It's been four years since Lee Jong-pil earned earned praise for his feature “Samjin Company English Class”. The actor/director has, through the course of his career behind the camera continued to reinvent himself, following his dramedy debut “Born to Sing” with the historical “The Sound of a Flower' before making the 1995 set “Samjin Company English Class”, a female-ensemble led feature. He now continues to do the same with his latest “Escape”, an action thriller about North Korean soldiers.
Synopsis
Im Kyu-nam is a North Korean soldier. He dreams of starting a new life in South Korea. To accomplish his dream, he must flee his home country and cross the Dmz. Meanwhile, Officer Ri Hyun-sang of the State Security Department of North Korea chases after Im Kyu-nam.
If he opted for younger generation actresses like Esom, Go Ah-sung and Park Hye-soo in “Samjin Company English Class”, he does the same...
Synopsis
Im Kyu-nam is a North Korean soldier. He dreams of starting a new life in South Korea. To accomplish his dream, he must flee his home country and cross the Dmz. Meanwhile, Officer Ri Hyun-sang of the State Security Department of North Korea chases after Im Kyu-nam.
If he opted for younger generation actresses like Esom, Go Ah-sung and Park Hye-soo in “Samjin Company English Class”, he does the same...
- 5/1/2024
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
If you only see one Korean War tap-dance musical this year, well, you’re probably watching “Swing Kids.” A brash, busy and often bizarre genre mashup from South Korean blockbuster merchant Kang Hyeong-Cheol, this far-fetched tale of an African-American G.I. finding terpsichorean kinship with a group of Asian misfits in a Pow camp brings a bit of “Footloose”-style pep to an otherwise bloodily solemn anti-war tragedy. Yet while Kang’s film skips along in engaging fashion for its first hour — cheerful anachronisms and all — a pile-up of clashing tones and foggy subplotting combine to put lead weights on its tap shoes. With charismatic K-pop star Do Kyung-soo (better known as D.O.) among the leads, “Swing Kids” should give the director another domestic hit, but international audiences may find it a tad overlong and overworked.
“Swing Kids” is an unfortunate choice of title, recalling as it does the...
“Swing Kids” is an unfortunate choice of title, recalling as it does the...
- 12/24/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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