Lee Byung-hun Expanding Horizons

Lee Byung-hun continues to expand his horizons. After his “kimchi Western” flick “The Good, the Bad, the Weird” featured at the Cannes Film Festival last year, he made his Hollywood debut in “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.” In the fall he will appear in the U.S.-France joint production “I Come With the Rain,” and [...]

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Korean Movies Goes Back in Time for Inspiration

Korean movie makers are digging into the past for inspiration.
The recent trend in the film industry is all about transforming historic facts and events into fictional stories.
Director Jeong Ji-woo tries to bring Seoul to life during the 1930s in his latest movie “Modern Boy”.
The filmmakers say they had a difficult time finding remnants of the [...]

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Korean Movies Invited to 2008 London Film Festival

Three Korean films, including the much-acclaimed “The Good, the Bad, the Weird” (directed by Kim Ji-woon), have been invited to the The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival (LFF) to be held in Britain from Oct. 15 to 30.
According to the list of films invited to this year’s festival released on the LFF Secretariat’s webpage, [...]

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East Meets West in The Good, The Bad, The Weird

The film that Korean’s will be lining up for this month has to be director’s Kim Jee-woon’s epic Western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird which stars Hallyuwood heartthrobs Jung Woo-sung (The Good) and Lee Byung-hun (The Bad) with the charismatic Song Kang-ho (The Weird).
The East Meets West film has already received a great [...]

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