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Quite an impressive Joseon drama, The Throne was the official Korean selection for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, although it was not nominated.

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The film is based on the true story of King Yeongjo, a famous Joseon king who led the dynasty to its apogee. However, he also suffered from an inferiority complex because he was the son of the previous king’s concubine, who was not of noble birth. Due to this fact, he spent his life constantly trying to achieve perfection, both in his practices and his behavior. He even demanded the same from his son, Prince Sado, who did not seem to share his inclinations, being interested instead in painting and archery. The continuous conflict between father and son eventually resulted in the former locking the latter in a wooden rice chest, leaving him there to die.

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‘La Habitación de al Lado’ no logra la nominación a Mejor Película y sorprende la ausencia de Najwa Nimri como Mejor Actriz. © Goya |A Contracorriente Films | Beta Films| BTeamPictures | El Deseo

Hoy ha tenido lugar la lectura de nominados a los Premios Goya 2025, en la que las películas El 47, La Infiltrada y Segundo Premio han conseguido el mayor número de nominaciones. Los ganadores se conocerán el 8 de febrero en Granada. Aquí os dejamos con la lista completa de nominados:

Mejor PELÍCULA

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El 47

La estrella azul

La infiltrada

Segundo premio

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Pedro almodóvar (La habitación de al lado)

Arantxa Echavarría (La infiltrada)

Paula Ortiz (La virgen roja)

Aitor Arregi y Jon Garaño (Marco)

Isaki Lacuesta y Pol Rodríguez (Segundo premio)

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Miguel Faus (Calladita)

Pedro Martín-Calero (El llanto)

Javier Macipe (La estrella azul)

Sandra Romero (Por donde pasa el silencio)

Paz Vega (Rita...

The teaser trailer for Netflixs Hellbound Season 2 has finally dropped, unveiling the first look at Netflixs hit supernatural drama. This comes after nearly three years since the series had debuted its 6-episode first season.

The video introduces Kim Sung-cheol as Hellbound Season 2s new Jeong Jinsu, who was originally portrayed by Yoo Ah-in during the first season. Due to his current legal troubles, Yoo wasnt able to reprise his character, who was first introduced as a cult leader of the group called New Truth Society. The trailer highlights the unexpected resurrection of Kims Jinsu, after he has seemingly been killed multiple times by the underworld monsters. In addition to the trailer, the streamer has also announced the release date for Season 2, revealing that the dark fantasy series will be making its return on Friday, Oct. 25.

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On Monday June 17 2024, PBS broadcasts Professor T!

Heir to the Throne Season 3 Episode 1 Episode Summary

In this episode of “Professor T” titled “Heir to the Throne,” viewers will see Professor T finding himself in a challenging situation. He is in prison, awaiting trial, and the harsh reality of jail is taking its toll on him. The sights, sounds, and smells of the prison environment are difficult for him to navigate, adding a new layer of complexity to his character.

Meanwhile, Dan and Lisa, his colleagues, step in to support him during this tough time. They attempt to divert his attention by involving him in a murder case that revolves around two brothers. As they delve into the details of the case, viewers can expect to see how the dynamics between the characters unfold and how they work together to solve the mystery.

The episode promises to offer a mix of suspense,...

Directorial debut of Kang Seung-yong known for his production design work in “King and the Clown” (2005), “The Throne” (2015) and “Gangnam 1970,” as well his art production in “Addiction” (2002) and “Virgin Snow” (2007), “1980: The Unforgettable Day” takes place five months after the coup d'etat shown in “12:12: The Day,” and revolves around six family members living in Gwangju.

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After years of efforts, the patriarch of a family has managed to open his Chinese restaurant in Gwangju, named “Peaceful Restaurant”, with three generations essentially running it. While he handles the food, with red bean paste noodles being the specialty, his first son's wife is waiting the tables, while her sister, who has aspirations of becoming a pop singer, also tries to help, although with not much success. His second son, Sang-du feels bitterness that he cannot inherit the restaurant due to being second in line,...

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The resurgence of Bennifer 2.0 shook the internet. And after 20 years, what seemed like a fairytale come true might be suffering at the seams. According to reports, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are going through quite a rough patch just a short while after their marriage, and their Pda was everywhere. Fans worry that this might be it for the beloved couple of Ben and J-Lo. But is it true?

