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South Korea
Directors Recently rediscovered as the eccentric master of Korean cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, Kim Ki-young is now widely recognized as one of the leading postwar directors. His films show a wide spectrum of experimentation in film genre and style. His most notable films are psychological dramas that deal primarily with female characters. The prime example is "The Housemaid" (Ha-nyeo, 1960), which features a powerful femme fatale. In this signature work, Kim explores the anxious class tension through the motif of vengeance and sexual obsession.
Im Gwon-taek, a renowned and active Korean film director with an international reputation, came to his own artistic terms when he completed his film "Mandala" in 1980. Since his debut in 1962, Im had been known as a commercial filmmaker, who could efficiently churn out genre quickies, often at the rate of eight per year. From 1980, however, he focused on themes of Korean cultural identity in modern times. Currently, his films enjoy the privileged status of art-house cinema. His renewed status also overlapped with a period of the film movement called "New Korean Cinema" or "New Wave." Along with New Wave directors Park Gwang-su and Jang Seon-u, Im has achieved international recognition. Although his works still bears many of the cinematic traces of 1960s' Korean cinema, they also have strong followings among contemporary film enthusiasts.
Shin Sang-ok, probably the most controversial filmmaker and producer, has produced a diverse body of works since the 1950s. Films such as "Yi Dynasty's Cruel History of Women" (Ijo yeoinui janhoksa, 1969) and "The Houseguest and Mother" take a critical look at Confucian social mores. Shin has made a major contribution to Korean cinema through his mastery of the cinematic genres. His films are often of brilliant mise-en-scene, featuring delicate acting and innovative editing techniques. The contribution of Yu Hyeon-mok to Korean film history is also crucial. His "realistic" film style reflects the legacy of the social commentary-type film so popular during the colonial period. "The Stray Bullet" (1961) is his most famous signature work.
Breakthrough Since the success of the Korean film 'Sǒp'yǒnje' in 1993 Korean film has become much more popular, both in South Korea and abroad. Today South Korea is one of the few countries where Hollywood productions do not enjoy a dominant share of the domestic market.
Shiri was a film about a North Korean spy preparing a coup in Seoul. The film was the first in Korean history to sell more than 2 million tickets in Seoul alone. This helped Shiri to surpass box office hits such as The Matrix or Star Wars. The success of Shiri motivated other Korean films with large budgets for Korean circumstances. Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ...
North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea. ...
Seoul (서울, listen ▶(?)) is the capital of South Korea and is one of the most populous cities in the world, located in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River. ...
Seoul (서울, listen ▶(?)) is the capital of South Korea and is one of the most populous cities in the world, located in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River. ...
The Matrix is a film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers (Andy and Larry). ...
Star Wars began with a 13-page treatment for a space adventure movie which George Lucas drafted in 1973, inspired from multiple myths and classic stories. ...
In 2000 the film JSA (Joint Security Area) was a huge success and even surpassed the benchmark set by Shiri. One year later, the film Friend managed the same. In South Korea the romantic comedy My Sassy Girl outsold The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter which ran at the same time. As of 2004 new films continue to outperform older releases, and many Korean productions are more popular than Hollywood films. Both Silmido and [T'aegǔkki Hwinallimyǒ] (The Brotherhood) were watched by over 10 million people, which is a quarter of the Korean population. Silmido is a film based on a true story about a secret special force. The other is a blockbuster movie about Korean War directed by the director of Shiri. This article is about the year 2000. ...
This article is about the actual Joint Security Area. ...
My Sassy Girl is a 2001 South Korean romantic comedy film. ...
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Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Silmido is a 2003 film directed by Woo-Suk Kang (ê°•ìš°ì„, 康ç¥ç¢©). It is loosely based on a military uprising from Silmido in the 1970s. ...
The Korean War (Korean: í•œêµì „ìŸ/韓國戰çˆ), from June 25, 1950 to cease-fire on July 27, 1953 (technically speaking, the war has not yet ended), was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. ...
This success attracted the attention of Hollywood. Films such as Shiri are now distributed in the USA. In 2001, Miramax even bought the rights to an Americanized remake of the successful Korean action comedy movie, My Wife is a Gangster. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Miramax is a Big Ten film distribution and production company. ...
The 2003 suspense thriller Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) was successful as well, leading Dreamworks to pay $2 million (US) for the rights to a remake, topping the $1 million (US) paid for the Japanese movie The Ring. A Tale of Two Sisters is a 2003 Korean psychological horror film, directed by Ji-woo Kim and starring Su-jeon Lim and Geun-yong Mun. ...
DreamWorks, L.L.C., doing business as DreamWorks SKG, is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. ...
Many Korean films reflect how much the Korean people long for reunification and suffer from the division of the peninsula. Many of the films underline feelings, which causes Korean films to be likened to French films. The Korean film industry, however, now produces all kinds of films.
In February 2004, the controversial director, Kim Ki Duk won the award for best director at the 54th annual Berlin Film Festival. He was awarded for the film Samaria which is about a teenage prostitute. Kim Ki Duk is a Korean film maker; his recent work, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. ...
