Tale of Cinema (Movie - 2005)

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  Kim Sang-kyung
  김상경
  As
  Kim Dong-soo
  (김동수)
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  Uhm Ji-won
  엄지원
  As
  Choi Yeong-sil
  (최영실)
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  Lee Ki-woo
  이기우
  As
  Jeon Sang-won
  (전상원)
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  Son Sook
  손숙
  As
  Play mother's mother
  (연극 어머니의 어머니)
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  Lee Kyung-jin
  이경진
  As
  Boy's mother
  (소년의 어머니)
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  Kim Myung-soo-I
  김명수
  As
  Boy's kwown man/Senior director
  (소년의 아는 아저씨/선배감독)

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  [Guest Film Review] "Tale of Cinema"
  2018/07/21
  Hong Sang-soo's sixth film is one of his most enjoyable, while the style that would make him an international festival sensation later on, is almost complete in here,...More

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  [Guest Film Review] "Woman is the Future of Man"
  2018/07/14
  Probably one of Hong Sang-soo's most accessible films, "Woman is the Future of Man" entails most of the elements that have made the director an international sensation,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] "Right Now, Wrong Then"
  2015/10/17
  Choon-soo (played by Jung Jae-young) is a well regarded film director on a winter trip to Suwon to give a guest talk about one of his movies. Aside from this one errand, Choon-soo apparently has nothing better to do than wander around cultural sites and eventually strike up a conversation with Hee-jeong (played by Kim Min-hee). As it turns out, Hee-jeong also has nothing better to do with her time than have random conversations with random strangers. Although it probably helps that Choon-soo is a somewhat famous stranger,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] "Tale of Cinema"
  2014/06/20
  Sang-won (played by Lee Ki-woo) is a young college student who finds himself making an unexpected reconnection. Well, not really. Sang-won is a hopeless romantic, and unsurprisingly assumes that any kind of mild emotional sentiment at all must be the symptom of some greater, universal truth. Yes, that's right- this is once again an archetypal lead character from a Hong Sang-soo film,...More

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  Two Korean Movies in Running for Palme d'Or at Cannes
  2012/05/16, Source
  The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with 22 films vying for the coveted Palme d'Or, the highest honor awarded to the best feature film in the official competition. Two Korean movies -- Hong Sang-soo's "In Another Country" and Im Sang-soo's "The Taste of Money" -- are among those competing for the top prize. Another three Korean films have been invited to non-competitive sections of the world's leading movie festival, including the Directors' Fortnight,...More

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  Two Korean Movies Invited to Compete at Cannes
  2012/04/20, Source
  Hong Sang-soo's "In Another Country" and Im Sang-soo's "The Taste of Money" have been invited to the 65th Cannes Film Festival next month. This marks the fourth time that two Korean films have been selected for the official competition of arguably the world's most prestigious film festival in the same year,...More

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  Hong and Im Sang-soo step into the 65th Cannes Film Festival
  2012/04/19, Source
  Directors Hong Sang-soo and Im Sang-soo are advancing into the 65th Cannes International Film Festival main selection. The Cannes International Film Festival executive office released the nominees for the main selection on the 19th,...More

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  Interview with director LEE Kwang-kuk
  2012/02/08, Source
  Formerly an assistant director to Hong Sang-soo, Lee Kwang-kuk has struck off on his own to make his feature debut with "Romance Joe". After a world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, "Romance Joe" made its international premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition at the recently wrapped International Film Festival Rotterdam. Lee spoke with Jean NOHahead of and at the festival about his work,...More

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  "The Day He Arrives" invited to England, Austria, Brazil film fests
  2011/09/07, Source
  Korean film "The Day He Arrives" has been invited to films festivals in England, Austria and Brazil, adding to the fast-growing list of international film events that have called on critically acclaimed director Hong Sang-soo's newest movie. A press release by the film's promoter JEONWONSA announced on Wednesday that "The Day He Arrives" will be screened under the World Cinema category, recognizing the best new films from around the world, of the 55th BFI London Film Festival set for October 12 to 27,...More

