| [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 and Song say bonded like brothers in "Secret Reunion" (Source) |
2010/01/21 |
Director Jang Hoon (center) poses with his lead actors Song Kang-ho (left) and Kang Dong-won attend a press conference for film "Secret Reunion" held at the COEX Megabox Multiplex theater in Seoul, South Korea on January 19, 2010. [Creative Film Marketing]
Press conference for film "Secret Reunion"
Song Kang-ho keeps throwing verbal jabs which makes the audience burst out in laughter. Kang Dong-won wears a complex, multi-layered look in his eyes that has not been seen in any of his previous films. From what has been revealed at the press conference for "Secret Reunion", held at Seoul's Megabox Multiplex on Tuesday, "Secret Reunion""Secret Reunion" not only maximized the strengths of the two ... |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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| Manilla's Korean Film Festival Kicks Off (Source) |
2009/10/01 |
Manilla's 2009 Korean Film Festival opened Sept 23, offering free screenings to the public during its one week run. Sponsored by the Korean Embassy and held at Shangri-La Plaza, the fest showcases seven Korean features and celebrates the "Philippines-Republic of Korea Friendship Year".
The program features some of the most artistically accomplished films in Korean cinema over the last 9 years, including renowned and emerging directors. Korean TV dramas are already popular in the Philippines, but audiences have yet to be exposed to Korean feature filmmaking.
The seven films in the program are "Old Boy" (PARK Chan-wook), "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (BONG Joon-ho), "Sa-Kwa" (KANG Yi-kwan), "Beyond the Years" (IM Kwon-taek), "The Show Must Go On" (HAN Jae-rim), "Forbidden Quest" (KIM Dae-woo) and "Driving with My Wife's Lover" (KIM Tae-sik).
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)... |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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