Pyo begins to suspect his estranged wife Ryeon Jeong-hee (Jeon Ji-hyun, a.k.a. It appears that someone in the North Korean embassy has been selling secrets and is now preparing to defect to the South. Pyo barely escapes with his life, but manages to elude Jeong, obsessed with bagging him. Something goes wrong, and a gunfight breaks out. A) operatives headed by Jeong Jin-soo (Han Suk-kyu, Villian and Widow).
Source: Korean Film Council.Īs the film opens, North Korean intelligence officer Pyo Jong-seong (Ha Jung-woo, Yellow Sea, The Terror Live) is negotiating an arms deal with a band of Middle Eastern terrorists.
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Reviewed below: The Berlin File(Jan 30) - How to Use Guys with Secret Tips(Feb 14) - New World(Feb 21) - Nobody's Daughter Haewon(Feb 28) - Jiseul(Mar 21) - Very Ordinary Couple(Mar 21) - Horror Stories 2(Jun 5) - Cold Eyes(Jul 3) - The Terror Live(Jul 31) - The Face Reader(Sep 11) - Our Sunhi(Sep 12) - The Russian Novel(Sep 19) - Hwayi: A Monster Boy(Oct 9) - City: Hall(Oct 24) - Blood and Ties(Oct 24) - The Commitment(Nov 6) - Steel Cold Winter(Nov 7) - The Fake(Nov 21). Go featuring a CG animated gorilla, from the director of 200 Pound Beauty and Take Off.
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Other upcoming films include The Face Reader by Han Jae-rim who previously directed The Show Must Go On Hwayi by Save the Green Planet director Jang Jun-hwan and a big-budget 3-D baseball movie Mr. Although shot mostly in English with an international cast, it was produced in Korea, and is the source of much anticipation. Looking ahead to the rest of 2013, the one massive project on the horizon is Bong Joon-ho's SF epic Snowpiercer, expected to reach theaters in August. Although not technically Korean films, these works are of great interest to many fans of Korean cinema, so we will be providing a separate page (coming soon) for reviews of these and other "not quite Korean" films. The early part of 2013 also marked the anticipated Hollywood debuts of Korean directors Park Chan-wook ( Stoker) and Kim Jee-woon ( The Last Stand).
Positive word-of-mouth then helped the film to achieve a level of publicity and box office success almost unheard of for independent films. Shot in Jeju dialect, the exquisitely crafted film won the top prize in the World Dramatic Cinema competition at Sundance before opening in Korea in March.
The latter film, featuring an ensemble cast led by RYU Seung-ryong, became the third best-selling Korean film in history with close to 13 million admissions.Īnother film that drew much notice was the low-budget feature Jiseul, about 1948 massacre of civilians on the island of Jeju. Theatrical admissions for local films in the first quarter of 2013 were the highest of any three-month period in Korean film history, thanks to hits like Ryoo Seung-wan's The Berlin File, gangster epic New World and especially the sentimental comic drama Miracle in Cell No.
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No wonder he cried so hard in episode 6! This story is full of tragedy, sadness, betrayal, and pain."Jiseul", "Snowpiercer", "Very Ordinary Couple", "The Berlin File"Īfter a record-breaking box office run in 2012, Korean cinema continued to flex its muscles in the early part of 2013. And if you're truly sympathetic, you'll feel burdened by the responsibility that Kang-to had to carry on his shoulders. It's just so sad to see all the pain he had to go through. Kang-to lost his brother, mother, girlfriend, best friend, and numerous comrades protecting the independence that Bridal Mask had been dying to save. This drama shows that fighting for freedom requires a lot of sacrifice and that to be a hero, you must lose something important. Set in the 1930s, when Seoul was under Imperial Japanese rule, a Korean detective named Lee Kang-to works with the Japanese police to capture “Bridal Mask,” a mysterious freedom fighter who fights against the Japanese. Bridal Mask is the story of a Korean hero with a life full of tragedy.
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