In Cannes, two korean films Oldboy by Park Chan-wook and The Woman is the Future of the Man by Hong Sang-soo were invited in the competition. The film by Park won the Grand Prix. Oldboy (올드보ì´) is a 2003 South Korean movie directed by Park Chan-wook based on a Japanese manga of the same name. ...
Park Chan Wook is a South Korean director and screenwriter born August 23, 1963. ...
The Palais des Festivals in which the festival takes place. ...
Korean film first garnered serious international recognition in 2002 at the Venice Film Festival when the film "Oasis" won the second prize award. The film not only revealed much about traditional Korean culture, but also highlighted the plight of handicapped Koreans and the general public's inability to understand and accept them. In the story an isolated young woman with cerebral palsy falls in love with a simple minded man who has recently completed a term in prison for the hit and run accident that killed her father. Quite possibly Korea's most symbolic and rich film to date, "Oasis" remains the turning point for Korean avante garde film. Cerebral palsy or CP is a group of permanent disorders associated with developmental brain injuries that occur during fetal development, birth, or shortly after birth. ...
"Oldboy" is the second great victory for Korean film when it came in second place in the Cannes Film Festival, second to Fahrenheit 911. The story traces the life of a man who is put into solitary confinement by someone he does not know. He lives there for many years until he is released to find out the bizarre reason for his cruel entrapment. Dark and gloomy, "Oldboy" experiments with the themes of psychological madness and sexual distortions that exist in Korean modernity. The title is itself is an oxymoron that speaks of the boyish innocense with which old Korean culture seeks to grapple with the psychosis of modern life.
New wave films There are three important dates in new wave Korean films: first in 1992, "Marriage Story was financed by Samsung, marking the first non-government funded film. In 1999, Shiri was released and led to Korean films taking over 50% of the local market. Ultimately, My Sassy Girl became the most popular and exportable Korean film in history. Each has brought new strength to the unique creation of a Korean film industry that no longer copies Hollywood verbatim. Supporting the Korean film industry have been strong government controls against copying and bootlegging and piracy, which have allowed the film industry to bring out many films, and make a profit and still have very strong DVD and aftermarket sales. In addition, a government-enforced screen quota system since 1967 has limited the number of days per year non-domestic movies can be shown on any one movie screen in South Korea. Recently, this practice has come under fire from non-Korean film distributors as unfair.[1] Fast low cost films with likeable stars, tied to current events, and at affordable prices that speak in a natural vernacular with state of the art cinematography and music have all pushed films ahead. Shiri (Swiri) is a 1999 Korean film written and directed by Kang Je-gyu. ...
My Sassy Girl is a 2001 South Korean romantic comedy film. ...
New wave Korean films came as a result of competition in the film industry, directors trained outside of the USA (in France, Spain, the Netherlands, China and Europe), and new models of scripts that included more Korean situations, and spoke in contemporary vernacular, and used younger actors, younger scriptwriters, and less formulaic Hollywood cliches or 90 minute frames. The impact of the Busan Film Festival and Jeonju Film Festival in screening year after year hundreds of new European, Canadian, South American, Chinese and even Japanese films rewrote the basic templates towards originality.
The increase in competition created more films, faster and unpredictable unique story-lines that were clever and aggressive. Films in turn influenced very quickly traditional Korean network soap operas, and forced a very fast new design in television story-lines, and this then forced even greater innovation in Korean film-making with even stronger writing and higher definition of the art.
North Korea
Cinema North Korean films are the most common films shown in cinemas in North Korea.
Animation A number of well-known animations are produced in North Korea, at SEK Studio. Production costs in North Korea are very low, and the quality of animators is well perceived. Pocahontas and The Lion King are examples of where some of the animation work was subcontracted to SEK (presumably subcontracted, for had it been sourced by Disney directly, they would fall foul of the Trading with the Enemy Act). [2] SEK Studio is a North Korean animation studio, based in Pyongyang. ...
A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe, the only portrait of Pocahontas made within her lifetime. ...
The Lion King is the 32nd film in the Disney animated feature canon, and the highest-grossing traditionally animated feature film ever released in the United States. ...
The Walt Disney Studios refers to several different entities and locations associated with The Walt Disney Company: The Walt Disney Studios is one of the media empires four main operating units. ...
See also This is a partial list of Korean films: ...ing (2003) 3-Iron (Bin-Jip) (2004) Acacia (2004) Anarchists (2000) Attack the Gas Station (1999) Bilgu (1997) Chunhyang (2000) Crying Fist (2004) The Doll Master (2004) Duelist (2005) Everybody has Secrets (2004) Face (2004) The Foul King (2000) The Ghost (2004...
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References - Bowyer, Justin (2004). 24 Frames: The Cinema of Japan and Korea, Wallflower Press, London. ISBN 1904764118.
- Leong, Anthony (2003). Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong, Black Dot Publications. ISBN 1553954610.
- McHugh, Kathleen and Albermann, Nancy (2005). South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, And National Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television), Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814332536.
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