Helmed by director Park Kwang-hyun of the 2005 critical and commercial hit Welcome to Dongmakgol, Fabricated City features Ji Chang-wook, Ahn Jae-hong who has been gaining notice as a commercial film star, appearing in Twenty (2015) and Coin Locker Girl (2015), and Shim Eun-kyung who rose to popularity through Sunny (2011) and Miss Granny (2014). Shim recently got behind the mic to provide her voice for Yeon Sang-ho’s Seoul Station and will soon be seen in the upcoming film Special Citizen alongside Choi Min-sik.
Plot
In real life, Kwon Yoo (played by Ji Chang-wook) is unemployed, but in the virtual game world he is the best leader. Kwon yoo is then framed for a murder. With the help of hacker Yeo-wool (Shim Eun-kyung), he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder case.
Fabricated City is eyeing a February release and will be distributed by Cj Entertainment.
Additional source: AsianWiki...
Plot
In real life, Kwon Yoo (played by Ji Chang-wook) is unemployed, but in the virtual game world he is the best leader. Kwon yoo is then framed for a murder. With the help of hacker Yeo-wool (Shim Eun-kyung), he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder case.
Fabricated City is eyeing a February release and will be distributed by Cj Entertainment.
Additional source: AsianWiki...
- 1/7/2017
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
2017 is shaping up to be a special year for Korean Cinema. Featuring films from directors Ryoo Seung-Wan (Veteran), Won Shin-yeon (The Suspect) and films from Choi Min-Sik (Oldboy, I Saw The Devil), Song Kang-ho (Age of Shadows) , Lee Byung-hun and Ha Jung-Woo.
Here are 10 films we think you should be keeping an eye out for
Battleship Island (literal title)
Director: Ryoo Seung-wan (Veteran, 2015)
Distributor: Cj Entertainment
Cast: Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki
Plot:
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
Lee Kang-ok (played by Hwang Jung-min) is a bandmaster at Kyungsung Hotel. He decides to go to Japan to protect his daughter, but he is drafted into Battleship Island by force, being deceived by talk to send him to Japan. On Battleship Island, he does anything to protect his daughter.
Choi Chil-sung (So Ji-sub...
Here are 10 films we think you should be keeping an eye out for
Battleship Island (literal title)
Director: Ryoo Seung-wan (Veteran, 2015)
Distributor: Cj Entertainment
Cast: Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki
Plot:
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
Lee Kang-ok (played by Hwang Jung-min) is a bandmaster at Kyungsung Hotel. He decides to go to Japan to protect his daughter, but he is drafted into Battleship Island by force, being deceived by talk to send him to Japan. On Battleship Island, he does anything to protect his daughter.
Choi Chil-sung (So Ji-sub...
- 1/1/2017
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
Derailed, which screened in the “Korean Cinema Today: Panorama” section at the 2016 Biff, is an action and crime film helmed by first-time director Lee Seong-tae.
Director Lee, who previously served as an assistant director on films like The Red Shoes (2005) and Modern Boy (2008), has been working on a wide variety of short films, one of which, The Ten-Minute Break, about two soldiers on the hunt for a deserter, has received international recognition at film festivals.
The film features Choi Min-ho from the boy band SHINee and Ma Dong-seok a.k.a. Don Lee who pulled off a string of roles as a character actor in notable films such as The Good, The Bad and the Weird (2008) and Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), and in recent years, has been making the leap to leading actor, starring in Norigae (2013), Murderer (2013) and Deep Trap (2015).
In the wake of Ma Dong-seok’s...
Director Lee, who previously served as an assistant director on films like The Red Shoes (2005) and Modern Boy (2008), has been working on a wide variety of short films, one of which, The Ten-Minute Break, about two soldiers on the hunt for a deserter, has received international recognition at film festivals.
The film features Choi Min-ho from the boy band SHINee and Ma Dong-seok a.k.a. Don Lee who pulled off a string of roles as a character actor in notable films such as The Good, The Bad and the Weird (2008) and Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), and in recent years, has been making the leap to leading actor, starring in Norigae (2013), Murderer (2013) and Deep Trap (2015).
In the wake of Ma Dong-seok’s...
