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- BURNING Takes Home Top Grand Bell Award
- The 55th Grand Bell (Daejong) Film Awards took place in Seoul on the evening of October 22, where LEE Chang-dong’s latest critically acclaimed work Burning, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, was handed the Best Film Prize. This year’s awards were very evenly spread out with...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 29, 2018
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- War Blockbuster Starring ZO In-sung, ANSI FORTRESS Finished Filming
- The upcoming war blockbuster Ansi Fortress, which stars ZO In-sung, finished filming and is now in post-production. “It began shooting on August 23rd last year and completed five-months of filming at the end of January.” its distributor NEW said. Ansi Fortress chronicles the Siege of Ansi, centering...
- by SONG Soon-jin / Feb 13, 2018
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- AOA’s Seol-hyun Enters ANSI CITY
- Actress Seol-hyun, a member of the Kpop group AOA, has signed on for a role in the upcoming period war film Ansi City alongside leading man ZO In-sung. The film is the latest work from My Dear Desperado (2010) and Tabloid Truth (2014) Director KIM Kwang-sik. Pop sensation Seol-hyun kicked off her ac...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 07, 2017
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- ASSASSINATION Tops Blue Dragon Awards
- Best Director for VETERAN’s RYOO Seung-wan The Blue Dragon Film Awards held their 36th edition on Thursday evening, handing out their Grand Prize to CHOI Dong-hoon’s Colonial Era action film Assassination while Lee Joon-ik’s Joseon Era drama The Throne came away with five prizes, the most of the ev...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 27, 2015
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- SUL Kyung-gu, KIM Nam-gil Board New Thriller
- WON Shin-yun to Helm A MURDERER’S GUIDE TO MEMORIZATION Stars SUL Kyung-gu and KIM Nam-gil are set to team up for the upcoming thriller A Murderer’s Guide to Memorization. Based on the novel of the same title (published in 2013) from popular author KIM Young-ha, the film will be the fifth feature o...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 01, 2015