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1 minute ago, wanda77 said:

 

 

Hi wanda, thanks for sharing the trailer . I've seen the 1st one so, I'm looking forward to seeing JJH and other cast work together again on this upcoming film. 

 

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5 minutes ago, willenette said:

 

Hi wanda, thanks for sharing the trailer . I've seen the 1st one so, I'm looking forward to seeing JJH and other cast work together again on this upcoming film. 

 

 

     I saw the first one too ( on a smart TV) , and I don't think that would do justice to this movie. Have a nice day.

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1 hour ago, wanda77 said:

 

     I saw the first one too ( on a smart TV) , and I don't think that would do justice to this movie. Have a nice day.

 

wanda, I believe you - for me, in anything nothing could surpass the original.

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Watch: “Along With the Gods 2” Takes Viewers On Emotional Roller Coaster In Suspenseful Trailer

 

 

“Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days” has dropped its first official trailer ahead of its release later this summer!

 

Based on a popular web comic series, this two-part series began with “Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds,” which was a huge success as it surpassed many milestones in record time. With over 14.4 million moviegoers recorded, the first film is currently the second biggest box office hit in Korean film history.

 

The upcoming sequel “Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days” will continue the story of the three grim reapers from the first film (played by Ha Jung Woo, Joo Ji Hoon, and Kim Hyang Gi) as they guide their once-impossible 49th soul Soo Hong (Kim Dong Wook) through the trials of the underworld with the promise of reincarnation.

 

During their fate-determining journey, they meet the mysterious Sung Joo Shin (Ma Dong Seok), who knows these grim reapers’ buried and forgotten past from 1000 years ago. As the grim reapers and Soo Hong teeter on the edge of the past, life, and the afterlife, the connections between their long-forgotten secrets come to light.

 

The trailer hints at a darker underlying emotion that pervades the entire film, one that is different from that of the first movie. As scenes flash by, a voice ominously says, “But there is one thing that seems to be for certain. There are no bad humans. When you feel resentful and bitter, when you don’t understand, think of everything backwards.”

 

At the very end, Ha Jung Woo declares, “I request that the king of the underworld who controls the afterlife act as the last witness.”

 

 

 

“Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days” will be released in South Korean theaters on August 1.

 

 

 

Source (1) / soompi news

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On 5/25/2018 at 10:33 AM, mxxella said:

https://ahjummamshies.com/2018/05/25/movie-review-an-afterlife-journey-along-with-the-gods-2017/

 

Hi mxxella, thanks for sharing the link. Two more sequels for the movie will be simultaneously shot next year. The production company is planning to finish two scenarios for part three and four series by the end of this year and shoot the film in 2019. “Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days,” the second film of the series, will open on Aug. 1, though.

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On 6/26/2018 at 6:17 AM, wanda77 said:

 

 

Hi wanda, thanks for sharing the video. Looking forward to this movie. I hope JJH will do a drama next after this project. It’s awesome news that it's going to be released soon. Waiting excitedly for his movie.

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*** "The Spy Gone North" has been sold to 111 countries around the world.  And this movie premiered to a standing ovation in the Midnight Screenings section of the 71st Cannes Film Festival in May. Dates for theatrical release in other countries are under discussion yet. I'm happy for JJH that he's part of the movie.

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Korean Spy Thriller Sells to Over 100 Countries

 

Yoon Jong-bin's latest film "The Spy Gone North" has been sold to 111 countries.

 

The espionage thriller, which was invited to the Midnight Screenings section at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, received rave reviews there and at home.

 

"We received a lot of inquiries from foreign buyers after the film was premiered at Cannes. We sold it to 111 countries in Asia, Latin and North America, and more recently European countries such as France, Poland, Spain and the U.K.," the film’s distributor CJ E&M said Thursday.

 

Set in the mid-1990s, the movie revolves around a South Korean secret agent who infiltrates North Korea to obtain information on the North's nuclear weapons programs.

 

It will hit local theaters on Aug. 8. 

 

 

credit : Chuson Ilbo

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*** Looking forward to this movie since I've watched the 1st one for JJH. NICE poster!

 

 

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“Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days” Releases Gripping New Posters

 

 

“Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days,” the sequel to “Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds,” released its dark and captivating main posters that make you anticipate the new plot.

 

The upcoming sequel will continue the story of the three grim reapers from the first film (played by Ha Jung Woo, Joo Ji Hoon, and Kim Hyang Gi) as they guide their 49th soul Soo Hong (Kim Dong Wook) through the trials of the underworld with the promise of reincarnation.

 

During their journey, they meet the mysterious Sung Joo Shin (Ma Dong Seok), who knows these grim reapers’  forgotten pasts from a thousand years ago. As the four of them teeter on the edge of the past, life, and the afterlife, the connections between their buried secrets come to light.

 

The first main poster contains the five main characters of the movie looking grim yet determined. The ominous words on the poster vows, “A secret of a thousand years will be revealed.”

 

 

The second main poster portrays the same five characters as well as King Yeomra of the underworld (Lee Jung Jae). The past and present appearances of Ha Jung Woo, Joo Ji Hoon, Kim Hyang Gi, and Ma Dong Seok are revealed on the poster, making viewers wonder what they were like in their past lives as mortals.

