Posts Tagged ‘Hwang Jung-min’
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Uhm Jung-hwa hits it big with Dancing Queen
Here’s a look at the first big movie hit of the new year, the feel-good comedy Dancing Queen, starring Hwang Jung-min as a Seoul mayoral candidate and Uhm Jung-hwa as his wife who still hasn’t given up her dream to become a singer, well into her ajumma years. How cute. I love that they turned... More »
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Noir thriller A New World courts megastar trio
Choi Min-shik (Oldboy) Hwang Jung-min (The Unjust) AND Lee Jung-jae (The Housemaid) in one movie? I always thought that if you put that many stars together, a movie would spontaneously combust. But apparently, this is the reigning trend in Chungmuro — put ‘em all together, whether lawyers, thieves, or spies. The trio of A-listers are... More »
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Hwang Jung-min and Kim Jung-eun to star in Peninsula
Well it looks like this project is finally getting off the ground, after more than a year of stalled casting rumors. With everyone from Jang Dong-gun and Ha Ji-won to Park Shin-yang and Han Ga-in attached to the project at one time or another, upcoming cable blockbuster drama Korean Peninsula is back on, with leads... More »
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Han Ga-in and Hwang Jung-min to return to dramaland?
Rumor has it that Han Ga-in (Bad Guy) and Hwang Jung-min (Accidental Couple / That Fool) might be returning to dramaland together, in the mega-million blockbuster cable drama Korean Peninsula, a cable drama from CSTV (owned by Joseon Ilbo, a news network). Nothing’s been confirmed on either side, but it’s a good sign that the... More »
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Trailer and stills for conspiracy thriller Moby Dick
It’s a movie I had been waiting for… for almost a full year. I’ll probably have to wait that long till it hits us stateside, but conspiracy thriller Moby Dick has been out in theaters in Korea, and I sort of let it slip by me, with so many summer dramas on my plate. But... More »
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Uhm Jung-hwa turns Dancing Queen for the big screen
Sometimes movie descriptions are woefully bland and don’t do the project justice, and sometimes they’re delightfully vivid from the first sentence. It’s the latter case for Dancing Queen, the new movie starring pop queen Uhm Jung-hwa and Hwang Jung-min: The wife of a candidate for Seoul mayor becomes a dance singer without her husband’s knowledge,... More »
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Nine Korean films at Berlin film festival
Korea’s making a big showing at the Berlin Film Festival, with nine films headed abroad, in competition for jury prizes. A few are films we’ve talked about for a while, like Late Autumn, while a good number of them are experimental films or shorts that are more artistically adventurous. Can’t wait to get my hands... More »
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Kim Min-hee in Moby Dick
Kim Min-hee (Love and Marriage, Goodbye Solo, Actresses) is slated to return to film in a production of…Moby Dick? What the…? Are people just running out of ideas? It turns out that Moby Dick is just a figurative title for an action-thriller involving an explosion, and the journalists who try to uncover the truth, going... More »
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From the manhwa page to the big screen
I know I just posted about this movie, but I dig stuff like this. With the buzz growing for the film Like the Moon Escaping From Clouds, now attention is turning toward the original manhwa upon which the movie is based, which was written and illustrated by Park Hong-yong. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the... More »
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April Movie Releases
(waterleaf has compiled a list of films releasing this month, the trailers for which you can watch below. Enjoy the sneak preview. –javabeans) “폭풍전야” (Stormy Night aka Lovers Vanished) This is a story about a man (Kim Nam Gil), who after being betrayed by love is falsely accused and put in prison. He escapes with... More »
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