Ben Affleck’s grim expression during every Jlo outing has been attracting attention on the internet for days. One can only wonder why he always appears ‘unhappy’ during every sighting, while others speculate that he simply dislikes the paparazzi. According to sources close to the A-list couple, the honeymoon period has officially ended, and the realities of married life have taken their place. According to a recent report, the...

Get ready for an intense and thought-provoking episode of “Genius: MLK/X” as Season 4 continues with Episode 4 titled “Watch the Throne.” This powerful installment is set to air on National Geographic at 10:10 Pm on Thursday, February 8, 2024, and it promises to be a defining moment in the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

In this gripping episode, Martin Luther King Jr. faces a harrowing attack that forces him to confront his own mortality. The aftermath of this attack leaves him grappling with profound questions about his leadership and the sacrifices required to lead a movement.

Meanwhile, Malcolm X seizes an opportunity to elevate the profile of the Nation of Islam (Noi). His strategic mind and determination to empower his community take center stage as he works tirelessly to further the Noi’s influence.

“Watch the Throne” delves deep into the complexities of leadership, activism, and personal sacrifice.

Biopics of historically important national figures are a tricky business. Include little information about them and you run the risk of the wider international audience not understanding enough to be engaged in the story. Include too much information and you end up making the feature a lengthy history lesson with lesser entertainment value. Director Lee Joon-ik, a man quite well versed in the historical genre, managed to make one of the better biopics in recent time on one such figure that is widely known of in Korea but a relatively unknown figure internationally in “Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet”. After a brief stint with urban storytelling in “Sunset in My Hometown”, the director of such hit historicals as “The Throne” and “The King and the Clown” is back once again with another story of a figure who is less spoken of even in Korea.

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Yoo Ah-in, last seen in the Netflix series ‘Hellbound’, as well as in ‘Burning’ and ‘The Throne’, was attacked by a disgruntled fan with a bottle of coffee after a court on Wednesday late night dismissed police requests for the formal arrest of the prominent Korean actor on drug use charges, reports ‘Variety’.

Yoo appeared at the Seoul Central District Court on charges that he used five different drugs, says ‘Variety’. Local media photos showed Yoo’s hands were tied with what appeared to be a blue cloth or cord before and during his 90-minute daytime court appearance.

Footage also showed that he was hit by a bottle of coffee thrown by a disgruntled fan, before being led away, unhurt, by bodyguards. Recreational drug use is illegal in South Korea and is heavily stigmatised.

Yoo, ‘Variety’ says, admitted to the recreational use of marijuana and claimed he took Propofol, Ketamine and Zolpidem,...

In late night proceedings on Wednesday, a Seoul court dismissed police requests for the formal arrest of prominent Korean actor Yoo Ah-in on drug charges.

The star of “Burning,” “The Throne” and Netflix series “Hellbound,” appeared at the Seoul Central District Court on charges that he used five different drugs.

Local media photos showed that Yoo’s hands were tied with what appeared to be a blue cloth or cord before and during his 90-minute daytime court appearance. Footage also showed that he was hit by a bottle of coffee thrown by a disgruntled fan, before Yoo was led away, unhurt, by bodyguards.

Recreational drug use is illegal in South Korea and is heavily stigmatized.

Before entering the court Yoo told media: “I will cooperate faithfully in the remaining processes and reveal all that I can. I regret [using drugs]. I don’t think it is a decision I can make [on whether he should be arrested]. I...

Leading South Korean actor Yoo Ah-in, star of “Burning,” “The Throne” and Netflix series “Hellbound,” must report to the police on Friday in connection with the alleged use of a variety of drugs.

Allegations of Yoo’s drug use emerged a month ago and he has previously spoken with authorities. The Yonhap news agency now specifies that he will be considered as a criminal suspect when he presents himself to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Friday. It is unclear whether Yoo will be formally arrested at that time.

Yoo became a person of interest in early February after the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revealed that he had bought suspicious quantities of the sedative Propofol in a series of purchases starting in 2021. Propofol is a strong sedative that can also be used as an anesthetic. The authorities have looked into several doctors’ offices and clinics in Seoul that may have administered the drug.

