Chihwaseon (Movie - 2002)

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  Choi Min-sik
  최민식
  As
  Jang Seung-up
  (장승업)
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  Ahn Sung-ki
  안성기
  As
  Kim Byeong-moon
  (김병문)
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  Yoo Ho-jung
  유호정
  As
  Mae-hyang
  (매향)
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  Kim Yeo-jin
  김여진
  As
  Jin-hong
  (진홍)
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  Son Ye-jin
  손예진
  As
  So-woon
  (소운)
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  Han Myung-goo-I
  한명구
  As
  Lee Eung-heon
  (이응헌)

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  [Hancinema Film Review] "Chihwaseon"
  2019/06/01
  Considered Im Kwon-taek's greatest work (at least outside of Korea), "Chihwaseon" is also a landmark for Korean cinema, since it signaled the first time a local director won the Best Director Award at Cannes. The biopic presents the life of Jang Seung-up, one of the most significant painters in the history of the country, who is considered to have changed the direction of Korean art,...More

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  [HanCinema's News] "Parasite" Seventh South Korean Film to Be Honored at Cannes Film Festival
  2019/05/27
  "Parasite" made history at the Cannes Film Festival this year by winning the Plame d'Or. Although "Parasite" was the first South Korean film to be granted the festival's highest honor, it is the seventh South Korean film to be granted some honor,...More

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  [Guest Post] Artists' Choice: Director Jero Yun Lists His 10 Favorite Korean Movies
  2018/08/04
  Jero Yun was born in Busan in 1980. At the age of 13, he entered the atelier of drawing and painting. After studying at Busan Design High school, he began to study classic art at university in 1998. In 2001, he arrived in France, continued his studies in Beaux-arts de Nancy, and then in ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris) where he studied classic cinema and documentary. In 2008, he entered the Le Fresnoy where he directed the middle-length feature film "In the Dark", which was shot in Korea, and the short film "Red Road" that selected in several international festivals,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] "GOGURYEO"
  2017/10/21
  Kim Yong-ok is a professor at Hanshin University, although that rather understates the sheer power of his reputation as a historian. Kim Yong-ok did screenwriting work for "The General's Son" and "Chihwaseon" merely as a historical expert. In "GOGURYEO", Kim Yong-ok uses that expertise to narrate an extended study of the lands of the historical Goguryeo Kingdom, relating it as the true heart of the Korean people, before those hoity-toity southerners in Silla took over, and signed over most of Korean Manchuria to Chinese rule,...More

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  Philadelphia Museum of Art Korean Film Series
  2014/03/26, Source
  Featuring a mix of contemporary films, documentaries, and classics, this series showcases traditional and modern Korean culture with themes explored in the exhibition Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Each film is introduced by Joe Kim, founder of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Discussions with experts in Korean film and history follow most screenings,...More

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  Im Kwon-taek, will he go to Cannes?
  2014/02/06, Source
  Hit maker Im Kwon-taek is aiming for Cannes again. His 102nd movie "Revivre" is in the process of the making and it looks like he's going with submitting it to the 67th Cannes International Film Festival. Director Im will complete all production in March. A filmmaker claims, "Cannes is very interested in what director Im has in store. We are working hard for the production of the movie",...More

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  'Snowpiercer' Charts New Terrain for Korean Movie in France
  2013/11/12, Source
  Bong Joon-ho's "Snowpiercer" has become the best-selling Korean movie ever released in France. According to Rentrak, which tracks global box office results, it attracted 331,542 viewers in the country as of Sunday. The movie first hit French theaters on Oct. 30. The previous record was set by Im Kwon-taek's "Chihwaseon", which attracted 315,378 people after it was released in over 60 cinemas across France in 2002,...More

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  Ahn Sung-ki cast for Im Kwon-taek's "Revivre"
  2013/09/04, Source
  Actor Ahn Sung-ki has been cast for Im Kwon-taek's 102nd movie. Ahn Sung-ki is starring in the new movie "Revivre". The two met in 2002 through "Chihwaseon",...More

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  [New York] Press Conference with Korean directors
  2013/08/01, Source
  ContemporAsian: Focus on Korea @ MoMA Thursday, August 8, 2013 From Monday, August 5th though Sunday, 11th, The Korea Society and MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) co-presents 'Focus on Korea' as part of 'ContemporAsian' film series which presents many contemporary Asian films from pan-Asian countries. The series selects critically lauded Korean films, highlighting current social issues, injustice and human nature. The films maximize distinctive narrative skills from some of Korea's insightful and penetrative renegade filmmakers,...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

