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Han Hyo-joo attempts at short animation

Source | 2013/07/25


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Actress Han Hyo-joo participated in making a short animation.

BH Entertainment announced that Han Hyo-joo participated in Daum's Art & Shake.

"Art & Shake" is a relay project which is co-managed by Daum and the culture center where inspiration can be shared through a mobile world.

Han Hyo-joo participated in the 20-second animation under the theme, "Making Han Hyo-joo Laugh". This animation contains characters Simon and Nemon drawn by the actress herself.

The collaborated art animation by Han Hyo-joo and writer Kwon Ki-soo can also be seen on the 22nd.

This art animation will be seen on the Daum Mobile Morning Gallery.

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Source : star.moneytoday.co.kr... ( English )

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class="entry-title"‘Cold Eyes’ to be screened at ‘38th Toronto International Film Festival’

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South Korean film ‘Cold Eyes’ will be screened at the upcoming ‘38th Toronto International Film Festival’.

The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the top 4 international film festivals in the world alongside Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, and is the largest scale film festival in the whole of North America. The festival is expected to draw an attendance of up to 400,000 moviegoers.

This year’s festival will be held from September 5th – 15th, and ‘Cold Eyes’ will be screened in the festival’s Gala Presentations. The Gala Presentations ranks as the festival’s biggest and most important segment.

Meanwhile, ‘American Dreams in China’, ‘The Art of the Steal’, ‘August: Osage County’, and ‘Rush’ are the other films besides ‘Cold Eyes’ to be screened in the Gala Presentations.

‘Cold Eyes’ will become the 3rd South Korean film to make it to the Gala Presentations of the Toronto International Film Festival, after ‘The Housemaid’ (2010) and ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’ (2008).

The Asia programmer for the festival had made a visit to South Korea recently to catch a VIP screening of ‘Cold Eyes’ and was left feeling mightily impressed. He stated that that the film was really interesting, and was full of tension and thrills from start to finish. He concluded by saying that it was a film that was definitely worth a second view in the cinemas.

With ‘Cold Eyes’ confirmed for the festival, directors Jo Eui Seok and Kim Byung Suh, as well as actors Sol Kyung Gu, Jung Woo Sung, Han Hyo Joo and 2PM’s Junho will be stepping onto the red carpet at Toronto. This will be Jung Woo Sung’s second time in Toronto, after ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’. Jung Woo Sung received loud cheers the last time he was in Toronto, that were definitely on a par with those enjoyed by Hollywood stars. The 2nd appearance of Jung Woo Sung is thus likely to grab the attention of moviegoers all over the world once more.

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class="entry-title"Han Hyo Joo Releases Animation with Self-Drawn Characters

Han Hyo Joo has started to branch out into other areas, releasing an art animation produced with her own hand-drawn characters.

The animation was released through Daum Mobile′s Morning Gallery as a part of its ′Art & Shake Project Season 2′.

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The 20-second clip centers around the theme ′What makes Han Hyo Joo smile′, and tells four stories of what makes Han Hyo Joo smile in everyday life. The story is told through Han Hyo Joo′s self-made characters, Simong and Nemong.

The clip was first released on July 15.

The Art & Shake Project, which has featured Han Hyo Joo and artist Kwon Ki Soo, who created the character Dongguri, is a relay project that aims to find new values and share inspiration in the mobile world, drawing participation from the arts and pop culture.

The Mobile Morning Gallery will remain open until July 31.

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Actress Han Hyo-joo, Artist Kwon Ki-Soo Partner for Mobile Gallery Project

By Lee Hyo-won | blouinartinfo.comkwon-ki-soo_han-hyo-joo.jpgKwon Ki-Soo, left, and actress Han Hyo-joo holding the artist's Dongguri character

Actress Han Hyo-joo, the heroine of the current South Korean box office smash “Cold Eyes,” has revealed an artistic streak by collaborating with artist Kwon Ki-Soo for a mobile gallery project “Art & Shake.”

A 20-second animation by the duo was unveiled on July 22 through the Daum Mobile Morning Gallery, operated by the South Korean web portal Daum. It can be viewed online through smartphones using the Daum application through July 31.

The animation features Kwon’s signatureDongguri character as well as two other characters designed by Han, Simong and Naemong. They are presented against cartoonish backdrops inspired by oriental landscapes that Kwon has become largely associated with.

Kwon is a widely exhibited artist, whose pieces have been showcased at home and abroad, including the Gallery Hyundai, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and the Exposition Animanga-EXIT in France. While his black-and-white Dongguri character may appear simple, the artist is reputed for following a long painstaking process of transferring digital designs to the canvas using masking tape and acrylic paint.

Han is one of the country’s most sought-after actresses, with her latest film “Cold Eyes” fairing well in the local box office and being invited to show in the gala section of the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Last year, her period drama “Masquerade” became one of the highest-grossing Korean films in local box office history.

Visit the Daum Mobile Morning Gallery’s website for more information.

