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December 16, 2016

"Inside Men" has received 12 nominations for the 53rd Grand Bell Awards

For the  53rd Grand Bell Awards, the film "Inside Men"  received the following twelve nominations:  

Best Film

Best Director 

Best Actor:  Lee Byung Hun 

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Production 

Best Screenplay 

Best Lighting 

Best Cinematography 

Best Music 

Best Editing 

Best Sound Effects 

The Awards ceremony will be  held on the 27th December. 

Source:   LBH Baidu 

 

December 26, 2016

Lee Byung Hun, Confirmed to Attend the Daejong Film Awards

Source: OSEN

A rep from BH Entertainment told OSEN on the 26th, "Lee Byung-hun has finally decided to attend the 53rd Daejong Film Festival" to be held on December 27.

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December 23, 2016

SINGLE RIDER with LEE Byung-hun and KONG Hyo-jin Books February Release
2nd Korean Warner Bros Production Features AN So-hui

by Pierce Conran / KoBiz

Following their smash hit The Age of Shadows, from director KIM Jee-woon, Warner Brothers is gearing up for the release of their second Korean production Single Rider. Featuring LEE Byung-hun and KONG Hyo-jin, the thriller is the debut of director LEE Joo-young and will bow domestically on February 23rd.

LEE plays a company worker who becomes a central figure in a scandal and suddenly disappears. KONG plays an ex-violinist living in Australia with her son, while AN So-hui rounds out the cast as a university student spending her time in Australia on a working holiday visa. 

LEE’s role echoes the one he is playing in his current hit Master, where he played the head of a fraudulent company who goes on the run and winds up in the Philippines. The star also appeared in a small role in The Age of Shadows and has received several awards this year for his role in last fall’s political thriller Inside Men.

Active both on the big and small screen, KONG played alongside UHM Ji-won in the recent thriller MISSING. AN, a former member of the popular K-pop group Wonder Girls, was among the supporting cast of this year’s breakout hit TRAIN TO BUSAN.

Beyond Single Rider, Warner Brothers will also launch the in-production thriller V.I.P. next year from New World (2013) director PARK Hoon-jung.

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December 23, 2016

Cine21 Chooses THE HANDMAIDEN as Best Film of the Year
Korea’s Top Film Weekly Issues 2016 Top 10

by Pierce Conran / KoBiz

The weekly Korean film publication Cine21 has issued its top 10 Korean films of the year, as voted on by its critics. Topping the 2016 list was PARK Chan-wook’s period erotic thriller The Handmaiden.

The rest of the top five featured NA Hong-jin’s THE WAILING in second, LEE Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath in third, KIM Sung-soo’s Asura : The City of Madness in fourth and debut filmmaker YOON Ga-eun’s The World of Us at number five.

Further down, HONG Sang-soo was at sixth with his latest film Yourself and Yours, LEE Joon-ik was seventh with DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet, JUNG Ji-woo’s Fourth Place was at eight, KIM Jee-woon came in at ninth with The Age of Shadows and KIM Soo-hyun closed out the top 10 with his Jeonju Cinema Project The Great Patriots.

The magazine also voted on other categories, such as Best Director (PARK Chan-wook, The Handmaiden), Actress (KIM Min-hee, The Handmaiden), Actor (LEE Byung-hun, Inside Men), New Actress (KIM Tae-ri, The Handmaiden), New Actor (KOO Kyo-hwan, The Great Patriots), Cinematography (CHUNG Chung-hoon, The Handmaiden), New Director (YOON Ga-eun, The World of Us), Screenplay (SHIN Yeon-shick, DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet) and Producer (LIM Syd, The Handmaiden, LUCK-KEY).

Photo: leechoko  #CINE21

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December 26, 2016

‘Master’ surpasses 3 million moviegoers

(CJ Entertainment)

Korean action-thriller “Master” drew more than 3 million filmgoers, five days after its nationwide release, according to data from the Korean Film Council Monday. 

On Christmas, the star-studded movie topped the box office by attracting 902,757 viewers, followed by the American musical animation “Sing,” homegrown disaster flick “Pandora” and American drama-musical “La La Land.” “Master” has been viewed by 3,002,294 people in theaters since it premiered on Wednesday. 

“Master” stars Lee Byung-hun, Kim Woo-bin and Gang Dong-won. The movie revolves around a fraudulent financial organization that amasses s huge sum of money, run by a cunning Chairman Jin (Lee Byung-hun). A sleuth (Gang Dong-won) goes after him, while a genius hacker and Jin‘s close aide (Kim Woo-bin) stand in the way.