- 12/11/2016
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
★★☆☆☆ Punctuated with kind of casual bursts of grim violence which will be familiar to anyone versed in Asian extreme cinema, The World of Kanako is a mixed bag of cinematic influences and styles. With opening titles that wouldn't look out of place in a low-rent 1960s Us action TV show, what initially starts out as a ferocious, full-throttle variation on Taken, transmutes into that haunted path of discovery trodden in Oldboy. This is personified by the tour de force performance from popular Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho (star of Takashi Miike's13 Assassins), whose increasingly bedraggled and destructive search mirrors Choi Min-sik's similarly doomed quest from the 2003 South Korean masterpiece.
- 10/31/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
For more than twenty years, director Park Chan-Wook has been South Korea’s primary export when it comes to cinema, paving the way for many other Korean filmmakers to get discovered in the states. Oldboy may still be Director Park’s grandest masterpiece, but he’s created some gorgeous films since then.
Director Park’s latest film is The Handmaiden, a period thriller about two young women—Korean Sookee (Kim Tae-ri), who comes to work as the handmaid for the young secluded Lady Hideko (Kim Min-Lee) in the large estate of the latter’s wealthy book-collecting uncle (Cho Jin-woong), who has a lot of odd quirks. As the two women become closer, they form a bond, but Hideko doesn’t realize that Sookee was sent there to help set her up to be seduced by The Count (Ha Jung-woo), actually a con-man in cahoots with Sookee, who changes her mind...
Director Park’s latest film is The Handmaiden, a period thriller about two young women—Korean Sookee (Kim Tae-ri), who comes to work as the handmaid for the young secluded Lady Hideko (Kim Min-Lee) in the large estate of the latter’s wealthy book-collecting uncle (Cho Jin-woong), who has a lot of odd quirks. As the two women become closer, they form a bond, but Hideko doesn’t realize that Sookee was sent there to help set her up to be seduced by The Count (Ha Jung-woo), actually a con-man in cahoots with Sookee, who changes her mind...
- 10/28/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Lee Byung-hun (Red 2) stars as a successful fund manager who uncovers a shocking truth.
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has picked up Warner Bros Korea local-language film Single Rider, starring Lee Byung-hun (Red 2). Also featuring Gong Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush), Lee Zoo-young’s feature directorial debut is launching sales in Busan’s Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Due for release in spring 2017, the film follows Lee as a successful fund manager suddenly faced with losing everything who goes to visit his wife and son in Australia only to find a shocking truth.
M-Line has a strong slate in the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) with Zhang Lu’s humorous drama A Quiet Dream opening the fest tonight (Oct 6). The film stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) with director-actors Yang Ik-june (Breathless), Park Jung-bum (The Journals Of Musan) and Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo).
Making their world premieres in the Korean Cinema Today - Vision section: Hyeon’s Quartet...
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has picked up Warner Bros Korea local-language film Single Rider, starring Lee Byung-hun (Red 2). Also featuring Gong Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush), Lee Zoo-young’s feature directorial debut is launching sales in Busan’s Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Due for release in spring 2017, the film follows Lee as a successful fund manager suddenly faced with losing everything who goes to visit his wife and son in Australia only to find a shocking truth.
M-Line has a strong slate in the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) with Zhang Lu’s humorous drama A Quiet Dream opening the fest tonight (Oct 6). The film stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) with director-actors Yang Ik-june (Breathless), Park Jung-bum (The Journals Of Musan) and Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo).
Making their world premieres in the Korean Cinema Today - Vision section: Hyeon’s Quartet...
- 10/6/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Lee Byung-hun (Red 2) stars as a successful fund manager who uncovers a shocking truth.
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has picked up Warner Bros Korea local-language film A Single Rider, starring Lee Byung-hun (Red 2). Also featuring Gong Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush), Joo-young Lee’s feature directorial debut is launching sales in Busan’s Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Due for release in spring 2017, the film follows Lee as a successful fund manager suddenly faced with losing everything who goes to visit his wife and son in Australia only to find a shocking truth.
M-Line has a strong slate in the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) with Zhang Lu’s humorous drama A Quiet Dream opening the fest tonight (Oct 6). The film stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) with director-actors Yang Ik-june (Breathless), Park Jung-bum (The Journals Of Musan) and Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo).
