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Much has been said about Marvel Studios' plans for T'Challa in recent weeks. Social media scoopers appear to agree; the role will be recast, likely for the next Avengers movies and almost certainly for Ryan Coogler's Black Panther 3. The trades, meanwhile, have yet to chime in.

While the Multiverse opens the door to a new T'Challa being plucked from another reality, all signs still point to young Toussaint/T'Challa II being aged up post-Secret Wars to pick up where his father left off.

The Cosmic Circus' Alex Perez has shared some inside intel of his own today, confirming that he's also heard Toussaint will take over the mantle in Black Panther 3. He also acknowledges that this "doesn't eliminate the possibility of other Black Panther variants showing up in the Avengers' films beforehand."

Interestingly, Perez adds, "[I've heard that] compared to the previous films, Ryan Coogler is interested in leaning into a...

In recent times, dark and action-packed series have gained quite some popularity, with names like My Hero Academia, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, and so many more. However, all of them were subjected to criticism as they fell short in front of Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family, which has hooked viewers and readers alike, as they keep returning for more for all the right reasons.

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The series is a perfect blend of humor, action, slice-of-life, and comedy that enhances the viewers’ experience. What makes the series all the more entertaining is how the characters make our hearts race. This was possible as every character was fun to watch and underwent an unbiased sense of development.

However, fans will be perplexed to learn that this outstanding feat by Endo-Sensei was possible because of his detachment from all the characters of the series.

Rumors surrounding the recasting of the role of T’Challa, Aka Black Panther in the MCU continue to swirl, with the latest claiming to reveal which actors have turned down the chance to play the superhero so far in the wake of the untimely death of Academy Award-nominee Chadwick Boseman. Insider Jeff Sneider recently revealed that Marvel is now considering recasting the role, using the multiverse as the way to do it, but it seems that several actors are not interested in taking over.

According to YouTuber @She_DreadzMe, several “industry contacts” have revealed that Star Wars and The Woman King actor John Boyega, Black Mirror, Farming, and F1 star Damson Idris, and Selma and Silo star and Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo have so far been approached and rejected the role of T’Challa.

Alongside this rumor, Comicbookmovie.com has confirmed that they too have heard Boyega’s name mentioned.

The early 2000s was a time when what is now known as the Korean New Wave exposed the western world to what the cinema of the South Korea could offer in various genres. One genre in particular that the cinema of the country got to be best known for then, and to a degree still is, is the romantic melodrama. Among the many features within it that ended up impressing both the domestic and international audience was “Failan”, starring Choi Min-sik, who had just been introduced to international audiences a couple years back in “Shiri” and a pre-international fame Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung.

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Lee Kang-jae is a two-bit, low-level gangster, fresh out of prison for smuggling in illegal Chinese immigrants. He isn’t that great at being a gangster and doesn’t get much respect either from his friend-turned-boss Yong-sik or from his younger subordinates. When...

Marking its 4th year, Actors’ House is a special event that offers an in-depth look into the works of actors who represent the contemporary film industry, sharing their candid stories. This year’s event draws attention with prominent figures’ participation, including Sul Kyung-gu, Park Boyoung, Hwang Jung-min, and Chun Woo-hee.

First, actor Sul Kyung-gu, known for his limitless transformations through various roles, will be featured at the Actors’ House. Continuously expanding his spectrum by navigating different themes, genres, and characters, Sul Kyung-gu has consistently garnered praise from audiences for his solid acting skills. Most recently, he crafted a new iconic character in the 2024 Netflix series The Whirlwind (2024). At the Actors’ House, Sul Kyung-gu is set to showcase his true essence as an actor.

Actor Park Boyoung will also meet with the audience in Busan. After skyrocketing to fame as a rising star in Chungmuro with the success of the film...

Song Kang-ho is a powerhouse performer in South Korea, starring in acclaimed films with scores over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Korean Wave has brought international attention to actors like Song, known for versatile performances in various genres. Despite his success, Song has yet to make his Hollywood debut, unlike some of his Korean peers who have transitioned successfully.