By Son Ji-hyoung (json@heraldcorp.com)

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December 27, 2016

Star-powered ‘Master’ soars, dominates box office

Source: INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily

The star-studded “Master,” featuring actors Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin, dominated the local weekend box office by far. [CJ ENTERTAINMENT]

The star-studded crime action flick “Master” pushed aside the disaster movie “Pandora” to rule the local box office over the weekend, according to the Korean Film Council on Monday.

“Pandora” was forced to give away the first place spot, which it had been holding on to for two straight weekends, and dropped to third.

“Master,” starring actors Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin, raked in 19.05 billion won ($17.1 million) through 2.23 million tickets sold at 1,501 screens, accounting for 56.7 percent of the entire sales. In the five days since its opening on Wednesday, the film has reached three million mark in ticket sales, earning 24.8 billion won in total. 

The animated “Sing,” depicting cute animals working hard to achieve their dreams as singers, hit the second spot in its debut weekend by selling 297,500 tickets.

Although it debuted at fifth on its opening day on Wednesday, it gradually managed to climb up rankings.

The internationally-acclaimed “La La Land” was followed by “Pandora” to rank fourth in its third weekend. It remains to be seen how many more tickets the musical, which is set to dominate the 74th Golden Globe awards next month, will sell. 

The romance-fantasy “Will You Be There?,” adapted from the French novelist Guillaume Musso’s best-selling novel, hit fifth. Despite the buzz it created for adapting the popular book, the audiences’ response has been meager. It has sold 995,000 tickets since it dropped on Dec. 14.

“Pokemon the Movie XY&Z” from Japan debuted in sixth, which was directly followed by another Japanese animation “Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Birth of Japan.”

Warner Animation Group’s “Storks” dropped to eighth from last weekend’s fifth, and was closely followed by the “Harry Potter” spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

“Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden” rounded up the top ten in its first weekend. 

BY JIN MIN-JI [jin.minji@joongang.co.kr]

Clip: cjenmmovie

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December 27, 2016

Lee Byung Hun at the 53rd Daejong Film Awards Red Carpet

Source:  bnt international 

 

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Source: SBS

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December 27, 2016

Congratulations Byung Hun-ssi!   Daejong Film Awards- Best Actor

Lee Byung Hun has swept the Grand Slams of Best Actor awards in 2016:    Baeksang Arts Awards, Blue Dragon Film Awards, Grand Bell Awards.  

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Lee Byung Hun, his 10th Best Actor Award in 2016

Inside Men wins 5 awards including Best Film & Best Director

 

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December 27, 2016

INSIDE MEN Tops Korean Film Producers Association Awards
NA Hong-jin, LEE Byung-hun & SON Ye-jin Awarded at 3rd KFPAs

by Pierce Conran / KoBiz

WOO Min-ho’s Inside Men was named the film of the year at the Korean Film Producers Association Awards. The KFPAs were held for the third time on December 20th at the Myung Films Art Center. 

Inside Men also picked up the Best Actor prize, which went to LEE Byung-hun and Best Editing for KIM Sang-bum and KIM Jae-bum. Meanwhile, Best Actress was won by SON Ye-jin for her parts in LEE Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath and HUR Jin-ho’s The Last Princess. NA Hong-jin picked up yet another Best Director prize for THE WAILING, while his film also won Best Cinematography for HONG Kyeong-pyo and Best Lighting for KIM Chang-ho.

TRAIN TO BUSAN also picked up three awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for KIM Eui-sung, as well as Best Screenplay for PARK Joo-seok and the Best Technical Award for JUNG Do-ahn. Other winners included The Priests’ Park So-dam, who picked up the Best Supporting Actress prize, Best Music winner Mowg of The Age of Shadows and Best Sound honoree KIM Suk-won, who worked on several films this year.

Producer HWANG Ki-sung, whose credits also include Splendid Outing (1977), Whale Hunting (1984) and Say Yes (2001), was also on hand to pick up the honorary award.

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December 27, 2016

'Inside Men' sweeps five prizes at Daejong Film Awards

By Shim Sun-ah

SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean crime thriller "Inside Men" swept the board at this year's Daejong Film Awards, one of the nation's top film honors, on Tuesday.