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  New York Special Screening, Old Boy on July 1st
  2012/06/25, Source
  The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-sik, one of Korea's most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing "Korean Cinema Now" program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image). Choi Min-sik had numerous television roles, but his big break came in 1999 when he played a cold-blooded North Korean soldier in "Shiri" (Dir. Kang Je-gyu) and suddenly gained a reputation as one of Korea's finest actors. His acting dominates the silver screen, but his characters have more than charisma,...More

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  Choi Min-sik holds hands with director Kim Han-min
  2012/06/19, Source
  Choi Min-sik is returning with movie "Sea of Tornado" as general Yi Sun-sin. This movie is about one of the greatest news of victory in the year 1597 during the invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi when just 13 ships defeated 133 Japanese ships,...More
• Retrospective of the work of Choi Min-sik
  2012/05/31, Source
  The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-sik, one of Korea's most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing "Korean Cinema Now" program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image).  Choi Min-sik had numerous television roles, but his big break came in 1999 when he played a cold-blooded North Korean soldier in "Shiri" (Dir. Kang Je-gyu) and suddenly gained a reputation as one of Korea's finest actors. His acting dominates the silver screen, but his characters have more than charisma,...More

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  Two Korean Movies in Running for Palme d'Or at Cannes
  2012/05/16, Source
  The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with 22 films vying for the coveted Palme d'Or, the highest honor awarded to the best feature film in the official competition. Two Korean movies -- Hong Sang-soo's "In Another Country" and Im Sang-soo's "The Taste of Money" -- are among those competing for the top prize. Another three Korean films have been invited to non-competitive sections of the world's leading movie festival, including the Directors' Fortnight,...More

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  "Nameless Gangster" released in North America
  2012/03/28, Source
  PREFACE "My reason for wanting to tell a story from the '80s is because I feel that the current societal climate is very similar. About 3 years ago I got a feeling that the era of my deceased father was suddenly coming back, an era in which everyone's good will is only reserved for their own survival and well being. But like my own father, I did not see these people as selfish fools, but sympathized with them. I wanted to portray these characters not as criminals who were on the wrong side of the law, but as people who tried their best to survive and thrive despite the conditions they were in. People innately follow the times they live in and those who ride it architect the next generation. The '80s in South Korea were an incredibly volatile decade in which a single person's decision could change the direction of an entire era. Following men who lived through that decade, I wanted to show that the eighties had more dramatic appeal than any other decade. I wanted to inquire whether it was the times that were changing the people, or if it was the people that were changing the times. Most of all, I hope that the audience can laugh and identify with these men who lived like kings in the face of loyalty, betrayal, and ambition".,...More

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  [HanCinema Korea's Diary] Classical Korean Cinema at KOFA: Im Kwon-taek's "Gilsotteum"
  2012/03/17, Source
  Every month at Korean Film Archive in Seoul Darcy Paquet, a respected Korean film critic and journalist, will be presenting a number of classic Korean films. The first of these was held last weekend and Im Kwon-taek's hidden masterpiece "Gilsotteum" (1985) was screened. After which, Darcy shared some facts on the piece as well as his thoughts on the film, the director and the actors involved. Hancinema was there for the screening and recorded the Q & A session (English and Korean),...More

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  South Korean actress Son Ye-Jin
  2012/02/25, Source
  South Korean actress Son Ye-jin appeares in front of the camera in a movie preview of "Love Fiction" held at Mega Box theater in Seoul's Samsung-dong on Feb. 20, 2012. Son Ye-jin has taken on a variety of roles in her career to date, propelling her to fame both in Korea and in other Asian countries. She first appeared in a supporting role in Park Ki-hyung's film "Secret Tears" in 2000, and then went on to take the lead in TV dramas such as "A Delicious Proposal", "Sun-hee and Jin-hee", and "Daemang". Her first high-profile role in cinema was in Im Kwon-taek's "Chihwaseon", which screened at Cannes and took home a Best Director award in 2002,...More

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  Local Washington DC News Spotlights Korean Food and Film
  2011/04/09, Source
  To celebrate Filmfest DC's 25th anniversary and a slate of Korean films as one of this year's highlights, local news station WUSA 9 interviewed Tony Gittens, director of the international film festiva,...More

