Heart is... (2006) - 마음이... (Ma-eum-i...)

2008/04/21 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

YOO Seung-ho is one of Korea's most popular child actors since the film The Way Home (Jibero) in which he played a spoiled city boy left with his grandmother in the country. YOO's next film will be "Unforgettable" (Seouli Bonya, English translation: "can you see Seoul?"), two years after his latest film "Hearty Paws" ("Heart is.".. - Maeumi).

The film reunites YOO with director SONG Dong-yoon, the two also collaborated on Woori Seonsaengnim in 2005. The Cinema Service production will be released on May 8.

Seouli Bonya is set in the seventies. A school on the island Sindo of the Korean west coast receives an invitation from a Seoul based candy factory. The invitation is only for twelve students, but all the students start fantasising about eating candy in Seoul. The film employs the 'dreams can come true' theme.

"The Way Home" was a surprise hit film in 2002. The drama's warm content of a spoilt boy learning from his modest and poor grandmother struck a cord with Korean audie...

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2007/11/30 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The Osaka Korean Cultural Center will hold the Korean Film Week festival again this year (Dec.8-14). Korean films introduced to the Kansai region for the first time will be screened at downtown Shinsaibashi theaters.

The event also marks the center's reopening and will feature the latest film 'Happiness' by Heo Jin-ho, who directed 'April Snow' starring Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin. Director Kim Tae-sik of 'Driving with My Wife's Lover' and a Korean Film Council official will attend a related forum for discussions.

The film list includes 'Barefoot Ki-bong', 'The Show Must Go On', 'Heart is..'., 'My Boss, My Teacher' and 'My Wife is a Gangster 3' as well as the omnibus special film '20 Identities'....

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2006/10/27 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Let's get a check of what's playing in movie theatres across Korea this week.
We have two domestic productions both of them touching dramas.
There's also a comedy from the U.S, and a real-life thriller from Australia.
Here's Son Heekyung.

Two heartwarming Korean films, perfect for the autumn season, are out this week.
First up is "Trace of Love" by director Kim Dae-seung.
The film's a melodrama based on the true story of a department store collapse in Seoul that killed more than 500 people in 1995.
The story is about a man who loses his fiancee in the accident, one month before their wedding.
Ten years after the death of his fiancee, the man takes a trip using the travel diary of his deceased lover as a guide.
He eventually meets a woman who helps soothe his pain.

Next up is "Hearty Paws". ("Heart Is"...)
An eleven-year-old boy steals a dog to give to his younger sister on her birthday.
She loves the dog and names it "Maumy".
They all live together in harmony, but some...

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2006/10/19 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

"Maumy" ("Heart is ..".), set to open in theaters on October 26, is a movie about a deep friendship between a dog named Maumy and a brother (Yoo Seung-ho) and sister (Kim Hyang-ki). Not surprisingly, one of the main characters is a four-year-old female Labrador Retriever named "Dari", the first "acting dog" in Chungmuro. Labrador Retrievers are known for gentle and faithful natures and used as guide dogs for the blind or as drug sniffing dogs.

In the movie, Dari shows a variety of face expressions and excellent acting. The movie studio was enthusiastic about making Dari a star in the news conference.

Dari won several dog training contests and Dari's owner Kim Jong-gwon brought Dari to the audition when he happened to find the news about making a movie with a dog as a main character.

The secret to Dari's acting is its voracity. In the scene Maumy runs after a train on which Chani (the brother character) is, Kim was on the train with a fried chicken leg. Other scenes were also s...

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2006/09/25 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Four years ago, a small boy moved the hearts of more than 4 million Koreans. He was Yoo Seung-ho, the young star of director Lee Jeong-hyang's movie "Jiburo", or "The Way Home" in English, a heartwarming story about a boy and his deaf-mute grandmother.
Seung-ho played the grandson in the movie, earning the title of "forever the young boy".
But four years have passed and the 10-year-old has grown up.
He will soon return to the cinema with a main role as a teenager whose only family is his dog "Maumy".
The film "Maumy" ("Heart is ..".) is coming to theaters late next month, but moviegoers are already excited to see their favorite boy actor coming back to screens, entertainment Web sites show.
It seems that he has gained a lot of teenage girl fans as well.
"He has a million-dollar smile", wrote "Ruelo" on the bulletin board of Interpark, a Web site for film ticketing. Another article posted by a female fan read, "He has grown up to become so handsome and so cute".
He was voted to b...

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