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14th Busan International Film Festival
The 14th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 8 to October 16, 2009, in Busan, South Korea. A total of 355 films from over 70 countries were screened, beating the record set in the last festival. With a total attendance of 173,516, it had 98 world premieres and 46 international premieres. The 9.9 billion won event opened with the South Korean film ''Good Morning President'', directed by Jang Jin and closed with the Chinese film '' The Message'', directed by Chen Kuo-fu and Gao Qunshu. Program :† World premiere :†† International premiere : Opening Film Gala Presentation A Window on Asian Cinema New Currents Korean Cinema Today - Panorama Korean Cinema Today - Vision Korean Cinema Retrospective Archeology of Korean Cinema Ha Kil-chong, The Dreamer for New Cinema Remembering Yu Hyun-mok World Cinema Flash Forward Wide Angle Korean Short Film Competition Asian Short Film Competition Short Film Showcase Documentary Competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning President
''Good Morning President'' () is a 2009 South Korean film written and directed by Jang Jin that takes viewers to the private quarters of the Blue House during the terms of three fictional presidents (played by Lee Soon-jae, Jang Dong-gun and Go Doo-shim), each trapped between political and ethical choices. It was chosen as the opening film of the 14th Busan International Film Festival and was released in theaters on October 22, 2009. Plot The first president depicted in the movie is Kim Jeong-ho, an elderly president at the end of his term. He is a respected leader whose great legacy is bringing democracy to the nation and serving the working class throughout his political life. But Kim is at a moral crossroads when he becomes the unlikely winner of a lottery jackpot just before retiring. The huge amount of money would guarantee a comfortable life in his old age. However, he remembers announcing to his constituents, smiling before cameras, that if he were to win the lottery, he wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tran Anh Hung
Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962) is a Vietnamese-born French film director and screenwriter. Early life Hùng was born in Mỹ Tho, South Vietnam. Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he immigrated to France at age 12. He majored in philosophy at a university in France. By chance, he saw Robert Bresson's film ''A Man Escaped'' and decided to study film instead. He went on to study photography at the Louis Lumiere Academy, which trains cinematographers. Film career Hùng has been at the forefront of a wave of acclaimed overseas Vietnamese cinema over the past two decades. His films have received international fame and acclaim, and his first three features were varied meditations on life in his home country Vietnam. Hùng's Oscar-nominated debut (for Best foreign film) was '' The Scent of Green Papaya'' (1993), which also won two top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. His follow-up '' Cyclo'' (1995, which featured Hong Kong movie star T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahiro Kobayashi (director)
was a Japanese film director. Career Kobayashi became the first Japanese filmmaker to win the Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In its wake, he founded Monkey Town Productions and made three films back to back which won prizes in three consecutive years at Cannes: '' Kaizokuban Bootleg Film'' (1999) and ''Man Walking on Snow'' (2001) in Un Certain Regard and ''Koroshi'' (2000) in the Directors' Fortnight. '' Bashing'' was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. “Amazing Story” (2003), “The Rebirth” (2007) and “Where are you?” (2009) were invited in competition to Festival del film Locarno. “The Rebirth” won four prizes at the 60th Festival del film Locarno prizes, including the Golden Leopard and the Daniel Schmid award. In 2008, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Festival do Rio and the Buenos Aires International Film Festival hosted a retrospective of his films to great acclaim. Kobayashi makes out of as many as 16 feature f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Muhammad (director)
Amir Muhammad (born 5 December 1972) is a Malaysian writer and independent filmmaker. Life and career He was born on 5 December 1972 in Kuala Lumpur to civil servant Muhammad Abdullah and housewife Asiah Kechik. He was educated at the University of East Anglia with a degree in Law, though he never did his bar but rather worked in his sponsoring company's legal company for nine months. He had also written for Malaysian print media since the age of 14, notably the New Straits Times, where he had worked there as a part timer under several editors. He had a dedicated column there from 1995 until it was stopped in 1999 during the general elections as the column was considered to be "unhelpful to the government in its bid to win the elections." Amir took up filmmaking on the encouragement of film director U-Wei Haji Saari after interviewing the latter during his part-time job as the latter's film ''Perempuan, Isteri Dan...?'' was released in 1993. In 2000, he wrote and directed Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmin Ahmad
Yasmin binti Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia for being humorous and touching. Her work crossed cross-cultural barriers, particularly her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally. In Malaysia, her films were highly controversial due to their depiction of events and relationships, which have been considered 'forbidden' by social conservatives, especially hard-line interpretations of Islam. She was a central figure of the "first" New Wave of Malaysian cinema. Early life Yasmin was born in Kampung Bukit Treh in Muar, Johor on 7 January 1958. A graduate in arts majoring in politics and psychology from Newcastle University in England, she worked as a trainee banker in 1982 for two weeks and then worked f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lee (Malaysian Film Director)
James Lee, is a Malaysian film director. He was born Lee Thim Heng () in 1973 in the city of Ipoh in Perak. He is one of the pioneers of the Malaysian Digital Film movement. His film ''The Beautiful Washing Machine'' won the Best Asean Feature Award and FIPRESCI Prize at the Bangkok International Film Festival The Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) ( th, เทศกาลภาพยนตร์นานาชาติกรุงเทพฯ) is an international film festival held annually in Bangkok, Thailand, since 2003. In addition to fi ... 2005. Besides directing, he had also produced the early films of other Malaysian filmmakers, namely, Amir Muhammad and Ho Yuhang, under his production house, Doghouse73 Pictures. Filmography Director Feature-length: Shorts: Producer Feature-length: Short Films: Director of Photography External links *Doghouse73 Pictures [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liew Seng Tat