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  Meet Korean, Japanese master directors
  2010/06/13, Source
  The Korean Film Archive will offer 10 works by Lee Doo-yong, a pioneer of Korean action films, for free on its video-on-demand website through,...More

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  Korean Movie Poetry Wins Best Screenplay Award at Cannes Film Festival
  2010/05/26, Source
  Two Korean films were awarded at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 17 to 23) this year: director Lee Chang-dong's,...More

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  'Poetry' of Korea wins best screenplay award in Cannes
  2010/05/24, Source
  Renowned Korean director Lee Chang-dong won the best screenplay award for his latest film,...More

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  Im Kwon-taek's First HD Feature to Crank In January
  2009/12/04, Source
  Veteran master Im Kwon-taek will begin production on his HD debut next month, a feature drama on the traditional Korean paper art of hanji, tit,...More

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  Director Im Kwon-taek Brings 101st Film
  2009/12/01, Source
  By Lee Hyo-won
  Staff Reporter
  
  Master director Im Kwon-taek may have 100 films under his belt, but he considers his upcoming project, "Dalb,...More
• 44 Korean Films at the 2009 Marrakech International Film Festival
  2009/11/19, Source
  In a celebration of Korean film, a record 44 will screen at this year's 2009 International Film Festival of Marrakech. In addition, representatives from Korean government organizations, the Korean film industry: producers, directors, actors and film festival delegates will be in attendance. The fes,...More
• Korean Films Earn Intl. Critical Acclaim
  2009/06/18, Source
  The 2009 Cannes Film Festival closed its curtains on May 24th.
  A total of 10 Korean films were invited to screen at Cannes.
  Director Bong Joon-ho's "Mother - 2009" was invited t,...More
• Korean Presence 12th Shanghai Int'l Fest
  2009/06/12, Source
  The 12th edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) is underway June 13 -21 with Korean presence strong throughout including 2 films in competition, and a retrospective on veteran director Im Kwon-taek who will also preside ove,...More

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  Choi Min-sik Escapes Oncreen to The Himalayas
  2009/05/31, Source
  By Lee Hyo-won
  Staff Reporter
  
  Actor Choi Min-sik has returned to local screens to take the audience on a faraway journey to ",...More

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  Korean Movie "Thirst" Wins Cannes Award
  2009/05/25, Source
  The new movie "Thirst" by Korea's renowned director Park Chan-wook won one of the three main awards of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
  The fi,...More

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  'Thirst' Wins the Jury Prize at Cannes
  2009/05/25, Source
  Director Park Chan-wook's latest film "Thirst" has won the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival. The award is his second hono,...More

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  'Thirst' Wins Jury Prize
  2009/05/25, Source
  By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
  Staff Reporter
  
  The dark vampire thriller "Thirst", directed by,...More
• Korean Movies Draw Attentions at Cannes Film Festival
  2009/05/15, Source
  Korean films have never been this prolific at the world-renowned French film festival in Cannes before. At this year's 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13 to 24) a total of 10 Korean films will be screened.
  
  One of the most attention-grabbing films from Korea is director,...More
• [Tourist Attractions in Films]
  2008/11/27, Source
  Ewha Womans University: "S Diary" - A story about a woman who struggles to find her sense of self. Subway line 2, Ewha Womans University Station, Exits 2 and 3
  
  Changdeokgung: ",...More
• Lyon Asian Film Fest Awards Korean Films
  2008/11/19, Source
  The 14th Lyon Asian Film Festival ended its 5-day run November 9, closing with the French premiere of Korean film "The Chaser" by Na Hong-jin. Korean films won the majority of the 20,...More

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  CHOI Min-sik retrospective at Lyon fest
  2008/10/24, Source
  The 14th Lyon Asian Film Festival will dedicate a retrospective to Korea's leading actor Choi Min-sik. The French film festival holds the speci,...More
• Film Fests Offer Retrospective, Award to Korean Movie Stars
  2008/10/22, Source
  By Han Sang-hee
  Staff Reporter
  
  Two film festivals in France and India are paying respect to local actors and directors by holding retrospectives and offering awards.
  
