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Squid Game star O Yeong-su appeared to acknowledge some guilt as he spoke to the press while entering the courtroom Friday for the first day of his sexual misconduct trial in Seoul, South Korea. Clad in a gray jacket and hat, the 78-year-old actor said to a group of reporters, “I am sorry. I think I behaved badly.”

The stage and screen veteran, best known for his role in the smash-hit Netflix, was indicted by local prosecutors in November for allegedly inappropriately touching a young actress while the two were on tour for a play in 2017. The police report said that O attempted to hug the unidentified woman by force and kissed her on the cheek while they went out for a stroll together. O has admitted that he held the victim’s hand but denies there was any indecent assault. The allegations were originally brought in 2021, but the police...

The 2nd edition of The Inner Path, a festival on Buddhism, will be held from September 6 – 10 at Iccr, Azad Bhawan, New Delhi.

Organised by Netpac India in association with the Asoka Mission, the festival celebrates Buddhism through films, art and philosophy.

Kim Ki Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring, David Grubin’s The Buddha and Acha Dayal’s Land Of Buddha are some of the films to be screened during the five day festival.

For more information write to innerpath@netpacasia.org or netpacindia@gmail.com

For schedule, click here

Full list of films:

Alms

Director: Edward A. Burger

Angin (An Essence Of Wind)

Director: Winaldo Artaraya Swastia

Buddhism In Europe Part 2

Director: Beomsu Kim

Cave In The Snow

Director: Liz Thompson

Impermanence

Director: Goutam Ghose

Kanzeon

Director: Tim Grabham, Neil Cantwell

Karma

Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa

Land Of Buddha

Director: Abha Dayal

Milarepa.

Director: Liliana Cavani

Plum...

Lee Seung-Jae, the Korean New Wave producer and production executive at South Korea's leading studio CJ Entertainment, is moving with his 6-year-old affiliate film company, LJ Films, to Los Angeles. Best known in the Korean film industry for his fierce support of director Kim Ki-Duk over five films, which includes the German co-production and global art house smash Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring, Lee is looking to broaden CJ Entertainment's reach beyond the strong, capital-intensive Korean market to the U.S. and the rest of the world. Lee is backed by CJ mogul and Samsung scion Miky Lee, who has put him in charge of CJ's global production. In addition, Japan's Kadokawa Group plans to invest in and distribute nine upcoming LJ Films. Lee is looking for partners in the U.S. and China.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Fresh off its big win at the Festival de Cannes, Oldboy duplicated that feat at home, taking five prizes at the Daejong Film Awards. The ultraviolent tale of a middle-aged man bent in revenge after being imprisoned without explanation for 15 years won best director for Park Chan-wook, best actor for Choi Min-sik, best music for Jo Yeong-wook, best editing for Kim Sang-beom and best lighting. The best picture accolade went To Kim Ki-duk's quiet, Buddhist-themed Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring. Kim has had a strong year, with Spring winning four awards at the Locarno Film Festival and the top prize at Korea's other major film awards, the Blue Dragon Awards. His more recent film, Samaria, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

NEW YORK -- A host of faves from festivals over the past year -- including the Sundance standout DIG! and Toronto pickups Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring and The Story of Weeping Camel -- have been selected to screen in this year's New Directors/New Films Festival, thrown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The festival launches March 24 -- with Jim McKay's Everyday People, from HBO Films, serving as the opening-night feature -- and runs through April 4. A total of 22 features were selected.

NEW YORK -- "Flabbergast" is not a foreign word -- it's etymology is unknown -- but it certainly can be used to describe some of the likely reactions to choices -- and omissions -- the Academy made this year in the foreign-language film category. Canadian helmer Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions (Miramax Films) and Ondrej Trojan's Zelary (Sony Pictures Classics) from the Czech Republic had been bandied by those following the foreign film race as likely shoo-ins to nab nominations. But Wolfgang Becker's German feature, Good bye, Lenin! was also expected to find a place in the class photo too, but it was nowhere to be found when the noms were unveiled. In fact, a whole host of titles that have begun developing a following were among the missing. Among them, Bent Hamer and IFC Films' Kitchen Stories (Norway); Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni and ThinkFilm's The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolia) and Kim Ki-duk's and SPC's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring (Korea).

MILAN -- In what it hopes will be a sign of things to come at this year's MIFED, leading German sales outfit Bavaria Film International closed a series of deals on the eve of the market including multiple territory sales for Kim Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring and a six-picture deal with Israel's Orlando Films. Spring, Korea's official Academy Award entry this year, was sold in all-rights deals to Metro Tartan for the United Kingdom and Ireland, Rialto for Australia, Spain's Festival Filves, Audiovisual for Greece, Imovision for Brazil, Portugal's LNK, Septimo Arte for Mexico, Rayson Global for Argentina and SPI International for the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. Orlando, which has had a local hit with Bavaria's Good bye, Lenin! inked a six-picture deal with the German group, picking up Israeli rights to Soenke Wortmann's soccer drama The Miracle of Bern, Cesc Gay's In the City, Jaime Rosales' The Hours of the Day, Extrano by director Santiago Loza, Martin Rejtman's The Magic Gloves and Hans-Christian Schmid's Distant Lights.