Sunday, December 31, 2006

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Kofic

E 'online renovated the site into English of Kofic (Korean Film Council), a major source Information for fans of the cinema of South Korea News, statistics, publications available for download ... Worth frequent visits. > go to the site.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

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2007: The 9th Udine Far East and the 5th Korea Film Fest

is approaching 2007 and approaching the two appointments Italian festival-goers that most closely relate to the Korean film and the Far East. the 9th Far East Film dell'Udine , 20 to 28 April 2007 (above the greeting card sent by mail to all friends of the festival) and, in the usual place in Florence, the 5th edition of the Korea Film Fest, March 23 to 30. We look confident ...

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

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Korean Box Office of November

Budget of the Korean box office between late October and November: no blockbuster, after more than five million viewers for the month of October for The War of Flower .
Two local titles that come to exceed one million of tickets sold. The first (1.4 million) is (poster above) the gangster Righteous Ties [Geo-rook-han Gye-boo], the sixth film director Jang Jin ( The Big Scene , 2005. Someone Special , 2004. Guns and Talks, 2001). In the cast are two actors recall: Jeong Jae-yeong ( Welcome to Dongmakgol , Someone Special , Taegukgi , Silmido ...) and Jeong Joon-ho ( My Boss, My Teacher , Marrying the Mafia , ... Public Enemy 2). Set in the southwestern region of Korea, along with narration of the history of friendship and revenge. Chis-sung, an eccentric but faithful mafia, ends up in jail after a clash between gangs. When his family are attacked by a rival gang his gang nobody helps them. Determined to confrontarsu with his boss managed to escape with his cellmate. Meanwhile, his friend Joo-joong boss receives from the job to stop him, forcing him to choose between friendship and loyalty to the gang ... The director said he wanted to deny with the preconception that this film is a gangster film must necessarily be boring: "I wanted to get into a conventional genre and create something different. Show some aspects that are usually left out ... I think, in fact, that there are many well-made gangster film ... "> official website > trailer.
The other film (1,500,000) is Radio Star (Radio Seuta), directed by Lee Joon-ik ( The King and the Clown , 2005). 1988, Choi Gon (played by Ahn Seong-gi) with rock star behind a single hit song, gets involved in drug problems and ends up singing in a small cafe. Convicted after a brawl with a customer is looking for money to pay bail. His manager, Park Min-soo (Park Joong-hun), found him a job as a DJ for a local radio station in a small town isolated (the radio will pay the deposit). Now Choi is facing a few dozen listeners ... The film portrays the emotional richness with twenty-year friendship between the two. The two actors are, in fact, been friends for twenty years ...> official website > trailer.

Monday, December 25, 2006

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Published by Beaver's monograph Kim Ki-duk

It 'available in bookstores, published by Il Castoro Cinema, the monograph is dedicated to one of the great film directors contemporary Korean, Kim Ki-duk. Written by Andrea Bellavita, university professor, included an interview with the director, a historical film of Kim and the new Korean cinema, and like all the titles in the series, a careful analysis of the works of Kim, from Crocodile until recently Time . The book, 185 pages in all, it costs EUR 12.50. > go to the site of the publisher The Beaver. It 's the second monograph on Kim Ki-duk by an Italian publisher. The former, written by Vittorio Renzi, was published in 2005 by Dino Audino Editore> see .

Sunday, December 3, 2006

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The Host in French cinemas. The review of Le Monde in

Excerpts from the review the newspaper "Le Monde" of The Host, the Korean blockbuster has now arrived in French theaters, "Seoul, South Korea Born of a genetic mutation caused by the spill of toxic products into the river that runs through the city, and an amphibious monster carnivore has elected domicile as sewers and sowing death and destruction among the population. It takes a teenage prisoner, kidnapped before the eyes of his father, a small vendor of fried calamari. The girl's family is united to wrest it, despite the obstacles placed by the authorities ( who suspect that their father has been contaminated by a virus spread by the monster), the claws of the predator. After reading the plot summary that the reader is not particularly attracted gender will be curious to know if there are reasons to see this movie. There are many. First The Host broke the record for box office at home, with 14 million viewers. In addition, the director, Bong-ho Jooh, also in his third feature film renews a formula, as was done with the manga (Barking Dogs Never Bite , 2000) and police (Memories of Murder , 2003). But The Host is especially true for himself, thanks to an amazing director and carnival, with echoes of Rabelais. An open work in styles and influences, a joyous and free enterprise. The Host joins without losing strength, the monster movie and the realism, the anti-imperialist pamphlet and the Italian comedy, the Kafkaesque parable and fable humanist. Full of references to American archetypes of the genre (from King Kong to Alien , through Jaws ), performs the delicate wonder of sabotage without being reduced to a parody. The speed with which the creature is revealed there is evidence of the inclination of the director to turn like a glove to the canons of the genre. This lack of suspense in this show suggests that we are on the territory of the nobility of a great national myth and popular syncretism that is resistant to Hollywood. To do The Host, before a film of mutants had become what it is: a great movie mutant. "> go to the official website of the French film.