Song Kang-ho is one of the most recognizable South Korean actors both domestically and abroad, and yet, despite a slew of international successes, the star still hasn't made a Hollywood film. Song is an indelible performer who won Best Actor at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival for his role in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Broker, and was listed on The New York Times list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. He is also a close collaborator of Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, having appeared in four films from both directors, including the starring role in the Oscar-winning film,...

Director Ryan Coogler remains faithful to the original Marvel comics when adapting Black Panther into a solo superhero movie. However, when it comes to the sequel there is an issue surrounding a character, who only appears for less than two minutes on screen.

The character in question is Prince T’Challa II, also known as Toussaint. He is the son of Nakia and the late King T’Challa of Wakanda.

Divine Love Konadu-Sun as Prince T’Challa II in Black Panther 2

In that scene, the decision is made to establish Shuri as a placeholder for her nephew, Prince T’Challa. This happens in the same film where she becomes Black Panther.

Suggested“Sam is gonna do another Spider-Man Movie with Tobey”: MCU Star Has Not Lost Hope On Tobey Maguire’s Return As Spider-Man After Their No Way Home Reunion Controversy Erupts Over Black Panther 2 Character’s Brief...

Choi Min-sik, the veteran Korean actor who previously starred in “Oldboy” and Korea’s all-time box office record breaker “Roaring Currents,” heads the cast of upcoming mystery-thriller film “Exhuma.” The title, which will debut in Korean theaters in February, also released its first-look images and an atmospheric trailer.

Choi appears as an exorcist who unleashes unexpected supernatural forces.

According to a synopsis supplied by Showbox, “A wealthy family living in Los Angeles calls on a pair of young shaman, played by Kim Go-eun and Lee Do-hyun, to save their newborn child after they are visited by a series of paranormal events. [The shaman duo] senses that the dark shadow of an ancestor has latched on the family, a so-called ‘Grave’s Calling’. In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, they seek help from a leading geomancer, portrayed by Choi, and a mortician (portrayed by Yoo Hai-jin). To their dismay, the...

In his directorial debut, screenwriter Kim Jee-woon collaborated with actors Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik in the comedy drama with a touch of horror “The Quiet Family” back in 1998. Reunited with Song as the lead actor, “The Foul King” was his second feature which, besides winning him the Best Director award at the 2001 Milan International Film Festival, it also won the Audience Award at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy.

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Basically a comedy and a feel-good sports film, this production sees Song Kang-ho in his first leading role, playing pushover and underperforming financial advisor Im Dae-ho who is forever late for work. In return, he has to put up with his power-hungry boss who headlocks and lectures him everyday. In general, he is very much a loser, trapped by his work and society, who still lives with...

While the Golden Age of Korean cinema is considered to be the period from 1955 to 1972, and the Renaissance that essentially lasts until today starting with the modern blockbuster Shiri, which was released in 1999, there is also another period in local cinema, 1988-1996, that saw the emergence of a number of directors who truly pushed the boundaries of what was considered Korean cinema at the time, essentially paving the way for what followed next. Benefitting from the loosening of censorship and overall control in the industry in terms of topics and themes, directors such as Kim Dong-won, Lee Myung-se, Park Kwang-soo and Chung Ji-young came up with movies that took a realistic look at some of the most crucial events of local history, while also criticizing a number of issues the system faced at the time. The split of the two Koreas, the Gwangju massacre and the authoritarian rule, capitalism, worker's rights,...

Clockwise from upper left: Parasite (Cj Entertainment), Snowpiercer (The Weinstein Company), Train To Busan (Well Go USA) Graphic: AVClub When Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020, it marked a historic moment for cult favorite filmmaker Bong Joon-ho and for South Korean cinema. While some American audiences were surprised,...

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When Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020, it marked a historic moment for cult favorite filmmaker Bong Joon-ho and for South Korean cinema. While some American audiences were surprised, and even annoyed, to see an international film win Best Picture, many film...

The drama series ‘The Magic of Shiri’ has released its new trailer mixing up comedy, drama, emotional complexities and adventure, as the series not only features high production but also great dialogues by the looks of it.

The streaming show is a story of ambition and embracing the dreams, it follows Shiri, who must chase her dreams of becoming a magician while tackling all the obstacles in her path ranging from social and family stigma to various other odds.

