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The Last Godfather
5 September 2011 12:44 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The Last Godfather is a vanity piece for Korean comedian Hyung-rae Shim who writes, directs and stars. Hyung-rae is not well known in the West, and if he keeps making films like this, he’ll remain unknown, which would be the best thing he could to for the West. This film is an attempt by Shim to introduce American audiences to his Young-Gu character. Shim made a series of Young-Gu comedies in Korea during the 1990s, which were apparently very popular over there. Never having seen any of them, I can only guess that they were better than The Last Godfather.
The film takes place in 1950s New York, when aging mafia Godfather Don Carini (Keitel) shocks his clan by announcing that he wants to retire and turn the family business over to his secret son Young-Gu, who he sired while in hiding from a rival mob in Asia decades earlier. »
- Rob Young
Jon Polito talks The Last Godfather
9 August 2011 8:55 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
You may not know the name Jon Polito but you know his face. It is one of the most recognizable in the business, and that voice! Pure trademark gruff. From being a kind of muse for the Coens (he appears in The Man Who Wasn.t There, The Big Lebowski and Barton Fink) to creating a memorable Seinfeld character to playing rough on TV.s Homicide, Polito.s done it all in more than one hundred films and TV shows. He.s a tough but tender mob boss in The Last Godfather, a slapstick spoof on gangster films from Korean comedian and filmmaker Hyung Rae Shim, who wrote, directed and stars. Polito chomps on big cigars, and growls with that unmistakable »
- Anne Brodie
Jocelin Donahue talks Hyung Rae Shim's The Last Godfather
9 August 2011 8:26 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Award winning actress and frequent horror ingénue Jocelin Donahue found herself wrestling with a Korean superstar in her latest film outing. Taking a turn to the comic side, she plays a Mafia boss. daughter in The Last Godfather - the first Us film for Korean comedian and filmmaker Hyung Rae Shim. A master of the physical comedy of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Jerry Lewis, Hyung gave Donahue the chance to play to her light side and learn stunt work. It was a terrific opportunity and change of pace for her to play an authentic, open hearted woman who, despite her family.s criminal background, brings joy to those around her. Especially to Hyung Rae Shim. »
- Anne Brodie
Interview: Jon Polito of The Last Godfather
8 August 2011 3:28 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Familiar-faced, raspy-voiced actor Jon Polito took a break from his busy schedule — one that has built a resume of nearly 200 film and television credits over the past three decades — to speak with Disc Dish about his involvement with the comedy mafia film The Last Godfather (DVD $27.98, Lionsgate, released on Aug. 9, 2011).
From South Korean comedy superstar Hyung Rae Shim (the film’s writer, director and star), The Last Godfather is a zany Mob movie wherein Shim is the goofy grown-up love child of an aging New York Mob boss (Harvey Keitel, Taxi Driver) and has been chosen by his dad to head up the family business. Not surprisingly, this decision does not go down well with the outgoing Don’s associates or his many rivals, led by Polito’s hysterically huffy and frustrated Don Bonfante.
Disc Dish: One of your mentors is the New York theater director and puppeteer Theodora Skipitares, »
- Laurence
Exclusive: The Last Godfather DVD Clip
29 July 2011 1:07 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming home video release The Last Godfather, which will hit DVD on August 9. Click on the video below for a scene where Hyung-rae Shim tries unorthodox methods to fend off an attacker alongside co-star Jason Mewes.
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Mob boss Don Carini (Harvey Keitel) is retiring from the Mafia business - but when he gathers the family to announce his heir, the Don surprises everyone by anointing his goofy grownup love child, Younggu (Hyung-rae Shim), as the next godfather. With everyone gunning for the job - and his father pressuring him to succeed - will Younggu overcome his enemies and rise to become the head of the fami-lee before he winds up snoring with the fishes?
The Last Godfather was released April 1st, 2011 and stars Harvey Keitel, Jason Mewes, Blake Clark, Jon Polito, Michael Rispoli, Jocelin Donahue, Logan Shea, »
- MovieWeb
New Release: The Last Godfather DVD
17 May 2011 3:19 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Lionsgate will release the action-filled comedy The Last Godfather from Korean comedy superstar Hyung Rae Shim (Dragon Wars: D-War) on DVD on Aug. 9.
Aided by Harvey Keitel (r.), Korean superstar Hyung Rae Shim guns for the U.S. market in The Last Godfather.
Hyung Rae Shim serves as writer, director and star of this 2010 Mafia-spoof film, which kicks off with Mob boss Don Carini (Harvey Keitel, Taxi Driver) getting ready to retire from the business of organized crime. Gathering the family together to announce his heir, the Don surprises everyone by anointing his goofy grownup love child, Younggu (Shim), as the next godfather. Needless to say, this doesn’t go down too well with ‘La Famiglia,’ who’d rather see Younggu sleeping with the fishes. And madcap shenanigans ensue.
Also starring Jason Mewes (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) and Michael Rispoli (Kick-Ass), The Last Godfather looks like it’s »
- Laurence
Movie Trailer: The Last Godfather (Harvey Keitel, Hyung Rae Shim, Michael Rispoli)
16 March 2011 7:33 PM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
The Last Godfather may not win any fans right away from the trailer. There’s a lot of slapstick comedy going on in this period piece spoof. However, movies with great trailers have turned out to be bombs so we’ll just have to see where the cards fall with this one.
The Last Godfather is Directed by Hyung Rae Shim and stars Harvey Keitel, Hyung Rae Shim, Michael Rispoli, Jason Mewes, Jocelin Donahue and Jon Polito.
About The Last Godfather
In 1951, Don Carini (Harvey Keitel), the mafia’s most powerful godfather, gathers his followers to announce the heir to the family. Each expects to be crowned the next Don, but they hear a shocking story from Don Carini. During his travels in Asia, he fell in love with an Asian woman who bore him a son. His now adult son Young-gu (Shim Hyung-rae) is anointed the next boss. Bonfante »
- Terry Boyden
'The Last Godfather' trailer: Is Young-goo Korean for Fredo?
15 March 2011 9:41 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
We realize you can’t tell if a movie will be bad from its trailer, just like you can’t judge a book by its cover. So maybe The Last Godfather is destined to be remembered — at least in the way that Johnny Dangerously is remembered. The slapstick film, which was released in South Korea last December and will open in select U.S. cities on (fittingly) April 1, stars Oscar-nominated actor Harvey Keitel as a mafia don who is retiring and wants to pass the torch to his illegitimate and inept son, Young-goo. Young-goo is played by the movie’s director Hyung-rae Shim, »
- Chris Nashawaty
Korean comedy The Last Godfather headed to the Us
28 January 2011 8:44 AM, PST | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
KoreaTimes reported today that the new slapstick comedy The Last Godfather will be opening in 12 cities across the United States and Canada on April 1, care of Roadside Attractions, before hitting European and Asian theaters. The movie was directed, produced and written by former comedian Shim Hyung-rae (also known as Ray Shim), a name you might remember as the writer, director and producer of Dragon Wars, which was released widely in the Us a few years ago. Shim also stars in the film as the idiot son of a mafia boss played by Harvey Keitel, who is being trained as successor to his father. Jason Mewes (as in Jay in Jay & Silent Bob) also stars, as do Michael Rispoli, Blake Clark and Jocelin Donahue (from The House Of The Devil). According to the article, the film is a parody of Francis Ford Coppola's gangster franchise. »
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