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AT ASIAN FILM MARKET 2014 CONTACT IN BUSAN STAND D-03 / BEXCO (HALL 4) EXECUTIVE ATTENDEES Judy AHN / Head of Int’l Business M +82 (0)10 4939 6947 E [email protected] Soojin JUNG / VP・Int’l Business M +82 (0)10 6342 4151 E [email protected] Eugene KIM / Assistant Manager・Int’l Business M +82 (0)10 6594 0610 E [email protected] Yukyoung LEE / Int’l Marketing・Int’l Business M +82 (0)10 9965 9884 E [email protected] To set up a meeting with us, please e-mail to [email protected] (+82(0)2 3218 5640) MARKET SCREENING OCT 5 (SUN) 15:30 LOTTE CINEMA CENTUM CITY 7 Professional go player Big Move loses his brother to infamous underground THE DIVINE MOVE gambler Killer after losing a high-stake game. He is framed for the murder of GENRE Action, Noir his own brother and is locked up in prison. After serving his 7-year sentence, RUNNING TIME 118 min he gets in touch with his brother’s former associate Cheater, hermit and RELEASE July 3, 2014 DIRECTED BY JO Bum-gu (QUICK / THREE FELLAS) blind master player Christ, and skillful junkyard owner Carpenter and STARRING JUNG Woo-sung (COLD EYES / THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD) begins formulating a plan to get back at Killer and his men. Big Move slowly LEE Bum-soo (FORBIDDEN QUEST / THE CITY OF VIOLENCE) penetrates into Killer’s inner circle and his gambling joint, and eliminates AHN Sung-ki (BATTLE OF WITS / UNBOWED) Killer’s men one by one. KOREAN CINEMA TODAY - PANORAMA SCREENINGS OCT 3 (FRI) 19:00 CGV CENTUM CITY STARIUM PUBLIC (GV) OCT 4 (SAT) 16:30 CGV CENTUM CITY STARIUM PUBLIC (GV) OCT 6 (MON) 16:00 BUSAN COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER PUBLIC The year is 1859, feudal Joseon is plagued with numerous natural KUNDO : AGE OF THE RAMPANT disasters, poor harvest, poverty, hunger and death. But the rich nobles GENRE Epic Action are only concerned with their own wealth and continue to exploit and RUNNING TIME 137min persecute the poor. In this dark period, KUNDO was a single shred of RELEASE July 23, 2014 hope for the poor, an entity which can be the subject of fear to unjust DIRECTED BY YOON Jong-bin (NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF THE TIME / THE MOONLIGHT OF SEOUL / THE UNFORGIVEN) nobles. After killing poor butcher Dolmuchi's mother and sister, STARRING HA Jung-woo (THE BERLIN FILE / NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF THE TIME / millionaire Jo-yoon commands absolute power over him. Clouded THE YELLOW SEA / TAKE OFF / THE CHASER) by vengeance, Dolmuchi is accepted as a member of KUNDO, and GANG Dong-won (HAUNTERS / SECRET REUNION / WOOCHI) unsheathes his sword for the weak. KOREAN CINEMA TODAY - PANORAMA SCREENINGS OCT 3 (FRI) 13:30 CGV CENTUM CITY 6 PUBLIC (GV) OCT 4 (SAT) 13:00 CGV CENTUM CITY STARIUM PUBLIC (GV) OCT 5 (SUN) 13:00 MEGABOX BUSAN THEATER 2 PUBLIC OCT 9 (THU) 11:00 BUSAN COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER PUBLIC On the way back from his mother’s funeral, special crimes detective Gun- A HARD DAY su gets into an accident, killing a man instantly. In order to cover up his GENRE Action, Thriller crime, he hides the body inside his mother’s coffin, with her inside. A few RUNNING TIME 111min RELEASE May 29, 2014 days later, Gun-su’s crime pops up on the police database and his partner DIRECTED BY KIM Seong-hun (HOW THE LACK OF LOVE AFFECTS TWO MEN) is heading up the case. Gun-su feels distressed as his partner slowly STARRING LEE Sun-kyun (OUR SUNHI / NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON / ALL ABOUT MY WIFE) uncovers more details of the accident. To make things worse, a witness to CHO Jin-woong (HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY / NAMELESS GANSTER: RULES OF THE TIME) the accident approaches Gun-su by threatening his life. UPCOMING Sang-yeon is a pastor who was adopted into America from Korea in WE ARE BROTHERS childhood. He visits his native Korea after a long time when he reconnects GENRE Drama, Comedy with his biological mother and brother with the help of a TV show. A RUNNING TIME TBD touching reunion of long-lost brothers quickly dissolves into an awkward RELEASE October 23, 2014 situation when Sang-yeon discovers that his younger brother has become DIRECTED BY JANG Jin (MAN ON HIGH HEELS / SOMEONE SPECIAL / GUNS AND TALK) a shaman and vice versa. In the meanwhile, the brothers’ mother who STARRING CHO Jin-woong (NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF THE TIME / suffers from dementia wanders off out of the studio and gets on a random HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY) express