Set in the vibrant and chaotic Paharganj neighbourhood of Delhi in the mid 1990s , the story follows the journey of Shiri Shah whose life takes an unexpected turn when her husband abruptly leaves to become a Jain monk, leaving her to face the challenges of single-handedly providing for her children.

Popular TV actress Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya, who will be essaying the role of Shiri, said, “Playing Shiri has been a truly rewarding experience.

The late actor and Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman will be honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Per a statement on the Walk of Fame's official website, Boseman is one of eight acclaimed actors receiving a star for their contributions to motion pictures. Among the names receiving a star alongside Boseman are Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, Wonder Woman franchise actors Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, and Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh. The honorees were chosen earlier this month among hundreds of nominations by the Walk of Fame Selection Panel of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

Related: Watch: Ironheart's Dominique Thorne Auditions for Shuri Opposite Chadwick Boseman

Boseman was one of Hollywood's most celebrated success stories during the prime of his career, making his name in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as T'Challa/Black Panther. He first starred as Wakanda's chief protector in 2016's...

Competition titles include Cannes Critics’ Week winner ‘Tiger Stripes’.

South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) is set to open its 27th edition with Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix, and close with the world premiere of Takashi Shimizu’s Sana.

The festival will run June 29 - July 9 with its award ceremony on July 7, followed by the screening of Sana.

Best known for The Grudge, J-horror master Shimizu’s latest film follows the disappearance of an idol group’s members and an eccentric private detective’s investigation into the matter. Shimizu received the Screen International...

Sejong the Great, the fourth King of the Joseon dynasty, is widely considered as one of the greatest rulers of ancient Korea. A large part of the credit for that goes to the many scientific advances the kingdom saw during his reign and his introduction of the Hangul alphabet. 2019 saw two depictions of the emperor on-screen, the first being Song Kang-ho's version in “The King's Letters”, which specifically is about the latter achievement. The other was in “Forbidden Dream” by melodrama supremo Hur Jin-ho, returning to the historical genre after “The Last Princess”. Using both the scientific advances and the creation of the alphabet as a backdrop, it tells of Sejong's great friendship with Jang Yeong-sil, an inventor and astronomer who Sejong had a lot of affinity for.

“Forbidden Dream” is available from Echelon Studios

The feature opens in the latter part of Sejong's reign, when the wheel of...

One of the leading actors of his generation, Korea’s Choi Min-sik is tackling his first TV role in some 25 years, with Disney+ crime drama series “Big Bet.” Choi says the gamble was a challenge, but ultimately worth the risk.

While he has notched up iconic cinema roles in “Oldboy” “Shiri,” “I Saw the Devil,” Luc Besson’s “Lucy” and all-time Korean box office record holder “Roaring Currents,” Choi’s last significant TV role was in dark comedy “The Moon of Seoul” (aka “Seoul ui Dal”) in the 20th century’s pre-streaming era.

Choi says that the changes in the TV industry are palpable and mostly for the better.

“Dramas are now produced entirely in advance of broadcast. Before, we would have what we call ‘on-the-spot’ scripts. They would be literally written on the day of filming, which left very little time to memorize the lines,” Choi told Variety.

The...

When the Marvel Cinematic Universe began with “Iron Man” in 2008, star Robert Downey Jr. was 43 years old. At the time, Xochitl Gomez was two. “I literally didn’t live in a world without it,” the “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” star points out.

And she’s far from the only new face in today’s MCU who grew up as the franchise took over pop culture. In 2008, “Ms. Marvel” breakout Iman Vellani was six years old. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” actress Dominique Thorne was 10. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” star Kathryn Newton was 11.

Now, all four women are part of the next big wave of heroes, a group that, as a whole, is far younger than the men and women who started this universe.

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2022 was finally the year that the Korean box office, after the pandemic, was defibrillated back to life. Producers and distributors were finally confident that the time was right for big budget, blockbuster projects, that had long been queueing up for a release, to start making their way to the theatres. After having to resort to Ott streaming and generally smaller scale films, the audience too was hungry to see high-value productions, entertainment and their favorite stars on the big screen and thronged to the theatres, lapping up these releases. So much so that 2022 saw four new films make their way into the 100 highest grossing Korean films of all tie at the domestic box-office, with Ma Dong-seok’s “The Roundup” even rolling comfortably into the top 10.

