The Birth of a Family (2006) - 가족의 탄생 (Ga-jok-eui Tan-saeng)

2008/04/19 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Nigel D'Sa
Contributing Writer

The 9th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is nearing, and an impressive line-up of films has been announced for this year's event.

Set in its picturesque namesake city in Jeollabuk-do (province), JIFF runs May 1-9, bringing together innovative and independent films and filmmakers from around the world.

This year's program boasts a record total of 169 films with opening night going to Manda Kunitoshi's The Kiss in its International Premiere.

Japanese writer-turned-director Manda has already gained notice and won prizes at Cannes for his previous films, making this latest work highly anticipated.

JIFF's curtain-closer will be the Korean omnibus film "If You Were Me 4", produced by the National Human Rights Commission.

Each film in the series has a human rights issue as its theme with past concerns ranging from discrimination to forced surgery and bringing together a group of talented directors.

This year's project fe...

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2008/04/16 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Ten Korean features will have their World Premiere at the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) this spring. Now in it's 9th edition the festival will run May 1st – 9th in the attractive and historical city of Jeonju, in North Jeolla province.

Korean highlights include documentary director KIM Dong-won's latest, "63 Years On", about the 'comfort women' enslaved by the Japanese military in stations across Asia during WW2. The film provides an historical investigation along with interviews with victims still living in Korea, China, and the Philippines. KIM is best known for his 2003 film Repatriation which raised the documentary genre to commercial prominence in South Korea.

In the Korean Cinema on the Move section, presents 10 new independent features mostly by debut directors. Among the most interesting are "Synching Blue" by SEO Won-tae, a director whose shorts films have garnered praise for their visual arrangements. This HD feature is about a man who seeks comfort i...

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2008/04/09 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The 9th edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF), second only to Pusan among Korea's top movie-going events, will take place May 1 – 9, 2008 in its picturesque namesake city, in North Jeolla province. At a press conference held in Seoul last week, JIFF announced an impressive line-up of 169 films.

Festival opener will be MANDA Kunitoshi's The Kiss in its International Premiere. Japanese writer-turned-director MANDA has already gained notice and won prizes at Cannes for his previous films, making his latest work highly anticipated.

Korean anthology film If You Were Me 4 will close the festival, this time featuring five shorts on the theme of contemporary Korean youth. Rising Korean directors including BANG Eun-jin ("Princess Aurora"), KIM Tae-yong ("Family Ties" - "The Birth of a Family"), and YOON Seong-ho ("Milky Way Liberation Front") participated.

JIFF has renamed its 'Indie Vision' section the 'International Competition' section, raising its profile...

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2008/03/20 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Middle-aged actress Kim Hae-sook will be the main character of "Viva! Love". This is her first main role in 33 years.

Her motherly image changed drastically when she came out as a pickpocket in last year's movie "Open City" and now, she will have a romance with a man 23 years younger than her.

This is a comedy telling of the romance between Bong-soon (Kim Hae-sook) and a 21-year-old man. There is interest in Kim Hae-sook's character, who falls in love with her daughter's boyfriend.

She has lived her life as a mother and a wife, but she meets her true love, who will be played by Kim Yeong-min. Kim Yeong-min has been in plays, "Hamlet", "Bad Magnet", "Rising Lovely Girl", and movies "My Right to Ravage Myself", "A Cruel Attendance", and "Ad-Lib Night".

Kim Hae-sook and Kim Yeong-min are continuing the line of older women, younger men couples, such as Moon So-ri and Bong Tae-gyu from "A Good Lawyer's Wife" and Ko Doo-sim and Eom Tae-woong in "The Birth of a Family". It will pr...

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Way to go! I love your acting so much! Ivory upthegrove 2008-03-21 11:41:36

2008/02/13 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

After the long Lunar New Year holiday, what's left for me is a fight with my mother. One of the saddest things in my life is fighting with the woman who has been my best friend for decades.
But a long holiday can fray women's nerves, and for us, fighting is an annual routine.
The problem is that after a dose of greasy holiday food, absurd TV entertainment and questions that target unmarried 30-somethings like me, people end up raspy.
Although the TV news over the holiday was mostly about how Korean families were enjoying their get-togethers, a more realistic program would have focused on a family feud.
Holidays are prime time for squabbles and acrimony between warring factions within a family.
This is why we have special TV dramas every holiday, in which family members bark at each other and dramatically (in other words, unrealistically), reconcile in the end.
This year MBC-TV took the main role in screening this kind of holiday drama with "Ssukbujaengi", named after a common...

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