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SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- The winner of the Japanese Academy Award with “The Great Passage” (2013), director Ishii Yuya’s film “The Asian Angel” shot all-location in Korea and with both Japanese and Korean actors will hit the box office on the 28th.
Novelist Tsuyoshi (Ikematsu Sosuke), who
lost his beloved wife, blindly flies to Korea with his son Manabu (Sato Ryo) trusting
Toru (Odagiri Joe), his older brother’s words that his cosmetics import
business in Seoul is going well.
But as Toru’s Korea worker swindles him,
the Toru party may have to sit out on the streets. Toru takes a train to
Gangneung with Tsuyoshi saying that he will try selling seaweeds, and they meet
three siblings who seem to have their own stories.
The siblings were on their to their mother’s
graveyard on the anniversary of her death. The eldest sister, Seol (Choi Hee-seo)
once dreamt of an idol singer but is now the breadwinner and sings in markets
as a living. The second eldest, Jung-woo (Kim Min-jae) is a good-hearted boy
and the youngest, Po-mu (Kim Ye-eun) is tired of her sister’s nagging and
dreams of independence.
This coincidental encountering in a train
to Gangneung becomes a short trip of 3 days and 2 nights together.
Although they use languages
incomprehensible to each other, Toru’s feeble Korean like “Beer, please” and “I
love you” and their poor English deliver warmth and kindness towards one
another.
Park Jung-bum, director of “Height of the
Wave,” also took part in the film as a producer and screenwriter as well and appeared
as the Korean fraud who tricked Toru.
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