"Let's never forget today." Neon in the US has revealed their own official US trailer for the film Broker, the latest film from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. This premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, then it later screened at the Telluride, Toronto, San Sebastian, Vancouver, and Zurich Film Festivals. This is the first time Kore-eda has made a film in Korea in the Korean language, and it has many connections to Parasite - the film stars Song Kang-Ho (!!) and was shot by cinematographer Kyung-pyo Hong. The film is about a group of Koreans who collect babies left inside of Baby Boxes, and then (illegally) find adoptees for them since the official adoption program is so complex and annoying. The cast features Song Kang-Ho with Gang Dong-Won, Bae Doona, Iu, and Lee Joo-Young. Broker won the Best Actor prize in Cannes for Song Kang-Ho, who deserves every single award on...
- 12/1/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Shim Sung-bo's Sea FogSTORY71%DIRECTION76%ACTING73%VISUALS77%POSITIVESRealismGreat story and directionThe general atmosphere, particularly inside the fogNEGATIVESThe romance Some scenes of extreme violence may shock mainstream audience2016-07-2574%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (1 Vote)77%
The film is based on an actual incident, when 25 illegal Chinese immigrants died from asphyxiation in the ship’s hold, as it was transporting them to S. Korea, with the crew then throwing the bodies in the sea. The incident almost caused a diplomatic episode between S.Korea and China, with the former publicly apologizing for the incident. The circumstances surrounding the incident have shocked the South Korean public, and the government issued a statement expressing regret over what it called an inhumane and criminal act.
The story takes place in 1998, three years before the case, when captain Kang, hit by the financial crisis brought by the Imf, is forced to transport Chinese immigrants to S. Korea.
The film is based on an actual incident, when 25 illegal Chinese immigrants died from asphyxiation in the ship’s hold, as it was transporting them to S. Korea, with the crew then throwing the bodies in the sea. The incident almost caused a diplomatic episode between S.Korea and China, with the former publicly apologizing for the incident. The circumstances surrounding the incident have shocked the South Korean public, and the government issued a statement expressing regret over what it called an inhumane and criminal act.
The story takes place in 1998, three years before the case, when captain Kang, hit by the financial crisis brought by the Imf, is forced to transport Chinese immigrants to S. Korea.
- 7/25/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
For some, the name Bong Joon-ho is enough to garner interest, whether he is directing, producing, or scripting. He has handled the latter two in Sung-bo Shim‘s (who co-penned Bong’s Memories of Murder), which has now been given its first U.S. trailer ahead of a domestic release. The trailer shows a fisherman down on his luck who once again engages in human smuggling between China and Korea. An official selection at Tiff back in 2014 and now finally landing in the U.S. this summer, the trailer promises a taut, beautifully shot thriller.
We said in our review: “Both atmospheric and claustrophobic, the thriller is expertly lensed by cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo (Mother, Snowpiercer) and tensely paced by editors Kim Sang-bum and Kim Jae-bum. The influence of Bong is apparent throughout the film, yet Shim’s direction is top notch and a text book example of misdirection. While the...
We said in our review: “Both atmospheric and claustrophobic, the thriller is expertly lensed by cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo (Mother, Snowpiercer) and tensely paced by editors Kim Sang-bum and Kim Jae-bum. The influence of Bong is apparent throughout the film, yet Shim’s direction is top notch and a text book example of misdirection. While the...
- 7/12/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Since the early aughts, South Korea has been one of the most prolific and exciting exporters of genre cinema, giving us such indelible gems as Oldboy, The Host, Snowpiercer, to name but a few. The country made its prowess felt again at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with no fewer than three high-profile titles covering historical suspense (The Handmaiden), zombie action (Train to Busan), and, perhaps most memorably, supernatural horror in the form of The Wailing.
Set in a remote, mountain-ringed village pretty much isolated from the outside world, the story revolves around a series of exceptionally gruesome murders where the apparent perpetrators are all found at the crime scene in a state of rabid agitation, letting out inhuman, blood-curdling wails. Detective Jong-goo (Kwak Do-wan) is overwhelmed by the peculiar nature of the case. But it’s when his young daughter starts to show the same symptoms as the...
Set in a remote, mountain-ringed village pretty much isolated from the outside world, the story revolves around a series of exceptionally gruesome murders where the apparent perpetrators are all found at the crime scene in a state of rabid agitation, letting out inhuman, blood-curdling wails. Detective Jong-goo (Kwak Do-wan) is overwhelmed by the peculiar nature of the case. But it’s when his young daughter starts to show the same symptoms as the...
- 5/25/2016
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
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