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  Hong Sang-soo Film Invited to Cannes Again
  2011/04/18, Source
  Korean director Hong Sang-soo is becoming a familiar face in the south of France. The organizing committee of the 64th Cannes Film Festival an,...More

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  Hong Sang-soo scores first win at Cannes with "Ha Ha Ha"
  2010/05/24, Source
  Official poster for Hong Sang-soo's film "Ha Ha Ha" Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo has scored his first win at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival with his film "Ha Ha Ha". Hong's latest pic was handed the grand prize for the "Un Certain Regard" category at the award ceremony, held May 22 (France time) at Debussy theater in Cannes, France. The director, who won his first trophy at Cannes on his sixth visit to the film fest, shared his excitement with actors Yu Jun-sang and Ye Ji-won, the main cast of his award-winning pic,...More
• Hong Sang-soo casts Moon So-ri
  2009/06/12, Source
  2002 Venice Film Festival's Best actress winner Moon So-ri will challenge herself this time with a leading role in director Hong Sang-soo's next project. Details about Hong's film are spa,...More

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  HONG Sang-soo Shoots His Ninth
  2008/08/13, Source
  Director Hong Sang-soo is in production on his ninth feature film, tentatively titled ",...More
• Art Film Showcase 2008 to screen in Japan
  2008/03/06, Source
  For the second year in a row, four Korean arthouse films will be presented to audiences in Japan through the Art Film Showcase in Tokyo. The eight-week series of screenings is sponsored by KOFIC and the Image Forum arthouse theater in Tokyo.
  
  The showcase is an effort to introduce Japanese viewe,...More

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  Hong Sang-soo's Film Vies for Berlin Award
  2008/02/11, Source
  By Lee Hyo-won
  Staff Reporter
  
  While Korea celebrated Seollal on Feb. 7, on the far side of the globe, Germany greeted cineaste and cinephiles from all over the world for the 58th edition of the B,...More
• Four Korean films to screen at Berlin Film Fest
  2008/01/29, Source
  Acclaimed director Hong Sang-soo will return to the Berlin International Film Festival with his eighth film "Night and Day", which screens in the festival's competition section.,...More

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  Hong Sang-soo's Film to Compete in Berlinale
  2008/01/21, Source
  By Kwon Mee-yoo
  Staff Reporter
  
  "Night and Day", the latest work of movie director,...More

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  New HONG Sang-soo film starts shooting in Paris
  2007/08/03, Source
  Well-known director Hong Sang-soo has opened shooting on his eighth film, which will be 80% set in Paris.
  
  Titled Bam-gwa nat in Korean, wh,...More

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  Hong Sang-soo's 'Tale of Cinema'
  2007/06/07, Source
  2005 South Korean film receives a late premiere in Berlin
  
  Jan Creutzenberg (RhusHeesen)
  
  The opening image shows Seoul's impressive TV-Tower, up on a hill, in a cloud of mist. Suddenly the camera,...More
• Two Films Go to Cannes
  2007/04/20, Source
  By Seo Dong-shin
  Staff Reporter
  
  Films by two renowned South Korean directors are heading to this year's competition section of Cannes Film Festival, arguably the world's most prestigious film festival.
  
