Word: jangly
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Korean director Jang Sun Woo has never been one to shy away from sex and violence?or worry about what the censors might think. In Petal, he restaged the 1980 Kwangju massacre, when Korean soldiers killed or wounded thousands of protesters. His 1994 To You From Me shocked audiences with its explicit sexual themes?and the main character's obsession with her own derriere. Last year he had Korea's censors in conniptions with Lies, an S&M whipfest that begins with a kinky sculptor deflowering a schoolgirl. Lies was in-your-face auteur cinema at its rawest?the censors...
...Fast-forward to Jang's latest project, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl, a big-budget cyberfantasy that he's shooting in the southeast port city of Pusan. On location there isn't a whip or handheld camera in sight. A sleek stunt team from Hong Kong bustles about, fine-tuning a barroom shoot-out featuring a gunslinging, transgender Chinese starlet. You can afford that with a $5.5 million budget, which makes this Korea's priciest film production of all time. Forget the art-house crowd. This time Jang is worried about pleasing his investors and drumming up big ticket...
...shallow in some places a child can do it. Moving on to another country?that's a tough one. As many as a quarter million North Korean refugees have crossed the line but remain near the border, hiding from Chinese police. So when seven members of the Jang family blazed an audacious trail to freedom, China wasn't sure how to react. After a complex trek in which a South Korean businessman led them to Beijing, the Jangs gathered June 26 for what they feared would be their final breakfast together. When they finished, the family matriarch gave everybody, including...
...With the Jangs, Beijing initially acted tough, refusing for three days to let the family go. The government finally allowed them to leave with the excuse that they needed foreign medical care. It's the latest chapter in a dramatic ordeal for the family. Fifteen members had crossed the border to China by 1999. One boy, Jang Gil Su, then acquired anonymous fame through his crayon depictions of life in North Korea. The simple, cartoon-like pictures showed confessions from prisoners and a starving man cooking human body parts in a big pot. Smuggled into South Korea and published...
...first tried the e-mail stunt earlier this year with Friends, a star-studded buddy flick set in the port city of Pusan in the 1970s. Using a name list culled from an online site, his company, Korea Pictures, fired off a video pitch featuring the film's star Jang Dong Gun (sort of a South Korean Tom Cruise) to 1 million hard-core moviegoers. The movie this month became Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. It's hard to know exactly how much the Internet helped, but if an online pitch is going to work anywhere, it's in Korea...