Biopics of historically important national figures are a tricky business. Include little information about them and you run the risk of the wider international audience not understanding enough to be engaged in the story. Include too much information and you end up making the feature a lengthy history lesson with lesser entertainment value. Director Lee Joon-ik, a man quite well versed in the historical genre, managed to make one of the better biopics in recent time on one such figure that is widely known of in Korea but a relatively unknown figure internationally in “Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet”. After a brief stint with urban storytelling in “Sunset in My Hometown”, the director of such hit historicals as “The Throne” and “The King and the Clown” is back once again with another story of a figure who is less spoken of even in Korea.

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Hollywood monster movie “Godzilla vs. Kong’ and Korean historical drama “Book of Fish” each made a claim to be the top film at the Korean box office. But neither could prevent weekend revenues from slumping.

“Fish,” which depicts the encounter between an early 19th century scholar who learns about nature and biodiversity and a peasant fisherman who aspires to better himself, sold the more tickets over the weekend and thus appears top in Korean charts.

“Fish” was directed by Lee Joon-ik, who has previously enjoyed a spectacular run of hit films including: “The King and The Clown,” “Sunny,” “The Throne” and “Dongju: Portrait of a Poet.”

“Godzilla” had higher ticket prices and marginally higher gross revenues. For the second weekend retained its claim to be the highest grossing film in the country. It earned $472,000, giving a cumulative total of $5.58 million since March 25, according to data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking service.

What started as the Korean New Wave in the late 90s really flourished in the 2000s. The 2010s, however, is where we saw what we can call the “new” golden age for Korean cinema, where several new-name directors made their mark, established filmmakers cemented their names in world cinema, actors became stars, blockbuster cinema raked in big money and independent cinema also thrived. Thanks to the success of films like “The Handmaiden” and “Train to Busan” on a global level, a new audience started having a much keener interest in films from the country, while the unprecedented, historic success of “Parasite” at the end only went on to bookend the truly spectacular decade that the 2010s was for South Korean cinema.

In an effort to winnow some of the best Korean movies of the decade (2011-2020), we came up with 40 we felt were the ones that truly stand out in terms of quality,...

The Oscar for Best International Feature Film going to Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” marks a history-making moment for the Academy Awards. “Parasite’s” victory is the first time South Korea has won the International Feature Film category in the history of the Oscars. The category was formerly called Best Foreign Language Film. Bong’s social thriller was the frontrunner to win the International Feature Film Oscar after nabbing six total Oscar nominations this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Original Screenplay. “Parasite” was the first South Korean movie to be nominated in any of these categories, making the film a history-making before the awards ceremony even began.

“Parasite” ending its awards season journey with a history-making victory at the 92nd Academy Awards is a full circle moment as the movie started its run at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it world premiered...

Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” is officially a history-making Academy Award nominee. The critical and commercial favorite earned six Oscar nominations this morning and has written itself into the Academy Awards history books as the first South Korean nominee for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Movie). South Korea had failed to receive an Oscar nomination for 91 years, but that has all changed with “Parasite.” Additionally, the film is the first South Korean movie nominated for Best Picture and Bong Joon Ho is the first South Korean filmmaker nominated for Best Director. Additional Oscar nominations for “Parasite” include Best Director, Best Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Original Screenplay.

“Parasite” started its awards run as a history maker at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Palme d’Or. The prize made Bong Joon Ho the first South Korean filmmaker to win the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize.

Parasite is a film about families as much as it is about class resentment. As avatars of capitalism, the Parks and the Kims’ codependence sheds light on its systemic mutual toxicity. Yet just as compelling as the parasitic relationships in these families—and what they reveal about the greedy instincts that have been socially programmed into our psyches— is how the distinct nature of their intra-familial dynamics also speak to the larger social forces they exist within. In this light, director Bong Joon-ho is asking us to consider the extent to which capitalism itself cleaves or fortifies the bonds of familial love—suggesting that the greater the class resentment, the stronger the bond.

And strong are the Kim family ties indeed. Their scruffy and clamorous energy invokes a kinship that’s weathered its fair share of hardships, and whose resilience functions as a suit of armor against a ruthless and obscenely unequal social landscape.

Deals include to the Us for crime film ’By Quantum Physics’.

South Korean sales company Finecut has locked a slew of deals on titles including By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture, which sold to the Us (815 Pictures) and Japan (New Select).

