SM
Megamall
Mandaluyong
Banking
on the strength of the Korean Wave in the Philippines ,
the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines
will be featuring six popular Korean films in the 2013 Korean Film Festival slated to be held from September 18 to
October 10 in Manila , Iloilo ,
Cebu and Davao .
The
film festival will kick off in SM Megamall and will run from September 18 to
22, to be followed by the SM Iloilo run from September 26 to 29. From October 3
to 6, the film festival will move to SM Cebu and will have its final run on
October 10 to 13 at SM Lanang in Davao .
The
films to be screened are Green Days
(소중한 날의 꿈), Masquerade (광해, 왕이 된 남자), Sunny (써니), A Werewolf Boy (늑대소년), Deranged (연가시), and Dancing Queen (댄싱퀸).
The
animated film Green Days (소중한 날의 꿈), voiced by actors Park Shin-hye,
Song Chang-eui and Oh Yeon-soo, is a coming-of-age story of Yi-Rang, a track
runner, Soo-Min, a pretty transfer student from Seoul and Chul-soo, as they
work towards their dreams.
Topbilling
the period film Masquerade (광해, 왕이 된 남자) are Lee Byung-hun of the G.I Joe
fame and Han Hyo-joo as their respective characters tackle the intricacies of
court life during the Joseon dynasty. In a turn of events, King Gwang-hae was
poisoned and a court jester who looks remarkably like the king, Ha-sun, fills
in the role of the king until the true king recovers fully. Ha-sun’s vastly
different personality incites change in the morale among the people in the
castle for the better.
Third
in the roster is the critically-acclaimed film Sunny (써니) that retells the story of seven girls whose friendship
stretches far back in high school through the journey of Na-mi, one of the
seven girls. Chun-hwa, one of the girls, is presently terminally ill and asks
Na-mi to get together the old members of Sunny for the last time before she
dies.
Popular
actors Song Joong-ki and Park Bo-young grace the fantasy-romance flick A Werewolf
Boy (늑대소년)
about the young “wolf boy” and a girl who had just moved to the small rural
village as these two strangers find affection from each other against a cold
world that shuns them both.
In Deranged (연가시), panic grows
across the country as an epidemic of suicides occur where the victims jump into
the river. The alarmed government declares a state of emergency. Medical
supplies salesman Jae-hyuk suspects his family is showing symptoms of the
drowning victims and through his brother, Detective Jae-pil, they search for
the antidote to such.
In Dancing Queen (댄싱퀸) the wife of
the Seoul mayoral candidate was a Dancing Queen, formerly a popular talent
whose chase for her dreams came to an abrupt stop when her husband, Jung-min,
decided to run for office. The movie goes through the journey of Jung-hwa as
she balances her life as a wife of a political candidate and as a leader of the
Dancing Queen.
The 2013 Korean Film Festival is in
cooperation with the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), the Korea Tourism Organization – Manila (KTO), the
Korea Copyright Commission, SM Cinema, SM Cinema Megamall, SM Cinema Lanang and
LG.
Here
is the screening schedule of the SM Megamall leg of the 2013 Korean Film Festival:
7:00
PM A Werewolf Boy (늑대소년)
4:55
PM Masquerade (광해, 왕이 된 남자)
7:35
PM Dancing Queen (댄싱퀸)
4:30
PM Green Days (소중한 날의 꿈)
7:10
PM Deranged (연가시)
1:00
PM Green Days (소중한 날의 꿈)
3:30
PM Dancing Queen (댄싱퀸)
6:25
PM Sunny (써니)
1:00
PM A Werewolf Boy (늑대소년)
3:55
PM Sunny (써니)
6:50
PM Masquerade (광해, 왕이 된 남자)
Ticket
price:
Free
admission
For
inquiries:
Korean Cultural Center 555-1711, events@koreanculture.ph
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