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Kwak Jae-yong
Kwak Jae-yong (born 22 May 1959) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film ''Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day'' in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the smash-hit film ''My Sassy Girl'' in 2001. He is known for his fondness of love stories set in a mix of different genres. Filmography Awards References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwak, Jae-yong 1959 births Living people Kyung Hee University alumni South Korean film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwak (surname)
Kwak () is a Korean surname. Overview The family name Kwak is written with a hanja meaning "city walls" (郭; ; also called ). The same character is also used to write the family names Guo, Guō in Mandarin Chinese, Kwok in Cantonese, Kaku (name), Kaku in Japanese, and Quach in Vietnamese. The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 187,322 people and 58,396 households with this family name. They identified with a number of different ''bon-gwan'' (seat of a clan lineage (anthropology), lineage, for example the residence of an ancestor from whom the clan claims descent): * (Dalseong County): 140,283 people and 43,626 households. They claim descent from Gwak Gyeong (), who came to the Korean peninsula from Song dynasty China during the reign of Injong of Goryeo (r. 1122–1146). See Hyeonpung Gwak clan. *Cheongju: 18,218 people and 5,601 households. They claim descent from Gwak Sang (), who served in the civil post of under Heongang of Silla (r. 875–886). *Seonsan: 5,603 people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyborg She
is a 2008 Japanese science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Haruka Ayase and Keisuke Koide. Although the characters are different and the stories unrelated, ''Cyborg She'' is unofficially but lovingly seen by genre fans as being the third installment in a trilogy of "strange girl" films written and directed by Kwak, the previous films being ''My Sassy Girl'' and '' Windstruck''. Plot It is 22 November 2007. Jiro Kitamura (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone. As he buys a birthday present for himself in a shopping mall, he gets the attention of a 'cute girl' (Haruka Ayase) and she surprisingly smiles at him. Afterwards, she successfully steals a pair of clothes, which Jiro notices, but he ignores it as she walks away in front of him, and he is distracted by her beauty. The mystery girl, who seems to be interested in him, follows him to a restaurant, where he eats spaghetti on the advice of his grandmother. She suddenly appears and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Of The Japanese Academy
The , often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本アカデミー賞協会, ''Nippon Akademii-shou Kyoukai'') for excellence in Japanese film. Award categories are similar to the Academy Awards. Venue Since 1998, the venue is regularly held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa of Prince Hotels in Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Admission tickets for this award ceremony are also sold to regular customers. As of 2015, there is a charge of 40,000 Yen which includes a French cuisine course dinner named after the award ceremony. Spectators are expected to attend in semi-formal attire. Elementary school students and younger are not permitted. Award The winners are selected from the recipients of the Award for Excellence. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fant-Asia Film Festival
Fantasia International Film Festival, also known as Fantasia Fest or simply Fantasia, is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on fantasy, horror, sci-fi and cult genre films. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers. ''Fantasia'' has been often cited as the most outstanding and largest genre film festival in North America, and as one of the top three in the world, alongside Sitges and Fantastic Fest. Its mission is to promote genre, anti-Hollywood cinema and assist independent filmmakers, having launched the careers of many modern auteurs throughout the years. Since 2012, the festival has also held the ''Frontières'' cinema market that allows promising projects to find potential producers and distributors. In 2016, the ''Frontières'' announced collaboration with the Marché du Film, led by the Cannes Film Festival. Overview ''Fantasia'' focuses on niche, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochi Film Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. Reports 19 September 1939: SS Scharnhorst The Hochi Shimbu ...''. Categories *Best Picture *Best International Picture *Best Animated Picture (since 2017) *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best New Artist *Special Award *Best Director Winner References External links Hochi Film Awards official site List of awards on IMDB {{Cinema of Japan 1976 establishments in Japan Awards established in 1976 Japanese film awards Recurring events established in 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Film Awards
