| [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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| Kang Hye-jeong's Movie Picks (Source) |
2010/02/18 |
Korean actress Kang Hye-jeong [photographed by Lee Jin-hyuk/10Asia]
Kang Hye-jeong has experienced quite a curve during her career as a movie star. The unpredictability in her career shows how eventful the journey was from her starting point leading up to the present. Watching her play the role of Yuki in her debut film "The Butterfly" -- it was directed by Moon Seung-wook and showed Kang's potential as an actor -- makes it hard to think of anyone better for the part. The film "Old Boy", which implanted her name in peoples' minds, also falls into the masterpiece category. Her character Mido in "Old Boy" proclaimed that Kang cannot be fit into a stereotype that had been est... |More
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| Movies to Watch in 2010 (Source) |
2009/12/07 |
The film industry is already preparing for next year. Many renowned filmmakers have returned to Korea to produce movies about war and sequels to hit movies.
Director Im Kwon-taek will produce his 101st movie "Scooping Up The Moonlight". Directors Kim Tae-yong and Lm Sang-soo will produce remakes of "Late Autumn" ("Manchu") by Lee Man-hee and "The Housemaid" ("The Housemaid - 2010") of Kim Ki-young, respectively. Films about war will also be introduced to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.
◇The return of maestros
"Scooping Up The Moonlight", which will be produced under the auspices of the Jeonju City government, is Im Kwon-taek's first film to be shot with digital cameras. It is a story about seventh-grade public servant Jong-ho, who wants to become a fifth-grade official. To achieve his dream, he takes charge of the traditional Korean paper "hanji" at the municipal government and becomes completely mesmerized by it. Jong-ho is played by actor Park Joong-hoon... |More
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| PPP Awards Announced (Source) |
2009/10/22 |
The Pusan International Film Festival's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) – an Asian feature project financing platform – announced the winners of various awards handed-out to six of the 30 projects pitched during the event. PPP ran Oct 11 – 14 during the festival and its attendant Asian Film Market.
The top winner was Decadent Sisters, a new project by Japanese director-producer AOYAMA Shinji (Eureka, Sad Vacation). It won the Pusan Award of US $20,000 presented by Busan Metropolitan City.
A Korean project was also a big winner with director HAN Jae-rim ("The Rules of Dating", "The Show Must Go On") collecting the Kodak Award of $17,000 – a prize committed to a Korean PPP project.
The CJ Entertainment award of $10,000 went to Indian director Pan Nalin for his project Slightly Sane. The Lotte Award which selects a Korean project at PPP, chose "Villain and Widow" by SON Jae-gon for a prize of $8,000.
The Wooridul Award of $8,000 went to New Policemen Stories by YANG Jin, ... |More
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| HAN Jae-rim's Super-Hero Project Unveils at Pusan (Source) |
2009/08/31 |
Director HAN Jae-rim will reveal his third feature film project "Trace" – a US $7.7 million superhero blockbuster – at the Asian Film Market's PPP, a major project market that takes place during the Pusan Int'l Film Festival in October.
Based on a web-based comic series by the same title, Trace is the story of Yoon-sung, a young man who wakes up with supernatural powers after days in a coma after an assault that takes his father's life. When the assault remains unsolved due to an apathetic police, Yoon-sung takes matters into his own hands. He discovers that another man with superpowers, Hee-sup, was involved and that he wants Yoon-sung dead.
The project is to be produced by Syd Lim and SEO Woo-sik of Barunson Film Division. The company has produced such major titles as KIM Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" and BONG Joon-ho's "Mother - 2009". "Trace" is being billed as Korea's first superhero blockbuster.
HAN debuted in 2005 with "The Rules of Dating", a caus... |More
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