This year’s Cannes jury achieved something near impossible last week: pleasing almost everyone – apart, maybe, from bookies’ favourite and longtime bridesmaid Pedro Almodóvar – with their choice of Palme d’Or winner. No one at the festival had a word to say against Bong Joon-ho’s darkly funny, socially conscious thriller Parasite, and the win was viewed as a very belated honour for South Korean film as a whole, which has long held a reputation for vibrancy and daring, but has never produced a Palme champ before. (Others considered it balm on the wound of last year’s surprise snub, when Lee Chang-dong’s critically adored Burning failed to win a single jury prize.)
Parasite won’t be out in the UK for months yet, but as critic Cathy Brennan pointed out on Twitter, there’s another way to celebrate the country’s cinematic victory (or at least to whet your appetite), courtesy of the official Korean Film Archive’s remarkable YouTube channel Korean Classic Film. Usps. With nearly 200 feature-length films available to stream, legally and for free, it’s an invaluable resource for fans and students of a national cinema not very well served by international DVD distributors, particularly as you delve further back into the last century. If not always immaculate, the image quality is acceptable: for many of the selections you won’t find them any other way.
Unless you’re an expert, chances are you won’t have heard of most of the films in this library, which is organised in no particular fashion; I’ve certainly learned a lot by browsing and dipping into titles at random. If you’re looking for some kind of measure of where to start, you could do worse than seeking out films with the most plays, though 10m views for the intriguing but rather esoteric 1984 erotic drama Between the Knees does not make it an essential pick.
More instructively, that metric will draw you to the channel’s rather strong collection of works by the auteur Im Kwon-taek, a major figure of the turn-of-the-millennium New Korean Cinema movement, which raised the country’s profile on the international arthouse scene. His 2000 film Chunhyang is the blockbuster in the bunch. An extravagantly gorgeous epic romance drawn from an 18th-century folktale, it’s 140 minutes of such saturated visual pleasure that you wind up feeling a little drunk on it. It’s in a very different register from Im’s more starkly stirring 1987 drama The Surrogate Woman, with its superb performance from Soo-youn Kang (a best actress winner at Venice that year) as a destitute teenager enlisted to carry a nobleman’s child. And Im’s Sopyonje, from 1993, is just ravishing, playing out a tender, but never maudlin, parent-child relationship through the traditional musical form of pansori.
Going further back, a friend’s recommendation led me to Hyun-mok Yoo’s 1961 postwar drama Aimless Bullet, uploaded to the channel in quite crisp restored form. It’s a blinder, hitting as hard as its title does not. Following three siblings variously trying to get their lives back on track amid the poverty and social rubble left by the Korean war, it bears the influence of Italian neorealism, but is mesmerising as a snapshot of its own very specific time and place. I was also taken with Lee Won-se’s irresistibly titled A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball, from 1981. Also known as A Ball Shot by a Midget (the channel’s titles don’t always square with those on reference sites like IMDb), it’s not an absurdist comedy, but a quiet, lovingly textured and beautifully shot observation piece, tracking the daily lives and trials of a little person’s hard-up family.
Finally, you won’t find many of the currently favoured Korean auteurs such as Bong included here, but if Mubi’s recent Hong Sang-soo retrospective got you curious, his strange, scrappy, sometimes appealingly lewd 1996 debut The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well is on offer. It’s as good a gateway into this Korean banquet as any.
Also on DVD or streaming this week
Holiday
(Mubi.com, from 7 June)
Maintaining its hard, icy edges even under a beating Aegean sun, Swedish director Isabella Eklöf’s fiercely impressive debut isn’t for faint hearts, but this thriller centred on an abused gangster’s moll brings an unblinking female gaze to a toxic male underworld.
(Mubi.com, from 7 June)
Maintaining its hard, icy edges even under a beating Aegean sun, Swedish director Isabella Eklöf’s fiercely impressive debut isn’t for faint hearts, but this thriller centred on an abused gangster’s moll brings an unblinking female gaze to a toxic male underworld.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(Fox, 15)
Marielle Heller and Nicole Holofcener’s witty, sneakily moving adaptation of author-turned-forger Lee Israel’s memoir was one of the singular joys of last year’s awards-season crop, not least for Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant’s salty chemistry.
(Fox, 15)
Marielle Heller and Nicole Holofcener’s witty, sneakily moving adaptation of author-turned-forger Lee Israel’s memoir was one of the singular joys of last year’s awards-season crop, not least for Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant’s salty chemistry.
Vice
(eOne, 15)
Meanwhile, Adam McKay’s hyperactive, smarmily satirical Dick Cheney biopic felt like it had exhausted its purpose once it lost all its Oscar nods. Christian Bale’s technically immaculate Cheney impersonation is something to see, but it doesn’t linger.
(eOne, 15)
Meanwhile, Adam McKay’s hyperactive, smarmily satirical Dick Cheney biopic felt like it had exhausted its purpose once it lost all its Oscar nods. Christian Bale’s technically immaculate Cheney impersonation is something to see, but it doesn’t linger.
Sauvage
(Peccadillo, 15)
A Cannes standout last year, Camille Vidal Nacquet’s raw, on-edge debut study of a near-feral gay prostitute surviving the streets is as sobering as you’d expect, but imbued with a more surprising sense of humour and community.
(Peccadillo, 15)
A Cannes standout last year, Camille Vidal Nacquet’s raw, on-edge debut study of a near-feral gay prostitute surviving the streets is as sobering as you’d expect, but imbued with a more surprising sense of humour and community.
This year’s Cannes jury achieved something near impossible last week: pleasing almost everyone – apart, maybe, from bookies’ favourite and longtime bridesmaid Pedro Almodóvar – with their choice of Palme d’Or winner. No one at the festival had a word to say against Bong Joon-ho’s darkly funny, socially conscious thriller Parasite, and the win was viewed as a very belated honour for South Korean film as a whole, which has long held a reputation for vibrancy and daring, but has never produced a Palme champ before. (Others considered it balm on the wound of last year’s surprise snub, when Lee Chang-dong’s critically adored Burning failed to win a single jury prize.)
Parasite won’t be out in the UK for months yet, but as critic Cathy Brennan pointed out on Twitter, there’s another way to celebrate the country’s cinematic victory (or at least to whet your appetite), courtesy of the official Korean Film Archive’s remarkable YouTube channel Korean Classic Film. With nearly 200 feature-length films available to stream, legally and for free, it’s an invaluable resource for fans and students of a national cinema not very well served by international DVD distributors, particularly as you delve further back into the last century. If not always immaculate, the image quality is acceptable: for many of the selections you won’t find them any other way.
Unless you’re an expert, chances are you won’t have heard of most of the films in this library, which is organised in no particular fashion; I’ve certainly learned a lot by browsing and dipping into titles at random. If you’re looking for some kind of measure of where to start, you could do worse than seeking out films with the most plays, though 10m views for the intriguing but rather esoteric 1984 erotic drama Between the Knees does not make it an essential pick.
More instructively, that metric will draw you to the channel’s rather strong collection of works by the auteur Im Kwon-taek, a major figure of the turn-of-the-millennium New Korean Cinema movement, which raised the country’s profile on the international arthouse scene. His 2000 film Chunhyang is the blockbuster in the bunch. An extravagantly gorgeous epic romance drawn from an 18th-century folktale, it’s 140 minutes of such saturated visual pleasure that you wind up feeling a little drunk on it. It’s in a very different register from Im’s more starkly stirring 1987 drama The Surrogate Woman, with its superb performance from Soo-youn Kang (a best actress winner at Venice that year) as a destitute teenager enlisted to carry a nobleman’s child. And Im’s Sopyonje, from 1993, is just ravishing, playing out a tender, but never maudlin, parent-child relationship through the traditional musical form of pansori.
Going further back, a friend’s recommendation led me to Hyun-mok Yoo’s 1961 postwar drama Aimless Bullet, uploaded to the channel in quite crisp restored form. It’s a blinder, hitting as hard as its title does not. Following three siblings variously trying to get their lives back on track amid the poverty and social rubble left by the Korean war, it bears the influence of Italian neorealism, but is mesmerising as a snapshot of its own very specific time and place. I was also taken with Lee Won-se’s irresistibly titled A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball, from 1981. Also known as A Ball Shot by a Midget (the channel’s titles don’t always square with those on reference sites like IMDb), it’s not an absurdist comedy, but a quiet, lovingly textured and beautifully shot observation piece, tracking the daily lives and trials of a little person’s hard-up family.
Finally, you won’t find many of the currently favoured Korean auteurs such as Bong included here, but if Mubi’s recent Hong Sang-soo retrospective got you curious, his strange, scrappy, sometimes appealingly lewd 1996 debut The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well is on offer. It’s as good a gateway into this Korean banquet as any.
Also on DVD or streaming this week
Holiday
(Mubi.com, from 7 June)
Maintaining its hard, icy edges even under a beating Aegean sun, Swedish director Isabella Eklöf’s fiercely impressive debut isn’t for faint hearts, but this thriller centred on an abused gangster’s moll brings an unblinking female gaze to a toxic male underworld.
