Sentences with phrase «of oldboy»

And while the violence here is more understated than that of Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, it's handled with an unflinching lens that simultaneously tantalizes and implicates the viewer.

Park Chan - wook, director of Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace, Lady Vengeance, Thirst and even JSA, makes his English - language debut this Friday,...

That's right: The extreme South Korean director of Oldboy and Stoker has made a love story, one where the lovers aren't related or vampires or anything!

Choi Ik - hyun (played by Choi Min - sik of Oldboy), a petty customs officer on the docks who pads his income with bribes, discovers that he is related to a yakuza - connected gangster when he stumbles across contraband heroine and decides to sell it himself.

It's from the director of Oldboy, and that alone gets me halfway to the theater.

Whether it's the gothic overtones of Stoker, the supernatural horror of Thirst, the surreal technological dreams of I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, or the violent revenge of Oldboy and the rest of the Vengeance Trilogy, the South Korean director specialises in drawing real emotion out of outlandish fantasies.

With Josh Brolin now confirmed for the lead of Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy and the vultures circling Christian Bale for...

By now, you would have seen the official poster for Spike Lee's adaptation of the Oldboy manga, made famous by Park Chan - wook's classic film of the same name and based on the same source material.

The much - praised director of Oldboy and Sympathy For Mr Vengeance is now set to bring us Stoker, a horror / drama that has some serious buzz around it - and not just because of Park's previous work.

If you would like to learn more about the remake of Oldboy check out a recent post here.

Copley has also been confirmed to be playing the villain Adrian Pryce in Spike Lee's upcoming remake of Oldboy.

News of an Oldboy remake surfaced years ago and since then has gone through more actors than I care to count so let's just give the rundown of the ones that are currently in position to play a role in Spike Lee's upcoming reboot.

Park Chan - wook, director of Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace, Lady Vengeance, Thirst and even JSA, makes his English - language debut this Friday, March 1, with Fox Searchlight's Stoker.

(He's played by South Korean actor Choi Min - sik, of Oldboy fame.)

During a whirlwind appearance at the Toronto Film Festival, cut short by her duties on the set of the English - language debut of Oldboy director Park Chan - wook, Wasikowska talked to The A.V. Club about her penchant for outsiders, the link between acting and dance, and the harsh beauty of Portland, Oregon.

Consequently, Lucy gets captured by Korean gangsters led by Mr. Jang (the great, wearily malevolent Choi Min - Sik, of Oldboy fame).

Not exact matches

In the film, Lucy (Johansson, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is abducted by a gang of Asian baddies, led by the nefarious Mr. Jang (Min - sik, Oldboy), who aim to use her as one of their «mules» to smuggle their uber - potent drug called CPH4 to other territories around the world.

Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is a freewheeling expat American in Taiwan, blowing off her studies for nightclub carousing, until the day her boyfriend handcuffs a briefcase to her arm and sends her to see fearsome mobster Mr. Jang (Min - sik Choi, star of the original «Oldboy»).

Instead, Lee brings a bit of levity and New York flavor to his Oldboy.

Ever since Oldboy (2003), Park Chan - wook has been one of the most exciting filmmakers out there.

When the Oldboy remake was first announced, many fans of Chan - wook Park's original Oldboy wondered if the iconic hammer fight scene would be included in this updated version.

Well, there is also the cameo of the octopus that Dae - Su has swallowed in Oldboy.

The remake of Park Chan Wook's cult classic Oldboy, directed by Spike Lee, did not get a warm reception from critics and was a box office disast...

«I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK» (Pathfinder) is an offbeat character piece by South Korean auteur Pak Chan - wook (of «Oldboy» fame) and foreign terrors come from «The Child's Eye» (Lionsgate), a Hong Kong production from The Pang Brothers, and «The Sylvian Experiments» (Lionsgate) from Japanese screenwriter turned director Hiroshi Takahashi.

A paranoia - laced tale of injustice, obsession, and revenge that finds Lee plumbing the dark depths of the human soul, Oldboy is replete with intricately choreographed fight sequences and shocking revelations that lead to a gut - wrenching surprise ending.

Director Spike Lee's remake of Park Chan - wook's South Korean new - classic Oldboy is currently in production in New Orleans, and a few more photos from the set have surfaced.

