Tag: The Age of Shadows

  • ‘Parasite’ Star Song Kang-ho Heads Cast of Kim Jee-woon’s ‘Cobweb’

    ‘Parasite’ Star Song Kang-ho Heads Cast of Kim Jee-woon’s ‘Cobweb’

    “Parasite” star Song Kang-ho will reteam for the fifth time with leading Korean director Kim Jee-woon on their upcoming feature film “Cobweb.”Kim describes the project as “experimental” and said that it will be shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.The film will be the first project to emerge from Anthology Studios,…

  • Film Review: ‘The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil’

    Film Review: ‘The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil’

    Korea has dominated the midnight-movie/genre slots at international festivals so thoroughly of late that it’s hard not to view Lee Won-tae’s “The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil” in terms of its shortcomings in comparison to the likes of “Train to Busan,” “The Age of Shadows,” “The Wailing” and so on. But what this fun, slick…

  • Director Kim Jee-woon Honored by French Government

    Director Kim Jee-woon Honored by French Government

    South Korean director Kim Jee-woon received the Arts and Letters Officer’s decoration for his contribution to the arts at the French Night party on Oct. 6, during the Busan International Film Festival.Best-known for his Korean Western “The Good, the Bad, the Weird,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, Kim launched his career…