Woo Min-ho's movie won best film, best director and best screenwriter for himself; best actor for its male lead Lee Byung-hun; and best planning for its producer Kim Won-guk.

Also starring Cho Seung-woo and Baek Yun-shik, the movie portrays the complicated relationships between politicians, the press, the rich, law enforcement authorities and organized crime in South Korea.

Lee was honored for his lead role as the vengeful political henchman Ahn Sang-gu in the movie.

Actor Lee Byung-hun poses for photographers during the 53th Daejong Film Awards in Seoul's Sejong University on Dec. 27, 2016. (Yonhap)

Son Ye-jin of "The Last Princess" was named best actress, while the best supporting actor and actress awards went to Uhm Tae-gu and Ra Mi-ran of "The Age of Shadows" and "The Last Princess," respectively.

Actor Jung Ga-ram and actress Kim Hwan-hee of "Fourth Place" and "The Wailing" won best rookie prizes, while Cho Jung-rae of "Spirits' Homecoming" was named the best rookie director.

As South Korea's equivalent of the Academy Awards, the Daejong Film Awards was launched in 1962 to boost the quality of Korean films and to support the industry.

But the longest-running and once the most prestigious film event in Korea lost luster when none of the candidates in major categories showed up at the 52nd edition of the awards last year in protest of the way the awards are managed.

Things were no different at this year's event, with most of the winners staying away from the awards ceremony citing busy schedules.

"It's a pleasure to win a prize, but at this very moment I feel heavy-hearted above all," Lee said in his acceptance speech during the ceremony in Seoul's Sejong University. "I don't think that the dishonorable disappearance of the 53-year-old and once honorable event could be a solution to this problem. Changes can begin at the very moment when we're united in one mind and make efforts to bring them."

  

This photo shows the entrance to the Convention Center of Sejong University, the venue of the 53rd Daejong Film Awards, on Dec. 27, 2016. (Yonhap)

sshim@yna.co.kr

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December 27, 2016

Winners Of The 53rd Grand Bell Awards Revealed

Source: Soompi by E. Kang

On December 27, the 53rd Grand Bell Awards -also known as Daejong Film Awards- were held at Sejong University’s Convention Center and honored several of this year’s biggest films.

“Inside Men” and “The Wailing” were the big winners of the night, each taking home five awards in various categories. “Inside Men” particularly was once again awarded “Best Picture,” while Lee Byung Hun won “Best Male Actor” for his role in the movie.

The actor directly touched on the still-existing controversy surrounding the awards ceremony in his acceptance speech.

“I’m happy to receive this award, but my heavy heart takes precedence. There’s been a lot of talk about and problems with the Grand Bell Awards, and I feel like these problems have still not been addressed,” he said.  He called for action to be taken, and hopes that the industry will eventually come to an understanding.

The ceremony has been criticized for its fee-based voting system, poor accounting practices, and was supposedly boycotted last year for saying that only attendees could win awards. Similar to last year, many of the nominees and subsequent winners were not in attendance.

See the full list of winners below!

Best Picture: “Inside Men”
Best Director: Woo Min Ho (“Inside Men”)
Best Male Actor: Lee Byung Hun (“Inside Men”)
Best Female Actor: Son Ye Jin (“The Last Princess”)
Best Supporting Male Actor: Uhm Tae Goo (“The Age of Shadows”)
Best Supporting Female Actor: Ra Mi Ran (“The Last Princess”)
Best New Actor: Jung Ga Ram (“4th Place”)
Best New Actress: Kim Hwan Hee (“The Wailing”)
Popularity Award: Lee Beom Soo (“Operation Chromite”)
New Rising Star: Kim Hee Jin (“Operation Chromite”) and Choi Ri (“Homecoming”)
Best New Director: Jo Jung Rae (“Homecoming”)
Best Cinematography: Hong Kyung Pyo (“The Wailing”)
Best Original Score: Choi Yong Rak, Jo Sung Woo (“The Last Princess”)
Best Art Direction: Jo Hwa Sung (“The Age of Shadows”)
Best Film Editing: Kim Sun Min (“The Wailing”)
Best Screenplay: Woo Min Ho (“Inside Men”)
Best Costume Design: Kwon Yoo Jin, Im Seung Hee (“The Last Princess”)
Best Lighting: Kim Chan Ho (“The Wailing”)
Best Planning: Kim Won Guk (“Inside Men”)
Best Sound Recording: Kim Shin Yong, Park Yong Ki (“The Wailing”)
Special Prize for Cutting Edge Technology: Jo Yong Suk, Hwang Hyo Kyun, Kwak Tae Yong, Kim Tae Eui (“The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale”)
Lifetime achievement Award: Director Yoon Sam Yook

