Strokes of fire (Movie - 2002)

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  Choi Min-sik
  최민식
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  Yoo Ho-jeong
  유호정
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  Ahn Seong-gi
  안성기
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  Kim Yeo-jin
  김여진
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  Son Ye-jin
  손예진
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  Han Myeong-goo-I
  한명구

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  New museum focuses exclusively on Im Kwon-taek
  2013/04/07, Source,
  Visitors learn about the career of Im Kwon-taek at a newly opened museum dedicated to the director in Busan. [JoongAng Ilbo] Director Im Kwon-taek, a pioneer in the Korean film industry, now has a museum dedicated to his life's work at Dongseo University Centum City Campus in Busan. This is the first time in Korea that a single gallery has been built to commemorate a film director currently in the field. As visitors enter the museum, they can see all of Im's movie titles on the left wall at one glance. Under the theme "A Wandering Life", the exhibits then introduce the 77-year-old director's life in chronological order,...More

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  [Guest Post] Daniel Tudor on Korean cinema
  2012/11/09, Source,
  I'm not a true cinephile by any stretch of the imagination. I've always been the archetypal casual fan, who knows what he likes, but doesn't really like it enough to remember every line of the script. People ask, "have you seen [insert name of genius film here]?" and I honestly reply "yeah, I saw it a few years back, it was great". But then I'll be unable to back that up with any enlightened commentary on that scene with the uninterrupted shot that goes all the way around the bar and back again when all the mobsters are being introduced. Or even who was in it, sometimes. But when I first moved to Seoul in 2004, Korean cinema got to me. In some way it was a stroke of luck to be here while a golden era was still in swing,...More

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  Art and Culture
  2012/08/09, Source,
  It's almost the weekend and we are here with our Michelle Kim for the details on what we can do on the weekend. For people in both London and Korea, Michelle has a bunch of arts and culture updates for us. Hello Michelle [Reporter : ] Hello Conn-young So what do you have for us today,...More

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  (41) Im Kwon-taek brought Korean tradition to screen
  2012/07/01, Source,
  Director Im Kwon-taek received an honorary Berlin Bear award for his lifetime achievement at the 55th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin in 2005. / Korea Times By Andrew Salmon A master of pansori ― a form of vocal Korean opera ― leads his adopted son and daughter through the backwaters of rural Korea. The troupe scratch an increasingly precarious living as itinerant musicians while their master, refusing to compromise with modernity, strictly trains them in the traditional art which is his only skill and his motive passion. But with the country swept up in massive social upheavals between the 1940s, 50s and 60s, their art form is losing its cachet, relevance and audiences. The son decides to abandon his life as a wandering troubadour and embrace modern music. The father ― believing that suffering is essential to create great art, unwilling to change with the times and desperate to keep his hold on to his adopted daughter, an extraordinary vocal talent ― is driven to commit an act of unforgettable cruelty,...More