 

 

 

 

“Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days” will be released on August 1 in Korea.

 

 

 

Source (1) / soompi news

 

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(LEAD) 'The Spy Gone North' director: Actual spy operations aren't like in the movies

 

(ATTN: UPDATES with more remarks from press conference in paras 10-13; ADDS movie's international trailer and a photo)

 

SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- One interesting thing about director Yoon Jong-bin's latest film, "The Spy Gone North," is that it has little action for a spy movie. But it is tense the whole way through with the main characters from South and North Korea involved in a tricky psychological war, according to many critics who saw the film at the Midnight section of this year's Cannes Film Festival in May.

 

"I had no choice because the film is based on a true story," director Yoon Jong-bin said during a promotional press conference for the film in Seoul on Tuesday. "As a filmmaker, I felt a lot of pressure to make a spy film without action. Directors can resort to action scenes to immerse audiences into their films."

 

In this file photo provided by CJ E&M, director Yoon Jong-bin (2nd from L), and cast members of Yoon's latest film "The Spy Gone North" pose for photographers during the 71st Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 14, 2018. (Yonhap)

 

 

After much thought, Yoon decided to make it the main concept of the movie: a spy flick without much action but plenty of tension, only with the situation where the protagonist conducts a fraught covert operation to infiltrate the highest ranks of the North Korean leadership.

 

Hwang Jung-min, who played the South Korean spy Park Seok-yeong, said it was a very tricky job to simultaneously deliver multiple emotions.

 

"Unlike typical Hollywood spy movies full of physical action, the film features a 'verbal war' where both parties try to deceive or are deceived by each other," said the veteran actor. "While pretending to tell the truth to the dialogue partner, I had to let the audience understand what I had deep in my mind. It was difficult to deliver such multi-layered emotions."

   In the film set in the 1990s, Park goes undercover as a businessman in North Korea to infiltrate its nuclear facilities using the codename "Black Venus." He approaches Ri Myung-un (Lee Sung-min), a high-ranking North Korean official in charge of earning foreign currency for his country in China, and succeeds in arranging personal meetings with the North's supreme leader after years of maneuvering.

 

But Park is plagued by an inner conflict after observing the two Koreas' leaders making a secret deal to prevent liberal candidate Kim Dae-jung from winning the 1997 presidential election.

 

The film is based on an autobiography of real-life ex-spy Park Chae-seo, who operated as "Black Venus." The director said he decided to fictionalize the story after reading it.

 

"I first came to know the story of the spy codenamed 'Black Venus' while preparing for a movie about the state intelligence agency," Yoon said. "I was surprised to know that the country's intelligence agency conducts such an operation."

 

As the film was shot over six months in the first half of last year, the director said he has never imagined the currently thawing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

 

When questioned about how he felt seeing the first summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on April 27, as a director who made a movie about an intelligence war between the two Koreas, Yoon said that he was touched and filled with emotion, not as a filmmaker but as a South Korean citizen. "In particular, I was so moved to see on the TV the two leaders shaking hands that my eyes welled up with tears."

   He expressed hope that his film would be able to provide a chance to look back on the past two decades in inter-Korean relations.

 

"Although my film portrays an intelligence war, it has a story of people in its heart. It's a film about co-existence and reconciliation," he added.

 

The movie also stars Cho Jin-woong of "The Handmaiden" as director of the overseas bureau of the state spy agency who orchestrates the covert operation and Ju Ji-hoon of "Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds" as a senior official of the North Korean spy agency.

 

"The Spy Gone North" is set to open in local theaters on Aug. 8

 

 

 

 

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credit : Yonhap News

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Ha Ji Won Accepts Action Thriller Drama "Prometheus" While Joo Ji Hoon Declines

 

 

LINK here : http://koalasplayground.com/2018/07/04/ha-ji-won-accepts-action-thriller-drama-prometheus-while-joo-ji-hoon-declines/

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12 School K-Dramas To Binge When You’re Bored This Summer

 

It’s no secret that summer is the time of year most students live for. No classes, tons of free time, and nice weather — what’s not to love?

 

But despite all the positives of summer break, sometimes so much time away from the classroom can get boring. You just might even find yourself missing school — everything from the lunches to the lessons to that cutie in your math class. If you find yourself wasting away summer wishing to get back in the classroom or you want to be reminded of your school days, we’ve got a list of dramas that will make you feel like you’re in homeroom already. Let’s get started!

 

 

Goong

 

 

In a re-imagined current day Korea where the royal family still reigns, Chae Kyung (Yoon Eun Hye) is your average teenager whose normal life suddenly becomes a lot more complicated when her family arranges for her to marry Crown Prince Lee Shin (Joo Ji Hoon). And not to mention, Lee Shin happens to be in love with another woman (Song Ji Hyo). Will this modern day fairy-tale have a happy ending or will it end in heartbreak? “Goong” is a unique school drama that you’ll love!

 

Catch the first episode of “Goong”:

 

Watch Now

 

 

credit : soompi news

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July 6, 2018

 

 

Will ‘Along with the Gods’ create a second box office smash?

