Posts Tagged ‘Kim Hye-ja’

Chungmuro/Film
Mother wins Best Picture at Asian Film Awards
by | March 22, 2010 | 17 Comments
Director Bong Joon-ho‘s thriller Mother, starring Kim Hye-ja as a mother determined to clear her son (Won Bin) of murder charges, picked up three awards at the recent Asian Film Awards, among them Best Picture and Best Actress. Director Bong also won the award for Best Screenplay with co-writer Park Eun-kyo. The other Korean film... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Mother, Thirst take home Director’s Cut Awards
by | December 22, 2009 | 29 Comments
This year’s 12th Director’s Cut Awards were given out on December 21, and the top winners this year were Thirst, Park Chan-wook‘s stylish vampire-horror film starring Song Kang-ho as a vampire priest, as well as Bong Joon-ho‘s Mother, whose Kim Hye-ja is earning a number of accolades as the titular mother who goes all-out to... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Mother screens at AFI FEST in Los Angeles
by | September 17, 2009 | 11 Comments
Good news for Los Angeles fans of Won Bin (Taegukgi), Kim Hye-ja (Mom’s Dead Upset), and/or director Bong Joon-ho (The Host): Their latest film, the thriller Mother, is getting a screening at this year’s AFI FEST 2009 in Hollywood. The film has already been licensed for North American theater release, but that will not occur... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Mother will get a U.S. theatrical release
by | September 2, 2009 | 14 Comments
Looks like director Bong Joon-ho‘s most recent film, Cannes entry Mother (starring Won Bin and Kim Hye-ja), will be getting a theatrical release in the U.S. American film distributor Magnolia Pictures has bought the rights for a North American run, and announced on August 31 that the release will happen sometime in early 2010. Magnolia... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Mother opens big with a box-office record
by | May 28, 2009 | 14 Comments
Thriller film Mother has claimed the top spot for Korean movie openings this year, drawing in more than 220,000 attendees in its first day (May 28). This breaks the April 30 opening of Park Chan-wook’s vampire-horror film Thirst, which recently won a jury prize at Cannes, which drew in 178,000 people on opening day. It... More »


Celebrity News
Won Bin interviews about Mother, acting, and future goals
by | May 28, 2009 | 32 Comments
With Cannes over and the thriller movie Mother releasing this week, there’s been a lot of stuff in the news involving the film’s three main players: Won Bin, Kim Hye-ja, and director Bong Joon-ho. Aside from Won Bin’s status as one of the hotties of the first wave of Hallyu (initiated by his 2000 tearjerker... More »


Celebrity News
Won Bin in Bazaar and at Cannes
by | May 17, 2009 | 36 Comments
Won Bin is currently in France for the Cannes Film Festival, along with the cast and director of his latest film, the Bong Joon-ho-directed thriller Mother (see pics below); this coincides with his latest France-set photo shoot (with the Eiffel Tower in the background, natch) for the June issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Inside the magazine,... More »


Chungmuro/Film
“Mother”‘s mother-son pair at film press conference
by | April 26, 2009 | 38 Comments
Aww, how sweet. The majority of photos coming out of the April 27 press conference for the film Mother [마도] are focused on Won Bin — but you can’t really blame the press, because it has been so freaking long since he has been in the spotlight, and fans have been waiting for years for... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Won Bin makes his comeback next month
by | April 12, 2009 | 48 Comments
Are you eager to see Won Bin‘s return project (finally!), Mother [마더]? The film, directed by The Host‘s Bong Joon-ho, has announced its official release date: May 28. The film co-stars the wonderful Kim Hye-ja (Mom’s Dead Upset) in the role of the titular mother, who fights to save her 28-year-old mentally challenged son when... More »


Celebrity News
Baeksang Award nominees announced
by | January 23, 2009 | 68 Comments
Lee Min-ho and Kim Bum of “Boys Before Flowers” Wow, that’s kind of fast — only three weeks into the drama and already a Baeksang nomination. Both Kim Bum and Lee Min-ho of KBS’s Boys Before Flowers are up for the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards in the same category (new actor). (Kim Bum’s nomination, however,... More »