Too hip for your summer? let’s see what else we have in store. We have…Antique, the full hotness movie (scroll below this home page for more info), and guess what, we have a row full of Asian movies to watch at the New York Asian Film Festival 2008! not so exciting for those of you who live NOT in New York, eh? or should i say, US, since i’m living on the other side of the globe.

The Date
NYAFF 2008 will run from June 20 till July 13, enough to fill you up with good Asian Movies.

 The Venue
IFC Center (June 20-July 6)
323 Sixth Avenue
(between 3rd and 4th Streets)
New York, NY 10014
Box office: 212.924.7771

Subway:
Take the A, B, C, D, E, F or V
to the West 4th Street/Washington Square stop
or the 1 to Christopher Street/Sheridan Sq.

Japan Society (July 3-July 6)
333 East 47th Street
(between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
New York, NY 10017
Box Office: (212) 715-1258,
Monday – Friday, 10 am – 4:45 pm

Subway:
Take the 6 to 51st Street or 42nd Street – Grand Central Station, or the E or V to Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street.

THIS IS NOT FOR FREE!!don’t say i didn’t remind you when you’re standing in front of the venue cursing cos you have no tickets to get inside.
check the official website for everything you need to know, including the movie line-up and ticketing :
www.subwaycinema.com

Proceed for more about some of the movies and the special appearances. Note that they have prepared a line of interesting movies, i can’t wait to get my hands on the video versions.

ACCURACY OF DEATH (Japan, 2008) – sometimes a movie sounds like a bad idea: the Grim Reaper comes to Earth with a talking dog to evaluate the lives of potential dead people. But with Takeshi Kaneshiro playing the Grim Reaper, and set in 1988, 2008, and the near future, this flick turns out to be a light-footed romantic comedy that winds up turbo-charging your sense of optimism. Kaneshiro, a veteran of Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou and John Woo films dominates this flick, and shows exactly what it is that a movie star does to earn those bags of cash. In his hands, every second of this film feels like pure gold.

ADRIFT IN TOKYO (Japan, 2007) – This is a movie about two men walking down the street. Seriously. That’s it. But bear with, because isn’t CITIZEN KANE just about a guy who owns a sled? A scruffy law school student (Joe Odagiri, the Johnny Depp of Japan) is deep in hock to a thuggish, middle-aged debt collector who offers to forgive what he owes if the kid accompanies him on long walks through Tokyo. What sounds contrived takes about 10 minutes to settle into a loopy, at times hilarious, rhythm as the two stroll through the city trying to figure out how watch repair shops stay in business these days and pondering the plight of the pygmy hippopotamus. After seeing this flick you’ll learn the soul-soothing pleasures of walking, and you’ll never
take the bus again. (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film).

ALWAYS 2: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET (Japan, 2007) – one of Japan’s biggest hits, ALWAYS: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET rocked the New York Asian Film Festival back in 2006 and now the sequel is back to deliver even more mid-century melodrama about a neighborhood in Tokyo where everyone is struggling to make ends meet and get ahead in post-war Japan. It was a mega-hit in Japan and this time…Godzilla attacks. Seriously. And in case you missed it, we’re bringing back the first ALWAYS (winner of 12 Japanese Academy Awards). (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film)

ASSEMBLY (China, 2007) – China’s second-biggest box office hit of 2007 sets new standards for the dirt-in-your-teeth war film. Taking place during China’s Civil War of 1948, it’s an epic that boils down to one question: how do veterans deal with the choices they made on the battlefield once the war is over and they’ve come home? Director Feng Xiaogang is China’s biggest hit-maker, and his swordplay epic, THE BANQUET, opened last year’s New York Asian Film Festival.

THE BUTCHER (Korea, 2007) – the Korean film industry spent last year falling apart with big, glossy productions bombing at the box office, one after the other. This grotty mash-up of HOSTEL and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE was made completely off the map, shot on video far outside the studio system, by first-time feature director Kim Jin-Won, and in it he depicts the Korean film industry as a bunch of pigs and rapists shooting snuff films for foreign audiences. The comparison to Korea’s OLDBOY-inspired cinema of violence is hard to miss.

