South Korean director Hong Sang-soo on Thursday (Korean time) won the grand jury prize at this year's Berlin International Film Festival for his latest film, "The Novelist's Film." At the award ceremony streamed online, the director's 27th feature was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 72nd Berlin festival, which kicked off on Feb. 10 in-person. It is the third year in a row that a...

“My Chinese is not very good, so I don’t think I can create a good movie in Chinese. I also thought of setting it in North Korea, but realized that it is not a good idea because it is a romance film,” Jang said. He said that the actors would have had a hard time filming romantic scenes in North Korean accents. Also, it did not feel right to use North Korean leaders’ photos in a romance movie, J...

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The 20th Director’s Cut Awards announced on Tuesday that it will hold its special pre-event Director’s Chair online on Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m., before the award ceremony takes place on Feb. 24. Director’s Chair is a panel discussion event that had been held in person with five nominated Korean directors for the award. However, the event organizer, the Directors Guild of Korea, said that th...

“Instead of running away from the zombies, I wanted to face them head on. It would be amazing to fight against the undead with my fists and kicks,” the actor said. The actor made plain her wish to work in various genres and play diverse characters. “I definitely wish to work in the action genre. Sports-related projects or a martial arts-based character will be very exciting. From a police offic...

The series starred top Chinese actors Lu Han and Wu Lei and featured a story about two men endeavoring to become the best professional CrossFire players. Launched in 2007, CrossFire is the most popular FPS game in China, with an accumulated global revenue of 12.6 trillion won ($10.4 billion).

The late Kim Soon-ak had been testifying about her experience living as a wartime sex slave of the Japanese military, and also her life living as a housekeeper after Korea‘s liberation before she died in 2010. However, there were parts of her life that she had been reluctant to speak out in public about for quite some time. After the Japanese colonial period ended, she lived in prostitutes’ qua...

From short film “On my way Home” (2018), period drama “My Country: The New Age” (2019) and teen romance “School 2021” (2021) to horror film “Metamorphosis” (2019), Cho has been expanding her repertoire, but the actor finds there is still much room for improvement. “When I look back on the characters that I played in my previous work, they were all different, not sharing much similarities in genr...

Death on the Nile (US) Opened Feb. 9 Crime Directed by Kenneth Branagh While on a honeymoon cruise down the Nile River, enviably rich socialite Linnet Doyle (Gal Gadot) is found shot to death in her stateroom. Detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) looks into the case, but murders keep on happening, shocking and confusing everyone on the cruise. The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (Ko...

“Actors usually meet for the first time to read scripts together. But it was different for this movie,” Woohee said. Despite all the hard work by the director and the actors in the singing and dancing, the quality of the music performances is unlikely to impress K-pop fans used to high-quality performances on big-budget sets. One of the stars, Lee Ji-hoon could not be present at the press confe...

Korean actor Choi Min-sik is returning to the big screen for the first time in three years as a genius mathematician in “In Our Prime” directed by Park Dong-hoon. The historical drama “Forbidden Dream” which was released in 2019 was actor Choi’s most recent work. Director Park’s new film started shooting in March 2020 and was originally set to be released during the first quarter last year. How...

The spectacular zombie action and unique setting of a Korean high school aside, the actor thought that the sweet teen romance in an apocalyptic situation is another charm of “All of Us Are Dead.” “I was surprised to find out that many people were showing their love and support for different couples in our series. I think this is another factor that differentiates our series from other zombie pro...

The K-pop girl band member said she was excited about her film being presented to audiences worldwide. “I think it is meaningful that our film is Netflix Korea’s first original movie,” Seohyun said. “I am curious to find out how global audiences from 190 different countries, as well as Korean audiences, will receive our film.” The Netflix movie will be released Feb. 11.

“The origin of zombie virus was introduced in the series as an attempt to highlight the people who take responsibility and those who do not when an event, such as school violence, occurs. Though it is another zombie action thriller, I thought the series provides the viewers with a chance to think about what kind of people they are,” Lee said. The 12-part series has topped the Netflix’s streaming...

Praising ‘Squid Game’ actor Oh Young-soo, chief of organization running Golden Globes vows diversity efforts to support foreign media contents’ global presence