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...Sassy Girl was seen by more than 5 million people in South Korea and sat on top of the box office for two weeks in Hong Kong, where local films and Hollywood exclusively rule. Now comes her new movie Windstruck, which reunites her with Sassy writer and director Kwak Jae Young, and which is set to open on June 3 simultaneously in South Korea, China and Hong Kong?a first for a South Korean film. "Jun is just a phenomenon," says Bill Kong, the Hong Kong film mogul who backed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero...
...When Jun decided she was ready to return to comedy, so was Kwak. He'd written the script for Windstruck, a tale of a romance between a goofy high-school teacher and a sassy female police officer, with Jun in mind. The script?and Jun's likely involvement?caught the attention of Kong, who was looking for a way into South Korea's ballooning film industry, which now captures more than 50% of the country's box office. Kong thought that a broad South Korean comedy like Windstruck, with an international star like Jun, had a chance...
...Windstruck wants to be a more ambitious film than Sassy, so Kwak turns off the fun too soon and retreats to typically South Korean melodrama. Yet the movie manages to rise above its occasional sappiness, thanks mostly to the charm of its two young stars. Jun pulls off her signature trick: veering between violence and vulnerability and back again, without missing a beat. After lunch, she leaves for a photo shoot, for which the concept?apparently?is that she is "the world's favorite girlfriend." Not yet. But give her time...
...Kwak generally finds no more than two hours a day to practice on his own, probably more than most Harvard musicians. Weekly private lessons with Patricia Zander of the New England Conservatory keep him motivated. On the other hand, rehearsals are “incessant...
...Kwak will perform at 3 p.m. on Saturday in the Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street...