2024 Toronto International Film Festival Features Korean Films
Hyun Bin performs an assassin in ‘Harbin.’
The Toronto Global Film Competition, which runs from Sept. 5 to 15, will host a different of Korean motion footage and documentaries this year. The motion footage are Okay-POPS, Ryoo Seung-wan’s I, The Executioner, Love within the Gigantic Metropolis, Harbin, Paying For It, Hong Sang-soo’s By The Streak and the documentary The Final of the Sea Ladies.
By The Streak, basically the most up-to-date film from the prolific filmmaker Hong Sang-soo reunites actors Kim Min-hee (The Handmaiden) and Kwon Hae-hyo (Bitter Candy Hell) in a bittersweet legend of loneliness, connection, and creativity that transpires one day of an annual skit competition at a girls folks’s college. It airs on Sept 5, 11, 12 and 14.
Harbin is a historical behold-thriller, directed by Woo Min-ho, that stars Hyun Bin (Break Touchdown On You) as a independence activist and political assassin. Hyun performs Ahn Jung-geun, the Korean independence activist who in 1909 assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the principle top minister of Japan. It airs on Sept. 8, 9 and 11.
I, The Executioner explores the darkish side of justice and the risks of populism. Detective Seo Carry out-cheol, performed by Hwang Jung-min (12.12: The Day), returns in a exciting, excessive-octane sequel to Ryoo Seung-wan’s 2015 blockbuster Ragged. The film has been described as a fresh rob on the crime action style. It airs on Sept 5, 6, 7 and 14.
In Okay-POPS a father hopes to hurry the coattails of his prolonged-misplaced son’s rocketing stardom. This characteristic is a movie debut from eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak. It airs on Sept. 7, 8 and 12.
Steve Sang-hyun Noh and Kim Journey-eun are roommates in ‘Love In The Gigantic Metropolis.’
Love In The Gigantic Metropolis stars Kim Journey-eun (Tiny Ladies) and Steve Sang-hyun Noh (Pachinko) as roommates. No person believes their characters Jae-hee and Heung-soo are correct mates, but they’re extinct to being misunderstood. This romance explores how younger adults reside and treasure in Seoul. It monitors Sept. 5, 13, 14 and 15.
Paying For It by Sook Yin Lee, is cultural snapshot of flip-of-the-millennium Toronto with refined comedian energy and a huge solid, Lee’s adaptation of Chester Brown’s autobiographical 2011 graphic unusual is a movie simplest Lee may perchance maybe fabricate, attributable to it’s her story, too. It monitors Sept. 5, 6, 7 and 12.
The Final of the Sea Ladies is a animated portrait of an endangered tradition and a galvanizing plea for better stewardship of the oceans, Sue Kim’s documentary dives deep into the tradition of the haenyeo, the South Korean deep sea divers who were harvesting seafood for their communities for hundreds of years. It’s going to additionally also be viewed on Sept. 8, 9 and 14.
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The competition’s time desk is accessible on-line.
