Ode to My Father (or Gukje Market, 국제시장) really lives up to its English title, being a kind of summary of chunks of Korean history from the Korean War into the 1980...
Warning: This movie is rated T for Tissue. I'll be the first to admit that this movie about my father's generation sounded boring on paper, but I kept seeing headlines...
Kim Soo-hyun
Sniff, it will be a while longer before everyone's favorite alien professor returns to the small screen; Kim Soo-hyun has turned down the lead in Dr. Frankenstein, in...
Well you know I'm always a happy camper when there's no end in sight to Kang Dong-won’s steady stream of projects. He's had a pretty strong showing on...
I know, another red carpet event, which brings us to three in three days. This one, the Buil Film Awards, is actually in conjunction with the Busan International Film Festival,...
This is an interesting re-casting, given that I had just assumed the movie Himalaya was dead once its two leads, Kim Myung-min and Lee Min-ki, dropped the project last year...
Im Soon-rye (surname sometimes romanized Lim or Yim) is quite possibly the most prominent female director in Korean cinema. Since her critically acclaimed first film, Three Friends in 1996, she's directed...
Hwang Jung-min’s next project is just a week away from premiere, the movie When a Man Loves (no relation to the Song Seung-heon drama of the same name),...
Fall marks the start of awards season, and today we have the 34th Blue Dragon Film Awards, one of the major film industry ceremonies, along with the Grand Bell (Daejong)...
Yoo Ah-in (Jang Ok-jung, Live By Love) has a potential new movie in the works, and is in the "considering favorably" stage of the casting stage. The movie is titled...
Movie Review: Ode to My Father (2014)
by refresh_daemon
Ode to My Father (or Gukje Market, 국제시장) really lives up to its English title, being a kind of summary of chunks of Korean history from the Korean War into the 1980...
Tags: featured, Hwang Jung-min, Jang Young-nam, Jung Jin-young, Kim Yun-jin, Oh Dal-soo
Hwang Jung-min wrings tears as everyman in Gukje Market
by girlfriday
Warning: This movie is rated T for Tissue. I'll be the first to admit that this movie about my father's generation sounded boring on paper, but I kept seeing headlines...
Tags: Hwang Jung-min, Kim Yun-jin
News bites: December 6, 2014
by awcoconuts
Kim Soo-hyun Sniff, it will be a while longer before everyone's favorite alien professor returns to the small screen; Kim Soo-hyun has turned down the lead in Dr. Frankenstein, in...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Choi Kang-hee, Chun Jung-myung, Han Sang-jin, Hwang Jung-min, Jo Seung-woo, Kim Ok-bin, Kim So-hyun, Kim Soo-hyun, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Seung-gi, news bites, Ryu Seung-ryong, Three Meals a Day
Hwang Jung-min and Kang Dong-won team up in revenge thriller
by girlfriday
Well you know I'm always a happy camper when there's no end in sight to Kang Dong-won’s steady stream of projects. He's had a pretty strong showing on...
Tags: Hwang Jung-min, Kang Dong-won
2014 Buil Film Awards
by javabeans
I know, another red carpet event, which brings us to three in three days. This one, the Buil Film Awards, is actually in conjunction with the Busan International Film Festival,...
Tags: awards, Hwang Jung-min, Jang Young-nam, Jo Min-soo, Jo Yeo-jung, Jung Eun-chae, Ryu Hyun-kyung, Shim Eun-kyung, Song Kang-ho
Himalaya revived, now starring Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo
by javabeans
This is an interesting re-casting, given that I had just assumed the movie Himalaya was dead once its two leads, Kim Myung-min and Lee Min-ki, dropped the project last year...
Tags: Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo, Kim Myung-min
Movie Review: Waikiki Brothers (2001)
by refresh_daemon
Im Soon-rye (surname sometimes romanized Lim or Yim) is quite possibly the most prominent female director in Korean cinema. Since her critically acclaimed first film, Three Friends in 1996, she's directed...
Tags: featured, Hwang Jung-min, Ryu Seung-beom
Heartwarming awkward love (and tears) in When a Man Loves
by javabeans
Hwang Jung-min’s next project is just a week away from premiere, the movie When a Man Loves (no relation to the Song Seung-heon drama of the same name),...
Tags: Han Hye-jin, Hwang Jung-min
2013 Blue Dragon Film Awards
by javabeans
Fall marks the start of awards season, and today we have the 34th Blue Dragon Film Awards, one of the major film industry ceremonies, along with the Grand Bell (Daejong)...
Tags: Ahn Sung-ki, awards, Choi Jin-hyuk, Daniel Choi, Eom Ji-won, Go Ah-sung, Go Kyung-pyo, Gong Hyo-jin, Hwang Jung-min, Im Seul-ong, Im Soo-jung, Jang Young-nam, Jo Jin-woong, Jo Jung-seok, Joo Sang-wook, Jung Woo-sung, Kim Hye-soo, Kim Min-hee, Lee Byung-heon, Lee Hyun-woo (2), Lee Joon, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Yeon-hee, Moon Jung-hee, Nam Bora, Nam Ji-hyun, Park Bo-young, Ryu Seung-ryong, So Yi-hyun, Sol Kyung-gu, Song Kang-ho, Uhm Jung-hwa, Yeo Jin-gu
A lawbreaking bad guy role for Yoo Ah-in?
by javabeans
Yoo Ah-in (Jang Ok-jung, Live By Love) has a potential new movie in the works, and is in the "considering favorably" stage of the casting stage. The movie is titled...
Tags: Hwang Jung-min, Yoo Ah-in