The annual New York Asian Film Festival is about to kick off this summer.
Presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center, the 23rd edition of the festival will take place from July 12 through 22 at Film at Lincoln Center, with additional screenings from July 22 through 28 at the Sva Theatre and July 13–15, 18–21, and 23–25 at Look Cinemas W57, plus a special collaborative presentation of films at the Korean Cultural Center New York.
This year’s lineup marks the largest list of premieres, with 20 films debuting including the North American premiere of “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” which debuted at Cannes.
The opening night selection is the world premiere of Park Beom-su’s “Victory,” a cheerleading epic that’s billed as “Bring It On” meets “Parasite.” Lee Hye-ri (of 3rd-gen K-pop band Girl’s Day) will be in attendance with co-star Park Se-wan and director Park.
Presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center, the 23rd edition of the festival will take place from July 12 through 22 at Film at Lincoln Center, with additional screenings from July 22 through 28 at the Sva Theatre and July 13–15, 18–21, and 23–25 at Look Cinemas W57, plus a special collaborative presentation of films at the Korean Cultural Center New York.
This year’s lineup marks the largest list of premieres, with 20 films debuting including the North American premiere of “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” which debuted at Cannes.
The opening night selection is the world premiere of Park Beom-su’s “Victory,” a cheerleading epic that’s billed as “Bring It On” meets “Parasite.” Lee Hye-ri (of 3rd-gen K-pop band Girl’s Day) will be in attendance with co-star Park Se-wan and director Park.
- 6/13/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Stars: Ma Dong-seok, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Joon-young, No Jeong-ee, Ahn Ji-hye | Written by Kim Bo-Tong, Kwak Jae-Min | Directed by Heo Myeong Haeng
Badland Hunters is the latest film starring action hero Ma Dong-seok, and that is bad news for Korea. He was in Train to Busan in which the country was overrun with zombies, and in Ashfall where a massive volcanic eruption laid waste to the entire Korean Peninsula. And the amount of property damage he wracked up in The Outlaws and its sequels The Roundup and The Roundup: No Way Out would bankrupt most insurance companies.
In the opening scenes, Seoul is levelled by a catastrophic earthquake as the military are about to arrest Yang Gi-su for the murders and human experiments he’s committed trying to bring his daughter back from the dead. The building collapses on him, but you know he’ll be back later in the film.
Badland Hunters is the latest film starring action hero Ma Dong-seok, and that is bad news for Korea. He was in Train to Busan in which the country was overrun with zombies, and in Ashfall where a massive volcanic eruption laid waste to the entire Korean Peninsula. And the amount of property damage he wracked up in The Outlaws and its sequels The Roundup and The Roundup: No Way Out would bankrupt most insurance companies.
In the opening scenes, Seoul is levelled by a catastrophic earthquake as the military are about to arrest Yang Gi-su for the murders and human experiments he’s committed trying to bring his daughter back from the dead. The building collapses on him, but you know he’ll be back later in the film.
- 1/31/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Marks the fourth instalment in the box office hit series starring Don Lee.
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment is launching pre-sales at the Cannes market on The Roundup: Punishment, the fourth in the hit action crime series starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) as “the Beast Cop”.
This time, he is pitted against a villain played by Kim Moo-yul. The actors are reversing their roles as detective and bad guy as seen in The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, which played in Midnight Screenings at Cannes in 2019.
The second instalment in the series, The Roundup, which followed The Outlaws, was...
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment is launching pre-sales at the Cannes market on The Roundup: Punishment, the fourth in the hit action crime series starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) as “the Beast Cop”.
This time, he is pitted against a villain played by Kim Moo-yul. The actors are reversing their roles as detective and bad guy as seen in The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, which played in Midnight Screenings at Cannes in 2019.
The second instalment in the series, The Roundup, which followed The Outlaws, was...
- 5/16/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
South Korean sales company Finecut has picked up international rights to webtoon adaptation Brave Citizen (working title), produced by leading Korean Ott platform Wavve, on the eve of Busan’s Asian Film & Contents Market that runs October 8-11.
Directed by Park Jin-pyo, the action comedy film is in post-production and being lined up for a Korean theatrical release in 2023. It was produced by StudioN, whose credits include Sweet Home for Netflix, and Vol Media (Josee) for Wavve’s production arm Content Wavve.
The Brave Citizen webtoon was a hit on the Comico and Naver Webtoon platforms and racked up 2.27 million views on the Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan. The story follows an expelled boxing champion who’s now a high school substitute teacher and starts throwing punches again when she witnesses intolerable violence.
Shin Hye-sun (Innocence) plays the lead role, with Lee Jun-young, aka Jun from K-pop boy group U-kiss,...
Directed by Park Jin-pyo, the action comedy film is in post-production and being lined up for a Korean theatrical release in 2023. It was produced by StudioN, whose credits include Sweet Home for Netflix, and Vol Media (Josee) for Wavve’s production arm Content Wavve.
The Brave Citizen webtoon was a hit on the Comico and Naver Webtoon platforms and racked up 2.27 million views on the Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan. The story follows an expelled boxing champion who’s now a high school substitute teacher and starts throwing punches again when she witnesses intolerable violence.
Shin Hye-sun (Innocence) plays the lead role, with Lee Jun-young, aka Jun from K-pop boy group U-kiss,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Newly minted Emmy winner Lee Jung-Jae steps behind the camera for his directorial debut, “Hunt.”
The “Squid Game” actor stars as Park Pyong-ho, Kcia Foreign Unit chief who is tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy known as Donglim, with the help of Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-Sung) after a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president.
Jo Seung-Hee writes 1980s-set “Hunt,” with Lee directing and producing. Jeon Hye Jin, Heo Sung Tae, Go Youn Jung, Kim Jong Soo, and Jung Man Sik also star in the film.
The “Squid Game” actor stars as Park Pyong-ho, Kcia Foreign Unit chief who is tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy known as Donglim, with the help of Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-Sung) after a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president.
Jo Seung-Hee writes 1980s-set “Hunt,” with Lee directing and producing. Jeon Hye Jin, Heo Sung Tae, Go Youn Jung, Kim Jong Soo, and Jung Man Sik also star in the film.
- 9/29/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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