DAINIPPONJIN (Japan, 2007) – never has a comedy been this patient in setting up its audience. A mockumentary that starts out as the most boring movie ever made about the most boring man on earth suddenly switches gears when we discover that the government job he’s complaining about is one that requires him to grow to enormous size and defend Japan from horrible giant monsters. While wearing purple underwear. Written, directed and starring Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan’s number one comedian, this is the movie CLOVERFIELD should have been, combining the lunacy of WWE smackdown with the insanity of THIS IS SPINAL TAP. Ever wanted to know what happens when giant monsters are in heat? See it here! (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film).

DOG IN A SIDECAR (Japan, 2007) – it’s easy to slam a coming of age movie because there’re just too many of them and they usually follow the exact same set of dramatic beats. But DOG IN A SIDECAR sidesteps that problem and breathes new life into what has become a tired genre. It also marks the comeback film for actress Yuko Takeuchi (THE RING) who won six “Best Actress” awards for this film, playing the lazy, uncouth girlfriend of a single parent. Gentle and unambitious, this is a golden example of the small, well-made film that proves good things come in small packages.

FINE, TOTALLY FINE (Japan, 2007) – a spiritual successor to previous NYAFF hit, THE TASTE OF TEA, this flick is almost impossible to describe. On the surface it charts a lazy love triangle between three losers who are hitting 30 and haven’t gone anywhere in life. But that leaves out the ghost, the quest to create the world’s best haunted house, how not to open a box of Kleenex, the worst way to sell a porno magazine, the joys of used bookstores and the world’s biggest, child-killing chewing gum bubble. (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film)

HAPPINESS (Korea, 2007) – Hur Jin-Ho has made his career out of looking at worn-out melodramas from new angles, resulting in some of cinema’s most sob-worthy and exquisitely crafted romances like CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST and APRIL SNOW. Here he manages to make a love story between two sick people (he’s got cirrhosis of the liver, she’s got lung disease) feel like something fresh and tender by playing up the moments that get lost and playing down the big dramatic beats. It’s an honest tear-jerker, where you feel like you don’t have to sell yourself short in order to have a good cry.

KALA (Indonesia, 2007) – Joko Anwar blew away festival audiences with his hilarious JONJI’S PROMISE, but his follow-up film is not what anyone expected. A dark, alternate history film noir set in a version of Indonesia where everyone dresses like it’s still the 1950’s and where sudden, hideous violence waits around every corner in a black sedan, this conspiracy thriller slowly tightens its hand around your throat until darkness creeps in on the edge of your vision. A narcoleptic reporter and a gay cop are drawn into a murderous plot to find what’s known as The First President’s Treasure, while the city around them descends into lawlessness. A massive blockbuster in Indonesia, it’s an unsettling, stylish walk into the dark at the end of the street.

KING NARESUAN 1 & 2 (Thailand, 2007) – the number one and number two box office hits of all time from Thailand, these massive epics tell the life story of Thailand’s warrior king, Naresuan. Full of sets dripping with gold, political intrigue that makes American politics look straight-forward and some of the biggest, most rousing action scenes you’ll ever have the pleasure of sucking through your eyes. Imagine THE KING & I with the musical numbers replaced by herds of stampeding war elephants, six-foot-long rifles and bloodthirsty Amazons.

L: CHANGE THE WORLD (Japan, 2008) – the DEATH NOTE movies were massive hits in Japan (and at last year’s NYAFF) and now the latest installment in the series hits screens, courtesy of Hideo Nakata, director of the landmark horror film THE RING. This time out it’s L, the teen, goth version of Sherlock Holmes who takes center stage. Slotted into the last 23 days of his life, this flick is a big budget summer blockbuster that sees this hunchbacked, candy-munching genius take on a terrorist cult armed with a flesh-melting virus.

M (Korea, 2007) – Lee Myung-Se has the best set of eyes in all of Korea, resulting in the visual extravagances of his action movie, NOWHERE TO HIDE, and his swordplay flick, DUELIST. Now he’s turned those magic orbs on the ghost movie and created the divisive, infuriating, totally unique M, that’s the closest you’ll ever come to dreaming with your eyes open. A popular junk novelist has just blown his latest deadline but hasn’t written a word of his new book because his high school sweetheart has suddenly shown up in town from out of the past. She may be real, or she may be a ghost, or she may be a memory, or there may be no difference between the three. Audiences practically tore the screen down when this deeply personal movie premiered, but when cinema owners tried to yank it out of theaters early, fans took to the streets in protest.