2023 too began strongly, with the long-in-production “The Point Men” starring Hwang Jung-min and Hyun Bin and the Sol Kyung-gu led ensemble spy thriller “Phantom” opening the year strong.

Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung in Hunt Image: Courtesy of Magnet Releasing. Lee Jung-jae follows up his Emmy-winning turn in Squid Game with the ambitious espionage thriller Hunt, a film set in South Korea during the height of the Cold War. Lee stars in, directs, co-writes, and co-produces this taut,...

The last time Choi Min-sik played a post-separation North Korean, it was in “Shiri”, one of the biggest Korean blockbuster action films of all time and one that heralded the coming of the Korean New Wave. In that, he played a North Korean commander sent to the South to cause havoc. Twenty-three years later, he plays another North Korean in the South in “In Our Prime”, a feature that couldn’t be further removed from the 1999 classic.

Despite hailing from a different, poorer social background, Han Ji-woo goes to an elite school, one where children of the rich attend and which is famous for getting its students into Ivy league colleges, by any means necessary. Shunned by his classmates, except for the lovely Bo-ram, his time there is further soured by the fact that he is very bad at mathematics. His homeroom and math teacher recommends that he transfer out,...

"Letitia Wright," "Black Panther 2," and "Shuri" were all trending on Twitter during different points of the day yesterday, with tons of speculation that "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" was on hiatus due to the vaccination status of actor Letitia Wright who plays Shuri, the assumed successor to T'Challa (the late Chadwick Boseman) as the ruler of Wakanda. A news outlet released an article stating that Wright "doesn't want to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe because she is unwilling to get the vaccine." We will not be linking to or referencing the source because people who post giant freakin' unsubstantiated claims don't deserve the traffic.

The post Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Is Resuming Production in January appeared first on /Film.

Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has now begun filming, and with that news has quickly followed a potential logline for the movie. The reported plot description provides a lot of detail, including the reveal that Atlantis will make its MCU debut, and that a war between the fabled underwater city and Wakanda will be at the heart of the story.

"Both Wakanda and Atlantis are hidden civilizations with advanced technology and increased militaristic abilities that decided to separate themselves from the rest of the world for their own safety, and in a way, out of fear. Wakanda feared that their technology would be abused. Atlantis feared that surface dwellers would come and desecrate the mythical city just as they did so many years ago. And yet their fears escalate even further when these two once-hidden nations clash with each other. Wakanda and Atlantis have a shockingly intertwined history. Wakanda...

One of the recurring themes within some of the most successful releases of the early Korean New Wave was the conflict between the two Koreas. Films like “Shiri”, “Jsa”, “Tae Guk Gi”, among others, all featured various sides of this dispute between the two nations. However, one feature to show a unique aspect of this issue was “Silmido”, which is based on a novel that is in turn based on an incredible true story, a story which the majority of the Korean public too was unaware of until the feature’s release. A massive critical and commercial success, “Silmido” would go on to be the first Korean production to attract over 10 million viewers and eighteen years since its release, it still sits comfortably within the top 20 highest-grossing Korean films of all time at the domestic box office.

The feature begins on the night of January 21, 1968, when Unit...

South Korean cinema, and particularly the mainstream part, has been developing at an uncanny pace since the beginning of the New Wave, which started during the last years of the 90s, and resulted in the renewed interest of local audiences for local movies. “Shiri” (1999) kickstarted the phenomenon by becoming the first film in South Korean history to sell more than two million tickets in Seoul alone. The success continued with a number of other blockbusters while by the 2000s, and particularly after “Oldboy”, the country’s cinema started to attract significant international attention. The “trend” continued during the next years, and currently, S. Korean film industry is considered among the top in the world, with directors that have shot movies in Hollywood actors that have become international stars and awards from most of the top festivals in the world (Lee Chan-dong for “Burning” and Bong Joon-ho for “Parasite”)

However, in...

For the last seven weeks, WandaVision fans have tried to conjure a major Marvel cameo almost as hard as Wanda worked to whip up her sitcom world. And with the Disney+ series wrapping its run on Friday, only one episode remained for a jaw-dropping surprise appearance.

