JSA - Joint Security Area (Movie - 2000)

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  Lee Young-ae
  이영애
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  Lee Byeong-Heon
  이병헌
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  Song Kang-ho
  송강호
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  Kim Tae-woo
  김태우
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  Sin Ha-gyoon
  신하균
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  Lee Han-wi
  이한위

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  'Front' brings harrowing views of war
  2011/07/14, Source,
  Actors Lee Je-hoon, left, and Goh Soo in a scene from the Korean War (1950-53) film "The Front Line" By Lee  Hyo-won It's another Korean War (1950-53) film, made on a hefty budget - at least for local standards - and featuring an A-list cast. The viewer, already having seen such action-packed, homespun tearjerkers celebrating humanist values as "Taegukgi" and "71-Into the Fire" or any one of those Hollywood World War II blockbusters, can easily doubt whether Jang Hoon's upcoming "The Front Line" could bring something new,...More

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  'The Front Line' spotlights the Forgotten War
  2011/06/16, Source,
  By Park Sung-hee Jang Hoon, who directed the hit inter-Korean drama "Secret Reunion", has returned with another film involving the two Koreas. "The Front Line" takes viewers back to the Korean War (1950-53), which is largely known as the Forgotten War, and looks into parts of the conflict that have slipped into oblivion. Jang teamed up with a seasoned scriptwriter Park Sang-yeon for the 10 billion-won project. "Even Koreans remember only about six months of the Korean War", scriptwriter Park told reporters Tuesday in Seoul. "But the actual conflict went on for another 30 months. We wanted to tell the forgotten parts of the Forgotten War",...More

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  [HanCinema Korea's Diary] What Are Your Top 5 Favourite Park Chan-wook films?
  2011/06/04,
  Before 2000 Park Chan-wook would not have foreseen how successful he would become as a Korean filmmaker. His 2000 breakthrough film "JSA - Joint Security Area" completely dominated the Korean box office that year. It claimed an estimated 5.8 million admissions nationwide, making it the highest grossing Korean film at the time. Since then Park Chan-wook has directed five more feature length films with varying digress of success and I thought I'd open the floor to find out what your favourite of the bunch is while presenting mine.,...More

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  [HanCinema Korea's Diary] Introduce Yourself to Korean Cinema: 7 Films to Get You Started
  2011/05/28,
  Are you interested in Korean cinema but don't know where to start? The following is a short list of films that I believe would give any film enthusiast a good grounding for what Korean cinema has to offer. They include award-winning films, films that provide insight into Korea's history and culture, as well as a couple of fantastic genre films that Korean cinema tends to favour.,...More