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Almost Love (2006 Film)
''Almost Love'' (; lit. "Youth Comic") is a 2006 South Korean film. It was directed by Lee Han, starring Kwon Sang-woo and Kim Ha-neul. Distributed by Showbox, it was released on March 23, 2006, and ran at 116 minutes. Plot Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student with a part-time job as a stunt man, who dreams of becoming Korea's answer to Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and aspiring actress, but tends to fail auditions because of her timid personality. The two are old friends who have grown up together, but their relationship becomes complicated when they each start dating other people. Cast * Kwon Sang-woo as Ji-hwan ** Park Ji-bin as young Ji-hwan * Kim Ha-neul as Dal-rae ** Jung Min-ah as young Dal-rae * Lee Sang-woo as Moon Young-hoon * Jang Mi-inae as Kim Ji-min * Jung Gyu-soo as Dal-rae's father * Choi Jong-ryul * Kang Ki-hwa * Lee Young-lan * Lee Kyung-jin as Jin Dal-rae's mother * Park Kyeong-hwan * Ku Hye-ryeong * Jo Deok-je Release ''Almost Love'' was released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Han
Lee Han (born 1970) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the coming-of-age film ''Punch'', which became one of the biggest hits on the South Korean box office in 2011. Career Lee Han graduated from Hanyang University's theater and film program. He first worked as an assistant director on two films for veteran filmmaker Bae Chang-ho: ''Love Story'' (1996) and ''My Heart'' (1999). In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature, '' Lovers' Concerto'', a melodrama about three friends caught in a love triangle which starred Cha Tae-hyun, Lee Eun-ju and Son Ye-jin. He then wrote the screenplay for ''Garden of Heaven'' (2003), a tearjerker about a hospice doctor who falls for a terminally ill patient, played by Ahn Jae-wook and Lee Eun-joo. Lee was also part of the writing staff of '' Bodyguard'', a 2003 action-comedy television series starring Cha Seung-won. With his succeeding films, Lee further solidified his reputation as a filmmaker with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jang Mi-inae
Jang Mi In-Ae (born May 28, 1984) is a South Korean former actress. She starred in the sitcoms '' Nonstop'' and ''Soulmate'', as well as the television dramas ''Dear My Sister'' and '' Missing You''. In 2013, she was investigated then indicted for illegal use of the narcotic propofol. The Seoul Central District Court found Jang guilty of taking propofol 410 times over six years (or 5.6 times a month), and she was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. Personal life On August 18, 2022, Jang announced that she was pregnant and about to give birth in October. Her marriage is expected to be around next year after her birth. Filmography Television series Film Variety show Music video References External links Jang Mi-inaeat Cyworld Jang Mi-inaeat C-JeS Entertainment C-JeS Entertainment is a South Korean entertainment company established in 2009, handling the management of various artists. Its roster includes popular boy band JYJ; singer Gummy; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Lee Han
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showbox Films
Showbox Co., Ltd. () is one of the largest film distribution companies in South Korea, founded in 1999. Showbox is the film investment, production and distribution branch of Mediaplex, Inc., entertainment arm of Orion Group. Its main competitors for domestic box office are CJ Entertainment, Lotte Entertainment, and Next Entertainment World (NEW). Despite having very short history in the industry, they managed to have top 6 of 10 blockbusters in Korean box office history, number 1 being 2012's ''The Thieves''. History * June 1996: Establishment of Media Flex Co., Ltd. to enter the movie business. * November 1999: Establishment of Megabox to enter the movie theater business. * January 2002: Establishment of ShowBox brand and start of movie distribution investment. * December 2002: Their first film Sex Is Zero premiers and becomes the fifth most popular film of 2002; selling 4 million tickets. * February 2004: Taegukgi premiers and hits a new record of 11.74 million tickets sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Korean-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts going b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Number-one Films Of 2006 (South Korea) ...
This is a list of films which have been placed number-one at the South Korean box office during 2006, based on admissions. Highest-grossing films References See also * Lists of South Korean films {{Cinema of Korea South Korea 2006 in South Korean cinema 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has a Demographics of South Korea, population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the List of metropolitan areas by population, fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Kyung-jin
Lee Kyung-jin is a South Korean actress. She is known for her roles in dramas such as ''Working Mom Parenting Daddy'', ''Joseon Survival Period'', ''Through the Waves'', ''Amor Fati'' and ''Three Bold Siblings''. She also appeared in movies ''Love in Magic'', '' Almost Love'', ''26 Years Diary'', ''Love Forecast ''Love Forecast'' (; lit. ''Today's Love'') is a 2015 South Korean romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Park Jin-pyo. Starring Lee Seung-gi and Moon Chae-won, the film depicts the relationship between men and women as being as delicate a ...'' and '' Ayla: The Daughter of War''. Filmography Television series Film Awards and nominations References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Kyung-jin 1956 births 20th-century South Korean actresses Living people 21st-century South Korean actresses South Korean television actresses South Korean film actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Sang-woo
Lee Sang-woo (born February 13, 1980) is a South Korean actor. He rose to fame in the 2007 television drama ''First Wives' Club'', and has since played leading roles on '' The Road Home'' (2009), '' Don't Hesitate'' (2009), ''Life Is Beautiful'' (2010), and '' Feast of the Gods'' (2012). Career Lee Sang-woo launched his acting career in 2005, starring in a ''Drama City'' episode and a minor role in the television drama '' 18 vs. 29''. This was followed by more supporting roles on television, including his big screen debut in '' Almost Love'', a romantic comedy film headlined by Kwon Sang-woo and Kim Ha-neul. During this time, he also starred as one of the three leading actors of the independent film ''Don't Look Back'' (2006), which was the closing film of that year's Jeonju International Film Festival, and won a critic's prize at the Locarno International Film Festival. Lee began his rise to fame with a supporting role in ''First Wives' Club'', a popular drama which aired fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
