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 Mother - 2009 (마더 - 2009) As : Yoon Do-joon (윤도준)
|  My Brother (우리형 - 2004) |  Taegukgi (태극기 휘날리며 - 2004) |  Guns and talks (킬러들의 수다 - 2001) |
 Autumn in my Heart (가을동화 - 2000) As : Tae-sik (태석)
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A galaxy of stars including Lee Young-ae, Jeon Do-yeon, Song Yoon-ah and Han Chae-young and actor Won Bin will appear at the Best Star Award hosted by designer Andre Kim on Nov. 27. At 73, the flamboyant designer is as active as ever, with fashion shows here and abroad attracting many celebrities.
The normal hurdles to casting A-listers do not seem to exist for Kim. Lee Young-ae, who has drastically cut down on public since after her marriage, will willingly appear for him. So how does he do it? Kim wakes up at 5:30 a.m. every day and reads 17 newspapers. "Reading newspapers is the best way to absorb a massive amount of knowledge and information with little investment. So I read newspapers no matter what", he says. That has helped him develop a knack for discovering rising stars and support them. Kim casts them as model for his fashion shows so that they can get media coverage, and that is why they can't refuse him even when they become hugely famous. Kim Tae-hee has been i...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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 Veteran actress KIM Hye-ja won best actress award at China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, one of the most prestigious awards in China. KIM won the prestigious award for her critically acclaimed role in Mother. "Mother - 2009" is KIM's big screen debut. Busan Film Critic's awarded KIM the best actress award earlier this year. Also, she has been lavishly praised at major international film festivals including Festival de Cannes. "Mother - 2009" is directed by BONG Joon-ho. KIM plays the mother of a mentally challenged son, a role by WON Bin. After the son is arrested for murder, the mother goes all out to have him released. After its Japanese (31 October) and Hong Kong (9 November) premiere, "Mother - 2009" will be released in ten more countries all over the world from Europe to South America. Yi Ch'ang-ho (KOFIC)...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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Top starts such as Koo Hye-seon, Lee Min-ho, Im Soo-jeong and Won Bin team up to promote legal download. Following declaration ceremony of 'Good Downloader Campaign' held during Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), an event titled, 'Good Downloader Supporters Day', takes place with10 stars in support of the initiative proposed by the campaign at Myung-dong Avenuel, Lotte Cinema on Nov. 10.
Divided into 4 teams, under the leadership of actor Ahn Seong-gi, chairman of the Good Downloader Committee, a total of 10 leading directors and actors and actresses join the event. They include director Jang Jin of 'Good Morning President' and Koo Hye-seon of 'The Madonna', director Bong Joon-ho and actor Won Bin of 'Mother - 2009', director Park Chan-wook and actress IOm Soo-jeong of 'I`m a Cyborg, but That`s OK', and director Park Gwang-choon and actor Kim Soo-ro, Lee Min-ho and Park Bo-yeong of 'Our School ET'. Especially, those star supporters charged no fee for their participation...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter Heartthrobs Lee Byeong-heon, Jang Dong-gun, Song Seung-heon and Won Bin will take part in a special "hallyu" (Korean Wave) festival in Tokyo in December, Yonhap News reported Monday. The event, to take place Dec. 17 at Tokyo Dome, will be directed by renowned Japanese writer-producer Yasushi Akimoto. The four actors will give a theatrical performance set to an audiovisual piece by acclaimed Korean director Heo Jin-ho ("Season of Good Rain"). The four 30-something stars, who are known to be good friends, are said to have initiated the project, wanting to do "something fun and unprecedented". Lee ("I Come With the Rain"), who became popular in Asian countries through TV soaps such as "All In", said he was was "happy to meet fans through a special production before the end of the year". Jang ("Good Morning President"), who rose to stardom through appearances in dramas like "All About Eve", and Song, who garnered local fans in melodramas such ...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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| Howard Shumann rates "Mother - 2009" by Bong Joon-ho an A. Editor's Note After a night of drinking, Do Joon (Won Bin), an intellectually-challenged young man, encouraged by his reckless buddy Jin-tae (Jin Goo), attempts to pick up a young high school girl Ah-jung walking home alone. Shockingly, the next day, Do Joon is arrested for the girl's murder as his mother looks on helplessly. Seen at the Vancouver Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho's Mother is an intelligent, suspenseful, and darkly comic revelation of the lengths to which an overbearing but deeply loving mother will go to pursue justice for her son who, she believes, has been wrongly convicted of murder. Though there is an evocative score by Lee Byeong-woo, the film's use of ambient sounds such as the slashing of a herb chopper and the rustling of leaves add to an ominous mood, though it often clashes with the absurdist events seen on screen. Set in a small Korean town, the elderly mother, played by Korean TV star Kim Hye-ja in...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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