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| yna@yna.co.kr 2023-01-16 14:58:41
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SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Yonhap) – This year's Lunar New Year holiday, theaters have prepared a variety of films.
New Korean films, which will keep Hollywood masterpiece "Avatar: The Way of Water" at the top of the box office in check, are ready to be on screen with action and fun.
There are many different genres. From action dramas featuring bromance to comedy and animation that provide laughter and emotion, a variety of films await the audience's choice. If you feel empty in this winter, you may also be interested in independent art films that will deliver a calm impression.
◇ Competition between new Korean films..."The Point Men" vs "Phantom"
Ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, two Korean films heavily armed with "glamorous actors" will be released side by side. The main characters are Hwang Jung-min and Hyun bin from “The Point Men” and Seol Kyung-gu, Lee Ha-nee, and Park Sodam from “Phantom.”
Both films releasing on Wednesday are directed by Lim Soon-rye, director of “Little Forest” and Lee Haeyoung, director of “Believer,” respectively.
“The Point Men” is about diplomat and National Intelligence Service agent who work together to rescue Korean hostages abducted by Taliban. Hwang Jung-min and Hyun bin will each present a deep bromance by acting a diplomat Jae-ho, who thinks and acts with reason and NIS agent Dae-sik, who does not care about means for his goals.
The first Korean film set in Afghanistan has raised the sense of realism and maximized the exotic atmosphere through filming in Jordan despite the COVID-19.
Director Lim Soon-rye, who tried filming the action genre for the first time through "The Point Men," combines her unique humanism to draw universal sympathy.
“Phantoms” is set in Gyeongseong in 1933, when it was under Japanese colonial rule. The story takes place when those suspected of being "phantom" of anti-Japanese organizations are trapped in remote hotels.
Mind game played by five suspects and hand-to-hand combat for survival appear together, providing fun as mystery and action dramas.
What is by far outstanding in this film is that it is visually interesting. Director Lee Hae-young has produced the hotel and other places in a sophisticated and delicate structure.
In particular, each color given to each character, such as dark green, purple, and orange, injects dramatic tension into the struggle process of sometimes conflicting and sometimes congenial characters.
◇ If you haven't watched the blockbuster yet...films that touch people’s heart and make them laugh
As the Lunar New Year holiday continues for four days, including weekends, one of the ways to enjoy the holiday is to take time to visit the theater if you haven't seen the "blockbuster" yet.
The sequel to the movie "Avatar" released on the 14th of last month, "Avatar: The Way of Water,” has been at the top of the box office for five weeks, attracting more than 9 million audiences.
James Cameron, famous for his previous film “Avatar” and “Titanic,” has taken the megaphone. The underwater world implemented with state-of-art imaging technology, 3D-specialized combat scenes, and underwater creatures that add novelty on the screen were praised and attracted many audiences to the theater.
“The First Slam Dunk, a theatrical version of the popular cartoon "Slam Dunk" in 1990, is a film that will inevitably attract basketball fans as well as those in their 30s and 40s who grew up watching cartoons of the time.
Takehiko Inoue, the original author of the cartoon, has written and directed the script, adding new fun by featuring No. 1 Guard Song Tae-seop, not "Red Hair" Kang Baek-ho as a main character.
The Chinese SF human comedy "Moon Man," based on webtoon artist Cho Seok's work "Moon Yu," gives the audience a big laugh and emotion. It comically depicts a return-to-earth project carried out by a mechanic who was put into an operation on the moon to prevent the global extinction and fall behind alone.
The recently released "Lyle Lyle Crocodile" and "Prince Charming" are films that allow audiences to travel in childhood with pop star songs. Carriesoft's animation "CARRIE & SUPERKOLA" is also an expected film for families to watch together during the Lunar New Year holidays.
◇ Heartbreaking affection...Independent art film attracts audiences
Between commercial films, independent art films that will give a calm impression await the audience.
Since its release on November 30 last year, "Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight" has attracted more than 800,000 audiences, which is unusual for an independent film. Female audiences in their teens and 20s, who mainly heard word of mouth, are visiting.
The movie, which is a Japanese youth romance, features the first love of Maori played by Riko Fukutomo, who loses all her memories of the previous day after sleeping and school boy Toru played by Shunsuke Michieda, a school.
"The Teachers: Pink, Nature Trail, Ridge between Rice Paddies, Plum" is a documentary about the daily lives of after-school teachers in Dottori Village in Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. It is the story of blind spot care workers who work under the title of after-school teachers, but are not recognized for a single day even after working for years.
The late director Shin Sang-ok's posthumous work "Winter Story" depicts the sorrow between a father-in-law with dementia and a daughter-in-law who takes care of him. Fans who remember director Shin Sang-ok, who was considered a master in the film industry in the 1960s and 1970s, cannot miss this movie.
“Persian Lessons,” which tells the story of a man posing as a Persian to survive from the German Nazis during World War II, and the documentary "Girls who dreams about time," which tells the daily life of a college student who dreams of becoming an advertising planner instead of being a shaman, are also worth paying attention.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Yunhee Cho.)
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