Making their world premieres in the Korean Cinema Today - Vision section: Hyeon’s Quartet...
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has picked up Warner Bros Korea local-language film A Single Rider, starring Lee Byung-hun (Red 2). Also featuring Gong Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush), Joo-young Lee’s feature directorial debut is launching sales in Busan’s Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Due for release in spring 2017, the film follows Lee as a successful fund manager suddenly faced with losing everything who goes to visit his wife and son in Australia only to find a shocking truth.
M-Line has a strong slate in the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) with Zhang Lu’s humorous drama A Quiet Dream opening the fest tonight (Oct 6). The film stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) with director-actors Yang Ik-june (Breathless), Park Jung-bum (The Journals Of Musan) and Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo).
Making their world premieres in the Korean Cinema Today - Vision section: Hyeon’s Quartet...
- 10/6/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Lee Byung-hun (Red 2) stars as a successful fund manager who uncovers a shocking truth.
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has picked up Warner Bros Korea local-language film A Single Rider, starring Lee Byung-hun (Red 2). Also featuring Gong Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush), Joo-young Lee’s feature directorial debut is launching sales in Busan’s Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Due for release in spring 2017, the film follows Lee as a successful fund manager suddenly faced with losing everything who goes to visit his wife and son in Australia only to find a shocking truth.
M-Line has a strong slate in the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) with Zhang Lu’s humorous drama A Quiet Dream opening the fest tonight (Oct 6). The film stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) with director-actors Yang Ik-june (Breathless), Park Jung-bum (The Journals Of Musan) and Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo).
Making their world premieres in the Korean Cinema Today - Vision section: Hyeon’s Quartet...
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has picked up Warner Bros Korea local-language film A Single Rider, starring Lee Byung-hun (Red 2). Also featuring Gong Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush), Joo-young Lee’s feature directorial debut is launching sales in Busan’s Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Due for release in spring 2017, the film follows Lee as a successful fund manager suddenly faced with losing everything who goes to visit his wife and son in Australia only to find a shocking truth.
M-Line has a strong slate in the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) with Zhang Lu’s humorous drama A Quiet Dream opening the fest tonight (Oct 6). The film stars Han Ye-ri (Haemoo) with director-actors Yang Ik-june (Breathless), Park Jung-bum (The Journals Of Musan) and Yoon Jong-bin (The Unforgiven, Kundo).
Making their world premieres in the Korean Cinema Today - Vision section: Hyeon’s Quartet...
- 10/6/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
From writer/director Park Hoon-jung (New World) comes the critically-acclaimed drama The Tiger, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and digital August 9 from Well Go USA Entertainment. The film features a remarkable performance from Korean superstar Choi Min-sik (Oldboy, Lucy, The Admiral: Roaring Currents) in return to action in the role of retired sharpshooter facing off against the last surviving tiger in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1925.
The film also stars Jung Man-sik (Chronicle of a Blood Merchant), Kim Sang-ho (The Beauty Inside), Ren Osugi (upcoming: Godzilla Resurgence) and feature film newcomers Sung Yu-bin and Jeong Seok-won.
We have 2 copies of this amazing action film to give away. Simply Share or Like this article on Facebook to be included in the prize draw. Winners to be announced on Monday 8th August Synopsis
An ex-sharpshooter for the Kingdom of Korea (Choi Min-sik, Oldboy) is hunting the country’s last tiger. But Japanese forces...
The film also stars Jung Man-sik (Chronicle of a Blood Merchant), Kim Sang-ho (The Beauty Inside), Ren Osugi (upcoming: Godzilla Resurgence) and feature film newcomers Sung Yu-bin and Jeong Seok-won.
We have 2 copies of this amazing action film to give away. Simply Share or Like this article on Facebook to be included in the prize draw. Winners to be announced on Monday 8th August Synopsis
An ex-sharpshooter for the Kingdom of Korea (Choi Min-sik, Oldboy) is hunting the country’s last tiger. But Japanese forces...