The crime action film about a high-end club owner who gets involved in a drug crackdown and a political power game stars Park Hae-soo (The Night Of The Hunters) and Seo Yea-ji (The Throne). The film also sold to the Philippines (Viva Communications) and Taiwan (Eagle International Communications).

Finecut has also scored sales on rom-com My Punch-Drunk Boxer, starring Um Tae-gu,...

Watch The Throne 2. Yeezus 2. Good Ass Job. Yandhi. Cruel Winter. Turbo Grafx 16. Child Rebel Soldier. That unnamed, but rumored Kanye West and Drake collaborative album.

There’s a vast and tangled graveyard of all the announced, scrapped, and retooled Kanye projects that will never see the light of day. West’s ninth studio album, Jesus Is King, has already missed two release dates, and there’s a possibility it will miss a third if it doesn’t arrive at midnight on Thursday. That’s what makes Kanye’s recent declaration...

Even as his latest film “Parasite” has only just released in South Korean cinemas after winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes and hot on the heels of the news that he is to receive the Excellence Award at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival, we have our first look at Song Kang-ho’s next film “The King’s Letters”.

Synopsis

A historical film about King Sejong who risked everything of his to invent the Hunminjungeum (Korean Script) for his people and the people who weren’t recorded in history.

“The King’s Letters” will be Song’s first historical film after 2015’s “The Throne”. Director Jo Chul-hyun, who also worked as a scriptwriter on “The Throne”, has managed to gather quite the star cast for his debut film. In addition to Song Kang-ho, the film also star Park Hae-il as the Monk Shin-mi, who was instrumental in the creation of the Hangul script,...

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,...

Every once in a while, a good supporting actor breaks through the mould and makes his or her place as a dependable lead actor. Like Kwak Do-won, for example, who broke out with Na Hong-jin’s “The Wailing“, another actor who has consistently impressed on the sidelines is Lee Sung-min. 2018 was quite the turning point in his career, with a very important role in “The Spy Gone North” and his first ever lead in “The Witness“. Both the performances were highly praised and he follows them up with “The Beast”, the newest film from director Lee Jung-ho.

Synopsis

A criminal action movie about two detectives in conflict who solve a murder that shakes up the Korean peninsula.

The film, apparently a remake of the French thriller “36 Quai des Orfèvres” starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu, will be the third time that Lee Sung-min will be collaborating with Lee Jung-ho, having...

A Fantasy World Where Korean Gugak Meets Cinema

Saturday June 29th, 2019, 7:00 pm

Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center

(1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023)

Tickets: $20 – $50 (On sale Friday May 24th)

Korean Cultural Center New York (Kccny), a branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, Film at Lincoln Center, and the New York Asian Film Foundation are proud to present “Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels”, a once in-a-lifetime film and concert experience marrying cinema with traditional Korean music (gugak) at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on June 29th, 2019.

The event features live traditional accompaniment performed by a 20-member ensemble from the National Gugak Center (Ngc), the representative headquarters of Korean traditional performing arts, who will be playing the score for the first time in the Us.

Director Tae-yong Kim, whose past films include “Memento Mori” (1999) and the critically acclaimed “Late Autumn” (2011), Music Director Jun-Seok Bang of...

Winter has arrived and now the merchandising bonanza is not far behind.

HBO is definitely working on milking every last coin from your pocket, hoping to fill the Iron Bank of Bravos with coiange as their mega-hit series prepares to bid farewell in mid-April.

Not only will there be a series of Got-themed Oreo cookies coming, but blended bobbleheads, too.

Foco is introducing its newest bobblehead series featuring a collaboration between the worlds of Major League Baseball and HBO’s original series Game of Thrones®.

This brand-new cross licensed series features fan favorite Mlb players and mascots as well as Game of Thrones characters and settings from the award-winning HBO series. All 30 Mlb teams are represented in the first series which launches online today at Foco.com for pre-order.

The first series includes three distinct bobblehead styles merging the two worlds and features: The Iron Throne, the Ice Dragonand the Night King.

