Posts Tagged ‘Kim Myung-min’

Drama Casting & News
A Gentleman’s Dignity inches closer to securing its cast
by | December 14, 2011 | 16 Comments
A whole lotta names are being bandied about for A Gentleman’s Dignity, the new drama set to come from the Secret Garden and Lovers in Paris scriptwriter (hence the heightened buzz). Jang Dong-gun (Good Morning President) and Lee Na-young (Runaway Plan B) were both previously in contention, and their names have resurface as leading candidates... More »


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Kim Myung-min wraps marathon movie, chooses disaster next
by | September 4, 2011 | 18 Comments
Kim Myung-min has done melodrama, thriller, sageuk, comedy, sageuk comedy, action, mystery — so now it’s time to take on the disaster genre. He has wrapped filming on his latest movie, Pace Maker, and signed on to star in a movie that I dearly hope adopts a cooler English-language title than its literal translation of... More »


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Kim Myung-min races in Pace Maker
by | May 8, 2011 | 41 Comments
The Method man strikes again: Kim Myung-min takes on the role of an elite-level runner for his new movie Pace Maker, and it looks like he’s dropped yet more weight to do it. Eep! I’d thought he’d lost all the weight he could afford to lose (and then some) for his movie My Love By... More »


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Kim Myung-min starts filming Pace Maker
by | April 16, 2011 | 20 Comments
It’s nice to see Kim Myung-min lightening up again, considering how intense and emotionally draining his projects have been in recent years. (For instance, he played a minister who loses his faith in God when his daughter is kidnapped in The Demolished Man, and pushed his body to the limit while playing a dying man... More »


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Go Ara romances… Kim Myung-min?!?
by | February 23, 2011 | 82 Comments
Go Ara has been cast as the female lead in a movie, which I was generally pleased to hear…until I saw who her co-stars are: Kim Myung-min and Ahn Sung-ki. Eeeeee. Oh man, is she gonna be crushed. It’s not that she’s a bad actress (although, erm, she kind of is — she’s gorgeous and... More »


Celebrity News
Kim Myung-min and Han Ji-min pair up for Allure
by | January 20, 2011 | 26 Comments
Kim Myung-min and Han Ji-min have a new movie about to hit theaters — the sageuk mystery with a comedic bent, Joseon’s Great Detective — and are featured looking rather cool and sexy together in this photo shoot for Allure Korea magazine, which also features an interview with the duo. I love Kim Myung-min in... More »


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Image transformations abound in Joseon’s Great Detective
by | December 25, 2010 | 21 Comments
More stills are out for Kim Myung-min and Han Ji-min‘s upcoming comedy-mystery sageuk movie Joseon’s Great Detective: Secret of the Wolfsbane, and they convey much of the quirky humor of the previously released movie trailer. In the movie (which is based on a novel), Kim Myung-min plays a sharp detective who ferrets out corrupt officials... More »


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Trailer for comedic period mystery Joseon’s Great Detective
by | December 10, 2010 | 46 Comments
The character posters and trailer are out for Joseon’s Great Detective: Secret of the Wolfsbane, which looks like it could be a hoot. The film is highly stylized and peppered with action and comedy, which has me sitting up in interest — plus, it stars A-list leading man Kim Myung-min (Beethoven Virus, My Love By... More »


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Kim Myung-min plays Joseon’s Great (mustachioed) Detective
by | December 1, 2010 | 33 Comments
The first poster is out for Kim Myung-min‘s upcoming mystery historical movie, which has undergone a slight title change to Joseon’s Great Detective: Secret of the Wolfsbane. And while I’m not a fan of the mustache on my leading men — or its tawdry cousin, the pornstache — you’ve gotta give them credit for going... More »


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Han Ji-min joins Kim Myung-min in mystery film
by | September 9, 2010 | 13 Comments
Actress Han Ji-min (Cain and Abel) has been chosen as the co-star to Kim Myung-min in the upcoming movie Joseon Detective Jung Yak-yong. Kim’s involvement was announced earlier this summer, and he’ll take the titular detective role. The period mystery film is based on a novel (Secret of the Gate of Virtue), and tells the... More »