New Face SIN Eun-su Co-stars in Family Drama
Korean stars
BAE Doo-na and
KIM Joo-hyuk began shooting a short film with IWAI Shunji, the renowned Japanese filmmaker behind
Love Letter (1995), on December 3rd. The family drama is being shot in Korea and in Korean and will feature the actors playing a couple.
BAE has split her year between shooting the successful local disaster thriller
Tunnel and the second season of the Netflix show
Sense8 from the Wachowskis, which brought its production all around the world. While a Christmas special is due out this month, the full new season of
Sense8 will drop on the online streaming platform in May next year.
KIM has had an equally busy year, after appearing a wide range of films. The first was the multi-strand romantic comedy
Like for Likes, which he followed with a role alongside
SON Ye-jin in the dark thriller
The Truth Beneath before appearing in the lead in
HONG Sang-soo’s latest arthouse production
Yourself and Yours. He will soon be seen in the Colonial Era mystery
The Tooth and the Nail, and the big-budget pan-Korean investigation action-comedy-thriller
Cooperation.
IWAI’s Love Letter was a sensational hit in Korea and several of his subsequent films are very highly regarded in the country, including April Story (1997) and Hana & Alice (2004).