By Kwak Yeon-soo
The film Parasite (2019) was honored with the Best Picture Award, while actor Song Kang-ho won the Grand Prize, at the 40th Korea Gold Awards Festival held in Seoul, Thursday.
The 40th edition of the festival was originally scheduled to take place in February of last year, but was postponed over a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The annual event is organized by the Korean Society of Cinematographers, who determines the winners based on their technical and creative talent.
Actors Cho Jin-woong and Lee Ha-nee grabbed the trophies for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, for their roles in Black Money (2019). Chung Ji-young, who helmed the white-collar crime film, also took home the Best Director Award.
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Synopsis
A criminal profiler Park Hae Young (Lee Je-hoon), solves a kidnapping case that ended up with a falsely accused who apparently disappeared after the crime, with a mysterious walkie-talkie he picks up. The success of this case triggers the formation of a long-term cold case team, led by Detective Cha Soo-Hyun (Kim Hye-soo), who has been searching her long-lost mentor Lee Jae-Han (Cho Jin-woong), for the past fifteen years. With the help of Detective Lee Jae-Han, the person at the other end of the walkie-talkie, Park Hae-young solvesother cold cases that have remained unsolved for years, while helping Lee Jae-Han help solve some cases in the past. Grave unintended sequences follow.
2020/12/25
The action in We Are Brothers is prompted by a documentary program regarding reuniting families. The subgenre of sentimental television documentaries is unremarkable in South Korean culture, although the seeming wackiness does no favors for the drama in translation. Much of We Are Brothers lurches from one wacky setpiece to another. Surprisingly few of these weird situations have much to do with the main premise. Sang-hyeon (played by
Cho Jin-woong) is a pastor rasied in the United States. Ha-hyeon (played by
Kim Sung-kyun) is a shaman raised in South Korea. And now the separated brothers meet again.
It s not hard to guess why the theological underpinnings of