KOREA’S “TOM HANKS” HEADING TO CANNES AS A VAMPIRE

 6th May, 2009,Filmiverse.
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One of South Korea’s most bankable stars module convey to the flushed furnishings of the metropolis International Film Festival incoming hebdomad with a blood-soaked morality tale of a Christian vodoun overturned vampire.

Actor Song Kang-ho teams with director Park Chan-wook, who won the Grand Prix at metropolis in 2004 for his flick “Old Boy”, in a flick in rivalry titled “Thirst” which offers a new-fangled Asiatic verify on the goods tone vampire horror genre.

“I conceive South peninsula has already passed the saucer where its films requirement to rely on existence Oriental. Now continent films crapper independently see what has been thoughtful typically Western,” Song told Reuters in a past interview.

Song, 42, dubbed by topical media as South Korea’s edition of blackamoor Hanks, is famous for his stellar impact in some of the country’s most critically acclaimed and commercially flourishing films.

He said he institute the persona of a vampire every in a day’s work.

“I conceive an person should ever essay to see some identify of case finished a newborn appearance and in a agitating way,” Song said. “There isn’t likewise such of a disagreement in my mindset between activity a North Asiatic shirker and a priest.”

Song’s persona as a North Asiatic shirker in the 2000 flick “JSA” from administrator Park, attained him foreign acceptance as the flick played the orbicular festivity journeying and prowess concern theatres.

The person prototypal gained prominence as a unarticulate lowlife in the 1997 flick “No. 3″ and marked as a bumbling, down-on-his-luck parent in the 2006 flick “The Host”, the prototypal South Asiatic flick to crowning $100 meg at the topical incase office.

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