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Directed by Park Chan-wook (박찬욱)
Screenplay by Hwang Jo-yoon (황조윤), Park Chan-wook (박찬욱)
120min | Release date in South Korea : 2003/11/21One day in 1988, an ordinary man named OH Dae-su, who lives with his wife and adorable daughter, is kidnapped and later wakes up to find himself in a private makeshift prison. Dae-su makes numerous attempts to escape and to commit suicide, but they all end up in failure. All the while Dae-su asks himself what made a man hate him so much enough to i... More
The Asia Film Fest which in 2007 held a KIM Ki-duk retrospective is this time focusing on Korean master director PARK Chan-wook. The retrospective will play 4 of his films from "JSA - Joint Security Area" (2000), "Old Boy" (2003), "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (2005) through to "I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK" (2006). Director PARK's "Thirst" which premiered to rave reviews at Cannes and did good business at the box office in Korea will also play in the Korean section. Other films in the Korean section include current films "Chaw", "The Sword with No Name", "A Frozen Flower" (2008), KIM Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" (2008) and Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine". Also of note, playing in the Special Presentation section is "Blood: The Last Vampire" staring Korean Gianna Jun (Jeon Ji-hyeon). The Asia film festival which began in Munich in 2004 has enjoyed a 10% growth rate in audiences every year. It begins this year October 28 through to November 8 and then moves to Be...| More | |||||||||||||||||
By Lee Hyo-wonStaff Reporter In his first feature film, "White Night"' ("Baekyahaeng" translation Walking the White Night), director Park Shin-woo does a compelling job of condensing Keigo Higashino's best-selling Japanese mystery novel ("Byakuyako" in Japanese) into a solid two-hour melodramatic thriller. And the noteworthy cast, including Son Ye-jin, Ko Soo and Han Seok-kyu, keeps things highly intriguing. The film explores some classic themes ― the loss of innocence, traumas that haunt one for life like a phantom limb and how self-sacrifice weighs in when it comes to love. The movie invites some comparison to the indie flick "Lala Sunshine" as it poses some ethical questions about justifications for murder ― or at least whether it is worthy of sympathy ― when victims of violence become perpetrators. Everything begins ― again ― with a murder. When a man is brutally killed not long after being released from prison, detective Dong-su (Han) i...| More | |||||||||||||||||
Director Park Chan-wook, who received the Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his movie "Thirst", says that Korean films can gain global recognition by improving their artistic expression and setting new trends.In an interview with the Yonhap News ahead of the screening of "Thirst" at the London Barbican Centre as the opening film of the 4th London Korean Film Festival, Park said that Korean movies can be exported overseas not only by producing them in English but also by setting new trends. The festival will run through November 18 at the London Barbican Centre and the British Film Institute. A total of 29 Korean films will be screened, including "Thirst" as well as "Mother - 2009" by Bong Joon-ho. Interview with director Park Chan-wook. -- Did the film face a lot of red tape because it deals with Christianity? - We had a hard time designing its posters. In Korea, we had to take out the image of the lead actress's legs from the poster because they were said to l...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter Epik High leader Tablo, 29, and actress Kang Hye-jeong, 27, wed Monday afternoon at the Bailey House, southern Seoul. Few details of one of the year's most talked-about celebrity weddings were revealed but a press release by Tablo's management agency announced Sunday that the two were set to tie the knot at 1 p.m. at the residence-style wedding hall in Samseong-dong. The private event, which, unlike other celebrity weddings, was closed to the press, was small in scale and included only relatives and a few friends. Guests included hip hop artists Drunken Tiger, Yoon Mi-rae (aka. T) and Jung In, according to Yonhap News Agency. Tablo's fellow group member Mithra Jin hosted the event and hip hop duo Leessang took the stage as wedding singers, performing "Leessang Blues", said the news wire. The couple said that the wedding invitation, designed by a friend, was "the most beautiful among items bearing our name", and the most memorable among gif...| More | |||||||||||||||||
Jang's character imagined himself stuck in a room alone eating dumplings like Choi. Audience say that this scene was very funny and even said that he should shoot a commercial film for dumplings! ...| More | |||||||||||||||||
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