The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA; ), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong. The ceremonies typically take place in April, and have mostly been held at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre since 1991. The awards recognise achievement in various aspects of filmmaking, such as directing, screenwriting, acting and cinematography. The awards are regarded as the Hong Kong equivalent of the Academy Awards. The HKFA, incorporated into Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd. since December 1993, are currently managed by a board of directors, which consists of representatives from thirteen professional film bodies in Hong Kong. Voting on eligible films for the HKFA is conducted January through March every year and is open to all registered voters, which include local film workers as well as critics, and a selected group of adjudicators. General rules The Hong Kong Film Awards are open to all Hong Kong films which are longer than an hour and commerci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Bell Awards
The Grand Bell Awards (), also known as the Daejong Film Awards, is an awards ceremony presented annually by The Motion Pictures Association of Korea for excellence in film in South Korea. The Grand Bell Awards retains prestige as the oldest continuous film awards held in South Korea, and has been called the Korean equivalent of the American Academy Awards. History The ceremony has been hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Information since 1962. The awards ceased for a couple years beginning in 1969, but were revived in 1972 after the establishment of the Korea Motion Picture Promotion Association, in an effort to stimulate the then-stagnant film industry. The 59th edition of the award ceremony was co-hosted with the Gyeonggi Arts Center for the first time at the Gyeonggi Arts Center Grand Theater and Convention Hall on 15 November 2023. Cha In-pyo and Jang Do-yeon were master of ceremonies for the award night. In December 2023, the Federation of Korean Filmmakers, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Year-End Medley
''A Year-End Medley'' () is a 2021 South Korean romance film directed by Kwak Jae-yong and features an ensemble cast. The film depicts the story of clients who visit the hotel 'Emross' with their own stories as they make their own relations in their own style. It was released simultaneously in theatres and via streaming media TVING on 29 December 2021. On January 21, 2022, it was announced that due to its popularity, the film will be released as a new six-part extended version of 30 minutes each. All six episodes will be released on TV on January 26, 2022. Synopsis '' Happy New Year'' is a feel-good romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationship or just going nostalgic. Cast * Han Ji-min as So Jin, hotel Emross manager * Lee Dong-wook as Yong Jin, CEO of hotel Emross * Kang Ha-neul a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colours Of Wind
is a 2017 Japanese adventure/romance movie, directed by Kwak Jae-yong. The film was featured on Chicago's biannual Asian Pop-Up Cinema program. Plot After his partner Yuri leaves him, Ryo spends a lot of time depressed, not knowing where he has gone. One day he decides to go to a bar. There he is offered a briefcase and told that he had given it to the barkeep himself 100 days ago, saying that he would return in 100 days but not remember the briefcase and that the barkeep was to return it to him anyway. In it are mementos and photos of their time together, along with the diary Yuri kept then. Ryo next gets a call from Yuri's mother who tells him that Yuri has committed suicide. Ryo returns to the bar. It specializes in magic and also runs magic classes. Ryo ends up taking classes and finds himself quite good at it. Then while there the bar owner tells him that he, the bartender, has a doppelgänger who teaches the classes. Ryo learns that he has his own doppelgänger named Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Renegades
''Time Renegades'' () is a 2016 South Korean science fiction romantic thriller film directed by Kwak Jae-yong. It was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on April 13, 2016. Plot On January 1, 1983, New Year's Eve celebration, high school teacher Ji-hwan (Jo Jeong-seok) proposes to his colleague and girlfriend, Yoon-Jung (Im Soo-Jung). Shortly after his proposal, Yoon-Jung notices her purse has been slashed and emptied which prompts Ji-hwan to run after the robber. They fight and end with Ji-hwan being fatally stabbed. On New Year's Eve celebration in 2015, rookie Detective Gun-woo (Lee Jin-wook) and his colleagues try to find a suspect in the crowd. Finding him, the detectives run after the suspect, and one of them fights him. Detective Gun-woo, confused about whether he can shoot the suspect in that situation, ends up getting fatally shot himself. 32 years apart, Ji-hwan and Gun-woo were taken to the same hospital on the same day and time. Both survived from life-and-deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