There was ample reason to suspect a familiar face from the Marvel Cinematic Universe would drop by: Ahead of WandaVision‘s premiere, star Paul Bettany said the show would welcome “this actor that I’ve always wanted to work with,” whose scenes with Bettany would feature “extraordinary” chemistry.

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Choi Min-sik last appeared on the small screen 24 years ago in Mbc’s “Love and Separation”. Since then, he has gone on to establish himself as one of the greatest actors of all time in Korean cinema, after working in films like “Shiri“, “Oldboy“, “I Saw The Devil” and “The Admiral: Roaring Currents“, among several others.

Reports today are suggesting that the actor is “positively considering” a comeback to the television drama format with “Casino” which will be written and directed by “The Outlaws” director Kang Yoon-sung. While not much is known about the story of the project yet, it is said to be revolving around the turbulent life of a man with a casino as a backdrop to the story.

Choi has previously shown enthusiasm to return to the small screen in various interviews.

It will be the first tv production of B.A. Entertainment, who previously produced the smash hit “The Gangster,...

The Korean New Wave in cinema really kicked off late-90s onwards, when South Korean blockbusters, financed partly or largely by large conglomerates’ fundings, began to have an exposure in the West, courtesy of home video releases and limited theatrical engagements. Of these, arguably the first major hit, and certainly among the first South Korean films that many western audiences saw, was Kang Je-gyu’s “Shiri”, a massive financial and critical success domestically that took the west by storm when it was introduced there too. Backed by technology giants Samsung, “Shiri” was at that time the biggest budgeted cinematic project in Korea and one that pulled in vast dividends.

As the two Koreas gear up for a football match against each other, in a move that the government hopes will move public sentiments and work towards talks of a reunification, a rogue militant North Korean group activates...

For the portion of Western audiences previously stuck behind the one-inch barrier of subtitles, the multi-Oscar haul by Bong Joon Ho’s dark and provocative “Parasite” was a revelation. But for savvy viewers who had long ago moved past a perceived language barrier, Bong’s win is instead the latest splash in a succession of South Korean milestones that span film, music and television.

Thanks to vibrant talent and years of industrial-scale preparation, the rich Korean entertainment scene has solid foundations. Smartphones, YouTube and Netflix are now carrying the Korean wave, known as “Hallyu,” farther and faster.

In August alone, boy band BTS’ latest confection, “Dynamite,” racked up a record number of plays on YouTube and topped the Billboard music charts, while Korean zombie movie “Peninsula” smashed the Asian box office, and another zombie offering, “#Alive,” briefly was the most-watched item planetwide on Netflix.

“The current boom enjoyed by Korean...

Sejong the Great, the fourth King of the Joseon dynasty, is widely considered as one of the greatest rulers of ancient Korea. A large part of the credit for that goes to the many scientific advances the kingdom saw during his reign and his introduction of the Hangul alphabet. 2019 saw two depictions of the emperor on-screen, the first being Song Kang-ho’s version in “The King’s Letters”, which specifically is about the latter achievement. The other was in “Forbidden Dream” by melodrama supremo Hur Jin-ho, returning to the historical genre after “The Last Princess”. Using both the scientific advances and the creation of the alphabet as a backdrop, it tells of Sejong’s great friendship with Jang Yeong-sil, an inventor and astronomer who Sejong had a lot of affinity for.

“Forbidden Dream” is screening at New York International Film Festival

The feature opens in the latter part of Sejong’s reign,...

“Parasite” star Song Kang-ho will head the cast of airborne disaster action move “Emergency Declaration.” Jeon Do-yeon and Lee Byung-hun co-star, making “Declaration” one of the powerful casts ever assembled in a Korean movie.

The film is in pre-production and aiming for an end-of-year release. Leading studio Showbox will begin pre-sales during this week’s European Film Market.

Showbox pitches it as ”an airborne blockbuster about an aircraft forced to declare an emergency when an unprecedented terror incident occurs in-flight.” It is to be directed by Han Jae-rim, who previously enjoyed success with “The King” and the Song-starring 2013 drama “The Face Reader.”

