Actor In Focus
Recently, confirmed to star in Park Chan-wook’s new film “The Ax,” Korea’s Son Ye-jin is set as the subject of the Bucheon International Fantastic Festival (BiFan)’s annual actor focus. Previous honorees include Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Kim Hye-soo, Seol Kyung-gu, and Choi Min-sik.
Son who was the star of breakout TV series “Crash Landing on You,” has wide-ranging credits that include “A Moment to Remember,” “The Art Of Seduction” in 2005; an eccentric woman married to two husbands in “My Wife Got Married” in 2008; and as a spirited pirate in “The Pirates” and the 2016 hit “The Last Princess.”
These have earned her more than 50 awards including the Prime Minister’s Commendation, three Grand Bell Awards, six Baeksang Arts Awards, five Blue Dragon Film Awards, and two Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. She was also named best actress at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for her performance in 2005’s “April Snow.
Recently, confirmed to star in Park Chan-wook’s new film “The Ax,” Korea’s Son Ye-jin is set as the subject of the Bucheon International Fantastic Festival (BiFan)’s annual actor focus. Previous honorees include Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Kim Hye-soo, Seol Kyung-gu, and Choi Min-sik.
Son who was the star of breakout TV series “Crash Landing on You,” has wide-ranging credits that include “A Moment to Remember,” “The Art Of Seduction” in 2005; an eccentric woman married to two husbands in “My Wife Got Married” in 2008; and as a spirited pirate in “The Pirates” and the 2016 hit “The Last Princess.”
These have earned her more than 50 awards including the Prime Minister’s Commendation, three Grand Bell Awards, six Baeksang Arts Awards, five Blue Dragon Film Awards, and two Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. She was also named best actress at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for her performance in 2005’s “April Snow.
- 5/21/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
“April Snow” is a Korean romantic drama which gained critical recognition worldwide, as it was nominated for the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, and for the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The movie grossed approximately $2.5 million in South Korea, and was a box office success in China, Japan, and the Philippines.
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The narrative revolves around the relationship between two characters. In-su (Bae Yong-jun) and Seo-young (Son Ye-jin) encounter each other in a hospital following a car accident involving their spouses, who were both in the same vehicle. Gradually, it becomes apparent that they were having an affair. The main characters reside in the same hotel close to the hospital to attend to their unconscious spouses. At first, they seem to avoid each other, but after a while they start to bond over their shared sorrow,...
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The narrative revolves around the relationship between two characters. In-su (Bae Yong-jun) and Seo-young (Son Ye-jin) encounter each other in a hospital following a car accident involving their spouses, who were both in the same vehicle. Gradually, it becomes apparent that they were having an affair. The main characters reside in the same hotel close to the hospital to attend to their unconscious spouses. At first, they seem to avoid each other, but after a while they start to bond over their shared sorrow,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Tobiasz Dunin
- AsianMoviePulse
Despite the ongoing SAG-AFTRA actors and WGA writers strikes, the Toronto Film Festival continues to turn up the star wattage for its 48th edition, adding movies with Dakota Johnson, Bérénice Bejo, Awkwafina, Sandra Oh and Mads Mikkelsen to its lineup on Thursday.
For the Gala section, TIFF unveiled the A-list heavy crime drama Finestkind from Brian Helgeland, the Oscar-winning writer-director behind Mystic River and L.A. Confidential; and A Knight’s Tale, which stars Ben Foster, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones and Toby Wallace.
Also headed to Roy Thomson Hall is the South Korean drama A Normal Family, directed by Hur Jin-ho, the Korean auteur who in the past premiered Dangerous Liaisons and April Snow in Toronto. TIFF earlier tapped fellow Korean director Ryoo Seung-wan’s Smugglers for its Special Presentations sidebar, and has now bumped that drama up to a gala screening in Toronto after a world bow in Locarno.
For the Gala section, TIFF unveiled the A-list heavy crime drama Finestkind from Brian Helgeland, the Oscar-winning writer-director behind Mystic River and L.A. Confidential; and A Knight’s Tale, which stars Ben Foster, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones and Toby Wallace.
