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Directed by Kim Dae-seung (김대승)
Screenplay by Kim Dae-seung (김대승), Lee Won-jae (이원재)
•Action •Historical •Mystery •Thriller
119min | Release date in South Korea : 2005/05/04Synopsis
It is the 19th century Chosun dynasty, an era of loathing and vengeance towards Catholics. A transport ship carrying paper to the palace burns into ashes, and investigator Won-kyu is sent to the scene. Brutal murders follow suit, which are traced back to a curse by a Christian who had his whole family beheaded seven years previously. Th... More
This year's Mise-en-scene Short Film festival will showcase a total of 120 films. The film festival whose focus is genre short films will feature films genres normally associated with feature length films. These genres include horror, fantasy, love and even action. It features 57 films in the official section and the invitation section for foreign films focuses on varied stories surrounding the topic of death.
Behind the scenes is a wealth of talent and Korean film alumi. The committee chair this year is director BONG Joon-ho ("Mother - 2009", "The Host") and head of jury is director KIM Dae-seung ("Bungee Jumping of their Own", "Blood Rain"). On the committee is directors PARK Chan-wook (The Revenge Trilogy, "Thirst"), RYOO Seung-wan ("The City of Violence", "Crying Fist"), KIM Ji-woon ("A Tale of Two Sisters", "The Good, The Bad, The Weird"), LEE Jae-yong ("Dasepo Girl", "Untold Scandal") and many other well known directors. The Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival opens Wedn...| More | ||||||||||||||||
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 A dark thriller exposes the underbelly of monarchical splendorKyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim) The time is the Joseon dynasty -- unspecified but presumed to be around 18th century. The place is the women's quarters inside the court, entirely staffed by women and governed by their own inhumanly strict rules. In this world completely devoid of a male presence, a simple act of stealing might result in amputated hands, while falling in love with a male court officer might lead to a Grand Guignol-like semi-public execution. A royal maid, Wol-ryung (Seo Yeong-hee, "Jealousy is My Middle Name"), is found dead by hanging in a room, an apparent suicide. However, the medical officer, Cheon-ryung (Park Jin-hee, "Spy Lee Chul-jin", "Love Talk"), uncovers that not only was Wol-ryung murdered, but also that she recently gave birth to a child. The supervising officer, Kim Seong-ryeong ("Rainbow Eyes"), who wants to whitewash everything, and the royal concubine (Yoon Se-ah, "Blood Rain"), who has be...| More | ||||||||||||||||
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KOFIC is hosting a 4-day business campus for Japanese and Korean producers at a resort on the balmy island of Jeju, south of the Korean mainland. Taking place July 8 – 11, the campus brings together 5 Korean and 5 Japanese producers each with projects in development.
Highlights of the itinerary include intensive seminars for the producers on Korea-Japanese co-productions, along with expert guest speakers, such as CJ Entertainment's foreign investment manager who will speak on co-production financing. Among the 5 Korean participants are Jonathan KIM, a leading producer in the industry with films such as "Lies", "Silmido", "Monopoly", and several co-productions including "Virgin Snow" behind his belt. Also attending is KIM Mi-hee of production house Sidus FNH. She has produced such films as the sci-fi action hit "Arahan" and the Chosun mystery "Blood Rain". KOFIC plans to take the campus a step further in 2009 when it launches a Co-Production Project Market, with the aim...| More | ||||||||||||||||
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John Hancock (Will Smith), the miserable superhero in Peter Berg's "Hancock", should be happy now.
Released last Thursday, the film is number one at the box office in Korea. According to the Korean Film Council, Hancock attracted 948,397 viewers during the weekend (July 4 to 6), outnumbering Timur Bekmambetov's action film "Wanted", which ranked second. Third on list was the Korean action thriller "Public Enemy Returns", directed by Kang Woo-seok. Writers and directors rally against beef imports The film industry has expressed support for protests concerning the resumption of U.S. beef imports. The 22 Korean film screenwriters include Kim Hae-gon who wrote "Failan" (2001), Han Ji-hoon who wrote "Taegukgi" (2004) and Lee Won-jae who wrote "Blood Rain" (2005). The scribes who participated in the candlelight rallies issued a statement on Monday that said, "The government isn't willing to communicate with its people and it's trying to suppress the rallies through violent means...| More | ||||||||||||||||
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Park Yong-woo gives it all in a convoluted thriller
Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim) Well, here is another Korean movie that you suspect that the title (the Korean-language moniker, too, is the English phrase "Beautiful Sunday") was meant to be heavily ironic, given that it involves a police detective who gradually sinks into the cesspool of corruption and moral confusion in order to pay medical bills for his comatose wife, and an uber-creep who rapes a woman and then marries her later, hiding his true identity. "Beautiful Sunday", indeed. Detective Kang (Park Yong-woo, "My Scary Girl", "Blood Rain") is making deals with scumbag drug lords, marked for death by his arch-enemy Sang-tae (Kim Dong-ha), falling asleep at a stakeout, and otherwise unraveling at the seams. His colleagues openly question his motives, and the sympathetic department chief can do only so much for him. In a separate stand of...| More | ||||||||||||||||
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