Monday, November 20, 2006

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New Library: The Contemporary Korean Cinema

E 'release, published by Edizioni ObarraO, volume contemporary Korean films. Author of the book is Hyangjin Lee, professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. The text, which analyzes the most significant films produced in the two Koreas, traces the development of Korean cinema, from the beginning to the consolidation occurred in 1903 during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) to the current situation, highlighting the diversity of film followed the division between North and South Reality film industry has seen in terms of production, distribution and reception. The book, translated by Peter Ferrari, comes with a filmography, bibliography and index. > go to the website of ObarraO Editions.

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October, still a good time for local films at the box office korean ...


closed at the end of September, the chapter The Host, with a haul of more than 13 million viewers, such titles are made in October off Korean film? 2.4 million spectators are not exceptional crop of films already mentioned, Our Happy Time / Maundy Thursday [Woorideuleui Haengbokhan Sigan] drama directed by Song Hae-seong (Rikidozan, Failan, Calla). > official website. > trailer. Ben 5 million in October instead of the tickets sold were for The War of Flower [Tajja], the second film directed by Choi Dong-hoon (The Big Swindle), poster at the top. The film is based on a popular Korean comic book set in the world of professional players. Goni is a young sbalestrato, with a little work and a miserable pay, who discovers that he can earn a lot with the card game 'Go-Stop' ... Actor Jo Seung-woo (Marathon, Chunhyang), flanked by Kim Hye-soo (The Red Shoes, Kick The Moon), Baek Yoon-shik (Save The Green Planet, Art Of Fighting) Yoo Hae-jin (The King And The Clown Attack The Gas Station), Lee Kyeong-Soo (Wet Dreams 2) and Kim Yoon-seok (Running Wild, All For Love). > Official website > trailer. The comic-gangster movie Marrying the Mafia 3 [Gamunui Buhwal] has reached 2.5 million viewers. Two other titles, which we will have more than one million viewers ...

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

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In the new movie out by Park Chan-wook (Trailers)


The new film by Park Chan-wook will be released on December 7 Korean screens. I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay, the seventh work of Park, starring male, making his debut as an actor, Rain, Korean pop star. Described by the director as "a kind of romantic comedy," is the story of a mentally ill woman who believes a cyborg and his relationship with a guy (Rain). "I'm a Cyborg ..." comes after the trilogy of revenge. Park said, "I wanted to go back to my childhood dreams, I wanted to make a cool movie with young actors, smelling like fruit. A film to see together with my daughter." The role of female interpreter is assigned to Im Soo-jeong (heroine in the TV series Sorry, I love you ).
> Trailer> Trailer > The Official Website

Saturday, November 4, 2006

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Horror from the Far East in Italian newsstands

E 'arrived on newsstands Italian De Agostini, the new collection "The Asian Terror Xtreme DVD collection", dedicated to contemporary horror cinema of the Far Oriente.I biggest brands in recent years are re-edition DVD original and complete with double audio Italian and originale.Ogni DVD is accompanied by a special film-card, to be included in the box and keep DVD, which contains news and trivia about the backstage movie.avi files that complement the collection reconstruct the history of Asian horror cinema with contributions made specifically for the work, and will compose a new and comprehensive monograph: "Asian Terror - The Book. "
Here are some of the first titles in the collection
Hideo Nakata The Ring, The Eye 1998
Oxide and Danny Pang, 2003
Takashi Shimizu The Grudge, Dark Water 2003
Hideo Nakata , 2001
The Call Takashi Miike, 2002
Phone Ahn Byung-chi, 2002
Audition Takashi Miike, 1999
Mareb Takashi Shimizu, 2000
Infection Masaychi Ochiai, 2004
Premonition Norio Tsuruta, 2004
> go to the website of the series for more information.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

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record market share for Korean films

record market share for Korean films in the month of September. A note of CGV, a leader in the management of cinemas (a subsidiary of CJ Entertainment), reports that local films have represented the ' 82.7% of bigllietti sold, surpassing the previous record (81.8%) reached in February 2004. Behind the record, we find two strong titles: The Host, which continued its run in September, and the new output Maundy Thursday / Our Happy Time . Hollywood films have had to be satisfied by 5.4%. Japan, with the blockbuster Sinking of Japan, has reached 7.3%. The year 2006 for Korean films, has gone through many different phases. It 'started well, with titles such as The King and the Clown and My Boss, My Teacher . From the month of May has been the domain of Hollywood movies. By July, the Korean films have started to regain control of the box office, with the classic horror of the summer and then with the upcoming arrival of The Host. [Source: KOFIC].