MAD DETECTIVE (Hong Kong, 2007) – Johnnie To reunites with actor Lau Ching-wan after seven years to make this crime flick that’s like a high performance engine firing on all cylinders. Lau plays a cop who can see people’s souls, fired from the force after sawing off his own ear and giving it to his commanding officer as a gift. Now he’s pulled back in to solve a crime committed by another police officer and what unfolds is one of the blackest, darkest, most despairing films you’ll ever see.

MISE-EN-SCENE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL – Korea’s number one festival of short films comes back for a return engagement and this time we picked the shorts ourselves. There’s the gruesome tale of a fluffy puppy out for revenge against the owners who abandoned it, a plot by zombies to control the Korean film industry, a gang of chickens who eat the moon, a company where contracts are settled by martial arts and a very strange story about the secret love child of famous British author John Fowles.

THE REBEL (Vietnam, 2007) – an old time Republic serial, pumped up on politics and super-charged with ONG BAK caliber action scenes, THE REBEL is the biggest box office hit ever to come out of Vietnam. Set in the 1920’s, it’s all about a secret agent for the colonial French government who is tasked with rounding up anti-French rebels and kicking them in the head until they die. Then, one day, he finds that he can’t put down his own people anymore and he goes on the run. Wall-to-wall beat-downs, insane Vietnamese martial arts, and thrill-a-minute chases make this an adrenaline-charged, bloodied knuckled ode to Vietnamese freedom.

SAD VACATION (Japan, 2007) – Shinji Aoyama (EUREKA, ELI ELI LEMA SABACHTANI)
is one of Japan’s best kept secrets. This is part three of his unofficial “Kita Kyushu” trilogy which started with his first film, HELPLESS, continued with EUREKA and concludes with SAD VACATION (named after the Johnny Thunders song). No familiarity with the previous films is necessary. Instead, all you need to know is that Tadanobu Asano plays a guy who was abandoned early on by his mother and, after taking in a Chinese orphan left over from a human trafficking job gone wrong, he suddenly comes across her again as an adult. He’s determined that vengeance will be his, but he finds out that blood is so much thicker than water it’ll drown us all. (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film).

SPARROW (Hong Kong, 2008) – on the other end of the spectrum, Johnnie To must have fallen in love before he made SPARROW. This charming flick took three years to make and it’s a sparkling, life-affirming film about a gang of pickpockets who cross paths with a mysterious femme fatale. An ode to rapidly-vanishing old Hong Kong, it feels like it’s going to burst into song at any minute and contains some of To’s most gorgeous, intricate and technically breathtaking set pieces. Watching this movie feels like soaking your soul in a big glass of cool, bubbly champagne for 87 minutes.

SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO (Japan, 2007) – set to be released theatrically later this summer by First Look, Takashi Miike’s English-language spaghetti western combines Shakespeare, YOJIMBO, Sergio Corbucci films and plants that grow tiny fetuses into an unholy car bomb of a movie that explodes in your face, showering the audience with a nutso reimagining of American Westerns. Everything you’ve ever wanted in a Takashi Miike movie, including Quentin Tarantino hamming his way through a cameo that rivals his appearance on “The Golden Girls” and more, more, more! It’s bigger! Louder! Faster! Better! (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film).

THIS WORLD OF OURS (Japan, 2007) – one of the most astonishing debuts in recent years, 25-year-old director Ryo Nakajima was a hikikomori (a shut-in) who emerged from his room to make this digital howl of rage. Screening at the Vancouver Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and winning three prizes at Japan’s Pia Film Festival it charts a continuum of anger that has the 9/11 bombings at one end and high school bullying at the other with gang rape, self-mutilation and school massacres in between. Think A CLOCKWORK ORANGE mixed with Shunji Iwai’s ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU and scored to Beethoven.

