Coming soon: " APRIL SNOW "
"April Snow" Starring Bae Yong-joon to be Shown in 10 Asian Countries (2005/02/25)
The movie April Snow starring Bae Yong-jun will open, perhaps concurrently, in 10 Asian countries in coming September. The distribution company of April Snow said Feb. 24 that it has already signed contracts with Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, and is currently in talks with Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and other Asian countries. The company said movie distribution companies in these countries want to release and promote April Snow concurrently with Korea.
"Each of these countries plans to market the movie according to our schedule. We have devised a detailed plan for holding press conferences for foreign journalists and launching a tour around Asia prior to the moviefs release," said a person close to the company.
"April Snow," whose filming began on Feb. 4 in Samcheok of Gangwon Province, stars Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin in the lead roles. It portrays a man and a woman who, after being betrayed by their former lovers, fall in dangerous and heart-wrenching love with each other.
credits to hancinema.net
About the movie
The director is HUR Jin-ho. He even wants to put air flow an actor will feel into a movie. Excluding artificial feeling to the maximum in an actual place, he established his unique style to describe people who most likely would be there, and even April Snow is not exceptional.
The production team of April Snow. They travel hospitals and cities all over the country to find ea strange city which really existsf. At the end of the trip, they met Samcheok, and it was like an enormous set built just for the movie, April Snow. An old hospital with complex structure having strange atmosphere apart from reality even though it is the most real space the characters encounter their despairing reality. A small motel next to the hospital just like in the movie. Then, there are Jookseoroo, one of 8 great Eastern sceneries, and an old cafeteria without column when you walk past the motel. Also, everything the director HUR Jin-ho wanted in April Snow, including even solitude radiating from calm streets, was already prepared in Samcheok.
Under aggressive cooperation from Samcheok city, April Snow is under production, and the location for the movie will be made as Special Complex for Tourists.
The Very First Project, A Meeting of Real Performance and Film...The climax of April Snow is the outdoor concert scene. While preparing, the production team accidentally met large size outdoor concert planned by M&F, a movie score specialty production, and had a chance for a new plan. It was shooting a film in a place having an actual concert. It is the very first try of Korean movie, and also, it is meaningful for both the concert and the movie. Audience of the concert has chance to participate in April Snow, the biggest projected movie in Asia, as extras, and the movie gets advantage of putting real concert site vividly.
In the movie, the concert scene is about "In-su", as a lighting director, reminiscing time he felt special love of his lifetime with snowfall. Screams from large size audience, live performance by best Korean singers, and spring snow falling from the sky are there like a lie. All of those will combine together to make a most beautiful scene Korean movie will remember for a long time.
Best Crew, All In One Place
Expectation on April Snow is not just limited to the director and the cast. Another people on attention are the camera director LEE Mo-gae, who became the center of attention in A Tale of Two Sisters with his sensitive vision, the lighting director OH Seung-chul, a magician of light who paints screen with his fresh sense, the art director PARK Sang-hoon, who bore captivating mise-en-scene in Untold Scandal, and the musical director CHO Sung-woo, the height of Korean movie scores.
A camera that approaches close to the characters and lighting that delivers characterfs emotion with modern-style natural light. Samcheokfs space that will symbolize characterfs mood with worn feeling and music that doubles characterfs emotion and relationship with sometimes lyrical and sometimes intensive music. With all of those combinations, the director HUR Jin-ho and two actors, BAE Yong-joon and SON Ye-jin, will add their full energy in April Snow to make the best melodrama movie in 2005.
from showeast.co.kr
Synopsis
Accident
On live concert hall, lighting director, In-su (BAE Yong-joon) leaves the hall in a hurry putting the concert in charge of his junior worker. Then in a hallway at a hospital operation room in Samcheok, Kangwon-do, he meets Seo-young (SON Ye-jin). The reason he went there is a car accident of his wife, Su-jin (LIM Sang-hyo). Also, Seo-youngfs husband, Kyung-ho (RYU Seung-su), was in the car with her.
Betrayal
While Su-jin and Kyung-ho are in unconsciousness by serious injury, In-su and Seo-young realize that Su-jin and Kyung-ho are in "special relationship"on settling the accident. For In-su and Seo-young, it is harder to accept than the fatal accident. Love becomes confusion, anger, and betrayal. While they pray for their spousesf peaceful recovery even though they blame for it, the two people fell each other's existence slowly.
Chaos
In a motel in front of the hospital, the two people start long term stay and meet each other again and again. Eventually, they fall in love spending their time together. Even they were confused by their spouses' betrayal, now they experience the same pain their spouses did as they fall into the same situation.
At this time, Su-jin comes back to consciousness. In-su cannot look away from his wife shedding tears. While looking at In-su, Seo-young realizes that it is time to go back to their own places. Then, they prepare for going out, which might be the last time, only for the two.
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