- 8/4/2016
- by The Tiger
- AsianMoviePulse
Park Hoon-jung's New WorldSTORY79%DIRECTING78%ACTING80%VISUALS78%POSITIVESGreat story, particulalry due to its charactersGreat actingElaborate cinematography annd set designNEGATIVESLess action than usual in the genre2016-06-0979%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (1 Vote)97%
Ja-sung is an undercover police officer, who has ascended the ranks of the crime syndicate to which he was assigned, to the point of becoming the right hand of the number 2 in the hierarchy, named Jung Chung. However, when the number 1 is killed, the syndicate engulfs in a power struggle for the top position, between Jung Chung and Joong-gu, which eventually escalates into war. Ja-sung, who was to retire soon, must now keep acting in his role, since his operator named Kang Hyung-chul is set on influencing the leader’s selection, putting a puppet of his at the top of the syndicate. The fact brings tension between the two.
Park Hoon-jung directs an agonizing crime thriller, which contains the usual violence,...
Ja-sung is an undercover police officer, who has ascended the ranks of the crime syndicate to which he was assigned, to the point of becoming the right hand of the number 2 in the hierarchy, named Jung Chung. However, when the number 1 is killed, the syndicate engulfs in a power struggle for the top position, between Jung Chung and Joong-gu, which eventually escalates into war. Ja-sung, who was to retire soon, must now keep acting in his role, since his operator named Kang Hyung-chul is set on influencing the leader’s selection, putting a puppet of his at the top of the syndicate. The fact brings tension between the two.
Park Hoon-jung directs an agonizing crime thriller, which contains the usual violence,...
- 6/9/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Remake rights to mystery thriller also secured in China.
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has sold mystery thriller Insane directed by Lee Cheol-ha (Hello?! Orchestra) to King Records for Japan, Long Shong for Taiwan and Yl Pictures for China. Yl also picked up Chinese remake rights.
Starring Kang Ye-won (Love Clinic) and Lee Sang-yun (Santa Barbara), the film has grossed $7.5m since its release April 7, according to the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
The story sees a discredited TV producer who looks to redeem himself by digging into an exclusive on a mental clinic where the sole survivor of a fire is a woman who has been forcefully imprisoned and abused.
M-Line is also selling female gangster action film A Special Lady (working title) starring Kim Hye-soo, Epitaph director Jung Sik’s thriller The Tooth And The Nail (working title) and sports drama Run-off, with Choi Min-ho (a.k.a. SHINee...
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has sold mystery thriller Insane directed by Lee Cheol-ha (Hello?! Orchestra) to King Records for Japan, Long Shong for Taiwan and Yl Pictures for China. Yl also picked up Chinese remake rights.
Starring Kang Ye-won (Love Clinic) and Lee Sang-yun (Santa Barbara), the film has grossed $7.5m since its release April 7, according to the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
The story sees a discredited TV producer who looks to redeem himself by digging into an exclusive on a mental clinic where the sole survivor of a fire is a woman who has been forcefully imprisoned and abused.
M-Line is also selling female gangster action film A Special Lady (working title) starring Kim Hye-soo, Epitaph director Jung Sik’s thriller The Tooth And The Nail (working title) and sports drama Run-off, with Choi Min-ho (a.k.a. SHINee...
- 5/11/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Max Movie, the monthly offline movie publication in Korea, has announced its annual Power Creator 30 list.
The list is based on its powerful database which includes real-time movie ticket sales since 1999; the publication has selected 30 people and companies expected to be big influencers in the Korean movie scene this year.
In a press release, Park Hye-Eun, Editor-in-chief for Max Movie, said “These days only powerful creators who break away from the traditional box and standards are valued for its existence. Only the most creative content survive.”
“The 2016 Power Creator 30 list would be the standard by which one can draw the topographical map of this year’s movie contents”, Park said.
How many names do you recognize?
Actors
There are 9 actors that made the cut. From Hwang Jung-Min to Choi Min-Sik, many actors on this list were leading characters in films that sold more than 10-million tickets. Ryoo Seung-Bum made...
The list is based on its powerful database which includes real-time movie ticket sales since 1999; the publication has selected 30 people and companies expected to be big influencers in the Korean movie scene this year.
In a press release, Park Hye-Eun, Editor-in-chief for Max Movie, said “These days only powerful creators who break away from the traditional box and standards are valued for its existence. Only the most creative content survive.”