Also headed to Roy Thomson Hall is the South Korean drama A Normal Family, directed by Hur Jin-ho, the Korean auteur who in the past premiered Dangerous Liaisons and April Snow in Toronto. TIFF earlier tapped fellow Korean director Ryoo Seung-wan’s Smugglers for its Special Presentations sidebar, and has now bumped that drama up to a gala screening in Toronto after a world bow in Locarno.
- 8/10/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hur Jin-Ho’s intense family drama is an adaptation of Herman Koch’s ‘The Dinner’.
South Korean sales firm Finecut has closed key distribution deals for Hur Jin-ho’s A Normal Family, which is set to receive its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
The family drama has been sold to key territories including France and French-speaking Switzerland (Diaphana Distribution), Vietnam (Lumix Media) and worldwide Inflight excluding South Korea and Taiwan (Encore Inflight), just based on the screening of a promo reel.
The film will debut in the Special Presentations section of TIFF and is an adaptation of Dutch...
South Korean sales firm Finecut has closed key distribution deals for Hur Jin-ho’s A Normal Family, which is set to receive its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
The family drama has been sold to key territories including France and French-speaking Switzerland (Diaphana Distribution), Vietnam (Lumix Media) and worldwide Inflight excluding South Korea and Taiwan (Encore Inflight), just based on the screening of a promo reel.
The film will debut in the Special Presentations section of TIFF and is an adaptation of Dutch...
- 7/25/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
South Korean drama A Normal Family, directed by Hur Jin-ho, has inked a raft of international distribution deals ahead of its upcoming world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Based on just a showreel, leading Korean sales outfit Finecut has sold the film to key territories including France and French-speaking Switzerland (Diaphana Distribution), Vietnam (Lumix Media Co.) and worldwide inflight, excluding South Korea and Taiwan (Encore Inflight Limited).
A Normal Family marks the third time that Hur, one of Korea’s leading auteurs, will premiere a film in Toronto, following Dangerous Liaisons (2012) and April Snow (2005). A Normal Family is an adaptation of Herman Koch’s best-selling Dutch novel, The Dinner, which has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese.
A Normal Family follows the intense dilemma of two families facing a crime committed by their children, leading to a shocking and ironic ending. Sul Kyung-gu (seen recently...
Based on just a showreel, leading Korean sales outfit Finecut has sold the film to key territories including France and French-speaking Switzerland (Diaphana Distribution), Vietnam (Lumix Media Co.) and worldwide inflight, excluding South Korea and Taiwan (Encore Inflight Limited).
A Normal Family marks the third time that Hur, one of Korea’s leading auteurs, will premiere a film in Toronto, following Dangerous Liaisons (2012) and April Snow (2005). A Normal Family is an adaptation of Herman Koch’s best-selling Dutch novel, The Dinner, which has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese.
A Normal Family follows the intense dilemma of two families facing a crime committed by their children, leading to a shocking and ironic ending. Sul Kyung-gu (seen recently...
- 7/25/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producer and broadcaster Jtbc has such a strong track record of making attractive and successful Korean TV drama series from tales of everyday lives that almost everything it does is likely to attract attention. Adding the presence of Son Ye-jin, star of Studio Dragon and Netflix hit “Crash Landing on You,” makes “Thirty-Nine” potentially one of the hottest Korean series of 2022.
The title is a reference to the age of three female friends who are only just the right side of forty. The 12-part romantic drama depicts them juggling life, work and relationships as they approach mid-life.
Son, who had the starring role in early 2000s blockbuster films “The Classic” and “April Snow” but in recent years has focused more on TV, plays the head of a dermatology clinic in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district. She is joined by co-stars Jeon Mi Do (tvN’s “Hospital Playlist”) as a drama...
The title is a reference to the age of three female friends who are only just the right side of forty. The 12-part romantic drama depicts them juggling life, work and relationships as they approach mid-life.
Son, who had the starring role in early 2000s blockbuster films “The Classic” and “April Snow” but in recent years has focused more on TV, plays the head of a dermatology clinic in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district. She is joined by co-stars Jeon Mi Do (tvN’s “Hospital Playlist”) as a drama...
