About a week ago Korea Beat translated a preview/review of a good-looking Korean film called Crossing (í¬ë¡œì‹±), which opened in theaters here in early June. After reading some about the making and marketing of the film, my guess is it will open in the U.S. and other countries in the not too distant future.
Starring Cha In-pyo as a North Korean man and Shin Myeong-cheol as his son, the film delves into the dismal realities of North Korean human rights and refugees. It is a tragic drama about a man who escapes a North Korean mining village to search for medicine for his dying wife, but keeps failing to reunite with his family.
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1 Korea Beat // Jun 27, 2008 at 11:57 pm
It’s actually getting a wide opening in Korea because advance screenings abroad were successful beyond what anyone had imagined. It seems that the Korean predeliction for melodrama finally has a story that can match it. Too bad it likely won’t open in New York before I move out to the midwest. If the Korean film establishment has any brains at all they will try to get this an Oscar nomination.
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