“The 2016 Power Creator 30 list would be the standard by which one can draw the topographical map of this year’s movie contents”, Park said.
How many names do you recognize?
Actors
There are 9 actors that made the cut. From Hwang Jung-Min to Choi Min-Sik, many actors on this list were leading characters in films that sold more than 10-million tickets. Ryoo Seung-Bum made...
- 3/31/2016
- by Stellarise
- AsianMoviePulse
1. Swordsman in the Twilight (1967)
Director: Chung Chang-Hwa
Cast: Nam Goong-Won, Yoon Jeong-Hee, Heo Jang-Kang
Best known for helming the Shaw Brothers film King Boxer (1972) a.k.a. Five Fingers of Death, which stands as one of the best cult films among Hong Kong martial art films, Director Chung pioneered in the genre of action films in Korean cinema. The film stepped into the spotlight at the Biff (Busan International Film Festival) in 2003.
In the reign of the king Sukjong, the new queen, Jang Hui-Bin ascends the throne. Oh Ki-Ryong, an ally of Jang, tyrannizes those who remain sympathetic to the old queen, Min. A lone swordsman, Kim Tae-Won appears and gets rid of the allies of Jang with a certain vengeance. He gradually unfolds his story in flashbacks.
2. The General’s Son (1990)
Director: Im Kwon-Taek
Cast: Park Sang‑Min, Shin Hyun‑Joon, Lee Il‑Jae
The first installment,...
Director: Chung Chang-Hwa
Cast: Nam Goong-Won, Yoon Jeong-Hee, Heo Jang-Kang
Best known for helming the Shaw Brothers film King Boxer (1972) a.k.a. Five Fingers of Death, which stands as one of the best cult films among Hong Kong martial art films, Director Chung pioneered in the genre of action films in Korean cinema. The film stepped into the spotlight at the Biff (Busan International Film Festival) in 2003.
In the reign of the king Sukjong, the new queen, Jang Hui-Bin ascends the throne. Oh Ki-Ryong, an ally of Jang, tyrannizes those who remain sympathetic to the old queen, Min. A lone swordsman, Kim Tae-Won appears and gets rid of the allies of Jang with a certain vengeance. He gradually unfolds his story in flashbacks.
2. The General’s Son (1990)
Director: Im Kwon-Taek
Cast: Park Sang‑Min, Shin Hyun‑Joon, Lee Il‑Jae
The first installment,...
- 3/5/2016
- by Lady Jane
- AsianMoviePulse
Last seen in Roaring Currents, the most successful Korean film of all time, and as the villain in Luc Besson's Lucy, Choi Min-sik returns to screens next month as a hunter tasked with taking down the last tiger on the Korean peninsula in period action-drama The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale.From Park Hoon-jung, the director of slick gangster pic New World, this big budget tale is set towards the end of the Joseon dynasty, when Korea was under Japanese rule. Rather than a cruel tale of chasing down a rare, beautiful animal, the story is a patriotic one for Koreans, as a local hunter was assigned with the task of killing the beast, a symbol of courage and pride in the country, rather than letting...
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- 11/10/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Special Mention: Battle Royale
Written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Japan, 2000
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is set in a dystopian alternate-universe, in Japan, with the nation utterly collapsed, leaving 15 percent unemployed and 800,000 students boycotting school. The government passes something called the Millennium Educational Reform Act, which apparently provides for a class of ninth-graders to be chosen each year and pitted against one another on a remote island for 3 days. Each student is given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water, and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. With 48 contestants, only one will go home alive. Yes, this has been often cited as the original Hunger Games; whether or not Suzanne Collins borrowed heavily...
Written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Japan, 2000
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is set in a dystopian alternate-universe, in Japan, with the nation utterly collapsed, leaving 15 percent unemployed and 800,000 students boycotting school. The government passes something called the Millennium Educational Reform Act, which apparently provides for a class of ninth-graders to be chosen each year and pitted against one another on a remote island for 3 days. Each student is given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water, and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. With 48 contestants, only one will go home alive. Yes, this has been often cited as the original Hunger Games; whether or not Suzanne Collins borrowed heavily...
- 10/10/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
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