He begins the essay with an insight that exemplifies the independent - minded analysis that has continued at Reverse Shot: «The face of new South Korean cinema looks a lot like the face of American Independent cinema of the mid-to-late Nineties, given that [Chan - wook] Park's [Oldboy] draws so much of its power from the mixture of high - concept aesthetics and lowbrow generic appropriations that we've been bombarded with since Tarantino.»

Less gory and thus easier to stomach than Park's version, Lee's film lacks the pulsating undercurrent of doom that makes Park's Oldboy simultaneously magical and sickening.

Written by Mark Protosevich, Spike Lee's thriller Oldboy is an action - packed reimagining of Chan - wook Park's 2003 Korean film of the same name.

Oldboy - November 27 Another remake of movie that was good enough the first time to not need to be done again.

While the «Oldboy» helmer's particular brand of odd humor and unsettling drama will most likely remain intact, certain aspects of the film look to be taking a different approach, including the recent addition of one of the most talented composers working today.

Chan - wook Park, the South Korean director of such darkly realized stunners as Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, is a noted storyboard guru.

Choi Min - sik of «Oldboy» stars as the sharpshooter in this feature.

Also, the story is able to draw on both Christian and traditionally Korean shamanistic traditions and combine them with the history of Japanese colonialism to create its morbid atmosphere, which has the ability to chill even without a belief in any of its superstitions.4 That said, the bludgeoning nature of the approach kept the movie from achieving the masterpiece status many other critics have assigned it.5 By contrast, Park Chan - wook's latest, Agassi (The Handmaiden), has received a mixed reception, but I feel it is his best since 2003's Oldboy.6

Hitman: Agent 47 features Rupert Friend (Homeland), Zachary Quinto (Star Trek Into Darkness), Hannah Ware (Oldboy), Ciarán Hinds (Game of Thrones) and Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong) and is directed by first timer Aleksander Bach.

Korean director Park Chan - wook («Oldboy,» «Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance») sets up a three - part caper: A fake count and rare book forger (Ha Jung - woo) plants illiterate orphan and petty thief Sookee (Kim Tae - ri) in the employ of heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min - hee).

I have renewed respect for Lee following his unfairly - maligned Oldboy remake, and now I covet this priceless bit of memorabilia.

She'll next be seen opposite Josh Brolin in Spike Lee's remake of «Oldboy.»

Like Park's version, «Oldboy» tells of a drunken, abusive lout named Joe Doucette (Josh Brolin) who's imprisoned for a long time by a mysterious jailer.

I don't like or approve of everything in «Oldboy,» but I'm glad it exists.

One, the second Weinstein potential awards contender in a row to open in just two cities, «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,» exceeded expectations while the other, Spike Lee's remake of «Oldboy,» performed weakly in several hundred theaters.

Park Chan - wook wants Colin Firth to play against type — in other words, not playing an out - and - out nice guy — in his remake of «Oldboy», according to Twitch.

Because the Internet moves with the speed and ferocity of a hornet swarm, there's a chance that by the time you read this, Spike Lee's American remake of «Oldboy» will already have been stung to death.

Lee's «Oldboy,» in contrast, is more like «Point of No Return,» the American remake of «La Femme Nikita.»

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Park brought the DP Chung - hoon Chung, his regular cinematographer since Oldboy, but the rest of the talent was provided by the producers, from the stars to ace production designer Thérèse DePrez (wooed by hardcore indies as well as studio executives), including the actor Wentworth Miller, who signs here his first screenplay (and gets a production credit).

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Oldboy's near the top of my Netflix queue, and someday I intend to watch some Hou Hsao - hsien movies (like Café Lumière)(Jonathon Rosenbaum digs him, and he is my favorite film critic) and Coffee and Cigarettes is the only available Jarmusch movie I haven't seen.

Produced by Fox Searchlight (Scott Free Productions, the late Tony Scott and Ridley Scott share producing credits), this was the first US film of the Korean director mostly known for his «vengeance trilogy»: Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot, 2002), Oldboy (Oldeuboi, Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2003) and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi, 2005).

There's only one way a remake of Park Chan - wook «s «Oldboy» was ever going to even a have a chance of approaching the original — embracing the fact the story requires a hard - R to get told right.