Jeon won a best actor award at Cannes in 2007 for “Secret Sunshine,” and has other credits that include “Untold Scandal” and “The Housemaid.” Lee is one of Korea’s finest thespians and a rarity who has managed to build a career on both sides of the Pacific. His...

Since early age, Kristína Aschenbrennerová (1980) had planned to become a film actress like Greta Garbo. Fortunately, quite soon she realized her qualities lie elsewhere and graduated in film theory and history. She works at Slovak Film Institute/National Cinematography Centre as Slovak cinema promotion officer and event coordinator. Since 2009, she programmes, until recently with Adrián Žiška, Eastern Promises, a section of Iff Art Film Fest Košice dedicated to mainstream and genre films from East and Southeast Asia. On not that regular basis, she gets to select (Asian) or recommend shorts for Isff Brno 16, and in 2017 she proudly recommended a few fabulous films to Slovak Queer Film Festival. Occasionally writes and tries to keep a Wp blog under an alias Anomalilly. Talks a lot.

We speak with her about Eastern Promises and Art Film Fest, Asian cinema, the Slovak audience, and many more topics.

Eastern Promises is not a festival, but...

The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to leading South Korean actor Song Kang-ho, marking the first time this prestigious prize has gone to an Asian film personality.

Song, 52, who made his big screen debut at 29 in Hong Sang-soo’s edgy “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” (1996), has since “never stopped experimenting,” said the Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema in a statement.

The fest also underlined the versatile talent’s masterful turns in works by South Korean filmmakers such as Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Jee- woon Kim and Park Chan-wook that have propelled him to top star status at home and made him an international name.

His standout roles include turns in big-budget blockbuster “Shiri” (1999) directed by Kang Je-gyu; Kim Jee-woon’s wrestling comedy “The Foul King” (2000); Park Chan-wook’s “Joint Security Area” (2000); “Sympathy for Mr Vengeance” (2002) and “Thirst” (2009), Bong Joon-ho’s “Memories of Murder” (2003) and “Snowpiercer...

One thing is certain: Lee Su-jin’s second feature “Idol” (“Woo sang” in the original language) is a head-spinning thrill ride of a movie which, in the end, can become exhausting. Having in mind Lee’s previous feature, a minor sensation on both the genre and the regular film festival circle titled “Han Gong-ju”, Idol’s inclusion in the Panorama selection of this year’s Berlinale is completely justified, even though the film certainly has narrow limits regarding the exposure outside of its native South Korea and hard core genre circles.

Basically, it is a story about two fathers connecting by a hit-and-run accident involving their sons. The title character of sorts Koo Myung-hui (Han Seok-kyu of “Shiri” and “The Berlin File” fame) is a politician on the move, whose career prospects seem promising due to his respectable, honest and trustworthy public image. His son Johan is the supposed perpetrator,...

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.

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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...

Welcome to the article best of Korean cinema, in which we look at the best Korea has to offer since it explosion of quality films and output since 200. We look at everything from emotionally heightened Romances to the uniquely Korean line of comedic thrillers. This time we are looking at the output of Kang Je-Gyu, although we aren’t covering his debut film. Shiri (Swiri) was a personal introduction to the new wave. The films we will be covering are Brotherhood and My Way, two thematic companion pieces looking at personal drama in the Korean world war and World War II.

Brotherhood

Directed by Kang Je-Gyu

Written by Ji-hoon Han, Kang Je-kyu & Sang-don Kim

2004, South Korea

Kang Je-Kyu’s sophomore effort is the first of his war films and this time it is the Korean Civil War that draws attention. Won Bin (Jin-seok Lee) and Jong Dong-gun (Jin-tae Lee) are...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Korean films continued to pull more than 40% of the domestic boxoffice for another quarter, further cementing the gains made in this unusually strong local industry. But unlike the past three years, 2002 has brought no single, overwhelming hits as there has been the past three years with films such as Friend ($44 million, 2001), JSA ($28 million, 2000) and Shiri ($29 million, 1999). Instead, the boxoffice has largely been driven by a steady stream of medium-sized hits and a major expansion in the number of films released overall. Already this year, all the top-10 Korean films have pulled in more than 1.3 million in admissions each; in 2001, the 10th-place film did not make it to 1 million.