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Watch: The Trailer for New Korean Thriller ‘BLUEBEARD’ Starring Cho Jin-Woong (The Handmaiden, 2016)

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Distributor: Lotte Entertainment

Cast: , , Shin Gu

Synopsis:

Dr. Seung-hoon (played by Cho Jin-woon) sedates his landlord before medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession. Sometime later, a young woman’s severed head is discovered at a butcher shop run by his landlord’s son, and Seung-hoon begins to suspect that the landlord and his son are the serial killers.

After appearing in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Nameless Gangster, Cho Jin-woong rose to prominence as the antagonist in 2014’s A Hard Day and his career gained remarkable momentum. He landed a starring role alongside Choi Min-sik in The Admiral: Roaring Currents and the following year, he appeared in the star-studded period action drama Assassination. Recently, he delivered an outstanding performance in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden and will be seen in, of Nameless Gangster, director Yoon Jong-bin’s new film Duke co-starring with Hwang Jung-min.

The film is slated to open nationwide in March.

Additional source: Lotte Entertainment

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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