Ice Bar (Movie - 2006)

Actor Cha In-pyo, Who 'Fathered' 34 Children

Source | 2009/01/27 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The top celebrity couple, Cha In-pyo and Sin Ae-ra, is known for their religious faith and tight family bond. They had a child of their own, adopted two more, and recruited numerous others in helping destitute children. Their charitable deeds have inspired many to also serve their needy neighbors.

Serving Others, Adopted Children

Anyone who gets to know the joy of sharing is said to want to continue their service. This has become the everyday norm for Cha, which led to his dormant acting career. He has also donated W100 million each to the charity organizations Good Neighbors and Compassion. He was at one time burdened by the excessive attention the couple's activities were attracting. He was uncomfortable with respectable titles people invariably used to described him. He knew only too well the capriciousness of social perceptions. But he has now become relatively free from what others think. He says he began a new task of "emptying the drawers of his mind" through which he was ...| More

"Ice Bar" Wins Top Prize at Fukuoka Asian Film Festival

Source | 2007/07/11 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The family film "Ice Bar" won the best picture award at the 21st Fukuoka Asian Film Festival that was held in Fukuoka, Japan from Jun 29 through July 8.

The film's production company MK Pictures said that its director, Yeo In-kwang, personally attended the award ceremony last Sunday to receive the top honor.

"Ice Bar" was chosen for the top prize because of its beautiful portrayal of a local city in the 1960s and 70s, and for the natural and realistic acting of its leading actress and child actor who played the roles of mother and son.

"Ice Bar" is the fifth Korean film to win the best picture award at this film festival. The other four award-winning films were "An Affair" in 1999, "Nowhere to Hide" in 2000, "Bad Guy" in 2002, and "YMCA Baseball Team" in 2003....| More

Korean Films Enter Fukuoka Asian Film Festival

Source | 2007/06/28 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The 21st Fukuoka Asian Film Festival opens June 29th and will run through July 8th in Fukuoka, Japan. This film festival started in 1987 to discover and nurture new filmmakers from all over Asia. This year, 14 films from nine nations will be introduced at the festival.

Korea will present four films: "Radio Star" starring the venerable Ahn Seong-gi and Park Joong-hoon and directed by Lee Joon-ik, the maker of one of Korea's highest grossing films "The King and the Clown"; "Cheaters" by director Park Seong-beom; the heart-warming "Ice Bar", starring young actor Park Ji-bin; and the comical "Mission Sex Control" featuring the cute couple Lee Beom-soo and Kim Jeong-eun.

An interview on Korea's enigmatic director Kim Ki-duk conducted by French film critic Antoine Coppola will be presented at the festival. The directors of the Korean films also plan to attend Q&A session following the showings of their films to answer questions from the audience....| More

PARK Wins Berlin's Alfred Bauer Prize

Source | 2007/02/16 | 0 comments | Permalink |

South Korean auteur PARK Chan-wook won the Alfred Bauer Prize, one of the 8 main awards at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, for his imaginative comedy "I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok". The festival, also known as the Berlinale, announced the winners at a lavish ceremony held on February 17th, the tenth day of its 11-day run. The Alfred Bauer Prize is named after the founder of the Berlinale and honors a work distinctive for its innovation in cinematic art.

The prize for Cyborg is PARK's second major award in Europe. PARK is known best to European audiences for his vengeance trilogy, the second of which, "Old Boy" (2003), won the prestigious Grand prize at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2004. The off-the-wall romantic-comedy Cyborg came as something of a surprise to fans used to his violently refined thrillers. It tells the story of a two mental patients who meet in a psychiatric hospital: a young man, played by JUNG Ji-hoon (a.k.a. pop-sensation "Rain", in ...| More

Eight Korean Films to Screen at Berlin International Film

Source | 2007/02/09 | 0 comments | Permalink |

And here's some news from the Korean film industry.
Eight Korean productions will be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Of the eight, two will be screened in the main competitive section.
They are Park Chanwook's romantic comedy "I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK", and the Korean-French co-production "Desert Dream" by Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu.
The comedy-drama "Dasepo Naughty Girls" ("Dasepo Girl"), and the drama "Woman on the Beach" will be screened in the Panorama section, while "Ice Bar" and "Like a Virgin" will compete in the children and youth section.
The Berlin International Film Festival kicked off on Thursday for an 11-day run.

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