Song Hae-sung ( Korean : 송해성 ; born October 11, 1964) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter .
9-435: Song made his feature film debut in 1999 with the time-traveling romance Calla , starring Song Seung-heon and Kim Hee-sun , but didn't become more widely known until the success of his second film, Failan (2001). Starring Choi Min-sik and Cecilia Cheung , the film is about a hoodlum who finds purpose in life after discovering true love, and it won praise from audiences and critics alike for its sympathetic portrayal of
18-405: Is a 1999 South Korean romance film about a man who travels back in time to save the girl he loves from getting killed. Directed by Song Hae-sung , it stars Song Seung-heon and Kim Hee-sun . Every morning, Sun-woo receives a calla lily with a musical note attached to it, and he wants to find out who his secret admirer is. One day he meets the beautiful Ji-hee on the bus and connects her with
27-424: Is soon to be married, but he is haunted by the memories of Ji-hee. His desperate wish to revive her magically comes true whereby time is turned back to the day of the fateful date at the hotel. Seeking a chance to save her life, Sun-woo is given 24 hours to turn things around. Through this process Sun-woo realizes that it was Ji-hee's friend Soo-jin and not Ji-hee who sent the calla lilies three years ago. With this, he
36-462: The 1950s, starring Sol Kyung-gu in the title role. Despite its underwhelming box office, Song received his second Grand Bell Award for best director in 2005. In 2006, he made a film adaptation of Gong Ji-young 's bestselling novel Our Happy Time . Starring Lee Na-young and Kang Dong-won , Maundy Thursday focuses on the relationship between a suicidal woman and the man she visits on death row. A melodrama less about love than about compassion,
45-463: The daily anonymous gift when he notices the same music from the musical note coming from the flower shop she works at. He falls in love with her at first sight, thinking she is the one who is sending him flowers. Wanting to confess his feelings for her, he asks her out on a date at a local hotel, and she agrees. At the hotel, though, he arrives to find Ji-hee taken hostage, and, to his horror, tragically murdered before his eyes. Three years later, Sun-woo
54-430: The film as a drama more than an action film, "propelled by the emotional interaction between the characters, and the action is there to heighten and express the dramatic tension." He adapted another novel in 2013, Cheon Myung-gwan's Aging Family , about a grown-up trio of loser siblings who embark on a series of misadventures after moving back into their mother's home. Song said the image that crossed his mind while making
63-485: The film was a bowl of bean paste stew adorned with five spoons, symbolizing a troubled but loving family. Casting Youn Yuh-jung , Yoon Je-moon , Park Hae-il , Gong Hyo-jin and Jin Ji-hee in the ensemble comedy (based on a work by Cheon Myeong-kwan Boomerang Family , Song joked that it was a "low-budget family Avengers ." Calla (film) Calla ( Korean : 카라 ; RR : Kara )
72-522: The film was a hit, attracting more than 3 million viewers to become the seventh most popular domestic film of 2006. Though he flatly refused when first approached to direct a remake of John Woo 's Hong Kong noir classic A Better Tomorrow , Song eventually decided to make a South Korean version revolving around brotherhood and North Korean defectors . A Better Tomorrow (also known as Invincible , 2010) starred Song Seung-heon , Joo Jin-mo , Kim Kang-woo , and Jo Han-sun , and director Song described
81-510: The weakness and deep flaws lingering behind the façade of bravado of Korean men. It earned Song two best director honors, from the 2001 Blue Dragon Film Awards and the 2002 Grand Bell Awards , cementing him as a major force in Korean cinema. His ambitious follow-up in 2004 was Rikidozan , a biopic on Rikidōzan , a legendary ethnic Korean pro- wrestler who became a national hero in Japan in
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