UNITED RED ARMY (Japan, 2007) – Koji Wakamatsu, Japan’s most controversial filmmaker, wraps up 45 years of moviemaking with this 3-hour, insanely researched epic about Japan’s United Red Army faction, one of the world’s most notorious terrorist groups. Director Wakamatsu is barred from entering the United States due to his political affiliations, but we will be conducting a live, satellite Q&A with him after the screening on July 5, and the screenwriter, Masayuki Kakegawa, will be attending the festival and is available for interviews. Koji Wakamatsu is available for email and phone interviews. (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film).

YASUKUNI (China/Japan, 2008) – this documentary about Japan’s Yasukuni shrine to its war dead has become a cultural flashpoint in Japan, with several cinema chains refusing to screen it and elected officials calling for a boycott of the film, while right wingers are threatening to fire bomb screenings. A sprawling documentary about the protestors, right wing nationalists, thugs, patriots and misguided Americans who use the Yasukuni shrine as their stage, this documentary pits war against peace and national pride against xenophobic jingoism. The result will make all audiences deeply uncomfortable. (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film).

The festival’s opening film Then Summer Came, which will be a world premiere, will screen with an intro by the director Ryo Iwamatsu, before the film as well as a Q & A sessions afterwards.

During the Korean shorts program on Saturday June 28th, director Park Jae-Young of the short film A Puppy, Our Family will be on hand for an introduction.

Quite possibly the coolest guest of the bunch will arrive for your viewing pleasure courtesy of a live satelitte. Cult director Koji Wakamatsu will perform a satelitte broadcasted Q & A after the screening of his latest film United Red Army which will screen July 6th to critical acclaim. The film’s screenwriter, Masayuki Kakegawa, will appear in person to also anwser any questions the audience may have.

The Korean documentary Action Boys, which makes its international premiere, will also screen with as yet to be announced special guests in attendance.

Credits : all from Kung Fu Cult Cinema and NYAFF 2008 official website

Loving movies,
Louise
(Relaxing in a sofa and munching popcorn, NOT. I’m at the office actually.)

http://shenyuepop.com/2008/05/11/going-by-the-book-movie-2007/ http://shenyuepop.com/2008/05/11/going-by-the-book-movie-2007/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 14:49:11 +0000 zzhang http://shenyuepop.com/?p=5543

Cast : Jeong Jae-Young, Son Byung-Ho, Lee Young-Eun

Director : Ra Hee-Chan

My rating : Laugh Out Loud

If you’re currently in need of good laugh, or looking for some smart comedy to fill your boring weekend, or if you are just a 23 year old worn-out worker with no boyfriend, no parties on weekend, no energy left to move your ass downtown on saturday night (to make it simple : no life), you might wanna watch this movie – Going By The Book. This sure will crack you up.

It’s about a traffic police Jung Do Man (Jeong Jae Young) who was chosen to act as the robber in a bank-robbery drill. Being a dedicated officer (or perhaps a talented actor) as he was, he pulled his best as a robber, and put the police force’s dignity at stake. The supposed to be ‘fun’ drill, turned out to be a whole-day drama with 8 dead victims (meaning 8 people with ‘dead’ tags on their chests)…and one raped (yeah, just the tag too).

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You can feel Jang Jin’s signature in the whole movie as he was one of the scriptwriters. The witty dialogue, weird situations that led to your bursting laughters, and even Jeong Jae Young.

( Just like Pavlov’s conditional reflexes, i’ve learned to associate Jeong Jae Young to Jang Jin, as you can find him in most of Jang Jin’s works. Check Someone Special, The Big Scene, Guns and Talks, or even the migrating birds in My Son, where Jeong Jae Young dubbed the clueless father-bird) . (And yes, i’m a big fan of Jang Jin, and Jeong Jae Young. Maybe one day you can see me next to the red carpet of a movie premiere, screaming like DBSK fangirls, “Jang Jin Oppa!! I wanna have your baby!!”…just that i might be the only one who scream cos,well…unlike DBSK, Jang Jin is not “The Most Handsome Man in Asia”, and he doesn’t dance nor sing nor whatever boybands do, so perhaps not so many girls would be willing to join me fangirling a movie director…)

Anyway.

Jung Do Man was not the only character worth-notice in this movie. The negotiator with his terrible voice problem somehow had liven up the scene, especially when he paired up with Jung Do Man’s mum, who instead of asking her son to surrender~as the negotiator wished, she asked for Do Man’s seal-stamp cos she needed it to lease her house.