- 8/26/2021
- by Rebecca Souw
- Variety Film + TV
Terracotta Distribution launches the UK’s first Video On Demand (VOD) platform dedicated to East Asian cinema. The new streaming service will showcase a range of new and classic genre, arthouse and indie films from across East and South East Asia. The launch is being marked with a time-limited retrospective of highlights from the celebrated Terracotta Far East Film Festival, which was set up alongside the label.
Films are available on the platform to rent now, with plans to explore subscription and hybrid models in the near future. Terracotta Managing Director, Joey Leung, says:
“We are so happy to have a streaming site purely for Asian film and really pleased with the mix of classics, emerging directors and new releases we’ve put together. We’re really excited to have the Festival Retrospective too, and we hope festival goers will love re-visiting some of their favourite films from past editions.
Films are available on the platform to rent now, with plans to explore subscription and hybrid models in the near future. Terracotta Managing Director, Joey Leung, says:
“We are so happy to have a streaming site purely for Asian film and really pleased with the mix of classics, emerging directors and new releases we’ve put together. We’re really excited to have the Festival Retrospective too, and we hope festival goers will love re-visiting some of their favourite films from past editions.
- 11/30/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Terracotta Distribution launches the UK’s first Video On Demand (VOD) platform dedicated to East Asian cinema. The new streaming service will showcase a range of new and classic genre, arthouse and indie films from across East and South East Asia. The launch is being marked with a time-limited retrospective of highlights from the celebrated Terracotta Far East Film Festival, which was set up alongside the label.
Films are available on the platform to rent now, with plans to explore subscription and hybrid models in the near future. Terracotta Managing Director, Joey Leung, says:
We are so happy to have a streaming site purely for Asian film and really pleased with the mix of classics, emerging directors and new releases we’ve put together. We’re really excited to have the Festival Retrospective too, and we hope festival goers will love re-visiting some of their favourite films from past editions.
Films are available on the platform to rent now, with plans to explore subscription and hybrid models in the near future. Terracotta Managing Director, Joey Leung, says:
We are so happy to have a streaming site purely for Asian film and really pleased with the mix of classics, emerging directors and new releases we’ve put together. We’re really excited to have the Festival Retrospective too, and we hope festival goers will love re-visiting some of their favourite films from past editions.
- 11/27/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
From now until the end of Monday, find some classics of Asian films to re-watch and own, or take the plunge and grab some films you’d like to try out at an affordable price.
Also, if you leave a film review on the store, you have the chance of winning a free blu ray or DVD of your choice. Each month one review will be picked and the reviewer gets a complimentary film of their choice.
Additionally, you can tag Terracotta on social media if you are happy with your purchases.
If you’re in the UK, Terracotta has added some more new films to their streaming site, including classic Korean films from the New Wave era: April Snow, Christmas in August and Il Mare – hard to believe that these great films are only just available now for the first time in the UK.
This weekend, there is an...
Also, if you leave a film review on the store, you have the chance of winning a free blu ray or DVD of your choice. Each month one review will be picked and the reviewer gets a complimentary film of their choice.
Additionally, you can tag Terracotta on social media if you are happy with your purchases.
If you’re in the UK, Terracotta has added some more new films to their streaming site, including classic Korean films from the New Wave era: April Snow, Christmas in August and Il Mare – hard to believe that these great films are only just available now for the first time in the UK.
This weekend, there is an...
- 11/27/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Son Ye-jin recalls being shy and timid when she was in school. As a young girl, she was always apprehensive when the new school year starts. She has come a long ways since her 2000 debut. Now, she is known for her romantic roles in many hit movies and dramas. Her most notable performances include her roles in “April Snow” and “The Classic”.
Today, Son Ye-jin is gaining acclaim for her performance in her most recent role. The tragic Princess Deokhye.
The Last Princess
This August, Son Ye-jin brings us another heart-gripping performance in The Last Princess. She stars as Princess Deokhye, the last princess of Korea. In preparing for her role, Son Ye-jin remembers her childhood fear of the unfamiliar. She brings these emotions with her in her portrayal as the inoccent, lonely, brave yet helpless princess.
The film tells us the tragic life of the princess, forced to leave...
Today, Son Ye-jin is gaining acclaim for her performance in her most recent role. The tragic Princess Deokhye.