2018 was, by most accounts, a mixed bag of a year for South Korean cinema. Where critics darling Lee Chang-dong returned to the scene after an eight-year hiatus to much fanfare and applause with “Burning”, small films like “Little Forest” and “Intimate Strangers” ended up being more well received than tentpole blockbusters like Kim Jee-woon’s “Illang: The Wolf Brigade”, for example. 2019 has begun very strongly, with “Extreme Job” going on to become the 2nd highest grossing South Korean film of all time on the domestic box-office. Here’s a list of some films we can look forward to with much anticipation in the remainder of the year.

Bad Police (Lee Jeong-beom)

It’s Lee Sun-kyun vs the world in “Bad Police”

Six years after the action packed “No Tears for the Dead”, the director of the iconic “The Man from Nowhere” is back with “Bad Police”. Telling the story of...

A new Song Kang-ho film is quite the event in South Korean cinema. Possibly the country’s biggest superstar, and one of the best known South Korean actors around the world, Song Kang-ho is known to star in massive hits and his films are often South Korea’s official entries to the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language category. So when he teams up with “Inside Men” director Woo Min-ho and Bae Doona, one of South Korea’s best actresses and Song Kang-ho’s co-star from “The Host”, big things are expected from the resulting collaboration “The Drug King”.

Synopsis

Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970’s, Lee Doo-Sam builds an empire as a drug smuggler in the Busan underworld, while public prosecutor Kim In-goo attempts to take down Lee Doo-Sam.

Joining Song Kang-ho and Bae Donna is a strong supporting cast of Jo Jung-suk, who also starred...

The outlook for South Korea’s film box office business is decidedly guarded. Over Chuseok holiday period, overall sales increased but business ended up being a zero-sum game.

According to the Korean Film Council’s report, box office managed to sell almost 32% more tickets in September, compared to the same month a year ago. That’s partly because of the holiday, which fell in October in 2017.

Kofic’s box office tracking service Kobis showed that the number of admissions in local theaters was up about 4 million to 16.81 million in September, with revenues up by 42% to $127 million. The number of admissions for homegrown titles grew by 5.78 million to 11.76 million, with revenues increased by 113.6% to $88.23 million.

Big homegrown films release during the holiday week in all likelihood contributed to the hike. Over the past few years, the Chuseok holiday season has grown to one of the peak seasons for the South Korean box office,...

Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lü (“A Quiet Dream”) is back working with Park Hae-il and Moon So-ri with his latest film “Ode to the Goose”. The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival this month.

Synopsis

Yoon-yeong has been harboring feelings for Song-hyeon, a friend’s wife. When he finds out that she is divorced, Yoon-yeong and Song-hyeon take a trip to Gunsan on a whim. They find lodging at an inn where the middle-aged owner lives with his autistic daughter who does not leave her room. The four become star crossed lovers in the city of Gunsan. The film could be named “Gunsan,” as it is a film about a specific place, which also explores the world’s hidden, unspoken elements.

“Ode to the Goose” features an all-star cast including Park Hae-il, Moon So-ri as well as Jung Jin-young and Park So-dam as the owner of the inn and his daughter respectively.

After a summer of blockbuster albums (often to diminishing returns), Kanye West and Jay-z are supposedly adding to the release schedule. On Saturday, Kanye West took to Twitter to announce: “throne2 coming soon.” However, it is unclear if both halves of the duo got the memo.

The succinct and mysterious announcement didn’t give any additional context or details of Jay’s potential involvement. Not long ago, Kanye proclaimed there wouldn’t be a follow-up to the seminal album with his longtime mentor. “There will never be a Watch The...

Director Lee Joon-ik is perhaps best known for historical dramas like “The King and The Clown” and “The Throne”. After “Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet” and “Anarchist From the Colony”, he is back with his latest film “Sunset in My Hometown”, which is marketed as the third film in his “Youth Trilogy”.

Synopsis

Underground rapper Hak-soo has challenged TV audition programmes for 6 years but never gets into the finalist. On the day that he fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. He rushes to his hometown Byeonsan, which he has left since high school only to find it is his father’s plot to bring him back to Byeonsan. He immediately heads back to Seoul, but circumstances lead him back to Byeonsan, the small, boring suburb where he meets his school friend Seon-mi.

After “Dongju: The Portrait of...

Initiatives include new Kofic committee, Peace film festival and line-up of North Korean films at Bifan fest.