  The 14th Lyon Asian Film Festival will hold a retrospective on Korean movie star,...More

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  Retospective on Choi Min-sik in Lyon
  2008/10/21, Source
  A retrospective on Korean actor Choi Min-sik has been announced as one of the special programs scheduled for the 14th Lyon Asian Film Festival,...More

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  Im Kwon-taek's 101st to premiere at Jeonju Fest
  2008/08/14
  Prolific and renowned director Im Kwon-taek is working on his 101st project titled "Son" (English translation: "hand"), the film will premiere,...More

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  Moscow Honors Im Kwon-taek with Retrospective
  2008/06/04, Source
  An impressive 12 film retrospective, surveying the work of legendary Korean director Im Kwon-taek, will be held in the Russian capital of Mosco,...More

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  Korean Films to See at Cannes
  2008/04/27, Source
  By Lee Hyo-won
  Staff Reporter
  
  The world's premier film event, Festival de Cannes, will open for the 61st time May 14-25 in the southern French port city. While there are no Korean entrees this ye,...More

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  [THE HIGH TIDE OF THE KOREAN WAVE(28)] Ebbing tide of Hallyu slows film industry
  2008/03/27, Source
  In the last few years, Korean films, TV dramas and pop music have become immensely popular abroad, a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave. This is the 28th in a series of essays by a select group of sc,...More

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  Choi Min-sik to Star in Jeon Soo-il Art Film
  2008/01/30, Source
  Actor Choi Min-sik, one of Korea's most recognized thespians, will star in art house director,...More

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  Korean movie director awarded France's Legion of Honor
  2007/12/02, Source
  Im Kwon-taek, a Cannes-winning Korean movie director, received France's elite Legion of Honor for promoting Korean films in France, news report,...More

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  Great filmmaker Im to get French Legion of Honor
  2007/11/29, Source
  Korea's top filmmaker Im Kwon-taek will receive the Order of the Legion of Honor from the French government on Friday, in recognition of his de,...More

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  France to Award Director Im Kwon-taek
  2007/11/28, Source
  By Lee Hyo-won
  Staff Reporter
  
  The French government will award Korea's iconic director Im Kwon-taek, 71, with the title of Knight of the O,...More
• KOFIC and UK Film Council Announce Deal
  2007/10/17, Source
  In an important pact between the two countries, the UK Film Council and its Korean counterpart KOFIC signed a Co-Distribution Agreement during this year's Pusan International Film Festival. Beginning in November 2007, distributors of UK and Korean films will be eligible for print and advertising su,...More

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  Jeon Do-yeon Wins Best Actress at Cannes
  2007/05/28, Source
  Jeon Do-yeon won the Best Actress award at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, which ended on Sunday, for her role in Lee Chang-song's,...More
• How Will Korean Films Do at Cannes?
  2007/05/19, Source
  Turning to the cultural scene - Two Korean works are competing with 20 other films at this year's Cannes Film Festival vying for the coveted Palme d'Or prize.
  Son Heekyung explains what their chances are at one of the world's most prestigious film events.
  The 12-day annual film festival is rolling,...More
• Two Korean Films to Be Shown in Competition at Cannes
  2007/04/20, Source
  Two Korean movies will be screened in competition of this year's Cannes Film Festival. "Secret Sunshine" by Lee Chang-dong and,...More

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  Maestro Im Kwon-taek Returns With 100th Film
  2007/04/11, Source
  One of Korea's most renowned film directors, Im Kwon-taek, returns with his 100th film at the age of 71. "Cheonnyeonhak" or ",...More

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  Im unveils 100th film 'Beyond the Years'
  2007/04/05, Source
  If you have already made 99 movies in your lengthy and diverse career, what kind of project would you choose to make for your 100th film? The question may sound unrealistic for most directors around t,...More

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  Director Im to Soon Release 100th Film
  2007/02/20, Source
  One of Korea's greatest film directors is about to release his 100th movie.
  Im Kwon-taek has directed movies since 1962, mostly on traditional,...More
• Im Kwon-taek to teach at PIFF's Asian Film Academy
  2006/08/14, Source
  The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has named Im Kwon-taek as the dean of this year's Asian Film Academy. Im is one of Korea's internationally renowned directors, who won the Best Director award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for "<,...More

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  Chihwaseon
  2006/06/05, Source
  Im Kwon-taek's visually stunning portrait of a troubled Korean painter
  