The Last Princess
This August, Son Ye-jin brings us another heart-gripping performance in The Last Princess. She stars as Princess Deokhye, the last princess of Korea. In preparing for her role, Son Ye-jin remembers her childhood fear of the unfamiliar. She brings these emotions with her in her portrayal as the inoccent, lonely, brave yet helpless princess.
The film tells us the tragic life of the princess, forced to leave...
- 8/8/2016
- by JRBandillo
- AsianMoviePulse
The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opens tonight (July 17) with German film Stereo; this year’s Producers’ Choice Awards going to actor Hyun Bin and actress Son Ye-jin.
The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opens tonight (July 17) with this year’s Producers’ Choice Awards going to actor Hyun Bin and actress Son Ye-jin.
Selected by PiFan and the Korean Film Producers Association (Kfpa), the Producers’ Choice Awards go to “the most recognized actors with outstanding careers in Korea” each year. The awards were started in 2012 and have guaranteed top stars on the PiFan opening night red carpet annually.
Previously seen in romances such as Lee Yoon-ki’s Come Rain, Come Shine and Kim Tae-yong’s Late Autumn, Hyun was most recently in historical thriller The Fatal Encounter.
Son’s credits include hits such as The Art Of Seduction, April Snow and My Wife Got Married. She also stars in the upcoming sea-faring adventure...
The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opens tonight (July 17) with this year’s Producers’ Choice Awards going to actor Hyun Bin and actress Son Ye-jin.
Selected by PiFan and the Korean Film Producers Association (Kfpa), the Producers’ Choice Awards go to “the most recognized actors with outstanding careers in Korea” each year. The awards were started in 2012 and have guaranteed top stars on the PiFan opening night red carpet annually.
Previously seen in romances such as Lee Yoon-ki’s Come Rain, Come Shine and Kim Tae-yong’s Late Autumn, Hyun was most recently in historical thriller The Fatal Encounter.
Son’s credits include hits such as The Art Of Seduction, April Snow and My Wife Got Married. She also stars in the upcoming sea-faring adventure...
- 7/17/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
A few years ago Cecilia Cheung would be playing the Zhang Ziyi role. My, how times have changed. I guess it makes sense from a career trajectory (you can’t play the ingenue forever), but man, it’s still a shock to see her playing the older woman manipulating people around her (and apparently she’s only 1 year older than co-star Zhang Ziyi!). More notably, this Chinese version of “Dangerous Liaisons” is directed by South Korean helmer Jin-ho Hur, who was responsible for some monster hits in his native land, including “April Snow”, though my favorites are his more naturalistic dramas like “One Fine Spring Day” and “Christmas in August”. 1930s Shanghai: the glamorous, tumultuous “Paris of the East” whose salons, streets and bedrooms frame this Chinese adaptation of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Aging socialite Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung) still finds herself circling ex-boyfriend Xie Yifan (Jang Dong-kun). Even after years of separation,...
- 10/29/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
This peculiar relationship might have literary roots well over a few decades old, what with copious examples like Hwang Sun-Won's 소나기 (Showers) proving the point, but it has now become the perfect opportunity to mock a genre which might be on its very last legs: the idea that melodrama and rain go hand in hand on Korean shores, even when we're not dealing with hackneyed tearjerkers. There is likely no better example than Jang Yoon-Hyun's 1997 hit 접속 (The Contact), which might be what brought Jeon Do-Yeon fame, but still benefits from one of the best soundtrack of the 1990s, going from Velvet Underground to more jazzy, moody pieces. Sure enough, its emotional climax is accompanied by The Toys' A Lover's Concerto and its "how gentle is the rain/that falls softly on the meadow" as the credits roll, not to mention the many occasions when we're being served with nature's tears,...
- 12/12/2009
- Screen Anarchy
The very cool looking first poster and first teaser trailer for the upcoming Korean thriller White Night has been released. The film, about two children who commit murder in self defense and the detective still trying to catch them 14 years later, stars Son Ye-jin (The Classic, April Snow), in her first role since her award-winning performance in the comedy drama My Wife Got Married, alongside Han Seok-Kyu (A Bloody Aria, The President's Last Bang) and Ko Soo, who is making his first film appearance since serving in the army. It also marks the directing debut of Park Shin-woo. White Night is based on a story by Japanese writer Higaishino Keigo, who has already had a number of stories adapted for the screen in Japan.