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

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The Box Office


a season dominated by The Host and its 10,300,000 audience (the film is still among the top ten). What other films have found their place in life right now? 1,200,000 viewers have appreciated Lump Sugar [Gakseoltang]. Drama directed by Lee Hwan-kyung. C on its theme - the friendship between a girl jockey and his horse - promises a touching story. But the film does not fully satisfy you. for its future development, no drastic changes, too mainstream Hollywood. The Actress and Im Soo-jung.> [Korea Times]. > official website. > trailer. Then we find new releases for the Chuseok holiday (the day of Korean Thanksgiving). A title that has reached one million viewers (1.4 million) is Our Happy Time [Woorideuleui Haengbokhan Sigan] drama (top image), directed by Song Hae-seong ( Rikidozan, Failan, Calla ). Yu-jeong, a girl from a wealthy family who has attempted suicide, touches on death row prison with Yun-soo. Yun-soo has a boy child of a violent man who killed himself, grew up in college and was involved in the crime, a conviction for three murders. It 's a meeting of two suffering souls who find each other compassion. Starring Kang Dong-won and by actress Lee Na-young ( Someone Special, 2004). > official website. > trailer. The other title is well on the comic-gangster movie Marrying the Mafia 3 : Gamunui Buhwal. Back to the cast of Marrying The Mafia 2: The veteran Kim Su-mi ( Mr. Gam's Victory ), Shin Hyeon-joon ( Face ), Im Hyeong-joon ( Taegukgi ), Kim Won-Hee, Tak Jae -hoon, Shin Yi and Kim Yong-geon. This time the mafia family is threatened by a conspiracy directed by Myeong-pil (played by Kong Hyeong-jin). Critics largely negative. At the time at an altitude of 870,000 spectators. > official website.

Monday, August 28, 2006

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Fall Time Korean Kim Ki-duk. The Selection Review


Time , thirteenth film by Kim Ki-duk said the difficult love between Seh-hee and Ji-woo, an intense love, marked by fear of her time, the habit, the boredom, destroy this intensity. In the evening when Ji-woo can not make love to another woman asked him to imagine. The next day, Seh-hee disappears without a trace. Undergoing a plastic surgery procedure, with the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing able to turn the heat off. When you reappear, without revealing his identity, the story takes a turn increasingly away from the one you want ... Film intense and full of symbolism, happy to lead the viewer into of his labyrinth, unresolved and not entirely convincing in its development, Time is a work richer dialogue than the previous film but always loads the visual aspect of Kim Ki-duk. A search on time, on his return continued on its relentless pace. Love in time. Film complex and simple, charming and irritating (like the main character). Not as successful as other works of Kim but worthy of careful viewing. To be able to love or hate. It is part of the game, if you want to continue playing with Kim. Then the time will have the last word ...

Monday, August 21, 2006

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Asian Venice

Expressions From the Center Film / Far East Film Udine receive and publish:

THE NEW DETECTIVE Johnnie To, Exiled, in competition at Venice! RICH is tempting SECTION FROM FAR EAST TO CHOOSE MARK MUELLER

is particularly tempting selection of Asian Cinema Exhibition Venice was announced yesterday at a press conference by its director Marco Mueller. The authors present the public are very famous names in the Far East Film Festival! Johnnie immense that does not disappoint and manages to surprise even the most devoted fan with Exiled - brilliantly chosen Mueller for the competition - the Chinese Feng Xiaogang, for the first time in his career, with THE BANQUET - aside temporarily His penchant for short stories metropolitan daily and in China today - makes a spectacular wuxiapian will be one of the Gala Show. Another new feature is the onset for a Thai film in the competition section: This is the latest effort by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. No less interesting are the Asian presence in the Horizons section signed by newcomer Chinese director Liu Jie, with Courthouse HORSE'S BACK ON by Malaysian-Chinese and I Yuhang with the haunting RAIN DOGS. But the most striking is certainly the name of the Korean director Ryoo Seung-wan (I'm still alive in our memory the visions of his former Udinese NO BLOOD NO TEARS and ARAHAN). Ryoo finally landed a major international festival and does so with an extraordinary film-fumettone played elegantly on the floor of the grotesque: The City of Violence . Obviously not to be missed, always after midnight, the action-comedy bittersweet ROB-B-Hood with Jackie Chan Benny Chan, the world premiere in Venice. To all the people of the Far East Film ... the appointment is at the Lido!

