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The Hole (1997 Film)
''The Hole'' (; literally "The Trap") is a 1997 South Korean film directed by Kim Sung-hong. Plot Jin-sook has a close relationship with her son, Don-woo, and is surprised when he announces his engagement to Su-jin. After the wedding, the three end up living together, with a nervous Su-jin keen to impress her new mother-in-law. But Jin-sook is determined to sabotage her son's marriage. Cast * Yoon So-jeong ... Jin-sook * Choi Ji-woo ... Su-jin * Park Yong-woo ... Dong-woo * Mun Su-jin * Lee Seung-woo * Jeon Hong-ryeol * Koo Hye-ryung * Youn Sung-hun * Tae Yu-rim * Kim Gye-pae * Seo Eun-sun * Kim Tae-beom * Gang Gyeong-ja * Lee Seok-hwan * O Hyo-seok Release ''The Hole'' was released in South Korea on 1 November 1997 and received a total of 141,717 admissions in Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Kore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Sung-hong
Kim Sung-hong (김성홍) (born August 7, 1956) is a South Korean film director. Filmography * ''Doctor'' (닥터, Dak teol) (2012) * ''Missing'' (실종, Sil Jong) (2009) * ''Say Yes (film), Say Yes'' (세이 예스 Sae-yi yaeseu) (2001) * ''A Growing Business'' (신장개업, Shinjang gaeub) (1998) * ''The Hole (1997 film), The Hole'' (올가미, Olgami) (1997) * ''Deep Scratch'' (손톱, Sontob) (1994) * ''Teenage Coup'' (열일곱살의 쿠데타 Yeolilgobsaleui coup d'etat) (1991) * ''Well, Let's Look at the Sky Sometimes'' (그래 가끔 하늘을 보자, Geurae gaggeum haneuleul boja) (1990) References External links * Korean Movie Database entry South Korean film directors 1956 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kang Woo-suk
Kang Woo-suk (born November 10, 1960 in Gyeongsan) is a South Korean film producer and director. He has often been called the most powerful man in Korean cinema, topping Cine21 magazine's list of '50 Most Powerful Men in Korean Cinema' for seven consecutive years from 1998 to 2004. Kang started as a director of successful comedy films before directing ''Two Cops'' in 1993, a box office hit whose success at the time was only surpassed by ''Sopyonje''. More recently, he has directed several Korean blockbusters, including the ''Public Enemy'' series (''Public Enemy'', '' Another Public Enemy'', and ''Public Enemy Returns'') and ''Silmido''. After the success of ''Two Cops'' Kang founded his own film production and distribution company, Cinema Service, which has since become the biggest homegrown studio in the Korean film industry and along with CJ Entertainment, one of the two largest film distributors in South Korea. In 2005 Kang stepped down from the position of president of Cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Ji-woo
Choi Ji-woo (born Choi Mi-hyang on June 11, 1975) is a South Korean actress. Considered one of South Korea's most beautiful women, she has received critical acclaim for her work in a wide range of melodramas, most notably '' Beautiful Days'' (2001), ''Winter Sonata'' (2002), ''Stairway to Heaven'' (2003), ''Air City'' (2007), '' Star's Lover'' (2008), ''The Suspicious Housekeeper'' (2013) and ''Temptation'' (2014), as well as the romantic comedy series '' Twenty Again'' (2015) and ''Woman with a Suitcase'' (2016)''. Career 1994–1998: Beginnings Choi Mi-hyang was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, then made her acting debut in the drama series ''War and Love'' in 1995. Afterwards, she adopted the stage name Choi Ji-woo. She was cast in her first major role in 1996 film ''The Gate of Destiny'', but her limited acting skills resulted in her being replaced during filming. In the next couple of years Choi continued to star in both TV dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Yong-woo
Park Yong-woo (; born March 16, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Early life Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering professor and his mother was a music teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. Instead, he nurtured his imagination. When he first chose to become an actor, Park felt hampered by the fact that he didn't have any childhood or family trauma to draw from, but later realized that a vivid imagination was the key to his acting process because it didn't require him to show his "naked face." Career Supporting actor Park failed the college entrance exams twice before he was accepted to the prestigious Theater and Film department at Chung-Ang University in 1991. He failed twice more when he joined MBC's actor's auditions, then finally passed in 1995. Park spent a decade playing minor and supporting roles on television and film, notably in '' Shiri'' (1999), ''Ditto'' (2000) and ''Age of Warriors'' (2003). He later said those ten years of experience enabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Gok-ji
Park Gok-ji (born 28 February 1965) is a South Korean film editor. She is married to film director Park Heung-sik, with whom she has several children, and she used her influence within the local industry to aid the production of his second film, '' The Railroad''. Park and her colleague Jeong Jin-hee won Best Editor at the 5th Korean Film Awards for ''A Dirty Carnival'', and received a further nomination for Best Editor at the 1st Asian Film Awards.Yi Ch’ang-ho.Inaugural Asian Film Awards’ Korean Selections. ''Korean Film Council'', 31 January 2007. Retrieved on 14 May 2009. Filmography as editor * ''The Scent at the Edge of the World'' (1991) * ''General's Son II'' (1991) * ''Like Music, Like Rain'' (1992) * ''The Marriage Life'' (1992) * ''General's Son III'' (1992) * ''May Our Love Stay This Way'' (1992) * ''Seopyeonje'' (1993) * ''The 101st Proposition'' (1993) * ''The Woman and the Man'' (1993) * ''The Man with Breasts'' (1993) * ''No Emergency Exit'' (1993) * ''Deep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Service
Cinema Service () was a South Korean film production and distribution company. History The company was founded in 1993 by film director Kang Woo-suk as "Kang Woo-suk Productions", before taking the name Cinema Service in 1995. It survived during the Asian financial crisis and was in position to take advantage of the popularity boom of Korean cinema, becoming a major player in the East Asian film industry. In 2000, Cinema Service merged with Locus Holdings (later Plenus Entertainment). In 2005, the founder Kang Woo-suk relinquished his position at the company, wanting to concentrate more on his personal film projects. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of South Korean Films Of 1997
A list of films produced in South Korea in 1997: External links * 1997 in South Korea * 1997at www.koreanfilm.org {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of South Korean Films Of 1997 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ... South Korean 1997 in South Korea ... [...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] |
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of the 1948 constitution. According to the 2020 census, Seoul has a population of 9.9 million people, and forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area with the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha – City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), Seoul was the world's fourth largest metropolitan economy in 2014, following Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. Seoul was rated Asia's most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis in 2015, with a GDP per capita (PPP) of around $40,000. With major technology hubs centered in Gangnam and Digital Media City, the Seoul Capital Area is home to the headquarters of 15 ''Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Films
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Incest In Film
Incest as either a thematic element or an incidental element of the plot, can be found in numerous films and television programs. Film Incestuous families or several kinds of incest in one film or a film series *The American horror films ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (original series 1974–1994 and remake series 2003–2006) and '' Wrong Turn'' (2003) feature villains who are the product of inbreeding. *Two of the shorts of the anthology film '' Immoral Tales'' (1973) deal with incest. The first story features two cousins who have sex by the beach. The fourth story features a fictionalized Lucrezia Borgia having sex with her brother and father; the short ends with the baptism of Lucrezia's baby, implied to be fathered by her own father. *In the musical ''The Rocky Horror Show'' and the film ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' (1975), Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien) and Magenta ( Patricia Quinn) are revealed to be brother and sister who have a sexual relationship. In the unproduced seq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Korean-language Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