 

 

Korean blockbuster film series “Along with the Gods” is ready to start its second story, more confident than ever.

The “Along With the Gods” series is based on a popular web comic of the same name, written and illustrated by cartoonist Joo Ho-min. The story deals with the afterlife from the perspective of traditional Korean mythology.

The first installment “Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds,” released in December, was the second most commercially successful movie in Korean box office history, selling over 14.4 million tickets. 

 

 

“I was so pressured and overwhelmed by the success of the first part,” director Kim Yong-hwa said at a press event held Friday in eastern Seoul. “I guess the audience could have been generous about the first film as it was a domestic one.”

He continued, “But I started the first film to make the second part. After finishing it, it was so great that I thought, ‘Did I make this?’”

The first and second parts were shot together last year, the first such endeavor in the Korean film industry. While the first film was about what the afterlife is like, the second focuses on the characters and their stories.

The cast -- including Ha Jung-woo, Ju Ji-hoon and Kim Hyang-gi -- stressed the difficulties of shooting two films simultaneously. The three play spirits who escort and defend the deceased. 

 

 

“The second part’s emotion is much more agitated. We had to act for two films in one scene. It was difficult to express the gap of emotions, twice as hard other films,” Ha said.

Ju agreed, saying, “I thought, we might fool ourselves. So we had to talk a lot. I balanced my emotions, watching clips of other actors.”

The second segment had to be reshot, as two of the actors, Oh Dal-soo and Choi Il-hwa were replaced when they were accused earlier this year of sexual misconduct.

Meanwhile, the production company aims to produce parts three and four of the series. Won Dong-yeon, the chief of Realies Pictures said in an interview with local media outlet last month, two more sequels for the series will be simultaneously shot next year.

“Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days” is to hit local theaters on Aug. 1.
 

 

 

By Im Eun-byel (silverstar@heraldcorp.com)

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Teaser 1 and 2 for "Along With The Gods". Spoiler alert.

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19 hours ago, wanda77 said:

Teaser 1 and 2 for "Along With The Gods". Spoiler alert.

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Hi wanda, thanks for sharing this. Can't wait for this. Also, looking forward for his another upcoming movie, "The Spy Gone North" on August 8.

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[Photos] Second Installment of Epic Korean Adventure "Along With the Gods: the Last 49 Days" Releases First Stills

 

 

First stills released for the upcoming Korean movie "Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days" (2018)

Directed by Kim Yong-hwa

With Ha Jung-woo, Joo Ji-hoon, Kim Hyang-gi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Dong-wook, Do Kyung-soo,...

Synopsis
The story of the continued trials of life after death.

Release date in Korea : 2018/08/01

 

 

 

Source : /www.hancinema.net/ko...

 

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*** Can't wait for next month, August 1 for this movie. The first one was so well directed.  It  was entertaining.

 

 

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'Along With The Gods 2' releases first movie still cuts ahead of its premiere

 

 

Upcoming film 'Along With The Gods - Cause and Fate', the second of the 'Along With The Gods' series, has revealed its first set of movie still cuts.

 

In the second film installment, actors Ha Jung Woo, Joo Ji Hoon, Kim Dong Wook, and actress Kim Hyang Ki will be returning for a new adventure, joined by new cast members Ma Dong Suk, Lee Jung Jae, and more. 

 

Check out some of the film's very first still cuts below, as the characters seek out lost memories, visit the past, and more! 'Along With The Gods - Cause and Fate' premieres in August. 

 

 

 

source : allkpop

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Watch: “Along With the Gods 2” Teases Audience With Mysterious Plot Line In Main Trailer

 

 

“Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days” has dropped its main trailer!

 

After the success of the first movie of this two part series, titled “Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds,” the second film, “Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days,” prepares to become this summer’s hit film with the main trailer.

 

The film will explore how three grim reapers try to guide their 49th soul to the underworld with the promise of reincarnation. They meet Sung Joo Shin (Ma Dong Seok), who knows of their past from 1000 years ago. Through their meeting where they teeter on the edge of the past, the present world, and the afterlife, the connections between their long-forgotten secrets come to light.

 

In the trailer, Kang Rim (Ha Jung Woo) tries to push ahead with a trial that seems impossible in order to uncover the truth that is entangled with Soo Hong (Kim Dong Wook)’s death. Hae Won Maek (Joo Ji Hoon) and Duk Choon (Kim Hyang Gi) try to find out their forgotten pasts after meeting Sung Joo Shin, who came to know of their pasts after going back to earth by the order of Yeom Ra (Lee Jung Jae). The grim reapers of the past life slowly begin to show the veiled stories of their lives.

 

In addition, although Sung Joo Shin is demoted in hell for being a great nuisance, he tries to do his best for a human he must protect, making the film more exciting as he reveals to the grim reapers that he was the grim reaper to bring their past human selves to hell.

 

“Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days” will be released in South Korean theaters on August 1.

 

 

LINK to view the video : https://www.soompi.com/2018/07/12/watch-along-gods-2-teases-audience-mysterious-plot-line-main-trailer/