Eun-joo, the stepmother, welcomes two sisters who come back home after recovering their health, but Su-mi, the elder sister, intentionally avoids her and Su-yeon, the younger sister, shows a smack of fear for her stepmother. On their first night, Su-yeon sneaks in Su-mi's room confessing there is someone in her room and Su-mi sees a ghost of her late mother who hung herself in Su-yeon's closet. Strange things begin to happen since then; a ghost haunts the house and stepmother's birds are poisoned to death. Assuming Su-yeon is behind the inauspicious incidents, the stepmother locks her in the closet, and when Su-mi learns about the cruel punishment, conflict between the stepmother and two sisters gets bitter than ever.
One day, Mu-hyun, the father goes to town and Su-mi finds there is no sign of her younger sister, Su-yeon and Su-mi sports Eun-joo dragging a big bag through the dark corridor leaving bloody stains behind her. Su-mi follows bloody trace of the bag and she confronts with Eun-joo on her way of tracking. They starts to fight vehemently and Su-mi falls down struck by Eun-joo in the end... A while later, Mu-hyun comes back to the house and founds Su-mi fallen on the floor alone and enraged Mu-hyun exclaims that Su-yeon was already dead¡¦ His exclamation awakes a series of memories and hidden secrets buried deep inside of Su-mi...
The anonymous donor of W850 million (US$1=W1,392) over the last six years to the Community Chest of Korea stands revealed as 21-year-old actress Moon Geun-yeong.
The Community Chest of Korea on Thursday said the actress denied online rumors that she was the donor, but her agency okayed the disclosure, so the organization decided to make it public.
Since Nov. 2003, Moon has been donating all or part of her earnings from commercials, films and soap operas. Her donations were used to build children's libraries and subsidize hospital costs for children suffering from leukemia or cancer. Apart from the Community Chest of Korea, Moon has also given several hundred millions of won to scholarship foundations.
Namoo Actors, Moon's agency, said, "For Moon's family, charity seems a natural part of life rather than a special event. Because she has always made the donations with her mother, not through the agency, we do not know how much she has given".
Actress Moon Geun-yeong has been revealed as the anonymous donor of more than 850 million won (US$ 850.000) for the past six years, making her the biggest individual giver in the Korean Community Chest's history.
According to the organization, the 21-year-old actress, who is currently starring in the popular drama "Painter of The Wind", donated in past years, anonymously, at her request.
However, as the organization announced a list of their top donors in tune with its 10th anniversary and ruled out Moon's name with an "anonymous actress in her 20s", there had been ongoing rumors about the mysterious donor. People working in and out of the entertainment business started to point to Moon, as she had already donated in the past.
Community Chest of Korea finally revealed that it was indeed Moon who donated the money, adding that the donations were given in large sums, 50 million (US$ 50.000) to even 100 million won (US$ 100.000), instead of regu...| More
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Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg is interested in remaking PARK Chan-wook's hit film "Old Boy", a 2003 thriller that won the prestigious Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004.
Dreamworks Pictures, the studio founded by Spielberg, is in negotiations to secure the remake rights for the movie from its current holder Mandate Pictures. Under the proposed deal, Universal Pictures would be in charge of distribution.
Spielberg has been looking for a project to direct with actor Will Smith. If the deal goes through, Smith is likely to play the main character, a man kidnapped and held in a private cell for 15 years without explanation. Upon release, he seeks revenge on his unknown captor.
The original stars Korean thespian CHOI Min-sik and was an immediate success upon its local release, drawing over 3.2 million admissions. Dreamworks previously bought remake rights to Korean horror, "A Tale of Two Sisters", and is readying to release it early next year.
The 41st Sitges Int'l Film Festival, Europe's biggest fantasy film fest, awarded KIM Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" the Best Director prize when it wrapped Oct. 12 in Catalonia. The film also picked up the Best F/X award. Top prize went to Jennifer Lynch thriller Surveillance.
Also awarded was NA Hong-jin's "The Chaser", winning the Orient-Express Casa Asia award for outstanding Asian film. KIM's western and NA's thriller were the two top grossing films at the Korean box office this year, collecting 7.1 million and 5.1 million admissions respectively.
NA's "The Chaser" recently won Best Film at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in Korea. The tough crime-thriller follows an ex-cop-turned pimp chasing down an elusive prostitute killer.
KIM's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" revolves around a treasure map, and stars Korea's top male leads, SONG Kang-ho, LEE Byeong-heon, and JEONG Woo-seong. It is set in Manchuria during the Japanese colonial perio...| More
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A 2003 Korean horror film has joined the ranks of other Korean movies that have been, or are going to be, issued as American remakes. The Uninvited, to be released in the United States on Jan. 30, 2009, is a remake of Janghwa, Hongryeon (the title translates as "Rose and Lotus" but the film was known as "A Tale of Two Sisters" in its international release).
Earlier Korean films to be remade in the United States include The Lake House (a 2006 remake of "Il Mare"), "My Sassy Girl" in 2008, remade from the 2000 Korean smash hit of the same name. Other Korean films to which rights have been bought for Hollywood-ization include "My Wife is a Gangster", "Old Boy" and "JSA - Joint Security Area". In the case of "A Tale of Two Sisters", DreamWorks are reported to have paid US$1 million for the remake rights.
All this is a significant recognition of Korean film as a rising force in global cultural content creation. It comes only a decade after many in Korea feared that the end of the scre...| More
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