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- Audience Decreasing, But Varied Platforms
- Box Office Report in the First Quarter of 2010-2011 The Korean film industry has undergone an overall recession and depression due to the decreasing number of audience last year. Especially, if compared to the growth of Japan and China film industries in 2010, the recession of the Korean film indust...
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by LEE Hyung-seok /
May 09, 2011
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- Myung Film Makes Challenge for Animated Films
- LEAFIE: A HEN INTO THE WILD (2011) Director: OH Seong-yoon Leafie is a hen, laying eggs every day. But it has never got the chance to care for the eggs it laid. Little by little Leafie starts to long for the yard seen through the doors of chicken farm building and soon dreams of going out into the ...
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May 09, 2011
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- Pan-Asian Collaboration to Recreate the Normandy Landings
- MY WAY (2011) Director KANG Je-kyu After his blockbuster hit <Taegukgi> (2004), Director KANG Je-kyu secluded himself from the outside world with high hopes to make a film in Hollywood. There were rumors that he was making a sci-fi project, and word also went round that he had teamed up with ...
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by HUH Nam-woong /
May 09, 2011
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- Defend the Land, but War is an Empty Dream
- THE FRONT LINE (2011) Director: JANG Hoon By BAIK Seung Chan 2010 was the 60th Anniversary of start of the Korean War, and numerous war films were planned to commemorate the event. However as it is with war films, tremendous funding was needed and only a few were actually materialized into films. Fo...
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by BAIK Seung Chan /
May 09, 2011
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- In Front Of The House (Korean Films at Cannes 2011)
- International Critics’ Week - Short Directed byLEE Tae-ho The film starts off like any other romantic movie about two inseparable love birds in their twenties. Hyung-joo puts together a home-made lunchbox for his girlfriend Yeon-hee. Before closing the lid, he completes the lunchbox by drawing a h...
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by LEE Hwa-jung /
May 06, 2011
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- Finis Operis (Korean Films at Cannes 2011)
- Cinéfondation Directed byMOON Byung-gon "If you are willing to survive, you will die. But if you're willing to die, you will survive." As captured in this Korean saying spoken by Admiral Yi in the 16th century, life and death may not be destined to be a matter of personal will. MOON cap...
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by LEE Hwa-jung /
May 06, 2011
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- Fly by Night (Korean Films at Cannes 2011)
- SON Tae-gyum questions the true meaning of sexual identity through the eyes of a young boy experiencing a difficult adolescence.
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by LEE Hwa-jung /
May 06, 2011
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- Ghost (Korean Films at Cannes 2011)
- Dahci Ma (aka LEE Jung-jin)’s <Ghost> talks about slums that are about to be re-developed where a rape murder case occurs, featuring grotesque looks, mixing up foreign factors that refuse to be put together.
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by JANG Byung-won /
May 06, 2011
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- ARIRANG (Korean Films at Cannes 2011)
- Director KIM Ki-duk returns with his first documentary <ARIRANG> after his latest feature <Dream>(2008). Through <Arirang> he can understand human beings, be thankful of nature, and acknowledge his life as it is now.
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by KIM Ki-duk /
May 06, 2011
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- The Yellow Sea (Korean Films at Cannes 2011)
- Director NA Hong-jin’s second feature <The Yellow Sea> seems to complete a trend and flow of thriller genre films in the industry at peak done by NA Hong-jin himself, who started the trend since his previous film <The Chaser>.
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by JU Sung-chul /
May 06, 2011
