| Korean Actor Choi to Co-star with Robert De Niro (Source) |
2008/03/20 |
The Korean actor Choi Min-soo will co-star with Hollywood stars Robert De Niro and Andy Garcia in the film "Street of Dreams", Korea's Yonhap news reported Tuesday (March 18).
"Street of Dreams" is a 40 billion won co-production between U.S.-based FR Productions, Korea's Hyun Jin Cinema and Japan's Wides Japan. The film will be produced by Fred Roos, the producer of "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Godfather: Part III".
Hyun Jin Cinema has produced Korean films such as "Holiday" and "My Wife is a Gangster 3". Wides Japan has previously made "Deep Love" and "26 Years Diary" that showed the story of a Korean-Japanese man who sacrificed his life to save a Japanese passenger in the subway.
"Street of Dreams" is based on the true story of Montana Joe, a legendary Japanese-American gangster in the 1960s in the United States. Choi will play the role of Montana's Korean friend, Eddie. This will be Choi's first Hollywood movie.
According to FR Productions, De Niro has been cast as an... |More
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| Choi Min-soo to Co-Star With De Niro (Source) |
2008/03/18 |
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter
Korean actor Choi Min-soo will co-star alongside Hollywood stars Robert De Niro and Andy Garcia in the up-coming film "Street of Dreams", Yonhap news reported Tuesday.
"Street of Dreams" is a 40 billion won co-production between US-based FR Productions, Korea's Hyun Jin Cinema and Japan's Wides Japan. It will be produced by Fred Roos, whose credits include "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Godfather: Part III".
Hyun Jin Cinema has produced Korean films such as "Holiday" and "My Wife is a Gangster 3".
"Street of Dreams" is based on the true story of Montana Joe, a legendary Japanese-American gangster in the 1940s. In the film, Choi will play the role of Montana's Korean friend, Eddie. This will be Choi's first Hollywood film, having appeared in several Korean films such as "Holiday" and "Sword in the Moon".
FR Productions said De Niro has been cast as an Italian mafia leader. De Niro, who has won two Academy Awards, is known for mem... |More
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| Osaka Korean Film Week Begins Dec. 8 (Source) |
2007/11/30 |
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'.... |More
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| [DVD review]Third wife fails to give any pleasure (Source) |
2007/04/18 |
There is undeniably a guilty pleasure in turning off one's brain and soaking up a mindless action/comedy, but sometimes a movie is so pointless, mind-numbing and idiotic that it not only makes you want to demand a refund, it also inspires the desire to somehow be reimbursed for the two hours of your life that were wasted.
"My Wife is a Gangster 3", the third (yes, the THIRD) installment of this declining franchise, successfully evokes the latter emotion as it takes the thinnest of storylines and combines it with a cliched comic premise, to produce a painful-to-watch piece of cinematic trash that should have you running back to the video store in search of something that at least pretends to be a decent film.
This is an action movie in which the running time seems to be a lot longer than the plot, so thin is the premise. The film does have the undeniably striking triad gang member Aryong, played by Taiwanese actress Shu Qi (of 2002's "The Transporter"), who is sent to Seoul from Hong ... |More
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| Actresses Dominate on Big Screen (Source) |
2007/02/20 |
By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
The stars of actresses are shining brighter than those of their male counterparts in local films.
It's not only their physical beauty, but also the range of different characters they play that have been attracting moviegoers and better box office results.
Obviously, the movie-going audience now wants to have more choice than the gangster films, which male actors tend to dominate. But also, actresses have proved they are not just the pretty girlfriend of a leading male character any more.
One of the actresses leading the "female wave" in the big screen is Kim Ah-joong.
She has successfully completed her first "heavy" role in her latest film, "200 Pounds Beauty", which sold over 6 million tickets nationwide. In this film version of "The Ugly Duckling", Kim had to become her ugliest, a role which most actresses would avoid.
During the hot summer season, she wore special makeup all over her body which took four hours to apply; a makeover ... |More
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