In his directorial debut, screenwriter Kim Jee-woon collaborated with actors Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik in the comedy drama with a touch of horror “The Quiet Family” back in 1998. Reunited with Song as the lead actor, “The Foul King” was his second feature which, besides winning him the Best Director award at the 2001 Milan International Film Festival, it also won the Audience Award at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy.
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Basically a comedy and a feel-good sports film, this production sees Song Kang-ho in his first leading role, playing pushover and underperforming financial advisor Im Dae-ho who is forever late for work. In return, he has to put up with his power-hungry boss who headlocks and lectures him everyday. In general, he is very much a loser, trapped by his work and society, who still lives with...
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Basically a comedy and a feel-good sports film, this production sees Song Kang-ho in his first leading role, playing pushover and underperforming financial advisor Im Dae-ho who is forever late for work. In return, he has to put up with his power-hungry boss who headlocks and lectures him everyday. In general, he is very much a loser, trapped by his work and society, who still lives with...
- 9/27/2023
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
Welcome to the article best of Korean cinema, in which we look at the best Korea has to offer since it explosion of quality films and output since 200. We look at everything from emotionally heightened Romances to the uniquely Korean line of comedic thrillers. This time we are looking at the output of Kang Je-Gyu, although we aren’t covering his debut film. Shiri (Swiri) was a personal introduction to the new wave. The films we will be covering are Brotherhood and My Way, two thematic companion pieces looking at personal drama in the Korean world war and World War II.
Brotherhood
Directed by Kang Je-Gyu
Written by Ji-hoon Han, Kang Je-kyu & Sang-don Kim
2004, South Korea
Kang Je-Kyu’s sophomore effort is the first of his war films and this time it is the Korean Civil War that draws attention. Won Bin (Jin-seok Lee) and Jong Dong-gun (Jin-tae Lee) are...
Brotherhood
Directed by Kang Je-Gyu
Written by Ji-hoon Han, Kang Je-kyu & Sang-don Kim
2004, South Korea
Kang Je-Kyu’s sophomore effort is the first of his war films and this time it is the Korean Civil War that draws attention. Won Bin (Jin-seok Lee) and Jong Dong-gun (Jin-tae Lee) are...
- 12/2/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
World War II, fought on multiple continents with multiple armies, has an untold number of unique stories. One story revolves around an Asian soldier captured by the Americans during the Normandy invasion. In My Way (Mai wei), filmmaker Je-kyu Kang shows us how this man found himself taken from Korea to ultimately become a conscripted soldier in the German Wehrmacht.
The movie begins with color commentary of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. The announcer is highlighting the movement of a Korean runner named Jun-shik Kim (Dong-gun Jang). Jun-shik Kim is steadily moving up the field of runners.
Quickly the story flashes back to Japanese-occupied Korea. A Japanese doctor and his family have moved to Korea to serve under the doctor’s father, a colonel in the Japanese Imperial Army. This family has a young son, Tatsuo Hasagawa, who spies another young boy running alongside their car. This boy is Jun-shik Kim,...
The movie begins with color commentary of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. The announcer is highlighting the movement of a Korean runner named Jun-shik Kim (Dong-gun Jang). Jun-shik Kim is steadily moving up the field of runners.
Quickly the story flashes back to Japanese-occupied Korea. A Japanese doctor and his family have moved to Korea to serve under the doctor’s father, a colonel in the Japanese Imperial Army. This family has a young son, Tatsuo Hasagawa, who spies another young boy running alongside their car. This boy is Jun-shik Kim,...
- 5/5/2012
- by Rod Paddock
- Slackerwood
I said it before when I posted the first U.S. trailer for Je-kyu Kang’s “My Way” — the guy doesn’t make a whole lot of movies (just four in 16 years, counting “My Way”), but when he decides to make one, he sure goes all out. Check out the latest U.S. trailer for his World War II epic “My Way”, a film that follows two guys on the “other” side of the war. I like the beach landing scene. We’ve always seen it from the Pov of the guys landing, but in this one you get to see it from the guys shooting down at the beach, which is rather novel. Inspired by a true story. Jun Shik works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also...
- 4/30/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Chicago – In our latest epic World War II edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 10 admit-two run-of-engagement anytime movie passes up for grabs to the new film “My Way” from Korea’s game-changing director Je-kyu Kang! Pick your own showing!
Inspired by true events, “My Way” stars Dong-gun Jang (as Jun-shik Kim), Jô Odagiri, Bingbing Fan, In-kwon Kim, Michael Arnold, Michael Frederick Arnold and Ismail Deniz from writer and director Je-kyu Kang and writer Byung-in Kim. In Chicago, “My Way” opened on April 20, 2012.
These anytime passes can be used at Chicago’s AMC River East and select AMC suburban locations at the showing of your choosing during the film’s theatrical run. To win your free anytime movie passes for “My Way,” just answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found below.
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Inspired by true events, “My Way” stars Dong-gun Jang (as Jun-shik Kim), Jô Odagiri, Bingbing Fan, In-kwon Kim, Michael Arnold, Michael Frederick Arnold and Ismail Deniz from writer and director Je-kyu Kang and writer Byung-in Kim. In Chicago, “My Way” opened on April 20, 2012.
These anytime passes can be used at Chicago’s AMC River East and select AMC suburban locations at the showing of your choosing during the film’s theatrical run. To win your free anytime movie passes for “My Way,” just answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found below.
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- 4/21/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
★★★☆☆ Je-kyu Kang's My Way (Mai Wei, 2011) is expansive, flamboyant and the more-than-suitable 'event' film selected to kick off this year's 2012 Terracotta Far East Film Festival. Currently standing as the most expensive South Korean production to date, Kang's feature is markedly reminiscent of a number of over-the-top American war epics through its extravagant exaggeration of every moment, in almost every scene.
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- 4/16/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
The Dallas International Film Festival, which will run from April 12-22, 2012, has announced its 2012 lineup. The lineup features several world premieres, including the debut of Timothy Armstrong's "Cowgirls N' Angels" and Will Moore's "Satellite of Love." At their Film Society Honors event, the festival will give an award to former United Artists and Orion Pictures President and CEO Eric Pleskow, who oversaw the release of such classics as "West Side Story," "Midnight Cowboy," "Amadeus" and "Silence of the Lambs." It was also announced that the winner of the festival's Texas Competition will receive a camera rental package worth $30,000 courtesy of Panavision. The complete lineup is below. For more information on the films, visit the Dallas Film Society website here. Centerpiece My Way (South Korea) – Texas Premiere Director: Je-gyu Kang Premiere Series ...
- 3/15/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
On a hillside overlooking the beaches of Normandy, American soldiers surround a Korean and a Japanese man wearing Nazi uniforms. This is the second-most intriguing image of Mai-wei, the WWII epic from writer/director Je-gyu Kang. What’s even more fascinating is that the image is drawn directly from real life. How they got there (and into Hitler’s army no less) is a story told while trudging through the freezing mountains of Russia and the hot open plains of Korea. It’s an enormous movie, told through a decade as two competitive marathon runners – Jun-shik Kim (Dong-gun Jang) and Tatsuo Hasegawa (Jo Odagiri) – begin as alienated enemies and become friends through the brittle evolution of battle. Certainly its most striking achievements are the extended, highly-choreographed war scenes that steal the breath right out of your lungs. The visual style is an angrier version of Saving Private Ryan, but instead of beginning with Normandy, Mai-wei...
- 2/11/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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