▲This photo, shows, director Park Chan-wook talking to audience through online. (Yonhap)

 

▲This photo shows theater Neues Off in Berlin. (Yonhap)

 

▲This photo shows, representative of the theater Neues Off in Berlin Germany. (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL February 4 (Yonhap) -- When asked with the question of whether Korean movie could become successful without including any violent scenes, director of the South Korean blockbuster movie “Decision to Leave” Park Chan-wook addressed “The reason Korean movies incorporate violent scenes are because of the preferences set within the western society.”

Throughout the online fan greet held in order to celebrate the premiere in Germany and Austria, director Park Chan-wook stated “Isn’t ‘Decision to Leave’ a movie with minimum amount of violence?” adding “However I suppose, some might consider ‘Decision to Leave’ to be very violent.”

“There are a lot of South Korean movies without a lot of violent scenes,” adding “My question here is that a lot of foreign audiences like the violent movies and drama series within South Korean movies and I am just wondering why they like such things.” addressed director Park throughout his online meet and greet.

Moreover, director addressed “In the 2000s when I started working in the field, the idea of ‘Asian Extremes’ which laid a foundation to violent image regarding Asian movies,” adding “I hope various movies beside violent movies will have more opportunity to be introduced to greater audiences in near future.”

One of the audiences from Germany stated “After the movie ‘Parasite,’ and ‘Squid Game,’ Korean movies got the name tag of high quality violent movie.”

Director Park Chan-wook picked “The Marriage of Maria Braun” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, as his favorite movie of all time.
When asked of how many time should one watch the movie based on the fact that K-pop superstar BTS’ member RM on how he watched “Decision to Leave” six times, director stated “I guess the more you watch the movie the better your understanding of the movie will be, because there are a lot of details I have placed a lot of small little details,” adding “As for foreign audiences, when you are reading the subtitles, you will be missing a lot of details I have planted for the audiences to find, therefore I hope you guys watch it at least twice.”

South Korean film “Decision to Leave” premiered under the title of “Die Frau Im Nebel” in 80 various theaters within 54 cities in Germany, addressed movie provider Flyon Pictures. In Switzerland the movie has premiered already, and the movie will premiere on February 3 in Austria.

Following the lead of “Decision to Leave,” south Korean movie “Broker” featuring actor Song Kang-ho and “Return To Seoul,” will also premier so there are some movie theaters which will have all three of the South Korean movies playing at the same time.

Official of the Berlin Movie theater group addressed “It is a pure luck that a movie theater hangs up three of the South Korean movie’s posters on its wall, but Asian movies are at its highest right now,” adding “We are very interested in Asian movies including South Korean movies and from other nations as well so we have been airing Asian movies on Tuesday and Sunday, however those runs seem to sell out quickly.”

 

 

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)

 

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