Kim Nam-gil courted for new melodrama from director Lee Yoon-ki
by girlfriday
Kim Nam-gil (The Shameless, Shark) sure is lining up the projects lately; it’s hard to keep track of all of his upcoming movies, but it’s nice to know that there’ll always be another one around the bend. He’s currently considering an offer to headline the newest film from director Lee Yoon-ki, of the thoughtful arthouse films My Dear Enemy, Come Rain, Come Shine, and Ad-lib Night, among others. His new project is called My Angel, and tells the story of a man who meets a woman in a vegetative state. How do you have a love story between a man and a woman in a… You know what, I don’t want to ask.
Kim Nam-gil is being courted to play an insurance investigator who witnessed his own wife’s suicide. Gack, that’s horrifying. He then meets a woman in a vegetative state, and the film is about their unconventional love story. It sounds bizarre, but the thing is, Lee Yoon-ki’s films are unconventional anyway, so maybe in practice it’ll make some kind of sense?
The director is known for his contemplative films about men and women’s relationships, often told in condensed time (a few hours, a day). He’s worked with top-notch actors like Ha Jung-woo, Jeon Do-yeon, Hyun Bin, Im Soo-jung, Gong Yoo, and gives them complex and opaque characters thrown into strained situations (things like awkward breakups, or exes demanding loan repayment — it sounds crazy, but Ha Jung-woo and Jeon Do-yeon make it awesome).
Kim Nam-gil is considering for now, and meanwhile he’s in the sageuk Sound of a Flower currently in theaters, and the upcoming disaster film Pandora and the thriller Murderer’s Guide to Memory. Director Lee Yoon-ki’s A Man and a Woman with Gong Yoo and Jeon Do-yeon is due out in theaters soon.
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1 pogo - now sailing HMS Queen of Tears with Corn Salad on deck🍉
December 6, 2015 at 12:20 PM
a love story between a man and a woman in a vegetative state? Is this going to be done via some kind of mind/dream linkup, because I can't imagine it working any other way.....
anyway, I hope it turns out interesting. Better than Sound of a Flop anyway (and no, that wasn't a typo, it really was a massive flop).
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Peridot
December 6, 2015 at 12:34 PM
Sounds like another version of Snow White ;).
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pogo - now sailing HMS Queen of Tears with Corn Salad on deck🍉
December 6, 2015 at 1:40 PM
well, at least Snow White woke up as soon as he kissed her so they got to be awake for the rest of the relationship ;)
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Peridot
December 7, 2015 at 6:45 AM
LOL! In a few of the older versions of the tale, the Prince declares the maiden to be his wife long before she is awakened from the magic that holds her in a vegetative/sleep state.
Folk-tale precedents aside, I think your suggestion of the dream connection sounds interesting. I still don't know if I'll check this film out when it becomes available.
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2 myra
December 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM
I'd like to see him in a romantic comedy, I think he did a lot of tragic roles, too many perhaps
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pogo - now sailing HMS Queen of Tears with Corn Salad on deck🍉
December 6, 2015 at 1:42 PM
try the Pirates, it's the closest thing to romcom he's done in years.
He has great chemistry with Sohn Ye-jin and looks exactly like Captain Jack Sparrow in Joseon, so it's worth a shot!
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3 Annie
December 6, 2015 at 2:02 PM
Lee Jin Wook is ok but he would have been my ideal choice opposite Moon Chae Won for Mr. Black.
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pogo - now sailing HMS Queen of Tears with Corn Salad on deck🍉
December 6, 2015 at 3:28 PM
My ideal for Mr Black would have been a Park Hae-jin/Moon Chae-won pairing, though I didn't even think of it until after jb/gf mentioned them in a podcast.
Kim Nam-gil at this stage is basically the go-to guy for revenge melos but I don't think I can take him dying yet again.
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4 Vivi chang
December 6, 2015 at 4:12 PM
PDnim & writernim,please dont let KNG dies....for once.wink...wink
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5 Lill
December 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM
I just discovered him in Queen Seon Deok and marathoned Shark because of him. Come back to dramaland soon, oppaaaaaa~
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6 korfan
December 6, 2015 at 10:37 PM
Kim Nam-gil .... always an interesting actor.
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7 Fitri Iphiet
December 7, 2015 at 12:16 AM
JUST DONT LET HIM DIE PD-NIM! :D
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8 Daisy
December 7, 2015 at 1:12 AM
Again?i want to watch him on comedy.his smile is very cute and charming.and he will play melodrama again.i hope he isnt die ending like others.
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9 gaeinalee
December 7, 2015 at 2:38 AM
KNG, melodrama... is he going to stay alive at the end??? @_@
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10 knewbie
December 7, 2015 at 4:50 AM
Sounds like Almodovar's Talk To Her. But that story does NOT end well...
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11 Beverly A
December 7, 2015 at 1:58 PM
Bidam in the Great Queen Seondeok.. To freakin' die for.
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12 Kiara
December 7, 2015 at 2:40 PM
Kind of sad that his one hit drama that he was known for has been 6 yrs ago.
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13 Jam
December 7, 2015 at 3:32 PM
Yay! I love KNG. Such a diverse actor. I also loveeeee his voice *_*
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14 NiaIpeh
December 8, 2015 at 1:59 AM
Just make him die again in the end.
Legendary....
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Kiara
December 8, 2015 at 5:22 AM
The legendary prince of death.
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15 moi
December 8, 2015 at 11:52 PM
Sounds like a sad story again..he may die again..I already have a trauma for watching KNH,being dead in the end..jeeezz..and I have watched Come Rain,Come Shine,and all I can say,is, it`s deaaaaadddd boring....so not getting my hopes high.....
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