| Director Jang Hoon's Movie Picks (Source) |
2010/03/16 |
Director Jang Hoon [Lee Jin-hyuk/10Asia]
There are two men. Whether they have their backs turned or are facing each other, they are enemies. They stand together only because they need to, and the distance between them fails to narrow. Gang-pae (played by So Ji-sub) and Soo-ta (Kang Ji-hwan) met in "Rough Cut" to shoot a film and Han-gyu (Song Kang-ho) and Ji-won (Kang Dong-won) meet in "Secret Reunion" to find what they have lost. Yet while Gang-pae and Soo-ta end up scarring each other deeply, Han-gyu and Ji-won find peace.
The man who made these men meet, made them fight and then reconcile, is director Jang Hoon. He has returned with his second directorial featur... |More
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| [INTERVIEW] Actor Song Kang-ho - Part 2 (Source) |
2010/03/04 |
Actor Song Kang-ho [photographed by Beck Una/10Asia]
Beck: What did you find likeable and entertaining about the script for "Secret Reunion"?
Song: Ten years ago, I did the films "Shiri" and "JSA - Joint Security Area" which are both about South Korea, North Korea and men. So, "Secret Reunion" was similar to them in a way, a similar story, but the overall outline of the movie is completely different from the previous films. The film doesn't treat the South-North division as its theme but rather takes an incredibly soft, light and sophisticated approach to it. I thought that was closer to how the audience currently feels about the divi... |More
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| "Season of Good Rain" to close Korean film fest in L.A. (Source) |
2010/02/23 |
Movie poster of "Season of Good Rain" [Pancinema]
Korean film "Season of Good Rain", starring Korean actor Jeong Woo-seong and Chinese actress Gao Yuanyuan, has been selected as the closing film for a Korean film festival to be held in Los Angeles next month.
"Season of Good Rain", by famed directed Heo Jin-ho, will close the four-day long Korean Film Festival in Los Angeles (KOFFLA) on March 7. The fest is set to open with Korean film "Le Grand Chef - Kimchi War" starring Kim Jeong-eun and Jin Goo.##
Main features to be screed at the fest include "A Million", "Memories of Murder", "The Naked Kitchen", "The Righteous Thief" ("Descendants of Hong Gil-dong")... |More
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| Secret Reunion Unseats Avatar (Source) |
2010/02/18 |
Avatar has been knocked off its seven week perch at the top of the box office by spy thriller "Secret Reunion". The SONG Kang-ho starring blockbuster pulled in 741,552 admissions in its first 3 days after opening. Secret Reunion is helmed by up and comer JANG Hoon who joins the ranks of other Korean promising-young-directors such as NA Hong-jin who jumped head first into the box office with his first feature "The Chaser" (2007). JANG Hoon in turn, made his cinematic splash with the KIM Ki-duk produced "Rough Cut" (2008).
Secret Reunion stars SONG Kang-ho ("Thirst" 2009, "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" 2008) whose films always seem to turn to block buster gold. Also starring is KANG Dong-won ("M" 2007) whose current film "JEON WOO CHI : The Taoist Wizard" is number 4 at the box office. SONG plays a secret service agent who is kicked out of the service after pursuing a North Korean spy and failing. Six years later, SONG's character comes across an accomplice of the spy, played by... |More
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| [ChanMi's movie news] Good reviews for "Secret Reunion" (Source) |
2010/01/22 |
Who said that they would not look good as costars?
The film, "Secret Reunion" is receiving good critics! The main characters, Song Kang-ho and Kang Dong-won have worked with the director, Jang Hoon who has also produced "Rough Cut".
The movie is set in the busy city of Seoul where the two have met through a curious gunfire.
Secret national agent Hangyu acted by Song Kang-ho and the espionage operator sent from North Korea acted by ##Kang Dong-won have been living under an alias for 6 years with a purpose.
This movie is more sentimental than anyone can think. The two character who cannot be friends become brothers and grow to understand each other.
There is comedy and ... |More
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