  Darcy Paquet,...More
• 'Do-ol' Kim, Yong-ok translates film 'The King and the Clown' into English
  2006/03/06, Source
  'Do-ol' Kim, Yong-ok, emeritus professor at Sunchon National University, translates the film 'The King and the Clown' (director: Lee Joon-ik; production: Eagles Pictures ?,...More
• Korean Blockbuster "The King and the Clown" to Debut in US
  2006/03/05, Source
  Lee Joon-ik's film "The The King and the Clown", loved by millions of Koreans including President Roh Moo-hyun, is about to break the all-time Korean record of 11.7 millio,...More
• Showing Outsiders' Attempts at Freedom
  2006/03/05, Source
  By Park Chung-a
  Staff Reporter
  
  The director of the mega-hit period piece "The King and the Clown", said he hopes foreign audiences will be able to recognize the richness and originality of Korean traditional culture in the,...More
• Kim Ki-duk Latest Film "3-Iron" Gets Rave Reviews
  2006/01/21, Source
  The entrancing moving "3-Iron", the eleventh movie by Korean cinema powerhouse director Kim Ki-duk, is receiving rave reviews from film critics around the world.
  
  According to CineClickA,...More
• Belgian Association Names '3-Iron' Best Film
  2006/01/19, Source
  The film "3-Iron" by maverick director Kim Ki-duk has been named the best film of 2005 by Belgium's Film Critics Association.
  
  The movie's overseas distributor Cineclick Asia said Thursd,...More
• "The King and The Clown" Targets Overseas Film Market
  2006/01/09, Source
  A local proverb says, "Things which are Korean in every way are most fit for global adaptation". The film "The King and the Clown" is expected to prove this proverb true once again.
  
  Since its release, ",...More
• Namyangju Studio Complex
  2005/11/30, Source
  Cinema Paradise in the Forests of the Bukhangang River
  
  There is a place that has everything it takes to make a movie, except for the script. The Namyangju Studio Complex has all the facilities and equipment needed to make a movie, from start to finish, from shooting to postproduction. With its hi,...More
• PiFan, RealFanta Film Festivals in Bucheon
  2005/08/03, Source
  From Ashes of Korean Film Festival, Competitor Is Born
  By Mark Russel
  
  With Hollywood action films dominating screens all over the world each summer, most fans of art-house cinema would be happy to have an alternative to blockbusters.
  
  Last week, South Korea had two art film festivals running d,...More
• Film industry suffers from stars' fee dispute
  2005/07/05, Source
  A dramatic dispute between film directors and film stars highlights how soaring guaranteed payments for actors could cripple Korea's film industry -already struggling with a shrinking share of the domestic market - and taint the image of the Korean Wave, an Asia-wide surge in the popularity of Korea,...More
• Movie director Im Kwon-taek's retrospective film screening takes place in Shanghai too.
  2005/02/20, Source
  Following his special retrospective movie screening in the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, movie director Im Kwon-taek's retrospective film screening takes place in the Shanghai International Film Festival also to be held on the forth,...More
• Im Receives Honorary Golden Bear at Berlin
  2005/02/13, Source
  By Kim Tae-jong
  Staff Reporter
  
  Local director Im Kwon-taek received the Honorary Golden Bear award for his contribution to the movie industry at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. Im is the first Asian to receive the,...More
• Im Kwon-taek, world-class movie director
  2005/02/11, Source
  Tony Rayns, a famous British film critic, once said about Im Kwon-taek that his movies unfold like drawing a circle, not a line, that keeps growing around the subject of the movie or conversely keeps narrowing down toward the center, and that,...More
• Local Director to Be Honored at Berlin Film Festival
  2005/01/25, Source
  SEOUL (Yonhap) - The Berlin Film Festival will next month present a retrospective of the works of South Korean director Im Kwon-taek and celebrate his contribution to world cinema, local film industry sources said Tuesday.
  
  "Tribute to,...More
• Chronology of Korean Winners at International Film Festivals
  2004/09/12, Source
  ■ Park Chan-wook, Jury Grand Prix for "Old Boy", Cannes Film Festival in 2004
  
  ■ Kim Ki-duk, Best Director for More
• Kim Ki-duk Awarded Silver Lion in Venice
  2004/09/12, Source
  Director of "3-Iron", Kim Ki-duk was awarded the Silver Lion as Best Director at the competition sector of the 61st Venice International Film Festival, "Venecia 61". The festival concluded,...More
• "Low Life" invited to Venice competition
  2004/08/03, Source
  Veteran director Im Kwon-taek's 99th film "Low Life" ("Haryu Insaeng") has been invited to screen in the competition section of the Venice International Film Festival.
  
