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GREEN NIGHT Trailer: Film Movement Releases Han Shuai’s Neo-Noir Crime Drama Next Week

Coming to VoD, digital, and on Film Movement Plus is Green Night, from director Han Shuai. The film stars Fan Bing Bing, Lee Joo-young, Kim Young-ho, and Kim Min-gui, from a script by Han and co-writer Lei Sheng. Trapped in a cycle of oppression, Chinese immigrant Jin Xia (Fan Bingbing) works in customs at South Korea’s Incheon Airport, where she encounters a mysterious green-haired girl (Lee Joo-young) acting suspiciously at the security checkpoint. Overcome by the unspoken attraction between them, she takes the enigmatic stranger home only to uncover her involvement in a deadly drug trafficking ring. After the two end up killing Xia’s abusive husband, the pair go on the run, but when Xia returns to the crime scene to retrieve the drugs the green-haired girl left behind, their plans for finding freedom together take a dangerous turn. Check out the trailer below ahead of the film’s October 18 […]

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NYAFF XIX Review: Choi Yun-Tae’s BASEBALL GIRL Takes A Swing At The Glass Ceiling, Aims Even Higher

The international premiere for director Choi Yun-tae’s new coming-of-age sports drama, Baseball Girl, brought a rousing ceremony for actress Lee Joo-young as the recipient for this year’s Screen International Rising Star Asia Award at NYAFF. At 104 minutes with a performance that’s as emotionally demanding as it is physically, the award comes well deserved for a burgeoning star who’s been a presence on the independent scene for several years now. Choi’s feature directorial debut takes its cues from a time in Korean history where women weren’t accepted into any aspect of baseball, much less major league until 1996. With one foot out of the door as she teeters reluctantly into the proverbial “real world”, Joo Soo-in (Lee Joo-young) was her school’s star athlete for a time, having broken the glass ceiling as her team’s fastest pitcher. Just as her childhood friend Lee Jung-Ho (Kwak Dong-yeon) takes the spotlight with a […]

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