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Did the Blue Dragon Awards sneak up on us this year or what?

As one of the largest year-end awards shows, the Blue Dragon always tends to draw out a good number of A-listers, and we saw plenty of them out on the red carpet on November 20 and posing pretty for photos.

One big winner of the night was the “kimchi Western” The Good, The Bad, The Weird, as was the thriller The Chaser and even the sports movie Forever the Moment, from way back in January.

But, as with any awards show, sometimes the fun is less about the actual awards and more about parsing all the red carpet looks.

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After earning lots of accolades for her last movie, the Vietnam War film You’re Far Away [님은 먼 곳에], 28-year-old Su Ae is taking on a cop role for her next project.

The movie is The Miracle [기적] and will be directed by Han Hyun-seok (his previous work includes short film The Law of Reaction), and while Su Ae is cast in the lead role, the film is taking an omnibus format.

Su Ae’s character becomes a police officer because of her mother, who has searched all her life for her twin sister who was lost at a long age. Because of her sister’s loss, Su Ae has never been able to receive the full love of her mother, who hasn’t given up hope of finding the missing girl. The story intertwines with a fearless gangster who discovers he has cancer and suddenly wonders at the meaning of life, and a doctor who works tirelessly to revive his wife out of her vegetative state but neglects his daughter.

The omnibus film has become rather commonplace, but I think it’s an interesting format if done well (Amores Perros, anyone?) rather than merely slapped together to maximize star potential (as much as I enjoyed it, I found Love Actually somewhat pointless for this reason). Hopefully Su Ae will be able to keep up her upward trajectory and build from the critical success of her last film.

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The 28th Critics Choice Awards, presented by the Association of Korean Film Critics, awarded its top honors on November 5. The film A Movie Is a Movie (or Rough Cut), starring So Ji-sub and Kang Ji-hwan (above), was the big winner of the night, pulling in three awards total, two for its lead actors and one for its director.

Su Ae also added to her stash of awards for the Vietnam War-period film You’re Far Away, while Kim Ki-duk’s latest film Dream (Bimong) was also honored.

We can expect more awards ceremonies to come in the coming months, with each drama station putting on its respective ceremonies as well as the Blue Dragon Awards, among others.

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On October 4, the Premiere Magazine-sponsored “Rising Star” awards ceremony was held at the Pusan International Film Festival to name its, well, rising stars.

Ha Jung-woo and Su Ae won for their performances in their recent films (thriller The Chaser and period war piece You’re Far Away, respectively). Ha said, “I’d like to become an actor who can always give his audience an entertaining movie.”

Jung Ryeo-won and Jung Kyung-ho, on the other hand, won for best new actors (My Girlfriend Has Two Faces and You’re Far Away). Seven Days director Won Shin-yeon took the directing award.

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Su Ae displays her sexier side in a newly released still from her upcoming period film, director Lee Joon-ik’s You’re Far Away.

In the 1971-set film, Su Ae’s character transforms from an ordinary woman living in the countryside to a sexy wartime singer in order to find her husband, who’s fighting in the Vietnam War. You’re Far Away is planned for a July release.

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