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coldeyes.gif    Cold Eyes


Yoon-ju (Han Hyo-joo, Masquerade) is a slightly neurotic young cop endowed with the power of 3-D, photographic memory who has applied for the elite surveillance unit of the Seoul metropolitan police supervised by Director Ms. Lee (Jin Kyung, Unbowed). She is taken under the wing by disheveled, bespectacled Chief Detective Hwang (Sol Kyung-gu, Peppermint Candy, Venus and Mars), who immediately nicknames her "Flower Sow:" he keeps custom-made chess pieces of zoo animals-- Squirrel, Snake, Monkey and so on-- representing each member of the team. While stubborn and, well, a big pig-headed, Yoon-ju soon displays a fierce intelligence, physical stamina and excellent sense of judgment to win the admiration and trust of her mentor and colleagues. However, the team meets their match when a tall, mysterious criminal James (Jung Woo-sung, Musa, A Season of Good Rain) pulls off a daring bank heist right under their noses.

Cold Eyes Adapted from the Hong Kong film Eye in the Sky (2007), directed by Johnny To's longtime partner and co-screenwriter Yau Nai-Hoi, Cold Eyes is a pleasantly level-headed thriller keeping things at a cooler-than-room temperature. Like Blind (2011), it is remarkable not primarily because of what it does-- and it does most of what it is supposed to do exceedingly well-- but because of what it doesn't do. There are no tough guys from the opposing camps locking their stares in a (homoerotic) figurative embrace. There are little melodramatic outbursts that try to browbeat the viewers into being "touched."

Yes, Yoon-ju breaks down and weeps at one point but it is more out of frustration that she is prevented from bringing the totality of her investigative ability to snare James, rather than out of her being a "caring" female character. As essayed by Han Hyo-joo in a restrained performance, she comes off both sympathetic and convincing as a young professional with believably annoying personal habits and character flaws, but first and foremost defined by her professional skills, rather than her looks or star charisma. Meanwhile, Sol Kyung-gu dials down his Method intensity to allow room for Han and other supporting players to shine. His Detective Hwang is not merely "eccentric" but is a shrewd manipulator of human relations and, as the movie hints, intra-agency political games.

But perhaps the movie's biggest surprise is how it conceives its villain, James. Jung Woo-sung had one of his best recent roles playing against Michelle Yeoh in the clever Chinese wu xia pian/film noir hybrid Reign of Assassins (2010), but it was still a variation on his silently suffering, romantic lead persona, in which he was typecast for some years. Here, Jung plays a master-criminal who inscrutably disappears into his "job," and derives perhaps the only joy of his life by firsthand observing how his carefully engineered schemes are realized by the team of marauders he assembled (In a fascinatingly self-reflexive bit, Detective Hwang at one point quips that James appears to assume the "stance of an omniscient auteur"). Yet, using a fountain pen as a lethal weapon of his choice, Jung also portrays a frighteningly ruthless and focused murderer who means it when he says he prefers to leave no loose ends. His James is a bona fide hard-boiled villain: not the chatty pastiches in a Tarantino film but one found in, say, a Donald Westlake novel (or a tough-as-nails filmic adaptation of it such as The Outfit [1974])

There was little in director-screenwriter Jo Eui-suk's previous film The World of Silence that could have led me to anticipate the assured hand he displays in Cold Eyes, except perhaps for the Dario Argento-like fascination with the fallibility of oracular observation, which is certainly given a nice workout in his screenplay. Given the way Cold Eyes makes most out of the chaotic beauty inherent in the Seoul landscape, with its multiple overhead shots of glass-and-concrete skyscrapers and frighteningly ubiquitous CCTV footage, it seems likely that DP and co-director Kim Byung-seo's (DP of Hur Jin-ho's Dangerous Liaisons [2012] and I Saw the Devil [2010] among many others) contribution was substantial.

It is ironical that the least sentimental, the least macho-cool-guy-enamored, the most hardboiled and smart (I haven't even gotten into the film's fascinating political stance: sort of Fritz Lang by way of Derek Flint and Man from U.N.C.L.E) Korean thriller I have seen in years is an adaptation of a Hong Kong film, but of course by mid-2000s the HK film industry had already evolved beyond their old "Hong Kong noir" model. Those who miss Chow Yun-Fat fixing you with a sexy stare while flying through the air blasting two pistols in John-Woo-trademarked slow motion may find Cold Eyes, well, more than a little cold. It is otherwise highly recommended to others, especially young female viewers who have previously been turned off by lack of identifiable heroines in crime thrillers of this type: I assure you, this baby is different.      (Kyu Hyun  Kim)

Source: Koreanfilm.org


~god with every review i read i want to watch this film more and more. characters are fascinating. and i just know that yoon ju is going to be my favorite character of hers yet. smart and strong, and neurotic and pig-headed (hence, the codename), she's believably human, not just your superhero (or ~heroine) prototype.


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KBS Entertainment Weekly interview of the Good Downloader campaign. Hyo Joo's so shy when Lee Hyun Woo made some gestures and kinda requested her to show some sexy movements to them... :))
http://youtu.be/nsmkMaPBab0Credits to the uploader

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