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53RD DAE JONG FILM AWARDS

 

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December 25, 2016

Korean cinema of 2016: Women, politics, horror

Women, female relationships and political intrigue were the hallmarks of Korean cinema this year. A number of films that delved into the world of the occult, driven by unfathomable forces of evil, also stood out in a year that saw the return of some of Korea’s most renowned directors, including Park Chan-wook and Na Hong-jin, who each added significant pieces to their idiosyncratic oeuvre. 

Spotlight on women 

Arguably the most globally lauded Korean film of the year, Park Chan-wook’s “The Handmaiden” took on the subject of a lesbian thriller romance, featuring two female lovers against a world of demented male figures. Provocative scenes were portrayed against a flat, fairy tale-like backdrop.

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Kim Tae-ri (left) and Kim Min-hee star in “The Handmaiden.” (CJ Entertainment)

“Handmaiden” has nabbed various international accolades since its screening at the Cannes International Film Festival in May. Vogue.com named it among the “10 Most Fashionable Movies of 2016” for its lavish mise-en-scene, while the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards gave it a best production design award. 

The New York Times listed Kim Tae-ri, who stars as Hideko’s earthy, unabashed handmaiden Sook-hee, in a September article titled “Four Actresses Everyone will be Talking About this Fall.” 

Female romance was also given a stage in Lee Hyun-ju’s indie film “Our Love Story,” a subtle, realistic tale of an encounter between an art student and a stranger. 

Antagonistic relationships between women were explored in films like Kim Tae-yong’s “Misbehavior,” which draws on the jealousy and pride between two female teachers fighting for the affections of a male student. Both Kim Ha-neul and Yoo In-young are excellently cast in their roles: One is reticent and downtrodden, while the other is vivacious, young and self-absorbed.

Director Lee Eon-hee’s “Missing,” meanwhile, saw the unlikely reconciliation between two women -- a mother and the nanny who kidnapped her daughter, played by Uhm Ji-won and Gong Hyo-jin. 

In a mature tale of womanhood, “Bacchus Lady” explored the world of Korea’s elderly prostitutes and the universal solitude of growing old. 

Veteran actress Youn Yuh-jung portrayed the feisty protagonist, who, at 65, turns tricks for a living. Directed by E J-yong, the film offers an emotional reflection on life and death as Korea advances into an aging society. It was screened at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. 

Scandalous politics

This year also saw a number of films portraying disasters and authorities’ damnable responses. 

Director Park Jung-woo’s “Pandora,” set to be streamed globally on Netflix, depicted a nuclear power plant meltdown and the lack of an emergency response system, resulting in the preventable deaths of nuclear power plant workers and residents of surrounding areas. 

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Hwang Jung-min (left) and Jung Woo-sung star in “Asura: City of Madness.” (CJ Entertainment) 

Kim Seong-hun’s “Tunnel” saw actor Ha Jung-woo trapped inside a collapsed tunnel for weeks on end, the rescue squad wringing their hands at the ineffectual orders from those higher up in the government. 

Kim Sung-su’s “Asura: The City of Madness” depicted a bloodstained web of criminals and politicians. 

The latest political thriller “Master,” helmed by Jo Eui-seok, stars actor Lee Byung-hun as a con artist who amasses astronomical wealth and bribes government officials to exert power in state affairs. The flick which opened last week, rang an eerily familiar bell in Korea, currently swept up by an influence-peddling political scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye. 

Ride into the occult

Two of this year’s most striking films were in the horror genre, ruminating on morality and human nature.

Yeon Sang-ho’s apocalyptic zombie thriller “Train to Busan” showed everyday characters -- from students to office workers -- fighting for their lives, trapped on a torpedoing train swarming with flesh-hungry zombies. It premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival’s Midnight Screenings section and has been picked up for a US remake by Gaumont, a French film studio. 

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Hwang Jung-min stars in “The Wailing (Goksung).” (20th Century Fox Korea)

Na Hong-jin’s occult thriller “The Wailing (Goksung),” which also screened at Cannes’ Out of Competition section, took viewers on a terrifying journey toward unreasoning evil. Fourteen-year-old actress Kim Hwan-hee delivered a chilling performance as a possessed child. 

