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Is Kim Hye-Yoon Returning To The Big Screens With Salmokji?(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Rom-com queen Kim Hye-Yoon is now gearing up for her big-screen comeback with a horror movie, Salmokji (tentative title). Reports by Soompi suggest that her role has been confirmed alongside Lee Jong-Won, who will play the male lead. The actress has played a soft-core, bubbly girl in love in past dramas and films. Even though she has proved her versatility and acting mettle in her projects, this new venture will take her to a new level.

Hye-Yoon was last seen in the drama Lovely Runner with Byeon Woo-Seok, and people loved her as Im Sol. Her portrayal of the different versions of Im Sol from different timelines was widely appreciated by the viewers. They even loved her chemistry with the actor. Before she could entertain her audience with another drama, Human From Today, reports of her starring...

Osaka Asian Film Festival (Oaff) has announced the rest of its programme with an additional 37 feature-length entries and 2 shorts. This includes 13 titles in the Competition section, 6 titles in the Spotlight section and 9 titles in the Indie Forum section. With the previously-announced 28 works, 67 features and shorts in total –19 World, 5 International, 4 Asian, 32 Japan Premieres – will be screened at the 20th edition of Oaff, which will be held from March 14 to 23, 2025.

Competition

There are 13 titles competing for Oaff 2025’s Grand Prix, many coming in hot with festival and awards buzz and many familiar names to Oaff audiences as filmmakers return with their latest works.

Amongst the filmmakers taking a bow once again are Hwang In-won with her feature film debut Journey to Face Them, a subtle portrait of the insidious effects of sexual assault as experienced by an aspiring writer, and Park Ri-woong with The Land of Morning Calm, a tale of a...

Korean drama The Land Of Morning Calm and Myanmar feature Ma – Cry Of Silence have won the New Currents competition at the 29th Busan International Film Festival (Biff), which has confirmed it will shift to an earlier date in 2025.

The festival also revealed Rima Das’s Indian feature Village Rockstars 2 and Tom Lin’s Taiwan drama Yen And Ai-Lee as joint winners of the Kim Jiseok Award.

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The Land Of Morning Calm marks the second feature of Korean filmmaker Park Ri-woong, whose received acclaim for his 2021 debut The Girl On A Bulldozer. His...

Following his intriguing debut The Girl on a Bulldozer, which screened at the Busan International Film Festival in 2021, directed Park Ri-woong returns to the festival with the New Currents competition title The Land of Morning Calm. Set far away from the big city, the film examines social prejudice and small-mindedness in a tiny and hardy coastal town where it is impossible for anyone to get away from prying eyes and wagging tongues. Opening at the break of dawn looking at an ominously quiet sea and lighthouse under a darkening sky, with only a few seagulls showing signs of life, the film soon shows how deeply ironic its title is. The protagonist, played with crusty authenticity by Yoon Joo-sang, is the ageing captain of a...

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The 29th Busan International Film Festival has revealed the line-ups for its competitive New Currents and Jiseok sections, which include the latest features from award-winning filmmakers Brillante Mendoza, Rima Das and Tom Lin.

The Jiseok strand, launched in 2022, is reserved for Asian filmmakers who have directed at least three features and this year comprises eight titles.

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They include Motherland by Filipino director Mendoza, which explores the bloody Mamasapano incident of 2015, when 44 police commandos and more than 20 others were killed in a deadly operation. The filmmaker has previously played in competition at Berlin, Cannes...

Park Ri-woong received an Mfa from the Korea National University of Arts. He directed the short films Windowsill (2003), Family (2005), Let Us Go (2007), and Good Yeounha (2008), which were honored with awards at such festivals as the Seoul International Film Festival, Filmfest Munchen, and the Jeonju International Film Festival. His feature debut, The Girl on a Bulldozer, premiered at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival and was invited to the Osaka Asian Film Festival and Far East Film Festival in 2022.

On the occasion of “The Girl on a Bulldozer” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we speak with him about the inspiration behind the film and the presence of the bulldozer in particular, the true nature of the film, the difficulties the production met, Kim Hye-yoon and other topics.

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Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s ‘The Sales Girl’ picked up best feature film

Korean comedy drama ‘Perhaps Love’ and Coba Cheng’s Hong Kong family comedy Chilli Laugh Story took home the audience awards at New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), which wrapped its 20th edition on July 31.

Chilli Laugh Story was a box office hit in Hong Kong cinemas, having beaten out Thor: Love And Thunder, and screened in the Next/Now strand during the festival’s 17-day run.

Other Nyaff winners included Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s Mongolian coming-of-age comedy The Sales Girl, which took the Uncaged award for best feature given...