- 10/2/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
The very cool looking first poster and first teaser trailer for the upcoming Korean thriller White Night have been released. The film, about two children who commit murder in self defense and the detective still trying to catch them 14 years later, stars Son Ye-jin (The Classic, April Snow), in her first role since her award-winning performance in the comedy drama My Wife Got Married, alongside Han Seok-Kyu (A Bloody Aria, The President's Last Bang) and Ko Soo, who is making his first film appearance since serving in the army. It also marks the directing debut of Park Shin-woo. White Night is based on a story by Japanese writer Higaishino Keigo, who has already had a number of stories adapted for the screen in Japan.
- 10/2/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Happiness proves to be particularly fleeting for the two wounded souls in Korean filmmaker's Hur Jin-ho's bittersweet melodrama of the same name.
While the story goes along a fairly predictable path, it progresses with a gentle lyricism and stirring performances from leads Hwang Jung-min and Lim Soo-jung.
Not yet attached to a domestic distributor, the film starts off in a soulless Seoul, where hard-drinking, hard-clubbing Young-su (Hwang), has hit bottom, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.
He checks himself into a rural sanatorium, where he meets up with the shy, lovely Eun-hee, an assistant at the facility who lives her life in carefully measured breaths as a result of her diseased lungs.
In time, Young-su's casual flirtation with the young woman blossoms into something deeper, and the two eventually leave the sanatorium and start a life together, tending a small farm.
Through her attentive care, Young-su eventually regains his health, but a surprise visit from a friend and ex-lover drag him back into his old self-destructive ways and, ultimately, Young-su doesn't realize what he had until it's gone.
Hur, whose April Snow was screened at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, gives Happiness a gently rendered breathing pattern of its own, allowing the chain events to be fully registered across the expressive faces of his two main actors.
Even as the script, by Hur and three others, heads in a familiar direction, the journey taken is still a poignant one -- a quality further enhanced by Kim Hyung-koo's vibrant outdoor cinematography and Cho Sung-woo's tender, haunting score.
TORONTO -- Happiness proves to be particularly fleeting for the two wounded souls in Korean filmmaker's Hur Jin-ho's bittersweet melodrama of the same name.
While the story goes along a fairly predictable path, it progresses with a gentle lyricism and stirring performances from leads Hwang Jung-min and Lim Soo-jung.
Not yet attached to a domestic distributor, the film starts off in a soulless Seoul, where hard-drinking, hard-clubbing Young-su (Hwang), has hit bottom, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.
He checks himself into a rural sanatorium, where he meets up with the shy, lovely Eun-hee, an assistant at the facility who lives her life in carefully measured breaths as a result of her diseased lungs.
In time, Young-su's casual flirtation with the young woman blossoms into something deeper, and the two eventually leave the sanatorium and start a life together, tending a small farm.
Through her attentive care, Young-su eventually regains his health, but a surprise visit from a friend and ex-lover drag him back into his old self-destructive ways and, ultimately, Young-su doesn't realize what he had until it's gone.
Hur, whose April Snow was screened at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, gives Happiness a gently rendered breathing pattern of its own, allowing the chain events to be fully registered across the expressive faces of his two main actors.
Even as the script, by Hur and three others, heads in a familiar direction, the journey taken is still a poignant one -- a quality further enhanced by Kim Hyung-koo's vibrant outdoor cinematography and Cho Sung-woo's tender, haunting score.
- 9/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SEOUL -- As crowds from across Asia thronged the Megabox theater in southern Seoul last Tuesday, desperately hoping for the slightest glimpse of their idol, Bae Yong-joon, Korea's biggest star, you would never know the Korean movie industry is -- or was -- in a slump. They were there for the world premiere of Hur Jin-ho's April Snow (represented internationally by Show East), arguably one of the most widely anticipated films to be released in Asia this year. On the strength of his TV show Winter Sonata and his 2003 film Untold Scandal, Bae has become the hottest star in Asia, with thousands of fans mobbing him on his trips to Japan, Taiwan and elsewhere.
- 8/30/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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