OUT OF COMPETITION - MIDNIGHT
JAKPAE [The City of Violence]
Dir: Ryoo Seung-wan - South Korea - 92 '
Main cast: Ahn Jae-mo, Ahn Kil-Kang, Jeong Seok-yong, Jo Deok-hyeon

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

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The Host: absolute master of the Korean box office.

Cyclone The Host arrived. Six million tickets sold in the first eleven days (two million only in the halls of the capital Seoul), a result never achieved by any other Korean film. Then beat the record of Taegugki , which had reached six million viewers in 17 days. The film, centered on the story of a family trying to save one of its components (> see previous post on the film) from the clutches of a monstrous creature emerged from the waters of the Han River, had been well received by critics with his debut at Cannes this year. A summer blockbuster that has already entered, then in the top ten most successful films in the history of Korean cinema. What is the secret of this? According to the first critical factor is the creative use of the subject monster. The film has attracted audiences also curious to see how it was made a monster Korean . Becomes even more relevant that a number of factors that includes high-quality visual effects and computer graphics, the sound of the plot, the emphasis on family values, the humanistic theme. With all this word of mouth among the spectators ran with great rapidity. The question now is: will The Host to break the record of all time (12 million admissions) recently established by The King and the Clown ?

Sunday, July 30, 2006

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Box Office at the end of July

local titles in the Korean box office at the end of July (pending The Host): It maintains the first position, Hanbando [한반도 / The Korean Peninsula], directed by Kang Woo-seok ( 2,150,000 viewers in two weeks). > Official website > trailer. 8th place for February 29-4 Horror Tales [2 월 29 일 / 2 Wol 29], directed by Jeong Jong-hoon, actor ( Phone ) past director. February 29 is the first episode of a series of four horror films. Forbidden Floor released July 27, Roommates August 3 and August 10 Dark Forest. > official website of the series. > trailer. (33,000 spectators). 9th place for Arang [아랑], thriller / horror (pictured right), directed by Ahn Sang-hun, this 4-week (820,000 viewers). > official website. > trailer. Disappointing 10th position and end position at the box office for APT [아파트 / Apartment], the new horror Ahn Seong-gi (only 490,000 viewers in two weeks). > official website > trailer. Posters and links on news AsianEye .

Friday, July 28, 2006

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Nationalism in Korean cinema


Nationalism is good for the cinema, South Korea in five of the top ten films at the box office in recent years include nationalistic themes. Hanbando (The Korean Peninsular), tinged with anti-Japanese sentiments, it is only the latest example. We find in the group Taegukgi (2004), Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005), Silmido (2004), Shiri (1999) and JSA / Joint Security Area (2000). Hanbando is reached the top at the box office, taking up one third of the 1,500 screens in the country, despite concerns related to the theme, in which a fleet of Japanese and Korean naval forces are facing as a result of interference of Japan on inter-Korean railway. The audience critical of the film argue that the film is unrealistic and tickles your nerves nationalistic, stimulating hostility to Japan for the sole purpose of obtaining a commercial success. The director Kang Woo-seok says his film does not criticize Japan without reason and that was his desire to attack Japan and its current policy towards Korea. Not all films with nationalistic themes have been successful, as evidenced by the flop of Heaven's Soldiers (2005) and Rikidozan (2004). The progenitor of the trend in 1999 was Shiri . Kim Heoun-sic, Korean pop culture expert, argues that nationalism makes it difficult to film in a realistic and balanced comparison between the historical experiences and present realities. Kim argues that the lack of national pride of Koreans is the basis of these productions, a kind of surrogate satisfaction. In films like Rikidozan and Fighter in the Wind a character defeats Korean Japanese fighters and attracts Japanese women, and this shows, according to Kim, as the Koreans try desperately to prove to be superior to the Japanese. A recent survey by the University Chicago on the level of patriotism (linked to the economic, scientific, artistic, sporting, cultural ...) played in 34 countries, however, sees only the Koreans and the Japanese 31 th place to 18 °. Gina Yo, the Dongguk University professor argues that the film with the theme of nationalism arises from a collective sense of inferiority and anger related to Korean history and represents a sort of safety valve. [Source: Han Cinema]