  The two films are Lee Chang-dong,...More

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  HONG Sang-soo wins Best Director at Argentina Fest
  2007/03/20, Source
  Hong Sang-soo has won the Best Director award for Woman on the Beach(2006,...More
• Director Bong Joon-ho's Works Shown in US
  2007/03/06, Source
  A special showing of director Bong Joon-ho's works has been held in three US cities of New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
  The Korean Film Council said Monday that it has organized the event to mark the release of Bong's recent film,...More
• Korean Presence Strong at 57th Berlin Film Festival
  2007/02/06, Source
  By Paolo Bertolin
  Contributing Writer
  
  ROME _ After a year when they were excluded from the three main international competitions _ Cannes, Venice, Berlin _ Korean films are set for a dramatic comeback on the international festival circuit in 2007. While new efforts by directors,...More

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  The World of Silence's Strong Cast
  2006/12/15, Source
  The World of Silence's Strong Cast
  
  The newly released thriller ",...More
• Two films to share KOFIC co-production support
  2006/08/14, Source
  Upcoming films by Bae Hyeong-joon "Once Upon a Time in Seoul", and Jeon Soo-il ("Le regard des ombres") will,...More
• Korean Cinema to Open in Japan
  2006/07/07, Source
  A cinema exclusively for Korean films will open in Shibuya, Japan, in mid-October.
  
  The decision to establish the Korean movie theater came after the Korean Film Council and Japan's art theater Image Forum agreed to screen non-mainstream Korean films for 12 weeks a year.
  
  According to the KFIC o,...More
• Hong Sang-soo Shoots 7th Feature
  2006/04/25, Source
  Prominent Korean art-house auteur, Hong Sang-soo began shooting his seventh feature film "Woman on the Beach" this month. The director is widely appreciated internationally with retrospectives of his work held in France, throughout the US, an,...More
• What nude scenes mean for actresses
  2006/03/27, Source
  Just two decades ago, it was rare for movie fans to see actresses do nude scenes because of strict censorship and most stars were hesitant about undressing for the camera.
  
  But as the domestic moviemaking trend took an innovative turn towards liberal expression, nude scenes no longer made much new,...More
• Local Films With English Subtitles
  2005/10/06, Source
  Tale of Cinema (Kukjangjon)
  
  Seoul Selection Bookstore
  
  Saturday at noon
  
  Directed by Hong Sang-soo, the film revolves around film director Tong-su who runs into a young woman as he leaves a movie theater and realizes that she is the st,...More
• 8 Korean Films Invited to 49th "The Times London Film Festival"
  2005/09/15, Source
  Eight Korean films, including "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (directed by Park Chan-wook), have been invited to the 49th "The Times London Film Festival" (LFF) to be held in Britain from Oct. 20 to Nov. 4.
  
  According to the list of films in,...More
• Seoul Film Festival Opens Thursday
  2005/09/01, Source
  The sixth Seoul Film Festival on Thursday began an eight-day run.
  
  The event's homepage said the festival will showcase 175 movies from 24 countries in three categories: imagination, affinity and transformation.
  
  The opening film "World Mirror Cinema: Episodes 1-3" by Austrian director Gustav De,...More
• DMC Pusan to hold a special screening of filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's films
  2005/06/26, Source
  DMC Pusan ( http://www.diamondcinema.co.kr ) holds a special screening of filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's films in step with his cinema Keuk Jang Jeon (Tale of Cinema)'s release on July 1-14.
  
  During the period of this special screening, the whol,...More
• Film director Hong Sang-soo: Depicting unreal reality
  2005/06/01, Source
  At the 58th Cannes festival this year, a total of eight Korean movies competed with their foreign rivals. The Korean films included Hong Sang-soo's "Tale of Cinema", Kim Jee-woon's "A B,...More
• Director Hong to Take Part in Q & A Session
  2005/05/31, Source
  Director Hong Sang-soo will hold a question-and-answer session to talk about his latest film "Tale of Cinema".
  
  The session will take place at Cinecube Theater at Kwanghwamun, downtown Seoul at 7 p.m. on Friday.
  
  "Tale of Cinema", Hong's,...More
• Truth, Fiction Mingle in 'Cinema'
  2005/05/26, Source
  By Shim Sun-ah
  Yonhap News Agency
  
  People are usually surprised when they find themselves unconsciously behaving or speaking like their close friends.
  
