| PARK Kwang-soo's "Meet Mr. Daddy" ("Shiny Day") Awarded at Rome (Source) |
2007/10/31 |
Drama "Meet Mr. Daddy" ("Shiny Day") won the Young Audiences Award at the 2007 Rome Film Festival. Director PARK Kwang-soo's drama revolves around a selfish man – played by PARK Shin-yang – who finds out that he has a young daughter. Because it's financially beneficial, he decides to keep her. Later he finds out that the girl suffers from a serious disease.
PARK Kwang-soo is a veteran writer/director whose credentials includes "Chilsoo and Mansu" (1988), featuring PARK Joong-hoon and AHN Seong-gi. He is also the director of the Asian Film Market (AFM) of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).
PARK Shin-yang's numerous roles include "Hi, Dharma" and the sequel "Hi, Dharma 2: Showdown in Seoul". He played a gangster who ends up hiding at a Buddhist temple; the Buddhist monks and the gangsters inevitably clash in the comedies.
Rome Film Festival's second edition was held this year after Pusan International Film Festival. Rome awarded Juno (Ivan Reitman) with the best fil... |More
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| 11th PiFan Wraps With Awards (Source) |
2007/07/20 |
The 11th Puchon International Film Festival drew to a close Thursday, after a successful 9-day run. Curtains closed with Indonesian director Joko ANWAR's Kala, a noir-ish crime thriller that was a huge hit in its homeland. PiFan's top prize, the Puchon Choice Best Film award went to Thai psychological thriller 13 by Chookiet SAKVEERAKUL. It also took home the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation Asian Award .
Best actor nods were shared between Thomas Kretschmann and Thomas Huber for their delectable performances in Martin Weisz's cannibalistic feature Grimm Love. Best Actress went to Charlene Choi in Hong Kong horror-melo Diary, by Oxide Pang. Runners up were and German cannibalistic feature Grimm Love by Martin Weisz. The Puchon Citizen's Choice award voted on by audiences, went to Yamashita Nobuhiro's The Matsugane Potshot Affair.
The best short film award, worth US$5,000, went to Juanito Under the Orange Tree by Columbian director Juan Carlos Villamizar. South... |More
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| Remake of Korean Movie to Hit Theater (Source) |
2006/08/14 |
By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
Keanu Reeves, top left, and Sandra Bullock, bottom left, replace Lee Jeong-jae and Jeon Ji-hyeon in" The Lake House", a Hollywood remake of the 2000 domestic melodrama" Il Mare". Courtesy of Warner Bros. Korea
The house in the Hollywood melodrama" The Lake House", left, is on a lake, while in the original film" Il Mare" it is on the coast.
What would it be like to see Hollywood stars replacing local actors in new versions of popular domestic movies?
The answer can be found in the upcoming Hollywood film "The Lake House", the first domestic remake film titled "Il Mare" (Siwolae).
With the increasing interest in local movies overseas, international film studios have bought over 20 copyrights to South Korean films since the late 1990s to produce remake versions of them. Most enthusiastic Hollywood studios have bought over 10 domestic movies' copyrights including "My Sassy Girl", "A Tale of Two Sisters", "Old Boy", "My Wife Is a Gangster", "... |More
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| Lee Joon-ik's Radio Star wraps up shooting (Source) |
2006/07/14 |
Director Lee Joon-ik, who made Korean cinematic history with his record-breaking hit film "The King and the Clown", has recently wrapped up shooting for his next film.
"Radio Star" features the acting talents of Ahn Seong-gi and Park Joong-hoon, who previously teamed in the hit films Nowhere to Hide from 1999 and Two Cops in 1994. The comedy about a hard-to-handle rock star and his manager is drawing notice due to the track record of its director, who not only famously directed "The King and the Clown" but also notched a solid hit in 2003 with Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield ("Hwangsanbul") and participated in such box office hits as "Hi, Dharma" (2001) as a producer at his production company Cineworld.
Screenwriter Choi Seok-hwan, who collaborated with LEE on the screenplay of King and Battlefield, is also returning to contribute to this project.
"Radio Star" has been set up as a co-production between Cineworld and AchimPictures, to be distributed locally by Cinema Service ... |More
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| Korea's action man plans to scrub the grit off the screen (Source) |
2006/07/06 |
Jeong Woo-seong may be one of the most glamorous of Korean male stars, but in "Mutt Boy", he had to play a mentally disabled adult who strips down to his underwear for a bloody brawl. It was a hard sight for his fans, but it was positively wrenching for his action choreographer, Sin Jae-myeong.
Mr. Sin still winces at the mention of the scene. "Shooting that scene was the last straw. I thought I'd never do action scenes like that again, but oddly enough, it's become my trademark", he said. It's also become the trademark of Korean action films. Mr. Sin's style of action is often called "real action", implying hard-boiled street fighting and eschewing the fancy footwork seen in movies like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
With the comeback of Korean action films in the early 1990s, action sequences have kept getting grittier -- and bolder. The recent box office hit, "A Dirty Carnival", starring Jo In-seong, abandons smooth, elegant action scenes in favor of bare-knuckle fist fights an... |More
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