  This marks t,...More
• Film Studio Creates Realistic Environment
  2004/06/14, Source
  By Kim Tae-jong
  Staff Reporter
  NAMYANGJU, Kyonggi Province - Have you ever wondered how the movie "JSA (Joint Security Area)" was shot in the truce village of Panmunjom located in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Koreas? Or how the film "Chihwason (,...More
• Saying Sayonara to Screen Quotas
  2004/06/13, Source
  Korean filmmakers are winning big at the box office, leaving Seoul to reconsider protectionism
  
  Todd Thacker (internews)
  
  It was an abrupt about-face for the staunch film industry ally.
  
  On Friday the Minister of Culture and Tourism and former film director,,...More
• '"Low Life"' headed to Venice film fest
  2004/06/01, Source
  Director Im Kwon-taek's film "Low Life" has been invited to compete at the 61st Venice Film Festival, signaling the growing international clout of Korean films.
  Im's 99th film was in,...More
• 'Low Life' Invited to Venice Film Festival for Competition
  2004/05/30, Source
  Veteran movie director Im Gweon-taek's "Low Life" (Korean: Haryu Insaeng) has its eyes fixed on the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for best film.
  Taehung Pictures announced that the administrative committee of the Venice International,...More
• Free Screenings of Im Kwon-taek
  2004/05/17, Source
  In celebration of Im Kwon-taek's 99th film "Low Life", which will open locally this Friday, special free screenings of the renowned filmmaker's previous films will take place throughou,...More
• Korean Films Strike Cannes
  2004/05/11, Source
  Will Korean movies strike the 2004 Cannes Film Festival with a new wave?
  Opening the festival with Pedro Almodovar's "Bad Education" on Wednesday, the event announces this year's award winning films and directors at its close on May 23. A distinguishing fact of this year's 57th Cannes Film Festiva,...More
• 'Korean Culture' According to Foreigners 3 - Mr. Babakhani (Canada)
  2004/04/21, Source
  "Korea fever"
  
  One of the most widely talked about cultural phenomena of the last decade or so is the renaissance of the Korean cinema and TV. Korean cinema has become a major success story both commercially and artistically, and both in domestic and international markets. Just in recent months,,...More
• Two Korean films headed to Cannes
  2004/04/21, Source
  The new feature film by director Hong Sang-soo and "Old Boy" by Park Chan-wook will compete at the 57th Cannes Film Festival,...More
• Cannes to Officially Invite Hong Sang-soo's New Film
  2004/04/19, Source
  Cannes to Officially Invite Hong Sang-soo's New Film The new feature film by local auteur Hong Sang-soo will receive an official invitation to the renowned Cannes Film Festival in Fran,...More
• Local Films Go to Big Apple
  2004/02/09, Source
  New Yorkers will get a dose of Korean film this month with movies from both young and established directors to be screened.
  Im Kwon-taek, one of the country's most celebrated filmmakers, is the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Mod,...More
• New York Museum to Feature Work of Im Kwon-taek
  2003/12/17, Source
  by Kim Jae-ho
  
  NEW YORK - New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) is planning to invite Korean screen master Im Kwon-taek to perform a retrospective of his work next February. MoMA plans to conduct double showings of 15 of the director's rep,...More
• KNTO to Publicize Chihwaseon to French Audience
  2003/12/14, Source
  Korean pop culture has been garnering increasing popularity across Asia in recent years, riding the high tide of the so-called "Han-ryu" or Korean wave.
  To further fuel the trend and to expand the destination of the cultural phenomenon, the Korea National Tourism Organization (KNTO) is set to prom,...More
• Toilet humor smells like roses
  2003/12/03, Source
  Not enough facial gyrations and farting noises in your life? Now, thanks to the magic of cinema, you can just sit back and be transported to a wondrous land brimming with facial gyrations, farting noises and romance.
  You didn't expect much from director Yun Je-gyun, who unloaded one of the worst f,...More
• Director Looks at Turmoil of Life in the '70s
  2003/11/23, Source
  By Joon Soh
  Staff Reporter
  In the films of veteran director Im Kwon-taek, there's a sense that he is not only telling a story but also preserving Korea's history and tradition on celluloid. His film,...More
• "There Is No Scenario... Just as in Our Life"
  2003/11/18, Source
  "Low Life".
  This is the movie that Director Im Kwon-taek is working on now who has achieved a long-sought desire of the Korean filming industry by winning the Director's Award at the,...More