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Korean megastar singer, actor and performner Park Bo-Gum has been set to star in an untitled historical drama from A Taxi Driver director Jang Hoon, we can confirm.

Park Bo-Gum will star in the currently untitled film with fellow Korean star Kim Nam-Gil (Pandora). The project is described to us as in the vein of King Lear and Succession, charting the rivalry between two princes over a renowned Korean painting. Filming is due to begin in mid-October.

The project marks Jang Hoon’s first film since 2017 box office and critical hit A Taxi Driver, the highest grossing movie in the territory that year.

Park, the first and only actor to ever top the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list, is known for film and TV projects including Hello Monster, Reply 1988, Love In The Moonlight, Encounter, Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines and Good Boy. He released his first studio...

Uprising, the highly anticipated period action film produced and co-written by Park Chan-wook, has been set as the opening film of this year's 29th Busan International Film Festival, which is set to open its doors on October 2. Closing the festival will be Eric Khoo's Singapore-France-Japan co-production Spirit World, featuring Catherine Deneuve. A Netflix original, Uprising is directed by Kim Sang-man (Midnight FM) and stars Gang Dong-won (Secret Reunion) and Park Jung-min (Time to Hunt). It is is the most high-profile opening film selection at Biff since the Hk action-thriller Cold War, directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung, in 2012. All told, this year's Biff will screen 224 films from 63 countries, an 8% increase over last year, intruding a mix of major festival...

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On the heels of star-making roles in films like “Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard” and “Secret Reunion,” Gang Dong-won has been one of the most prominent star actors in South Korean cinema which is the case with his turn in the role of Dr. Cheon in director Kim Seong-sik’s latest effort. Based on Fresh and Kim Hong-tae’s popular webtoon “Possessed” and serving as the opening chapter for its franchise, WellGo USA releases the new genre effort in theaters October 6.

Arriving in a small village, Dr. Cheon (Gang Dong-won) and his technical assistant Inbae (Lee Dong-hwi) are approached by Yoo-kyung (Esom), a young woman asking him to use his fabled Shamanistic powers to help her family. While initially turned off by her serious nature, the monetary payment brings them together to check out the requested case looking at the supposed possession of her younger sister where they live inside their house.

The division of the Korean Peninsula has long fuelled the imagination of Korean cineastes and unlocked the purse strings of local viewers. Yet while we tend to remember the more bombastic titles, such as Joint Security Area and Secret Reunion, wily filmmakers with more modest means have recently found intriguing ways to breath new life into this specific set of films. This can be through different genres such as comedy, and through allegory. Both apply to Park Jae-in's lo-fi debut film 2035. One of several mockumentary-style films in the Korean Fantastic Features Competition at BiFan this year, this film imagines a unified...

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Jang Hoon, who started his career as an assistant to Kim Ki-duk, has only directed four feature films as of now. “Rough Cut” in 2008, “Secret Reunion” in 2010, “The Front Line”, in 2011 and “A Taxi Driver” in 2017. However, all of them are considered top notch, with Hung managing to combine commercial success with acclaimed reviews. This particular one also netted him the Best Film Award from the Blue Dragon Awards.

Ji-won and Han-gyoo are special agents for North and South Korea, respectively. The two of them exchange glances during a North Korean assassination attempt of Kim Jong-il’s second cousin, which fails due to Tae-soon’s betrayal. Shortly after, Han-gyoo is discharged for mishandling the case and Ji-won takes the blame for Tae-soon, subsequently going into hiding from his commander named Shadow. Six years later, Ji-won and Han-gyoo meet again and through a series of seemingly random consequences,...

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The recent death of Kim Ki-duk (20 December 1960 – 11 December 2020) in Riga, Latvia caused a rather intense reaction in the (online) cinema world, mostly revolving around the “fight” on whether he should be remembered as an auteur or as a man who attacked his actresses, with the voices for both being quite numerous and the fact that the S. Korean have been living in Europe in a sort of self-exile putting more fuel in the fire. Before we discuss his ending however, it would be interesting to take a look at where and how everything begun.

“Dissolve” which he has just finished shooting before he died would be his 25th film, including a short one he directed (along 69 more directors) for the 70th anniversary of Venice Film Festival. His long path however, had a number of twists and turns before he reached that point.

Gang Dong-won (Peninsula) and Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas) are also starring in the film, produced by Zip Cinema and Cj Entertainment.

Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda is set to direct his first Korean film, Baby, Box, Broker, with a trio of Korean stars – Song Kang-ho (Parasite), Gang Dong-won (Peninsula) and Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas).

Korean production house Zip Cinema (#Alive) is producing and Cj Entertainment (Parasite) is backing and distributing the film, which they say Kore-eda first conceived about five years ago and has since been working on the original script with local production staff.

The story is about people who...

Exclusive: Peninsula, the hit sequel to 2016 Korean zombie smash Train To Busan became a runaway success when it bowed locally in mid-July, at the time setting an opening day record for the year. It has now grossed about $28M at home, where it is the No. 3 movie of 2020, and has done significant numbers in other Asian markets. It releases today in the U.S. via Well Go USA on 125 screens including multiple sites each in Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta as well as some California drive-ins. Well Go previously released Peninsula in Canada on August 7 where it has grossed $336K. In his first interview in English, star Gang Dong-won recently chatted with Deadline about the film and the thriving Korean industry even as he seeks out more international projects.

