Ye Ji-won (예지원)

Official poster for the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival [PiFan] The Puchon International Fantastic Fim Festival (PiFan), one of Asia's main genre film festivals, will start today, offering 193 shorts and features from 42 countries around the world during its 11-day run. Held under the theme of "Love, Fantasy and Adventure", the fest will kick off with an opening ceremony whose red carpet will be graced by some of the biggest names in filmmaking such Korean directors Im Kwon-taek, Yoon Je-kyoon, Kim Dae-seung and Min Gyoo-dong. Scores of actors, new to veteran, are also set to show up at the evening's festivity, i...More

Official poster for musical "Rocky Horrow Show" [Show Dream Company]

The original cast of famed stage musical "Rocky Horror Show" will perform in Korea starting next month, according to the show's producer Show Dream Company.

Show Dream announced in a press release that they will be presenting the original production of "Rocky", in collaboration with the British crew including the show's creator Richard O'Brien, director Christopher Luscombe and Australian production company TML Enterprises...More

[Jainnie's Cine Korea]

After more than 10 feature films, it seems director Hong Sang-soo has finally learned to laugh out loud, instead of the occasional, sarcastic snicker. In his latest effort, "Ha Ha Ha", Hong, always the elegant satirist, seems to have lightened up a bit, or at the very least, made an effort to do so.

The backdrop for "Ha Ha Ha" doesn't differ greatly from his previous films. Hong's signatures - the cowardly intellectuals, travel to a regional area in Korea, chance encounters with flighty women and existential questions about romantic love over soju or makgeolli (Korean rice wine) - are all there.

This time, however,...More

Official poster for Hong Sang-soo's film "Ha Ha Ha"

Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo has scored his first win at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival with his film "Ha Ha Ha".

Hong's latest pic was handed the grand prize for the "Un Certain Regard" category at the award ceremony, held May 22 (France time) at Debussy theater in Cannes, France.

The director, who won his first trophy at Cannes on his sixth visit to the film fest, shared his excitement with actors Yoo Joon-sang and Ye Ji-won, the main cast of his award-winning pic...More

Director Hong Sang-soo [Beck Una/10Asia]

Beck Una: I think you have good eye for observing or remembering people, looking at how you pick out the characteristic of the actors.
Hong Sang-soo: I don't know. But I don't remember some aspects to the point it's embarrassing. Like everyday things, people's faces. My memory is weird. I had said so jokingly in my film "Night and Day" too but I think it's genetical. (laugh) My mom once didn't recognize who she had worked with for tens of years. And I've experienced such shameful moments too. I honestly am not good at memorizing things that I tell myself to. I think I have some sort of resistance to things I have to memorize. Whatever it may be, not liking what you have to remember or hold onto purposely. I think my brain doesn't want to remember things that my body hasn't already taken in naturally. But when I'm writing scenarios in the morning, memories of the oddest moments just pop out from nowhere. Something I may have seen from more than several decades ago, what I saw in a magazine, what someone said a few days ago -- all sorts of memories suddenly pop into my mind...More