A period in time 

As usual, a number of period pieces also sought to reinterpret historical events from the Japanese occupation era. 

Kim Jee-woon’s “The Age of Shadows” transformed the story of Korean independence fighters smuggling in bombs from Shanghai to Korea into a stylish noir.

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Gong Yoo stars in “The Age of Shadows.” (Warner Bros. Korea)

In “The Last Princess,” director Hur Jin-ho focused on the early stages of the Japanese occupation of Korea through the eyes of Joseon princess Deok-hye, weaving the historical into a personal tale. 

“The Portrait of a Poet” by Lee Joon-ik offered a moving portrait of poet Yun Dong-ju, in colonial Korea where the Korean language was banned. 

By Rumy Doo (doo@heraldcorp.com) 

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December 26, 2016

Lee Min-jung and Lee Byung-hun on a date with their son

Source: Newspim via Hancinema.net

Actress Lee Min-jung released a picture during a date with her husband and son.

She posted the picture on Instagram, a day before Christmas Eve saying, "TeamLab World".

There is a shadow of two in one picture which seems like Lee Byung-hun and his son and a picture of the boy alone.

Meanwhile, Lee Byung-hun and Lee Min-jung got married in 2013 and they have a son.

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December 26, 2016

[HanCinema Awards] Best Actor in a Film - And the Winner Is...

Source: Hancinema.net

Welcome to the final week of the First Annual HanCinema Awards. After two weeks of voting, the first of the results are in! HanCinema thanks all of you readers for joining in and making this successful! We couldn't have done it without you, so enjoy all these fine gentlemen of Korean cinema.

Just as a reminder, here are the nominees for Best Actor in a Film:

Lee Byung-hun for "Inside Men"

Hwang Jeong-min for "Asura: The City of Madness"

Song Kang-ho for "The Age of Shadows"

Park Jung-min for "Dongju, Portrait of a Poet"

Kwak Do-won for "The Wailing"

And the winner is:

Lee Byung-hun for "Inside Men"

Congratulations Lee Byung-hun for your outstanding work and earning your fans' love and admiration. We look forward to more amazing work from you!

 

2016 Grand Slam: Best Actor at Baeksang, Blue Dragon & Grand Bell Daejong Film Awards

2016 - Best Actor at 10th Asian Film Awards (AFA)

2016 - Pioneer Award at 5th Marie Claire Film Festival

2016 - Best Actor at 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards

2016 - Star Asia Award honoree at the 15th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF)

2016 - Best Actor at 16th Director's Cut Awards

2016 - KAFA Star Award at the 10th Anniversary of Korean Academy of Film Arts

2016 - Best Actor at 25th Buil Film Awards 

2016 - Actor of the Year at BIFF with Marie Claire Asia Star Awards

2016 - Best Actor at 36th Critics' Choice Film Awards

2016 - Best Actor at 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards

2016 - Actor of the Year Korea Arts Critics' Association

2016 - Best Actor at 3rd Korean Film Producers Association Awards (KFPA)

2016 - Best Actor at 53rd Daejong Grand Bell Film Awards

Honorable Mention:

CINE21 Best Actor 2016

Top 10 Gallup Korea 2016

Hancinema Best Film Actor 2016 

Also see: List of awards and nominations received by Lee Byung-hun

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December 27, 2016

Lee Byung-hun, 10 'Best Actor' awards in a row

Source: Xportsnews via Hancinema.net

Actor Lee Byung-hun was awarded the Best Actor at the Daejong Awards. This makes it 10 in a row.

The 53rd Daejong Film Awards was held on the 27th.

Nominees for Best Actor were Kwak Do-won, Choi Min-sik, Ha Jeong-woo, Lee Byung-hun and Song Kang-ho. Lee Byung-hun took home the trophy.

During he speech he said, "I remember 20 years ago when I first got my rookie award here. Every actor wants to be on that stage at least once in his life and it was such an honor".

"I thought about many things on my way here. It's such a pleasure to be getting this award; I can't help but feel the weight on my shoulders".

"53 years of history and I don't think reclaiming the honor this event has had before is going to happen just like that. However, I don't think it's right for such an honorable event disappearing for some issue, I don't know what the right solution is, but change happens and hopefully everyone works together to make this change a good one".

"I also hope more growing actors feel what I feel when I first came to this award show 20 years ago".