Exclusive: Korean American comedian, writer and producer Cathy Shim is the latest to join the cast of the film K-Pops! from first-time director and eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak (who also stars). She will play Diamond, the energetic iconic host of a K-pop competition show in Seoul, and .Paak’s hard-to-please boss.
K-Pops! follows a washed-up musician from Los Angeles who attempts to reinvigorate his career by joining a band for a K-Pop competition show in Seoul and discovers that his long-lost son has the chance to front one of the country’s hottest new groups. He jumps at the opportunity to capitalize on his son’s stardom for his renaissance but ultimately learns that fatherhood is much more fulfilling and meaningful.
Scripted by .Paak and Khaila Amazan, K-Pops!‘ producers are Greg Silverman and Jon Berg on behalf of Stampede Ventures, Jaeson Ma on behalf of Est Studios, Park on behalf of Big Dummie,...
K-Pops! follows a washed-up musician from Los Angeles who attempts to reinvigorate his career by joining a band for a K-Pop competition show in Seoul and discovers that his long-lost son has the chance to front one of the country’s hottest new groups. He jumps at the opportunity to capitalize on his son’s stardom for his renaissance but ultimately learns that fatherhood is much more fulfilling and meaningful.
Scripted by .Paak and Khaila Amazan, K-Pops!‘ producers are Greg Silverman and Jon Berg on behalf of Stampede Ventures, Jaeson Ma on behalf of Est Studios, Park on behalf of Big Dummie,...
- 11/16/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Hong Sang-soo has directed over twenty films. His debut feature “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” (1996) won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam while several of his next films including “Woman Is the Future of Man” (2004), “Tale of Cinema” (2005) and “The Day After” (2017) were selected at the Cannes film festival, while “Hahaha” won the Prix Un Certain Regard at 2010. At Locarno, “Our Sunhi” (2013) won the Pardo d’oro for Best Director while “Right Now, Wrong Then” (2015) earned Hong Sang-soo the Pardo d’oro – Concorso internazionale. His 2020 film “The Woman Who Ran” won him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. In our Best Asian Films of 2020 list, “The Woman Who Ran” was voted as the third best.
His distinct style of people drinking and discussing fervently, men appearing as lowlifes, subtle but timely humor, along with the sudden, occasionally double zoom-ins and the...
His distinct style of people drinking and discussing fervently, men appearing as lowlifes, subtle but timely humor, along with the sudden, occasionally double zoom-ins and the...
- 12/19/2020
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
Twenty years after its original release, Sang-soo Hong’s second film “The Power of Kangwon Province” is a film that serves very much as a blueprint for his next two decades of filmmaking, featuring what would become his cinematic staples, but still has a nineties charm differentiating it from his more recent works.
The Power of Kangwon Province is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Naturally with a Hong film, the structure is unconventional. Here, two intertwining stories are played out, one after the other, with brief hints at a connection between the two leads. To start, three female students are drawn to the North/South border region: Ji-sook (Oh Yun-hong ) arrives after her two friends, and is somewhat distant throughout their trip. After a journey to the mountain, the trio meet a young policeman (Kim Yoo-suk) and the quartet go for drinks…many drinks.
On returning to Seoul, Ji-sook...
The Power of Kangwon Province is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Naturally with a Hong film, the structure is unconventional. Here, two intertwining stories are played out, one after the other, with brief hints at a connection between the two leads. To start, three female students are drawn to the North/South border region: Ji-sook (Oh Yun-hong ) arrives after her two friends, and is somewhat distant throughout their trip. After a journey to the mountain, the trio meet a young policeman (Kim Yoo-suk) and the quartet go for drinks…many drinks.
On returning to Seoul, Ji-sook...
- 10/29/2018
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
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