously, the father Ju-sok (Ju Hyeon) has made a living as a fishmonger. The daughter Jung-eun (Su-ae), ironically thinks that life in prison was more happy than at home. The story begins when Jung-eun returns home after three years of imprisonment for embezzlement. The father, however, does not and cannot greet her warmly, despite feeling somewhat relieved. The situation starts to deteriorate when a man named Chang-won visits the father pressing him for money still owed by his daughter. The father feels helpless in the face of the challenges he must overcome. His situation worsens when he discovers he ...
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