Do Man’s co-officers also drew laughters since the beginning. Check what this officer had to say when the chief ( the one with glasses) asked about his plan to solve the string of bank robberies happened in their city.

and a little romance won’t hurt nobody.

well maybe except for this two.

By the end of the movie (a very dramatic ending for just a training, by the way), you’d realize that you just laughed at the irony of how the cops couldn’t even take down a solo robber in their own drill.

So see, who needs a nagging boyfriend on a saturday night when you have good movies to watch?

Enjoy,

Louise (A freakin 23 year old worn-out employee, a single who chooses to be a couch potato at the end of an exhausting week)

p.s : for those who are recently busy looking for the flaws in SYP posts, yes, i do know it’s not a new movie. it’s from 2007. That’s what the number on the title for. 2007. that’s for the release year. not for the number of the cells you have in your tiny brains.

Going By The Book trailer

Poster from koreanmovie.com

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http://shenyuepop.com/2008/04/21/poppin-in-kung-fu-pop/ http://shenyuepop.com/2008/04/21/poppin-in-kung-fu-pop/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:19:14 +0000 zzhang http://shenyuepop.com/?p=5469

Anyone likes Poppin’ Hyeon Joon? i love him and i love him more when he moves. yeah, the looks-hottest-when-he-moves-guy who just recently made an appearance on Mnet M! Countdown with Jewelry for the remix of Baby One More Time (the lyrics written by Minwoo, sounds hot on the first 5th times you hear it but after that, you just wanna kill yourself every time you hear the repetitive “Baby One more time..baby one more time…baby one more time..”), is gonna have a new movie Kung Fu Pop (got nothing to do with Shen Yue Pop), directed by Huayang Fu, together with other casts Fan Bing Bing and Jordan Chan.

Now when you are just about to get bored to death with all the Kung Fu Something movies (to name some, the classic Kung Fu Master, Jay Chou’s Kung Fu Dunk, the upcoming Kung Fu Panda, and don’t forget Kung Fu Hustle. oh and i know another movie starts with Kung Fu, but it’s not ethical to mention here since it’s an x-rated movie.)…ANYWAY..what was i talking about? oh right, NOW when you might get bored with all movies start with Kung Fu title, you surely can survive just another one, can’t you?.

This movie is about streetdance.

Are you expecting me to say more? well, it’s a movie about street dance and Fan Bing Bing -the girl that looks like a computerized image up there- is gonna play as a DJ. Boys, don’t you just love hot female DJs?
Just happen to cross my mind, isn’t South Korea famous for its BBoy? why does Popin Hyeon Joon have to fly all the way to another country to make a movie about streetdance?
click the links to check some videos of the presscon:

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for more pictures : pictures

The movie is predicted to be out around June.

bonus..just because i found him hot :

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Monsieur Chocolat-Abs will be featured in a new movie, Hello School Girl, out in the cinema God-knows-when sometime this year.

as our girl Jennifer informed, he won’t make it cos of SUJU’s Asia Tour. hah. like singing 2 lines is ALOOOTTT more important than entertaining us in a 2 hour movie..he better be off shirt on stage to make up for this!really!!

He’ll be playing as  a high school fresh graduate falling for an older (smoker) woman, played by Chae Jeong An (that artist Han Kyul fell for in the drama Coffee Prince). Looking forward to see her (fake) smoking scenes.

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http://shenyuepop.com/2008/01/23/kim-sun-ah-is-a-girl-scout/ http://shenyuepop.com/2008/01/23/kim-sun-ah-is-a-girl-scout/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:01:18 +0000 zzhang http://shenyuepop.com/2008/01/23/kim-sun-ah-is-a-girl-scout/  

Anyone miss this damn lucky-full of envyable factors-girl?she’s back in a movie somewhat has a similar genre to her previous She’s on Duty (where, if you don’t mind i recall our brokenhearted moment,  she enthusiasticly -spelling check, please- smooched Gong Yoo by the end of the movie). 

The new movie is Girl Scouts. Due to out in theatre some time soon, perhaps, according to my birds.