South Korea’s film industry is moving towards forging closer ties with North Korea, following the groundbreaking Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula announced April 27.

The Korean Film Council (Kofic) has set up a special committee for North-South Korean film exchange, which was launched on July 5. Following in the footsteps of a similar committee that Kofic operated 2003-2008, before the advent of previous conservative administrations, this new committee is expected to develop exchange projects and symposiums, and is...

Johnnie To’s gritty mainland crime epic “Drug War” (2012) is given a slick and mostly effective South Korean re-tooling in “Believer.” Centered on a dogged cop obsessed with flushing out a mysterious drug kingpin, this pacy outing is loaded with colorful characters but fails to deliver the emotional intensity it promises. The first feature by director and co-writer Lee Hae-young since his classy period thriller “The Silenced” (2015), “Believer” has notched two million admissions since its May 22 local release. An entertaining action-thriller accessible for non-Korean viewers, “Believer” ought to perform well when it opens June 8 on 23 North American screens.

Action-packed but free of the extreme brutality that sometimes hinders the commercial prospects of Korean genre films in offshore markets, “Believer” borrows just the basics of To’s film. While faithfully recreating some of the original’s most famous sequences, Lee and female co-writer Chung Seo-kyung have significantly altered plot and character details elsewhere.

Cannes Film Festival has finally revealed the full programme of its 71st edition and the small Asian selection is very promising and includes few regular participants along with some talented new newbies.

Let’s have a first look at the list.

Competition

“Burning” by Lee Chang-dong (South Korea)

This much anticipated adaptation of “Barn Burning”, a short story by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, is a tale of three young adults and – in full Murakami’s style – a mysterious accident. Back after a 7-year break, director Lee Chang-dong has summoned Yoo Ah-in (“The Throne” and “Veteran”), Steven Yuen (“Okja”) and pretty new actress Jeon Jong-seo for the roles.

“Ash is Purest White” by Jia Zhangke (China)

Jia Zhangke returns to Cannes with this big-budget and ambitious film; a love story set on the backdrop of China criminal world in the industrial town of Datong, spanning from 2001 to 2017. Within the cast the...

Kim Yang-hee's debut feature film, The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑), will have its Us premiere at Cinequest Film and Vr Film Festival, which starts on Tuesday, February 27th. Screen Anarchy has been asked to debut the theatrical trailer for the film, which you will find below, along with a selection of images procurred from our friends at HanCinema.net. After a warmly received World Premiere at the 2017 Toronto Intl. Film Festival, the acclaimed South Korean dramedy The Poet And The Boy will have its U.S. Premiere in competition at the world renowned 2018 Cinequest Film and Vr Film Festival, running February 27 -March 11th. The debut feature from filmmaker Kim Yang-hee, stars actor/director Yang Ik-June (Breathless), actress Jeon Hye-Jin (The Throne)...

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Gearing up for it's 13th edition, Osaka Asian Film Festival today announced it will kick off proceedings on March 9th with the Japanese Premiere of Korean film Anarchist from Colony. A sizeable hit in its native country when released last year, the film comes courtesy of director Lee Joon-ik whose knack for period historical dramas led to earlier success with Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet and The Throne. The festival opener stars Lee Je-hoon (The Phantom Detective, Architecture 101) and Choi Hee-seo, who worked with the director on Dongju. Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018 will take place from 9th - 18th March and feature a diverse selection of titles chosen from across Asia. Watch the trailer for their opening feature below. Synopsis: In 1923,...

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Top-ranked studio Universal led the way—by far—among specialized releases this weekend with "Steve Jobs"' superb initial New York/Los Angeles debut. This sets a standard that is unlikely to be topped by any upcoming awards contender, because there's less intense competition for now). The other strong opener, at a single Los Angeles screen, is the South Korean Oscar entry "The Throne," which based on reliable sources looks to gross over $20,000 this weekend. The top grosser among second-week films is "He Named Me Malala" (Fox Searchlight), which fell short of director Davis Guggenheim's previous attention-grabbing docs. Several other well-reviewed festival highlights also debuted, many on VOD (and one on Netflix), without gaining significant traction. The Orchard's Doc NYC-selected documentary "Cartel Land," which went theatrical in July to a $700,000 total, has taken in a reported $550,000 in two weeks of VOD release, an upbeat...