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The main issue is that Kingdom: Ashin of the North takes place on a much longer timescale than I was expecting. Mostly the story is about Ashin as a child (played by
Kim Si-a), who s recentful of the racial tension inherent in her border village. That zombies exist at all is weirdly irrelevant compared to this diplomatic situation. A zombie tiger is the catalyst for a great deal of death that s being exploited for some arcane political purpose I couldn t quite figure out.
And I hate to be picky, but a zombie tiger isn t exactly that much more threatening than a regular one. While
Staff writer. Has been writing articles for HanCinema since 2012, having lived in South Korea since 2011. Started out in Gyeongju, then to Daegu, then to Ansan, then to Yeongju, then to Seoul, lived on the road for HanCinema s travel diaries series in the summer of 2016, and is currently settled in Anyang. Has good tips for utilizing South Korea s public bus system. William Schwartz can be contacted via william@hancinema.net. He also has a substack at williamschwartz.substack.com where he discusses the South Korean film industry in broader terms and takes suggestions for future movies to review.
2021/07/22
A new earnings report released by Studio Dragon confirmed that the television drama production company has endured a drop in earnings over the second quarter. The 60 million dollar earnings they posted are a 36.9% drop compared to the second quarter last year. Their profit only dropped 5.9% compared to that period, totaling around 15 million dollars. Nevertheless, Studio Dragon is maintaining its current goals, and investors appear confident they can be reached.
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The main reason for the drop is an underperformance of dramas released by Studio Dragon in the second quarter. Doom at Your Service were disappointments for Studio Dragon with lackluster ratings. Moreover,
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2021/07/20
Back in the aughts, writer/director
Shim Hyung-rae had this crazy idea to ride the Korean New Wave to fund an ambitious monster movie franchise, combining South Korean know-how with bankable American stars and locations. It worked. Sort of. Thanks to an ambitious marketing campaign, D-War earned over 8.4 million admissions at the South Korean box office. It s also one of the worst South Korean movies ever made, featuring all the worst aspects of cheap nineties American films with none of the charm.
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But I m getting ahead of myself. Tom (played by
Jason Behr) is a local reporter who sees a burned up hole and remembers this one time a guy named Jack (played by