(Mubi.com, from 7 June)
Maintaining its hard, icy edges even under a beating Aegean sun, Swedish director Isabella Eklöf’s fiercely impressive debut isn’t for faint hearts, but this thriller centred on an abused gangster’s moll brings an unblinking female gaze to a toxic male underworld.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(Fox, 15)
Marielle Heller and Nicole Holofcener’s witty, sneakily moving adaptation of author-turned-forger Lee Israel’s memoir was one of the singular joys of last year’s awards-season crop, not least for Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant’s salty chemistry.
(Fox, 15)
Marielle Heller and Nicole Holofcener’s witty, sneakily moving adaptation of author-turned-forger Lee Israel’s memoir was one of the singular joys of last year’s awards-season crop, not least for Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant’s salty chemistry.
Vice
(eOne, 15)
Meanwhile, Adam McKay’s hyperactive, smarmily satirical Dick Cheney biopic felt like it had exhausted its purpose once it lost all its Oscar nods. Christian Bale’s technically immaculate Cheney impersonation is something to see, but it doesn’t linger.
(eOne, 15)
Meanwhile, Adam McKay’s hyperactive, smarmily satirical Dick Cheney biopic felt like it had exhausted its purpose once it lost all its Oscar nods. Christian Bale’s technically immaculate Cheney impersonation is something to see, but it doesn’t linger.
Sauvage
(Peccadillo, 15)
A Cannes standout last year, Camille Vidal Nacquet’s raw, on-edge debut study of a near-feral gay prostitute surviving the streets is as sobering as you’d expect, but imbued with a more surprising sense of humour and community.
(Peccadillo, 15)
A Cannes standout last year, Camille Vidal Nacquet’s raw, on-edge debut study of a near-feral gay prostitute surviving the streets is as sobering as you’d expect, but imbued with a more surprising sense of humour and community.
Daring Women | |
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Also known as | Daring Woman |
Genre | Drama Romance |
Written by | Park Ye-kyung |
Directed by | Lee Dong-hoon |
Starring | Lee Yoo-ri Lee Chang-hoon Seo Ji-young Lee Joong-moon |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) | Korean |
No. of episodes | 105 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Choi Moon-seok |
Production location(s) | Korea |
Running time | Mondays to Fridays at 08:40 (KST) |
Production company(s) | Pan Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
Picture format | HD |
First shown in | South Korea |
Original release | 2 March – 30 July 2010 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Don't Hesitate |
Followed by | You Don't Know Women |
External links | |
SBS official website |
Daring Women (Korean: 당돌한 여자; RR: Dangdolhan Yeoja) is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Lee Yoo-ri, Lee Chang-hoon, Seo Ji-young, and Lee Joong-moon. The morning soap opera aired on SBS on Mondays to Fridays at 8:40 a.m. from March 2 to July 30, 2010 for 105 episodes.[1]
Plot[edit]
Ji Soon-young loses her husband, Wang Se-joon, in a tragic accident. She is left alone to take care of their adopted daughter. She meets and falls in love with Han Kyu-jin, who happens to be the father-in-law of her friend and former sister-in-law, Wang Se-bin. Their lives change when Soon-young marries Kyu-jin and becomes Se-bin's mother-in-law. They have to adjust to their new roles in the family and try to get along with each other.
Daring Women Korean Drama Youtube Full
Cast[edit]
- Wang family
- Lee Yoo-ri as Ji Soon-young
- Kang Sung-min as Wang Se-joon (husband)
- Seo Ji-young as Wang Se-bin (sister-in-law)
- Kim Ha-kyun as Wang Man-gil (father-in-law)
- Kim Chung as Ha Eun-shil (mother-in-law)
- Lee Chan-joo as Wang Saet-byul (Soon-young's adopted daughter)
- Han family
- Lee Chang-hoon as Han Kyu-jin
- Lee Joong-moon as Han Joo-myung (son)
- Hong In-young as Han Joo-ran (daughter)
- Kim Soo-mi as Hong Bo-ok (mother)
- Ji Soon-young's family
- Son Hwa-ryung as Hwang Mo-ran (cousin)
- Jung Woo as Baek Dong-soo (Mo-ran's husband)
- Lee Jong-nam as Go Min-ja (aunt, Mo-ran's mother)
- Han Kyu-jin's office
- Kim Ji-wan as Kim Sang-soo
- Park Yong-ki as Lee Yong-joo (office manager)
- Sa Hee as Na Chae-young
- Extended cast
- Hwang Dong-soo as Oh Dong-jae
- Kim Na-young as Noh Eun-kyung
- Min Joon-hyun
- Kim Joon-hyung
References[edit]
- ^http://www.hancinema.net/chanmi-s-drama-news-seo-ji-yeong-in-daring-woman-22501.html
External links[edit]
- Daring Women official SBS website‹See Tfd›(in Korean)
- Daring Women at HanCinema
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daring_Women&oldid=883201605'
Born | September 8, 1966 (age 52) |
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Occupation | Actor |
Agent | CJ Entertainment |
Spouse(s) | Kim Seung-soo (m. 2008)[1][2][3] |
Children | 1 daughter (b. 2010) |
Family | Lee Geum-joo(sister) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | I Chang-hun |
McCune–Reischauer | I Ch'ang-hun |
Lee Chang-hoon (born September 8, 1966) is a South Korean actor. Lee is a comedian turned actor. He was cast in the lead in Korean dramasDaring Women (2010) and While You Were Sleeping My hero academia english dub crunchyroll. (2011) .
