Winners of the 2020 Daejong Film Awards

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See list of winners and nominees at the just concluded 2020 Daejong Film Awards at AsianWiki. This year’s award ceremony was originally scheduled to air Febraury 25, 2020, but the Covid-19 caused the postponement to June 3, 2020. Not surprisingly, Bong Joon-Ho‘s “Parasite” was the night’s biggest winner with a total of 5 awards including… Read more »

Visual and short trailer for movie “Mother”

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Visual and short trailer added for movie “Mother” starring Masami Nagasawa and Daiken Okudaira. Movie is directed by Tatsushi Omori (“Tada’s Do-It-All House“). The short trailer features the classical piano piece Liebesträume by Franz Liszt. Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually… Read more »

First still images of Jang Seung-Jo & teaser #1 for JTBC drama series “Model Detective”

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First still images of Jang Seung-Jo and teaser trailer #1 added for JTBC drama series “Model Detective” (literal title) co-starring Son Hyun-Joo. In the drama series, Jang Seung-Jo plays Oh Ji-Hyeok. He is an elite detective and also wealthy, due to an inheritance. Because of his financial position, he is not swayed by money or… Read more »

Lee Seung-Gi cast in tvN drama series “Mouse”

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Lee Seung-Gi is cast for one of the 2 lead roles in tvN drama series “Mouse.” Choi Jin-Hyuk has already received an offer for the other lead role and he is still considering the offer. The drama series is scripted by Choi Ran (“Black“) and asks the question if people are able to determine if a… Read more »

Haru cast in movie “Hotel Royal”

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Haru is cast in movie “Hotel Royal.” The film is based on 2013 novel “Hotel Royal” by Shino Sakuragi. The novel won the 149th Naoki Prize. Masaharu Take (“100 Yen Love“) will direct the film. Story for the film will be set at a hotel in Hokkaido. Haru will play Masayo Tanaka. Her family owns the… Read more »

Mugi Kadowaki & Kiko Mizuhara cast in movie “Tokyo Noble Girl”

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Mugi Kadowaki and Kiko Mizuhara are cast in movie “Tokyo Noble Girl.” The film is based on 2016 novel  “Ano Ko wa Kizoku” by Mariko Yamauchi (“Japanese Girls Never Die“) and directed by Yukiko Sode (“Good Stripes“). The film revolves around two women who live completely different lives and their self-reliance. “Tokyo Noble Girl” will be released sometime next… Read more »

Teaser poster & ep.1 air date set for MBC drama series “United Effort to Accomplish One Thing”

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Early teaser poster and ep.1 air date set for MBC drama series “United Effort to Accomplish One Thing” (literal title) starring Kim Hye-Jun, Oh Na-Ra, and Han Soo-Hyun. Caption on the teaser poster states in Korean “All together in this (curse word) house.” The genre of the drama series black-comedy and mystery. A fierce battle… Read more »