bus. Even before the embarrassment wears off, the brothers are KIM Sung-kyun (THE SUSPECT/ HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY / forced to put their differences aside and go on a search together for their NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF THE TIME) missing mother. In 1970s, during the height of political corruption, Gangnam, the southern part of GANGNAM BLUES Seoul is starting to be transformed into developed area. Childhood friends Jong- GENRE Action, Drama dae and Yong-ki struggled to get by, until their shanty homes are demolished by STATUS In Post-Production local thugs. Desperate for cash, they get involved in violent political clashes, and are RELEASE December, 2014 separated during one for the skirmishes. 3 years later, Jong-dae lives as an honest DIRECTED BY YOO Ha (A FRONZEN FLOWER / A DIRTY CARNIVAL / SPIRIT OF JEET KUNE DO) man with former gang leader Kil-su. Meanwhile, Yong-ki has joined Seoul’s most STARRING LEE Min-ho (tv-THE HEIRS / tv-CITY HUNTER) powerful criminal gangs organization and fights over the lands in Gangnam, all in KIM Rae-won (INSADONG SCANDAL / SUNFLOWER) the name of putting together secret political funds that drive up the value of the city. DETECTIVE K : SECRET OF THE LOST ISLAND In 1795, the nineteenth year of King Jeongjo’s reign, a large amount of fake GENRE Adventure, Comedy silver is slipped into circulation creating a substantial threat to the economy. STATUS In Production Detective Kim Min is assigned the task to investigate the crime ring behind RELEASE February, 2015 the scheme. He goes undercover in a rural village with his best friend and DIRECTED BY KIM Sok-yun (DETECTIVE K: SECRET OF THE VIRTUOUS WIDOW / OLD MISS DIARY) sidekick, Seokpil. In the village, the pair meets a girl called Dahae who asks STARRING KIM Myung-min (DETECTIVE K: SECRET OF THE VIRTUOUS WIDOW / MAN OF VENDETTA) them to help her find her missing sister. Soon, Dahae goes missing, too, and OH Dal-soo (DETECTIVE K: SECRET OF THE VIRTUOUS WIDOW / THE THIEVES / discolored, bluish corpses of village girls begin to wash up on the shore. Kim THE ATTORNEY) Min discovers that these deaths are directly related to the manufacturing LEE Yeon-hee (MARRIAGE BLUE / A MILLIONAIRE’S FIRST LOVE / M) operation of counterfeit silver. BASED ON THE TRUE EVENT THE CLASSIFIED FILE Busan in 1978. Gil-young, a veteran detective got the special request from the parents GENRE Crime, Drama of a missing child, Eun-joo to investigate her case. As the clever kidnapper eludes the STATUS In Production police, the case becomes more and more of a mystery. When Joong-san, the fortune- KWAK Kyung-taek DIRECTED BY (FRIEND: THE GREAT LEGACY / FRIEND / TYPHOON) teller foretells Eun-joo’s whereabouts, people get to listen to what he says as the STARRING KIM Yun-seok (HAEMOO / THE THIEVES / THE YELLOW SEA / WOOCHI) situation goes more despair with no remark on Eun-joo. He also tells that Gil-young YOO Hae-jin (KING AND THE CLOWN / TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS / WOOCHI) is the only one who can save her. With no one to trust, Gil-yong and Joong-san come closing in around the kidnapper using any means possible. This movie is the record of 33 days of two men going through hell to find a missing girl and bring her back home alive. LEE Kang-hee, an editorialist of the influential conservative newspaper puts a INSIDE MEN congressman, JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate for President GENRE Political Drama using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s STATUS In Production biggest sponsor. AHN Sang-goo, a political henchman who supported LEE and DIRECTED BY WOO Min-ho (MAN OF VENDETTA / THE SPIES) JANG gets his hand cut as the price when he gets caught pocketing the record on the STARRING LEE Byung-hun (RED 2 / G.I. JOE 2: RETALIATION / MASQUERADE / sponsor’s slush fund. WOO Jang-hoon, an ambitious prosecutor starts to investigate I SAW THE DEVIL / THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD / A BITTERSWEET LIFE) the relationship with JANG and the sponsor believing it is the only chance he can CHO Seung-woo (THE SWORD WITH NO NAME / TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS / make it to the top. While getting down to the grass roots on the case, WOO meets MARATHON / RAGING YEARS) AHN who has been deliberately planning his revenge. Now the war among the one BAEK Yun-shick (THE FACE READER / THE TASTE OF MONEY) blind for power, the one hell bent for vengeance, and the one eager for success starts. 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