Lee Seong-jae and Kang Seong-jin are in the film, "Dreams Come True" which has finished filming.
"Dreams Come True" has been filmed for 3 months and ended with the epilogue scene by Lee Seong-jin. This movie is for the first time, about the North Korean GP soldiers.
This comic human drama is about the North and South border soldiers of toda...More
The film industry is already preparing for next year. Many renowned filmmakers have returned to Korea to produce movies about war and sequels to hit movies.
Director
Im Kwon-taek will produce his 101st movie "
Scooping Up The Moonlight". Directors
Kim Tae-yong and Lm Sang-soo will produce remakes of "Late Autumn" (
"Manchu") by
Lee Man-hee and "The Housemaid" (
"The Housemaid - 2010") of Kim Ki-young, respectively. Films about war will also be introduced to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.
◇The return of maestros
"
Scooping Up The Moonlight", which will be produced under the auspices of the Jeonju City government, is
Im Kwon-taek's first film to be shot with digital cameras. It is a story about seventh-grade public servant Jong-ho, who wants to become a fifth-grade official. To achieve his dream, he takes charge of the traditional Korean paper "hanji" at the municipal government and becomes completely mesmerized by it. Jong-ho is played by actor
Park Joong-hoon, who will appear in a Lim production for the first time. Actress
Kang Soo-yeon will work together with Lim for the first time since her appearance in the 1989 movie "Come Come Come Upward".
Actress
Yoon Jung-hee, who was one of the top three actresses of the 1960s along with Moon Hee and Nam Jung-im, will make a comeback for the first time after her 1994 movie "Two Flags". She will appear in
Lee Chang-dong's new movie
"Poetry". It is a story about a 60-something woman who raises her teenage granddaughter and receives basic living subsidies. One day she signs up for a literature class and begins to write her own poems for the first time. The movie is slated to open in early May.
◇War movies
Four films about war will open next year. They will deal with diverse subjects, including student soldiers and maritime clashes between South and North Korea. The majority of them will be large-scale productions costing more than 10 billion won.
Director
Lee Jae-han's "
Into the Gunfire", which is to open in June, is about a 12-hour battle that was held between 71 student soldiers and the North Korean Army at the end of the Nakdong River battle during the Korean war. Actors
kwon Sang-woo and T.O.P. (
Choi Seung-hyeon) of the music group Big Bang will play student soldiers. Actor Cha Weung-won will appear as a North Korean commander, while actor
Kim Seung-woo will play a South Korean commander. It is a blockbuster production that will cost 15 billion won to produce and market.
Director Lim Yeo-bin, who produced "Terrorist" in 1995, will this time produce "The Red Muffler 2", which will be a sequel to late Shin Sang-ok's movie "The Red Muffler". The grandson from the original production will appear as an Air Force pilot. The production cost have reached 8 billion won, and the movie is scheduled to open in October on National Army Day.
The second Yeonpyeong Clash of 2002 will be reenacted in the 3D film "We Are Beautiful" (tent...
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By Han Sang-hee
Staff Reporter
Veteran actor
Shin Seong-il will appear in the television drama "
The Light of the East" (working title).
The 72-year-old actor will play the first Japanese Resident-General Hirobumi Ito, who was assassinated by Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910) at Harbin, northeastern China, according to JI Productions Friday.
It is Shin's first full-length television...
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A sequel of the 1999 comedy "
Attack the Gas Station!" (Jooyooso Seubgyeoksageon) is planned to enter cinemas in its tenth anniversary year. Like the original, the sequel will also be in the hands of director
Kim Sang-jin. It was announced that the scenario is halfway finished. Actors have not been cast yet.
"
Attack the Gas Station!" chronicles the take over of a gas station by a young group of society's outsiders. Its cast included
Lee Seong-jae (
"Daisy"),
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Actor Ahn Jae-mo will be in the drama "The Light of the East" that is dedicated to Ahn Jung-geun, the most famous Korean patriot who killed Japanese prime minister in Korea 100 years ago while Korea was under Japanese colonization.
