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HITMAN 2: Kwon Sang-Woo Draws Up More Chaos In The Official Trailer

No, you’re not going crazy. It really has been four years since director Choi Won-sub and leading man Kwon Sang-woo landed a hit with action comedy Hitman: Agent Jun, about a construction worker whose past and present worlds collide through his elementary passion for drawing webtoons. That story now continues with the pending release of Hitman 2, rejoining the star and director for another explosive affair that also adds Jung Joon-ho and Lee Yi-kyung from the first film. Choi directs Hitman 2 from a script he wrote with Shin Joong-ryul which finds Kwon’s character, Jun, briefly back on his feet and gaining stardom for his hit webtoon, only to falter when his second season falls flat with audiences. It’s enough for Jun to start working on another webtoon, until a terrorist attack mirroring his work finds him back in the spotlight of the NIS and forced to clear his name. […]

Streaming Sleepers: Bloody Knuckles Lace The Growing Pains Of Yoo Ha’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HIGH SCHOOL: THE SPIRIT OF JEET KUNE DO

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Indeed one of Korean cinema’s best contributions to coming-of-age dramas has to be writer and director Yu Ha’s third feature directorial outing, Once Upon A Time In High School: The Spirit Of Jeet Kune Do starring Kwon Sang-woo who made his debut opposite Jang Hyuk in Volcano High (2001). The movie is a story of boyhood, bloody knuckles and Bruce Lee worship set in the 70s and I first learned about this film back many years ago when I was a HKFlix customer. In recent years I was able to check out on streaming via free ad-support platform Tubi, which tends to circulate its titles for a limited time, so these titles rather annoyingly tend to come and go. I wrote my analysis back in 2019 to celebrate the release of another action film on Netflix in a group piece. Alas, with Kwon set for a sequel stint this year […]

THE PIRATES: GOBLIN FLAG Sets Sail In The Spectacular First Trailer For The High-Seas Adventure Sequel

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Director Kim Jung-hoon’s third and latest outing continues the high-seas thrills in The Pirates: Goblin Flag, following up from Lee Suk-hoon’s 2014 inaugural now with a new cast of characters and story to boot. Taking the lead are actors Kang Ha-neul, Han Hyo-joo, Lee Kwang-soo and Kwon Sang-woo with many more as the new story unfolds with warring pirate factions all vying for the lost treasure of the Goryeo royal family. You can now sample all that and more in the first official trailer above ahead of the film’s January release, along with eight new characters posters just below.

THE PIRATES: GOBLIN FLAG Sets Sail For Lotte’s Sequel Production With New Cast And Story

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Lee Suk-hoon’s Joseon era adventure, The Pirates, was such a remarkable hit in 2014 that six years later, Lotte is finally prioritizing a sequel with a new director, according to KOFIC‘s Pierce Conran. Launched as The Pirates: Goblin Flag, Kim Jung-Hoon (The Accidental Detective) is directing from a script by Chun Sung-il, which centers on a band of pirates vying for the lost treasure of the Goryeo royal family against a new rival. Chun also wrote The Pirates, which, to give you a scope in terms of the size and scale in case you haven’t seen it, involved an epic high seas search for the giant whale that swallowed the emperor’s royal seal. The film also went up against Kim Han-min’s own maritime adventure, The Admiral: Roaring Currents which was also a major hit. The film is slated to shoot in July with a cast that lists actress Han Hyo-joo […]

HIT MAN: Kwon Sang-woo Comes Right Out Of A Comic Book In The First Trailer

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Here’s to breaking out the hilarity in 2020! Hit Man is the name of actor Kwon Sang-woo’s latest action comedy exploits since treading the dark, vengeful world of a Go player in Lee Khan’s The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful. The first official poster is up and running, as is a first look trailer to help whet the appetite. This one marks Choi Won-sub’s feature directing debut, casting Kwon as an ex-legendary agent for the N.I.S. who suits to pursue his true passion: Writing webcomics. After a creative stalemate, he decides to use his past life as source material, but soon finds himself in a great deal of trouble when his comics finally take off, revealing classified material. Hit Man also stars Jung Joon-ho, Hwang woo-seul-hye, Lee Yi-kyung, Lee Ji-won and many more for the film’s release in South Korea on January 22. Peep the goods above!

THE DIVINE MOVE 2: THE WRATHFUL Makes Its Move With An Official U.S. Trailer And Poster

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Never has a table-top game been more brutal than with what Lee Gun has in store following Jo Beom-gu’s 2014 thriller, The Divine Move. Casting the phenomenal talents of Kwon Sang-woo this time around, The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful just took aim at South Korean cinemas and will now head to North American theaters as signaled by CJ Entertainment USA on Friday. “You’re destined to become a monster when you try to make yourself a god.” In the 1990s, when Go gambling fever swept Korea, Gui-su loses everything because his father gambled obsessively until there was nothing left. Left all alone in the world, Gui-su meets a mentor and Go teacher, Il-do, and goes through vicious training to become the grandmaster of Go. He sets out for revenge on the world that destroyed his life, but soon finds himself chased by an unknown loner pursuing his own vendetta. Kwon […]

It’s ‘Go’ Time In The Latest Trailer For THE DIVINE MOVE 2: THE WRATHFUL

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Daydreaming director Lee Gun takes Go (or Baduk in Korean) to a whole new level of brutal following Jo Bum-gu’s 2014 hit, The Divine Move. He’s got actor Kwon Sang-woo leading the way this time in a mysterious character from the original film now in the new prequel, The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful, which opens next month from CJ Entertainment. The film sees Kwon in the role of Gwi-soo, who re-emerges into the unforgiving fray of gangsters and baduk players to settle the score in the years since the death of his baduk mentor. Also starring are Kim Hee-won and Kim Sung-kyun for the film’s initial release in South Korea beginning November 7 from CJ Entertainment.