Korean Wave star and household heartthrob
Won Bin has been cast in director
Bong Joon-ho's latest project
"Mother - 2009" alongside veteran actress
Kim Hye-ja. This will mark actor
Won Bin's first return to the screen since 2004's box office smash "
Taegukgi" and the popular
"My Brother", released the same year.
BONG, who is counted one of Korea's top directors, after his 2006 film
"The Host" quickly became the highest grossing film of all time at the Korean box office, pr...
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Director
Bong Joon-ho, known best for his 2006 monster hit
"The Host", which remains the top-grossing film of all time in Korea, will change gears on his next feature project, with a moving but hard-hitting crime-drama tentatively titled
"Mother - 2009". Presented at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum, details of the new project are now available.
Budgeted at $US 5 million, the film centers on a devoted and determined mother up against incompetence and corruption in the police and legal system. When her shy, innocent son is accused of a horrible murder in their neighborhood and nothing can save him, she sets out to uncover the tr...
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