  In his fourth film "On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate", director,...More
• 'Tale of Cinema': analysis of film-reality interaction
  2005/05/25, Source
  People are usually surprised when they find themselves unconsciously behaving or speaking like their close friends.
  
  In his fourth film "On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate", director-screenwriter Hong Sang-soo subtly depicted h,...More
• 'Tale of Cinema' Star Looks Back at Cannes Fest
  2005/05/25, Source
  By Shim Sun-ah
  Yonhap News Agency
  
  Film actor Kim Sang-kyung calls himself a fatalist. Believing all events are predetermined by destiny, he does not like to make any plans in advance _ about his work, marriage, anything.
  
  So he says it,...More
• Highs, Lows for Korean Films at Cannes Fest
  2005/05/24, Source
  By Paolo Bertolin
  Contributing Writer
  
  CANNES, France - Registering a record presence of six full-length features invited to all official selections and one short competing in the Cinefondation, Korean cinema was set to fete another great year at the outset of the 58 th Cannes Film Festival.
  
  H,...More
• The New York Film Festival to invite director Hong Sang-soo again
  2005/05/23, Source
  The New York Film Festival, which invited 'Woman is the future of man' directed by Hong Sang-soo last year, invites again his new production 'Keuk Jang Jeon(Tale of Cinema)' to its Film Festival, scheduled to be held in this fall.
  
  'Keuk Ja,...More
• 'Korean Wave' break on Cannes
  2005/05/17, Source
  Korean films are faring well at this year's Cannes film market, with European countries showing a special interest in Korean cinema.
  
  Bae Yong-joon's upcoming melodrama "April Snow" and horror movie,...More
• Art Films Look for Different Ways to Stay in Theaters
  2005/05/16, Source
  By Kim Tae-jong
  Staff Reporter
  
  
  How long a feature film will remain in the theaters is usually decided by its box-office performance in its first week. A weak showing means a film will quickly be pushed out of the theaters by potentially more lucrative movies.
  
  Recently, some art film directo,...More
• Keuk Jang Jeon(Tale of Cinema) to release in 30 screens nationwide
  2005/05/15, Source
  Keuk Jang Jeon(Tale of Cinema) directed by Hong Sang-soo, which made inroads into the 58th Cannes Film Festival this year, is released in 30 screens nationwide on the forthcoming May 27.
  
  This cinema, in which director Hong is assessed to s,...More
• Symmetry, Morose and Drunk: Cannes Just Loves This Korean
  2005/05/12, Source
  Hong Sang-soo Film in Surprise Cannes Invite
  The 58th Cannes International Film Festival on Thursday kicked off 12 days of movie mania in the southern French resort town with Dominik Moll's "Lemming".
  
  Featured prominently once again is Ca,...More
• Asian Films Compete at Cannes
  2005/05/11, Source
  By Kim Tae-jong
  Staff Reporter
  
  Eight local films will be among the Asian films heading to the 58th Cannes Film Festival, taking part in competition and non-competition categories from May 11-22 and presents 53 films from 28 countries.
  
  ",...More
• "Cinema Story" Invited to Compete at Cannes
  2005/05/04, Source
  Director Hong Sang-soo's new movie "Cinema Story" - "Tale of Cinema" became the only Korean film to be invited to the competition division of the 58th Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 11. According to Cannes Film Festival officia,...More
• Hong Sang-soo Film in Surprise Cannes Invite
  2005/05/04, Source
  Korean director Hong Sang-soo's "Keuk Jang Jeon" (Tale of Cinema) has garnered a surprise invitation to the competition of the 58th Cannes International Film Festival. The film appeared on a list of additional entries announced Wednesday, bri,...More
• Hong Sang-soo's New Film Invited to Cannes Fest
  2005/05/04, Source
  By Kim Ki-tae
  Staff Reporter
  
  Filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's latest film "Tale of Cinema" (Kukchangjon) received a surprise invitation to the competition section of the Cannes Fi,...More