Liew Seng Tat (born 30 September 1979) is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Early life Liew Seng Tat was born in an area of Kuala Lumpur called Jinjang. He graduated from the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, majoring in 3D animation. Film career Seng Tat has been actively involved in the Malaysian independent film scene since 2003. His first live-action short film "Bread skin with Strawberry Jam" garnered much attention and won at the 8th Malaysian Video Awards. In 2004, he set up Da Huang Pictures with Amir Muhammad, James Lee, and Tan Chui Mui. In 2007, his first feature film '' Flower In The Pocket'' made its world premiere at the 12th Pusan International Film Festival and won the New Currents and the KNN Audience Awards.12th Pusan International Film Festival Information ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woo Ming Jin
Woo Ming Jin is a Malaysian film director, writer and producer. His films have screened in film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Venice. He is also the co-founder of Greenlight Pictures, a film and television production house based in Kuala Lumpur. Biography Early career Woo Ming Jin was born and raised in Malaysia. At 19 years old, he went to the United States to study business in Boston but he had always wanted to be a filmmaker. He was then accepted to San Diego State University and earned a Master's degree in Film and Television Production. ''Monday Morning Glory'' His first film ''Monday Morning Glory'' (2005) screened at the Berlin and Locarno Film Festivals, while his second, ''Elephant and the Sea'' (2007), won awards in Torino, Cinema Digital Seoul, Portugal and Spain film festivals. ''Woman on Fire Looks for Water'' (2009) premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, and has played in Busan, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and the Pompidou Center in Paris, amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Yeon-shick
Shin Yeon-shick (born 1976) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed ''The Fair Love'' (2010), ''The Russian Novel'' (2013), and ''Rough Play'' (2013). Career Born in Seoul in 1976, Shin Yeon-shick dropped out of his Spanish Studies major at university to pursue a career in filmmaking. He made his directorial debut in 2003 with ''Piano Lesson'', made on a micro-budget of . In 2005, Shin wrote and directed the black-and-white indie ''A Great Actor'', which had its international premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His next film was ''The Fair Love'' (2010), a nuanced, lyrical inter-generational romance starring Ahn Sung-ki and Lee Ha-na. But despite its well-known actors and positive reviews, the film was a box office failure with mainstream audiences. Shin continued making low-budget experimental films. ''The Russian Novel'', an ambitious arthouse drama about a depressed author (played by Kang Shin-hyo) who wakes up from a 27-year coma to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fair Love
''The Fair Love'' (; lit. "Fair Love") is a 2010 South Korean romance film starring Ahn Sung-ki and Lee Ha-na. It premiered at the 2009 Busan International Film Festival, and was released in theaters on January 14, 2010. Plot Hyung-man (Ahn Sung-ki) is a man in his 50s who leads a lonely, ordered life. He runs a small camera repair shop, and his mastery of this intricate skill draws customers from across the city. He also has a talent for photography, though for him it's more of a hobby than a vocation. He's still single, in fact he has never even dated a woman before. If the world were more fair he would be materially secure, but years earlier one of his best friends, Ki-hyuk, took his life savings and ran off. Since then, his life has never been the same. Therefore, he is stunned and flummoxed when his former friend Ki-hyuk summons him to his deathbed for an unconvincing apology and, on top of that, a request. Ki-hyuk's daughter Nam-eun (Lee Ha-na), now in her 20s, will be alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitoshi Matsumoto
, commonly known as , is a Japanese film director and one of Japan's most popular comedians and TV hosts. He is one half of the comedy duo Downtown alongside Masatoshi Hamada. Like Hamada, Matsumoto was born and raised in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture. Matsumoto has directed several movies beginning in 2007 with ''Big Man Japan'', in several of which he also starred as the main character. He currently hosts ''Documental'' on Amazon Prime. Matsumoto is also the subject of the "Screaming Japanese Man" (a.k.a. "Screaming Asian Man") meme, originally taken from a segment of the variety show ''Gaki no Tsukai''. Early life Matsumoto was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo, to a poor family. He has one older sister and one older brother, , an established folk guitarist who released an autobiographical book titled . He has expressed his feelings about growing up in a poor household in a poem titled which Hamada turned into a song in 2004. In his poem, he wrote how laughter was the only way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symbol (film)
is a 2009 Japanese surrealist comedy film directed and starring by Hitoshi Matsumoto. It was nominated for the Asian Film Awards in the categories of Best Actor and Best Visual Effects. It has not received a U.S. release. The film was greeted negatively by Japanese audiences; however, it received a surprisingly warmer reaction in the West, despite not being commercialized outside Japan. Plot The film contains two major story lines. The first takes place in Mexico and centers around a masked wrestler A wrestling mask is a fabric-based mask that some Professional wrestling, professional wrestlers wear as part of their in-ring persona or gimmick (professional wrestling), gimmick. Professional wrestlers have been using masks as far back as 1915 ... called Escargot Man and his family as they prepare for a match that night. His family worries about him since the luchador is growing older and his slated opponent is stronger and younger than him. Nevertheless, his son and father ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |