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Upcoming Song Kang-ho Films

The ever-reliable thespian Song Kang-ho, after a big 2013, in which he featured in Snowpiercer, The Face Reader and The Attorney, had a quiet 2014 before appearing in Lee Joon-ik's smash hit period drama The Throne and Kim Jee-woon's Colonial Era action-thriller The Age of Shadows. This year, Song seems to be hitting his stride with the following films.

Sure to stir up many memories and much debate, it depicts the story of a taxi driver and the late Jürgen Hinzpeter (played by Thomas Kretschmann), a German journalist who reported on 1980 Gwangju Uprising, when the Korean military invoked martial law and slaughtered citizen in Gwangju. The film is to be directed by Jang Hoon of Secret Reunion (2010) and stars Song as the titular character.

In 2003, Hinzpeter was awarded with the Song Kun-ho Journalism Prize in Korea and made a thank you speech that he was grateful for a courageous taxi driver, who had took him to Gwangju and guided him around the city.

A Taxi Driver will be distributed in Korea and internationally by Showbox.

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Song plays Kang Jong-deok, a military internal affairs investigator who uncovers a massive conspiracy.  (Miracle in Cell No. 7) plays as Hyun Joon-hee, a power player in the middle of the conspiracy while  (The Himalayas) as Song's partner Yoon Joong-hyun.

An action-thriller from director , who previously made the hit spy action-thriller The Suspect (2013) and recently completed a thriller, A Murderer's Guide to Memorization, with Sul Kyung-gu. Fifth Column will be distributed by Showbox.

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A new thriller from , the director of Inside Men (2015).

Song plays a drug smuggler in 1970s Busan while Jo Jung-suk (Time Renegades, 2016) as a public prosecutor hell-bent on taking him down. Meanwhile, plays the female lead opposite Song.

Drug King is being financed and distributed by Showbox.

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Director and Song are set to team up again for Parasite.

Little is known about the film so far, save that it will be Korean, will revolve around a family going through a disturbance and that it will be distributed by CJ Entertainment and financed by Barunson E&A Corp.

 

Sources: Kobiz, Naver, Cine21

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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