Director Lee Chang-dong: "Korean movies are being diversified.
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Director Lee Chang-dong who is attending The 2004 Jakarta International Film Festival, has assessed about the trend of recent Korean movie positively, saying that Korean movies are being diversified.
"Korean movies are being diversified"
In an interview with The Jakarta Post, an English daily on the spot, the director answered, "It is a special feature that huge commercial blockbusters and independent movies exist together in Korean movie circles", adding art movies and independent films are acting on a fresh blood in that domestic movies show an occupancy rate over 60%.
He said that what Korean movie circles has started to change, is from 1998 when The Pusan International Film Festival launched and Korean movies began to gain worldwide fame.
Regarding the Pusan International Film Festival, Director Lee said that New currents section's role to screen Asia rising directors' movies, is great.
At present, director Lee is visiting Jakarta to participate in his special screening exhibition including 'Green Fish', "Peppermint Candy', and 'Oasia' and a seminar concerning Korean movie industry.
Oasis: a very powerful film about love
His 'Bakha satang' begins with a reunion of a group of friends who haven't seen each other in twenty years. One of them shows up in very bad shape, and the remainder of the film tells how he became that way. The story is very well written and quite believable. Great actors, too.
Oasis is a very powerful film about love. Usually, romance movies have such good looking main characters with perfect soul that audience can think only decent people deserve to love. But in reality, not many people have lives like in "Pretty Woman". Oasis completely reverses this cliche. Two main characters are hated by everyone. Jong-Doo is a three time ex-prisoner, and Gong-Ju is cebral palsy.
The Source : Choi Sung-ho
"Korean movies are being diversified"
In an interview with The Jakarta Post, an English daily on the spot, the director answered, "It is a special feature that huge commercial blockbusters and independent movies exist together in Korean movie circles", adding art movies and independent films are acting on a fresh blood in that domestic movies show an occupancy rate over 60%.
He said that what Korean movie circles has started to change, is from 1998 when The Pusan International Film Festival launched and Korean movies began to gain worldwide fame.
Regarding the Pusan International Film Festival, Director Lee said that New currents section's role to screen Asia rising directors' movies, is great.
At present, director Lee is visiting Jakarta to participate in his special screening exhibition including 'Green Fish', "Peppermint Candy', and 'Oasia' and a seminar concerning Korean movie industry.
Oasis: a very powerful film about love
His 'Bakha satang' begins with a reunion of a group of friends who haven't seen each other in twenty years. One of them shows up in very bad shape, and the remainder of the film tells how he became that way. The story is very well written and quite believable. Great actors, too.
Oasis is a very powerful film about love. Usually, romance movies have such good looking main characters with perfect soul that audience can think only decent people deserve to love. But in reality, not many people have lives like in "Pretty Woman". Oasis completely reverses this cliche. Two main characters are hated by everyone. Jong-Doo is a three time ex-prisoner, and Gong-Ju is cebral palsy.
The Source : Choi Sung-ho
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