 

copy paste this link on your address bar to take a peek on the trailer and check whether the producer gives Kim Sun Ah another hottie for a CPR practice:

mms://mvodm.hscdn.com/movie/EPK/185900/253716-00300-free.wmv

Girl Scout
Mi-kyung drives a van for a private tutor institute. Yi-man works part time at a local supermarket. Bong-sun lives with her sick children, and Eun-ji is being chased down because of her father’s debt. Nothing can get any worse for these women and they only dream to live a simple life in the future, but one day, they get themselves into a big mess when Hyae-ran runs off with their money. Mi-kyung gathers up others to catch her and get their money back, and this is how the “Bongchon 3-dong Girl Scout” was organized. As they fall deep into a cruel underground world, the situation turns for the worse.
http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr

The Soundtrack and movie stills:

Shen, girl, help me out with the vid, wouldya? i don’t remember how to make the damn vid shows up. anyway, feels good to be back! 

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http://shenyuepop.com/2007/11/03/presents-future-mistake/ http://shenyuepop.com/2007/11/03/presents-future-mistake/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:18:16 +0000 shenyue http://shenyuepop.com/2007/11/03/presents-future-mistake/ Actress Kim Tae Hee, elder sister of Lee Wan (‘Tree of Heaven’, ‘Stairway to Heaven’), has made another hit. You may recognize the name from the actress of the hit dramas such as ‘Love Story in Harvard’, ‘Forbidden Love’, and Stairway to Heaven’ and movies such as ‘The Restless’ (with Jung Woo Sung from ‘Daisy’ and ‘Sad Movie’). Well anyway, Tae Hee has had many reviews on her great performance of action skills from her latest movie ‘Fight’. So good in fact, that people dare to compare her to Angelina Jolie! Only question in my mind is, does she top Yoon So Yi (‘Arahan’, ‘Shadowless Sword’) who was very much wanted for the American action movie ‘Blood the Last Vampire’ (instead going to lovely Jun Ji Hyun)?

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The plot of ‘Fight’ : “It’s a story of a couple who once loved each other greatly but ended up in a fierce fight. “Fight” is reminiscent of the Hollywood movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” starring Jolie.
A person from the movie’s production firm said “Fight” has many action scenes and is modeled after “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Playing opposite Seol Kyung- koo, Kim portrays a woman who takes revenge on a man she once loved but whom she now hates.”
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Other current news, ‘Milyang’ A.K.A. ‘Secret Sunshine’ broke records at the French box Office. It hit the 7th spot out of 17 current/new movies. This movie won reviews from every one in Korea and now France. Jun Do Yun also took the award of Best Actress Award to boot.
Why is it such a success you ask? Well that’s because the film was only shown in 58 theaters through out France! Still don’t get it? Well think about it, 58 theaters in that fairly big and rich country and it hit the top ten in movie statistics? It went up against (and beat) ‘Rush Hour 3’, showing in 452 theaters, ‘Michael Clatyton’, shown in 291 theaters, and ‘Invasion’, showing in 226 theaters.

The news about Jun Ji Hyun returning to Korea after her American Debut (‘Blood: The Last Vampire’) are true! In the future, Jun Ji “Sexy” Hyun will star in a movie with co-star Hwang Jung Min (‘Happiness’, ‘Over the Hedge’ voice with BoA) in ‘A Man Once Superman’
She will return with a new dramatic movie! Yay!
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“According to CJ Entertainment on the 27th, Jun Ji Hyun will play Song Soo Jung, a producer of a small production company of realistic and unsympathetic character that tries to use Superman (Hwang Jung Min) to film a human documentary.
Jun Ji Hyun says, “I found the scenario to be very unique and I am looking forward to working with Hwang Jung Min.”
Junn Ji Hyun has been filming “Blood the Last Vampire” based on the original Japanese animation.
“The man who used to be Superman” is a delightful human drama about a man who believes hi is Superman and proactively helps neighbors. The movie is to be directed by Jung Yoon Cheol of “Marathon” and will start filming this fall to be released early next year.”
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And the movie star mistake goes to… Daniel Dae Kim who stars as Jin Soo Kwon in the American hit show, ‘LOST’. He pulled a “Lindsay Lohan” and was driving while under the influence!
He was arrested at around 3 am and was booked at the Honolulu Police Station (I wonder if it’s still like paradise while in prison in Hawaii….) and was bailed at 5:05 am.

Ouch!

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