Cha Seung-Won, Kim Sun-Ho, & Kim Kang-Woo are cast in movie “Tyrant” (literal title). The movie is written and directed by Park Hoon-Jung (“The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion“). The action-thriller film began filming on January 2, 2023. Release date for the movie has not yet been revealed.
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English subtitled trailer added for Netflix movie “Jung-E” starring Kim Hyun-Joo, Kang Soo-Yeon, & Ryoo Kyung-Soo. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where humans live in space stations. A war ensues between humans there and a legendary soldier (Kim Hyun-Joo) is cloned to android soldiers to end the war. Movie is written and directed by Yeon Sang-Ho (“Train To Busan“).
“Jung-E” will be available to stream from January 20, 2023.
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Main poster and February, 2023 release date set for movie “Next Sohee” starring Bae Doo-Na & Kim Si-Eun. The main poster features Bae Doo-Na as Detective Yoo-Jin. She appears to be looking for someone among people at a call center. The movie had its world premiere as the closing film for the Critics’ Week parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Caption on the movie poster quotes the Cannes Film Festival that stated “Shocking, but couldn’t take eyes off from the work.”
English subtitled teaser trailer added for Netflix distributed movie “Jung-E” starring Kim Hyun-Joo, Kang Soo-Yeon, & Ryoo Kyung-Soo. The release date is also set for January 20, 2023. Caption on the teaser poster states “Cronoid Company’s A.I. combat mercenary soldier Jung-E is going to be released soon.” The film is set in the future where climate change has caused the planet to become uninhabitable and humans live within man made shelters. An AI robot gets its brained cloned from legendary soldier Jung-E (Kim Hyun-Joo) to end a war that has erupted within the shelter.
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Filming for movie “Hwaran,” starring Song Joong-Ki and Hong Sa-Bin, finished December 12, 2022 in South Korea. Filming began September 13, 2022 and took a total of 3 months to complete. Actor Song Joong-Ki plays a mid-level crime boss in the movie and accepted the role without receiving pay. Song Joon-Ki stated after filming finished that “From the time I read the script, I was curious and looked forward to how the scenes would be depicted. I thought this was a work that had to be made into a movie and it was worth it. I am grateful to be able to participate in such a work.”
Release date for “Hwaran” has not yet been announced.
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Teaser trailer and posters added for upcoming movie “The Point Men” starring Hwang Jung-Min and Hyun-Bin. Movie is directed by Yim Soonrye (“Forever the Moment“). The teaser trailer begins with Hwang Jung-Min stating “I know that one of the primary missions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to protect its own citizens.”
“The Point Men” will be released January 18, 2023 in South Korea.
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Teaser posters and January 4, 2022 release date set for movie “Switch” starring Kwon Sang-Woo, Oh Jung-Se, & Lee Min-Jung. The two new teaser posters shows the drastic change that occurs in the film when Park Gang (Kwon Sang-Woo) and Jo Yoon (Oh Jung-Se) suddenly switch places. Park Gang goes from top star to manager and Jo Yoon goes from manager to top star.
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See list of winners & nominees at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards that just concluded this evening in Seoul, South Korea. The Park Chan-Wook directed film “Decision to Leave” was this evening’s big winner, taking home 6 awards including “Best Film,” “Best Director,” “Best Actor” for Park Hae-Il , and “Best Actress” for Tang Wei.
Teaser poster and release date set for movie “Gentleman” starring Ju Ji-Hoon, Park Sung-Woong, & Choi Sung-Eun. The film will be released December 28, 2022 via online video platform Wavve. The movie follows Ju jI-Hoon who plays Private Detective Ji Hyun-Soo. Through a series of circumstances, he finds himself the suspect of a kidnapping and then he impersonates a prosecutor to uncover the truth. Caption on the teaser poster asks “Do I need manners to catch a bad man?”
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Supporting cast members have been announced for upcoming movie “Harbin” starring Hyun-Bin and directed by Woo Min-Ho (“Inside Men“). Now cast for the film are Park Jung-Min, Jo Woo-Jin, Jeon Yeo-Bin, Yoo Jae-Myung, & Park Hoon. The film is set in the early 20th century, when Korea was under Japanese occupation. All the newly announced cast members will play real historical persons who were part of the independence movement. Park Jung-Min will play Woo Deok-Soon, Jo Woo-Jin will play Kim Sang-Hyun, Jeon Yeo-Bin will play Madam Gong, Yoo Jae-Myung will play Choi Jae-Hyeong, and Park Hoon will play Datsuo Mori.
Filming for the movie will start November 20, 2022 and will take place in South Korea, Latvia, and Mongolia. The traditional gosa ceremony (Buddhist ritual to bring about good fortune) that takes place prior to filming took place November 14, 2022.
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