LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – “The Battleship Island,” a Korean film about the dark history of Japan’s Hashima Island off the coast of Nagasaki during World War II, has been showing promising box office results in the U.S., its distributor said Tuesday. According to the distributor CJ E&M, the film by director Ryoo Seung-wan [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean blockbuster “The Battleship Island” has reigned at the box office for seven days since it opened last Wednesday. But its record-shattering success has rekindled a years-long dispute over big-budget films’ monopoly of screens that stifles competition and impedes diversity. Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan of “Veteran” and starring Hwang [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean film “The Battleship Island” held a prescreening for UNESCO officials and diplomats in Paris to increase the world’s awareness of the dark history of the Japanese island where hundreds of Koreans were forced to work as coal miners and sex slaves during World War II, its distributor [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite an unofficial ban of Korean cultural content, the principal Chinese state television broadcaster CCTV has praised “The Battleship Island”, a Korean film that deals with the forced labor during the Japanese occupation, as an anti-Japanese blockbuster and devoted significant airtime to coverage of the film. A CCTV account of [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea defended a new local movie depicting South Koreans mobilized as forced labor for imperial Japan as “factual” on Thursday after the Japanese chief cabinet secretary dismissed it as fictional. The movie “The Battleship Island” was released a day earlier, rekindling attention on the hellish atrocities suffered by Koreans [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Director Ryoo Seung-wan’s historical action blockbuster “The Battleship Island” will open in 15 regions around the world in August and September, its local distributor said Wednesday. According to CJ Entertainment, the movie will open in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, [...]