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Directed by Kim Hyeong-il (김형일)
Screenplay by Hwang Seong-yeon (황성연), Lee Kyeong-mi (이경미)
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KBS | Airing dates : 2004/07/19~2004/09/07This drama series was produced with a hope of bringing the young generation back to television as it successfully combines the elements of action horror with those of a tragic melodrama. "Forbidden Love" depicts a fight between two different species: humans who at times act inhumanely, and non-human creatures who can be more compassionate than hum... More
 What is more interesting about the film "The Naked Kitchen" by Hong Ji-young than the material is the way the director deals with it. Here, an adulterous affair is portrayed not as something scandalous or tragic but with humor and optimism.Hong sidesteps any sweeping moral standards or family values and focuses instead on the emotions of the three actors, asking fundamental questions about love. "Kitchen" reminds many people of last year's "Antique". Both deal with forbidden love, in the case of "Antique" homosexual love, and both adopt a bright, happy and playful tone. Perhaps that is only natural, since Min Gyoo-dong, who directed "Antique" is married to Hong. And indeed, both films were invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, and exported to Japan. "Antique" is released there this week and "The Naked Kitchen" on May 30. "I don't think you can say that new relationships or illicit affairs always start from a deficiency. A new love can come even into the life of a...| More | |||||||||||
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 Park Chan-wook's new movie "Thirst", released on Apr. 30, is already generating a huge buzz on the Internet at home and abroad. The preview trailer on YouTube has drawn 150,000 hits so far, and over 150 replies in three to four days.Whether it will get an invitation from the Cannes Film Festival is another topic for speculation. AFP mentions "Thirst" and Bong Joon-ho's "Mother - 2009" as potential Korean invitees. The decision will be made in late April or early May. "Thirst", follows Park's last movie after a two-year interval and is a melodrama about an illicit love affair between a priest who becomes a vampire after getting a blood transfusion from an unknown person and the wife of his friend. "You get a glimpse of a thirst for forbidden love, the moral dilemma that a person goes through under extreme circumstances", Park explains. "A priest is a sacred, and sacrificing, figure, but in the movie, he can only survive on the blood of others. I wanted to express the angst tha...| More | |||||||||||
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 Korean historical film "A Frozen Flower" was sold to seven countries at the European Film Market held during the reputed Berlin International Film Festival. The film's Korean distributor, Showbox, announced that the film was sold to Spain, Czechoslovakia, Thailand, Russia, Turkey, Singapore and Brazil. At the American Film Market held prior to the one in Berlin, it was sold to three other countries - Japan, Germany and the Benelux Economic Union, consisting of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg. Showbox said that foreign buyers were captivated by beautiful photography and the subject matter, which dealt with the forbidden love between the king and his chief bodyguard.Directed by Yoo Ha and starring Jo In-seong and Joo Jin-mo, this visually stunning historical movie set against the last days of the Goryeo Dynasty was released late last year and is still going strong, nothing up four million in ticket sales so far. ...| More | |||||||||||
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'It's like having a new toy and wanting to play with it. People are testing the limits'.
Adultery. Gay sex. And showing the "Full Monty". These days, all of the above goes in Korean entertainment. But in the courts at least, Confucian values still hold sway over Korean society. Just three months ago, the Constitutional Court tossed out a petition filed by an actress for the dismissal of an earlier ruling charging her with adultery. This law, which only exists in a few countries today, has been in place here for more than half a century. Yet if the entertainment industry is anything to go by, Koreans appear to have moved on, not necessarily embracing sexual topics in public but certainly comfortable enough to be more open compared to the past. Remember that in 1970s Korea, police officers patrolled the streets taking tape measures to miniskirts to stop females from showing too much flesh. A telling sign of changing social values is the movie "A Frozen Flower", which o...| More | |||||||||||
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 Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, SBS-TV's new drama "Painter of the Wind" reinterprets and rewrites the lives of leaves of leading Joseon Dynasty painters Kim Hong-do and Shin Yu-bok.While the series retains the usual elements of intrigue and murder, politics and warfare take a back seat. Romance and the essence of the late Joseon Dynasty, an era of reform and cultural renaissance, come to the forefront, imbuing the period piece with a strong sense of humanity and intimacy. More importantly, the series takes an approach reminiscent of lush period pieces like E. J-yong (Lee Jae-yong)'s "Untold Scandal" (2003), by focusing on issues of sexuality and gender. Posing the classically Shakespearian question: "What if the famed painter Shin Yun-bok had been a girl pretending to be a boy?" the drama — like the original novel — toys with themes of homosexuality and forbidden love while highlighting the inequalities of a male-dominated society. Actress Moon Geun-yeong...| More | |||||||||||
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