Gang has been acting since 2003, and has made a name for himself in such titles as Temptation Of Wolves, Duelist, M, Woo-Chi: The Taoist Wizard,...

Four years after South Korea’s total decimation in “Train To Busan”, director Yeon Sng-ho continues his zombie saga with “Peninsula”, the next nail-biting chapter in his post-apocalyptic world. This highly anticipated film has released its first trailer today and as expected, it promised a lot of action and nail-biting moments.

Synopsis

Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best—or worst—of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances.

Though none of the actors from “Train to Busan” return, “Peninsula” is nonetheless filled with stars as well. Gang Dong-won (“Secret Reunion”) takes the lead role of Jung-seok. He is joined by Lee Jung-hyun (“The Running Actress”), Kwon Hae-hyo (“Hotel by the River”), Kim Min-jae (“Money”) and...

Locarno Film Festival have announced that South Korean superstar Song Kang-ho will be honoured with the Excellence Award at the 72nd edition of the Swiss festival in August this year, making him the first person from Asia to receive the award.

Song Kang-ho is an eclectic, versatile, graceful actor, who has been able to conquer South Korean cinema and then access the world of international stardom, and to whom the Locarno Film Festival will bestow the Excellence Award. His artistic birth can be traced back to the late 1990s, in Hong Sang-soo’s “The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well”, and his career path was laid down in the early 2000s. After “The Quiet Family”, he reteamed with Kim Jee-woon for “The Foul King”, causing audiences to stare in amazement at performances based on versatility and physical skill. This has been the case for twenty years’ worth of film sets,...

We've posted a couple trailers for the upcoming futuristic action thriller Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade over the past month. The Korean film comes from director Kim Jee-woon, who previously directed the films I Saw The Devil, The Good the Bad the Weird, and The Last Stand. A lot of fans love what they have seen from these trailers and are excited to watch the movie! Well, Netflix has picked up the rights to it, which will make it easy for everyone to watch! 

The news comes from Variety, and even though we've been calling the movie Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, they say that the title of the film will Illang: The Wolf Brigade.

The film is a live-action adaptation of 1999 Japanese-made animation Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, which is based on the Mamoru Oshii manga. The story is set in 2029 and follows the actions of a special forces squad set up...

An awesome full international trailer has been released for the upcoming futuristic action crime thriller Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. The Korean film comes from director Kim Jee-woon, who previously directed the films I Saw The Devil, The Good the Bad the Weird, and The Last Stand. Jee-woon has made some pretty hardcore and wild movies and this next film of his looks so good! The trailer is in Korean and I have no idea what anyone is saying but it still looks like it could be a badass film!

The film is a new adaptation of the popular Mamoru Oshii manga. The story is set in the near future, "the film takes place in a world where the governments of South and North Korea are on the cusp of reunification, following seven years of preparation. When demonstrations opposing the unification turn more violent, a special police force is formed to combat them.

After an all-too-brief tease last month, the full-length international trailer has arrived for Kim Jee-woon’s next feature, the futuristic crime thriller In-rang, a remake of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. An adaptation of the popular Mamoru Oshii manga, which had a few prior feature-length iterations, the director looks to be working on a large scale here after his more modestly-budgeted The Age of Shadows.

Taking place sometime in the future, In-rang follows the story of the special police unit that has been created to contain the tumultuous activity between North and South Korea, after the countries agree to create a joint government. Ten years after their first collaboration on The Good the Bad the Weird, Kim Jee-woon and Jung Woo-sung team back up for Jin-Roh. Alongside Woo-sung the film stars Han Hyo-Joo, Gang Dong-won, and Han Ye-ri.

While Warner Bros. has no plans for domestic distribution yet, In-rang will be...

I've got a cool little teaser trailer here worth checking out for an upcoming Korean futuristic action thriller Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. The movie comes from director Kim Jee-woon, who previously directed I Saw The Devil, The Good the Bad the Weird, and The Last Stand. It's been a couple of years since he's made a movie and this one certainly looks interesting! I love this guy's movies so I'm definitely excited about watching this!

The film is an adaptation of the popular Mamoru Oshii manga. This isn't the first time it was adapted, though. In 1999 there was a feature-length anime film.

The story is set in the near future, "the film takes place in a world where the governments of South and North Korea are on the cusp of reunification, following seven years of preparation. When demonstrations opposing the unification turn more violent, a special police force is formed to combat them.

It’s been only two years since Korean director Kim Jee-woon’s last feature film, but he’s already back with his newest futuristic action picture Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. With the full trailer coming soon, we first get to indulge on the recently released teaser for the adaptation of the popular Mamoru Oshii manga, which had a few prior feature-length iterations.

Taking place sometime in the future, Jin-Roh – also known by its Korean title In-rang – follows the story of the special police unit that has been created to contain the tumultuous activity between North and South Korea, after the countries agree to create a joint government. The first teaser gives us a quick look at the gritty and violent underground activity as well as the seemingly advanced police suits.

Ten years after their first collaboration on The Good the Bad the Weird, Kim Jee-woon and Jung Woo-sung team back up for Jin-Roh.