Kwon Ho-young's Parallel LifeSTORY60%DIRECTING75%ACTING65%VISUALS75%POSITIVESGreat directionGreat cinematographyAdditional depthNEGATIVESHyperbolic script2016-04-1269%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (1 Vote)61%
The script of the film is based on the titular theory, which indulges the idea of repeating lives of different individuals through the years. One of the theory’s most famous examples is the lives of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Both presidents had seven letters in their last names, were elected to the senate 100 years apart (Lincoln in 1846 & Kennedy in 1946), became presidents 100 years apart (Lincoln in 1860 & Kennedy in 1960) and both were assassinated on Fridays, with Lincoln killed in Ford Theatre & Kennedy killed in a Ford vehicle. Both presidents were succeeded by presidents named Johnson that were born a 100 years apart (Andrew Johnson born in 1808 and Lyndon B. Johnson born in 1908).
Kim Seok-hyeon’s life is ideal. He has a gorgeous wife, a wonderful daughter and he is...
The script of the film is based on the titular theory, which indulges the idea of repeating lives of different individuals through the years. One of the theory’s most famous examples is the lives of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Both presidents had seven letters in their last names, were elected to the senate 100 years apart (Lincoln in 1846 & Kennedy in 1946), became presidents 100 years apart (Lincoln in 1860 & Kennedy in 1960) and both were assassinated on Fridays, with Lincoln killed in Ford Theatre & Kennedy killed in a Ford vehicle. Both presidents were succeeded by presidents named Johnson that were born a 100 years apart (Andrew Johnson born in 1808 and Lyndon B. Johnson born in 1908).
Kim Seok-hyeon’s life is ideal. He has a gorgeous wife, a wonderful daughter and he is...
- 4/12/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Here's a little something I doubt anyone saw coming. Josh Olsen, writer of A History of Violence, is currently preparing a television adaptation of Yoichi Sai's Soo to air on FX.
Sai's film - based on an earlier manhwa - tells the story of a hitman, long estranged from his identical brother, a policeman. But when the cop gets killed the hitman gets a craving for revenge and realizes that the easiest way to figure out what happened will be to assume his brother's identity and wait for the killer to reveal themselves.
When reading comments on this move I've seen a few times how people hope that Olsen can live up to Sai's source material. I assume from this that the people writing the comments haven't actually seen Sai's film because - outside of some stylish moments and an incredibly bloody finale - Sai didn't live up to...
Sai's film - based on an earlier manhwa - tells the story of a hitman, long estranged from his identical brother, a policeman. But when the cop gets killed the hitman gets a craving for revenge and realizes that the easiest way to figure out what happened will be to assume his brother's identity and wait for the killer to reveal themselves.
When reading comments on this move I've seen a few times how people hope that Olsen can live up to Sai's source material. I assume from this that the people writing the comments haven't actually seen Sai's film because - outside of some stylish moments and an incredibly bloody finale - Sai didn't live up to...
- 10/31/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It's about suffering, appropriately enough, given for many viewers Tran Anh Hung's I Come With The Rain will be up there as two of the most punishing hours of cinema they're ever likely to sit through. Graced with a relatively high-profile pan-asian cast, the noted Vietnamese arthouse director's first English-language project (after earlier successes with Cyclo and The Scent of Green Papaya) was eagerly awaited for quite some time, then suddenly and unceremoniously glossed over after a disappointing spin on the festival circuit.
Why? On paper, at least, the premise starts out by making some kind of logical sense; Josh Hartnett (yes, really) plays Kline, an American Pi dismissed from the force after becoming a little too immersed in the hunt for a notorious serial killer (Elias Koteas). He's contacted out of the blue by a pharmaceutical tycoon whose adopted son Shitao (Kimura Takuya, Love and Honour, 2046) has gone missing...
Why? On paper, at least, the premise starts out by making some kind of logical sense; Josh Hartnett (yes, really) plays Kline, an American Pi dismissed from the force after becoming a little too immersed in the hunt for a notorious serial killer (Elias Koteas). He's contacted out of the blue by a pharmaceutical tycoon whose adopted son Shitao (Kimura Takuya, Love and Honour, 2046) has gone missing...
- 1/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It’s been a long and apparently troubled road for Yoichi Sai to bring his ninja epic to the big screen. After the very difficult production of Korean action-melodrama Soo, Sai - an ethnically Korean Japanese - returned back home to Japan to tackle an adaptation of Shirato Sanpei’s manga The Legend of Kamui Ninja. The film was announced ages ago but there’s been nothing from it since, other than the occassional rumor of some trouble or other on the set. But, finally - and I say finally because the world really doesn’t have enough ninja films and Sai’s got the chops to make a damn good one - we get at least a tease, in the form of a revamped website and big ol’ photo of Kenichi Matsuyama in the lead role. It aint much, but it’s something ...
- 1/5/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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