the age of shadows

Watch The U.S. Trailer For Kim Jee-Woon's Thrilling Spy Flick, THE AGE OF SHADOWS

Things are looking lively for I Saw The Devil and The Last Stand helmer Kim Jee-Woon whose latest, The Age Of Shadows, is being noted as a worthy Oscar contender. It’s also great first for Warner Bros. as it is their first Korean production, and with a director like Kim now poised for more stellar work to follow, including a live-action adaptation of the hit anime feature, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. Bear these in mind when you look at the trailer for The Age Of Shadows, now leaving numerous, upbeat reviews in its wake after premiering in Venice prior to its Toronto screenings as of Friday. The high production value and intensity here speak highly to Kim’s ability to craft a fictional tale around an albeit real-world period era, and with morsels of intrigue, action and danger to top it all off. Indeed, it’s a good time to be a […]

Kim Jee-Woon Howls To Helm JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE For Live-Action

Lee B. Golden III

Acclaimed director Kim Jee-Woon is on the road promoting his latest period espionage thriller, The Age Of Shadows, which releases in South Korea in the next several days following its TIFF premiere, marking a first for Warner Bros. Pictures. In the course of all this, Kim took to the press this weekend to discuss the film, the industry and future plans while in attendance at the Venice Film Festival. Thus, such plans now include the confirmation to direct a live-action adaptation of helmer Okiuta Hiroyuki’s 1998 animated sci-fi war thriller, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, according to Screendaily. An award-winning feat written by heralded animation auteur Oshii Mamoru, the film takes place in an alternate version of 1950’s Japan post World War II, telling of a deadly political war between Public Security Division and the Special Unit – the latter from which Fuse, a demoted solider traumatized by the death of […]

Check Out The New Trailer For Kim Jee-Woon's THE AGE OF SHADOWS

Lee B. Golden III

I Saw The Devil and The Last Stand helmer Kim Jee-Woon has returned with a thrilling new period pic, The Age Of Shadows, which now has a first trailer circulating online. You can expect this one to make the festival rounds while a date is currently pending for Warner Bros.’s premiere Korean this September release of the film, and with actors Song Kang-Ho and Gong Yoo leading the cast. SYNOPSIS: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters led by Gong’s character, trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. Song plays a talented Korean-born Japanese police officer who was previously in the independence movement himself and is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater […]