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DEAD MAN Sees Choi Jin-Woon Fighting For Survival In The Official Teaser Trailer

The first teaser trailer is up and running for Dead Man, the latest noir crime thriller from Bong Joon-ho’s The Host scribe, writer/director Ha Joon-won. The film stars Cho Jin-woong (Believer, Believer 2) in the title role and tells of a man who has made a career of selling his name to businesses for a price, only to find himself framed for embezzling millions in cash, imprisoned and declared dead. His only way out of this nightmare is to escape with insider help, and uncover the truth.

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MAN OF WILL: Cho Jin-Woong Leads The Revolution In The First Teaser

Taking cues from the pages of history is debut director Lee Won-Tae for the new film, Man Of Will. Such is the title now branded on the most recent poster featuring actor Cho Jin-Woong in the principle role of Kim Chang-Soo who saw his rise as a leading figure in the fight for Korean independence at the turn of the last century after landing for murdering a Japanese man who partook in Empress Myeongseong’s assassination.

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South Korean DRUG WAR Remake Now Underway

Director Johnnie To’s 2012 film, Drug War, was a staunch and stark crime thriller with a compelling story, riveting characters and haunting finale. The film won a raft of awards and nominations around the world through 2014 next to its rave reviews at the time, now begging to see if its remake value stands with equal merit.

That litmus test is now being applied through the lens of Arahan: Jangpung Daejakjeon (2004) scribe, The Silenced (2015) helmer Lee Hae-young with production underway as his fourth feature film set for next year. Actors Cho Jin-woong (A Hard Day) and Ryu Jun-yeol (The King) will reimagine the respective roles as such, per To’s film, intially centered on a Hong Kong drug enforcement whose lead detective successfully captures a key witness – an elusive, conniving drug lord now forced to work with the police to infiltrate a bigger criminal empire or face the death penalty.

Also starring will be actors Cha Seung-won (Man On High Heels) and Kim Joo-hyuk (Confidential Assignment). Yong Film Inc. (The Handmaiden) is producing the film with Kidari Ent. (The Deal, The Chosen: Forbidden Cave), financing and distributing the film in South Korea. (KoBiz)

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Choi's ASSASSINATION Takes Aim With A New Teaser!

Choi's ASSASSINATION Takes Aim With A New Teaser!

Early 1900s Korea was under Japanese occupation and many Korean resistance activists were based in China, hiding from the Japanese authorities. The year 1933 in Shanghai, a command to covertly assassinate the Japanese Army’s commander is given to AHN Ok-yun, a top-notch sniper sentenced to death. For this task, YEM Sek-jin, an agent of the interim government extricates AHN Ok-yun and her comrades from the prison. But the grand plan is exposed to Japan by an internal spy and a hit man, Hawaii-Pistol is being hired to get rid of AHN. The assassination squad arrives in Korea without knowing hit-man’s chase. Can she make the impossible mission completed?

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