Doomsday Book (Movie - 2011)

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  Ko Joon-hee
  고준희
  As
  Segment 'The New Generation', Kim Yoo-mi
  (멋진 신세계, 김유민)
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  Ryoo Seung-beom
  류승범
  As
  Segment 'The New Generation', Yoon Seok-woo
  (멋진 신세계, 윤석우)
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  Park Hae-il
  박해일
  As
  RU-4, human, voice
  (천상의 피조물, 인명, 목소리)
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  Kim Kang-woo
  김강우
  As
  Segment 'Heaven's Creation' - Park Do-won
  (천상의 피조물 - 박도원
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  Song Yeong-chang
  송영창
  As
  Segment 'Heaven's Creation' - President Kang
  (천상의 피조물, 강회장)
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  Kim Gyoo-ri-I
  김규리
  As
  Segment 'Heaven's Creation' - Bodhisattva Hye-joo
  (천상의 피조물 - 혜주보살)

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  BFI London Film Festival 2012
  2012/09/27, Source,
  Written by WKB on September 27, 2012 in Arts, Worldwide Korea Bloggers * This post is written by Korean Class Massive, one of the Korea Blog's Worldwide Korea Bloggers. The Olympic fever is well and truly over, the London transport seems to be back to it's miserable self and the weather is getting chilly. But before we go all woe with thee, next month sees the 56th BFI London Film Festival!!! The festival ran through 10 October to 21 October and these 12 days have been crammed with over 200 films from all over the world! Of course being Korean Class MASSIVE, we thought we would let you know about the latest Korean cinema offerings here in our capital city! There are a total of 6 films from South Korea this year and heres a quick low down: (all images and info courtsey of BFI),...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Talk] Robots and Technology: What does Kim Ji-woon fear for the future of Korea?
  2012/09/01,
  "All these stories originate from the earth. From the very earth you live on". That is the final line of the official description of the omnibus film "Doomsday Book". The film contains three stories of how mankind would perhaps bring about its own apocalypse. In Kim Ji-woon's "Creation of Heaven" this theme of self-destruction is placed against the backdrop of technological advancement as a product of human effort and imagination. In Kim's version, mankind's fall seems to share its destiny with technological advancement, all the while asking hard questions on issues of morality, spirituality, and being in the near future. The film contains some heated dialogues (though experienced more like monologues) of lengthy popular rhetoric over mankind's perceived power of its creations. All the while the robot(s) in question remains silent and appears to just be processing all that was being said. 'RU-4' is his serial number, but that's not what the Buddhist believers at the temple would call him. They would claim him as Buddha himself reborn, his nirvana achieved and form found in this 'defective' robot/android,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] "Doomsday Book": The Korean Apocalypse
  2012/09/01,
  Film: "Doomsday Book" Directors: Lim Pil-seong & Kim Ji-woon Chapters: "The New Generation", "Happy Birthday", and "Heaven's Creation" Stars: Ko Joon-hee, Ryoo Seong-beom, Park Hae-il, Kim Kang-woo, Song Yeong-I Review Score: 7/10 Also Try: "Romantic Heaven", "Sorry, Thanks", and "Horror Stories" The inclusion of omnibus films within popular Korean cinema seems to me to be a curious phenomenon. Recent films such as "Romantic Heaven", "Sorry, Thanks", and "Horror Stories" have shown that there is interest for these more compact modes of storytelling. Still, there presence within contemporary Korean cinema suggests a possible niche or gap in the market that filmmakers such as Kim Ji-woon ("I Saw the Devil" and "A Bittersweet Life") and Lim Pil-seong ("Hansel and Gretel" and "Antarctic Journal") are willing to gamble on,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] Korean Weekend Box Office 2012.04.27 ~ 2012.04.29
  2012/04/29,
  HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2012.04.27 ~ 2012.04.29)   There was never any doubt that Marvel's long awaited comic book film "The Avengers" was going to cause a huge stir at the Korean box office. This Hollywood blockbuster arrogantly snatched 64.30% of the ticket sales this past weekend, that's a whopping 1,342,584 admissions! It left Jeong Ji-woo's "A Muse" with just 15.90% and 389,803 admissions in its opening weekend, it's a decent start for this melodramatic romance, but it paled in comparison to the might of Marvel's gargantuan superhero flick,...More