- 1Filmography
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year | Title | Role |
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1994 | Lai Daihan | |
1997 | Hallelujah | |
1998 | The Happenings | |
2000 | Scent of Love | |
2002 | Four Toes | Lecaf |
2005 | Tarzan Park Heung-sook | |
2007 | The Ten-minute Break (short film) | |
2008 | Unforgettable[4] | Adult Gil-su (narrator) |
Television series[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Network |
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1993 | My Mother's Sea | Sang-gyu | MBC |
1994 | M | Song Ji-suk | MBC |
1995 | Even If the Wind Blows | KBS2 | |
1996 | A Faraway Country | Hyung-woo | KBS2 |
1997 | Into the Storm | Lee Kang-chan | KBS2 |
Propose | Kwon Hyuk-joon | KBS1 | |
Myth of a Hero | Kim In-woo | MBC | |
1998 | Soonpoong Clinic | Lee Chang-hoon | SBS |
Song of the Wind | Kim Do-gyun | SBS | |
1999 | Sunday Best 'Eun bi-ryeong' | Jung-woo | KBS2 |
School | Lee Jae-ha | KBS2 | |
Invitation | Dong-sook | KBS2 | |
Rising Sun, Rising Moon | Choi Ji-hyuk | KBS1 | |
2001 | Pretty Lady | Kim Hoon | KBS2 |
Stock Flower | Kang Min-hyuk | KBS2 | |
This Is Love | Cha Joon-bum | KBS1 | |
Mina | Director Kang | KBS2 | |
2002 | Rustic Period | Hyashi | SBS |
2003 | Thousand Years of Love | Kim Cheon-chul | SBS |
One Million Roses | Kang Min-jae | KBS1 | |
2005 | My Sweetheart, My Darling | Jung Jae-min | KBS1 |
Ballad of Seodong | Mok Ra-soo | SBS | |
2006 | My Love | Jo Yi-han | SBS |
2007 | Yi San | Crown Prince Sado | MBC |
Even So Love | Yoon Seok-woo | MBC | |
2010 | Daring Women | Han Kyu-jin | SBS |
2011 | While You Were Sleeping | Chae Hyuk-jin | SBS |
2013 | When a Man Falls in Love | Gu Yong-gab | MBC |
2016 | I'm Sorry, But I Love You | Shin Tae-jin | SBS |
Variety show[edit]
Year | Title | Network | Notes |
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2016 | Daddy's True Colors | Channel A | As himself |
Daring Women Korean Drama Youtube Eng
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2001 | KBS Drama Awards | Popularity Award | Stock Flower | Won |
2010 | SBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend/Daily Drama | Daring Women | Nominated |
2011 | SBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend/Daily Drama | While You Were Sleeping | Nominated |
References[edit]
- ^'ChanMi's star news: Movie star Lee Chang-hoon to be wed this September!'. Hancinema. 30 July 2008. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^Ryu, Jeong-hyun (10 December 2010). 'Celebrities say age-gap makes no difference in planning marriage'. The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^'Chang-Hoon Lee, Marriage (이창훈 결혼)'. YouTube. 3 August 2010. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^Lee, Hyo-won (8 May 2008). 'Unforgettable: Return to Innocence'. The Korea Times. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
External links[edit]
- Lee Chang-hoon at CJ Entertainment
- Lee Chang-hoon at HanCinema
- Lee Chang-hoon on IMDb
- Lee Chang-hoon at the Korean Movie Database
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lee_Chang-hoon_(actor)&oldid=850482638'