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PIFF sets sail with a record

Source | 2008/10/01 | Permalink |

13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced that the Kazakh opening film The Gift to Stalin sold out online in an impressive record of 1 minute and 30 seconds. Closing film I am Happy took only 7 minutes and 6 seconds to sell its last seat.

The Gift to Stalin is the first Kazakh film to open PIFF. The film is directed by Rustem Abdrashev. The Gift to Stalin celebrates its world premiere at Pusan. The feel-good film promotes the "positive values of love and trust standing above nationality and age".

PIFF's curtain will be draped by the Korean film "I am Happy" by director YOON Jong-chan. The film is based on the original short story Mr. Mandeuk Choi by the late writer LEE Cheong-joon. YOON previously directed "Sorum" and "Blue Swallow".

The record was partly made possible by a more efficient internet sales system which made online booking of tickets more stable. The tickets went on sale through the internet on September 22. 300 tickets of both the opening and clo...| More

Hyeon Bin the patient, Lee Bo-yeong the nurse

Source | 2008/04/03 | Permalink |

Hyeon Bin and Lee Bo-yeong will be acting together as a patient and a nurse. In director Yoon Jong-chan's new movie "I Am Happy", the two will meet in a mental hospital and fall in love as a patient and a nurse.

Hyeon Bin plays a young man who suffers from a mental disorder due to a dysfunctional family and lifestyle. Lee Bo-yeong stars as the nurse who takes care of him. This is his comeback to the screen two years after "A Millionaire's First Love" and receiving love as 'Sam-shik' in "My Name is Kim Sam-soon". Lee Bo-yeong, after her first main role in "Once Upon a Time", will show another side of her. It's drawing attention because it's a joyful and painful story, by a director known for his unique movies, as shown in "Sorum" and "Blue Swallow". Filming will start at the end of this month.
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Hyeon Bin, Screen Comeback with movie "I Am Happy"

Source | 2008/03/27 | Permalink |

After two years, Hyeon Bin will be coming back to the screen since "A Millionaire's First Love". He wasn't involved in anything after drama "Snow Queen".

On the 20th, he posted a message at his fan café titled, 'You've waited a long time', revealing his comeback. "I'm really busy these days. I've been trying to prepare a good work for our family, but it's taking longer than I thought". He revealed the reason why he hasn't been coming out a lot.

He also said, "I'm going to be filming a movie from next week. It's a movie called "I Am Happy", and many great actors come out. I'm also working with a great director and a good staff".

He said, "I think it's something that I can be born again with, and something I can learn from. I'll try my best to show you a different side of me. I'm thankful to my fans for supporting me, and I hope I can show you great results".

Director Yoon Jong-chan, who has become famous through "Sorum" and "Blue Swallow", will be working on this movie. Hyeo...| More

Korean actresses cleaning up at filmfests

Source | 2007/05/28 | Permalink |

However, she was not alone in making the foundation on which the Korean film industry stands at the moment.

Since Kang Soo-yeon became the first Korean actress to win a major international award in 1987 with "The Surrogate Mother", the local movie industry has gone through dramatic improvement over the past 20 years.

Kang, then 21, was chosen best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role as "Sibaji", a Korean word for surrogate mother, in the movie produced by Korea's master film director Im Kwon-Taek.

In 1989, Kang reaffirmed her global fame as she won best actress at the Moscow Film Festival for her role in Im's Buddhist movie, "Aje Aje Bara Aje", which translates into "Come, come, come upward".

At the heart of the global acclaim poured on Korean movies for the past two decades were a dozen of other actresses, armed with passion for acting and superb performance.

Im's another movie, "Sopyonje", garnered much international acclaim in 1993, giving the best actres...| More

Kim Myeong-min Still Haunted by 'White Tower' Role

Source | 2007/03/16 | Permalink |

It's well-known fact that actor Kim Myeong-min doesn't smoke -- there's a famous story of him passing out after smoking cigarettes all day for a scene in the 2001 movie "Sorum" (Goosebumps). And yet, to our surprise, during a recent interview he politely asked if he could light up, and he then proceeded to suck down several cigarettes one after the next. "I tried to be a surgeon, but that turned me into a smoker", he joked.

Kim was referring to the past five months that he spent playing Jang Joon-hyeok on MBC's hit drama "White Tower". Jang Joon-hyeok is a brilliant and power-hungry surgeon who suffers a medical accident and eventually dies of cancer. Now that the show is finished, Kim has finally had a chance to return to himself. But the strain of the performance has taken its toll on the actor, for when the Chosun Ilbo met with him for the interview, he looked haggard.

-- You looked terribly pale during the last episode. Was that make-up?

"I imagined that I really was a sic...| More