Re-Launch Trailer for Comedy ‘The Foul King’ Starring Music Kang-ho
by Alex Billington
March 15, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“You suppose it is a joke?” Blue Finch Movies within the UK has debuted a brand new trailer for a correct re-release of a protracted misplaced sports activities comedy from Korea titled The Foul King. It initially opened in Korea in 2000 however by no means landed within the US. It additionally performed at TIFF and the 2001 Berlin Movie Pageant but it surely was by no means launched within the US and has by no means arrived within the west (although you may clearly import DVD copies of it). Beloved Korean actor Music Kang-ho stars as Dae-ho, a timid financial institution clerk who’s going nowhere in his on a regular basis life. After assembly a well-known former professional wrestler, Dae-ho transforms himself right into a Korean wrestling villain. From acclaimed author / director Kim Jee-woon (of I Noticed the Satan, A Story of Two Sisters, and final yr’s Cobweb as effectively). Though he is not gifted sufficient to ever develop into a high wrestler, Dae-Ho trains diligently at evening… and he’s was the villain generally known as “The Foul King”. The remaining is historical past! The solid consists of Jang Jin-Younger, Park Sang-Myeon, Jang Cling-Seon, Jung Woong-In, and Kim Soo-Ro. Yeah this appears to be like straight out of the 90s (2000 is shut sufficient), however after the success of The Iron Claw it’d simply discover an viewers now.
This is the brand new UK trailer (+ Korean posters) for Kim Jee-woon’s The Foul King, direct from YouTube:
Im Dae-Ho (Music Kang-ho) is an unproductive financial institution clerk who’s late to work each morning & the thing of his supervisor’s frustrations. He was a fan of TV wrestling as a toddler, however cannot even get out of a headlock. He finds a neighborhood wrestling coach and thru a sequence of occasions ultimately begins to coach. He’s slowly remodeled as he begins his second job because the dishonest villain wrestler generally known as the Foul King. He begins to face up for himself in odd methods that aren’t actually in his personal finest curiosity. Occasions get out of hand as conflicting influences come collectively. The Foul King, initially generally known as Banchikwang or 반칙왕 in Korean, is directed by acclaimed Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon, director of the flicks A Story of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life, The Good the Dangerous the Bizarre, I Noticed the Satan, The Final Stand, The Age of Shadows, Illang: The Wolf Brigade, Cobweb, and the sequence “Dr. Mind” beforehand. The screenplay is written by Kim Dae-woo Kim and Kim Jee-woon. It is produced by Lee Mi-yeon Lee and Oh Jung-Wan. The movie initially opened in Korea in late 2000, enjoying at TIFF and the Berlin Movie Pageant. It has by no means been launched within the US. Blue Finch Movies will debut The Foul King within the UK on VOD beginning this April. Is anybody ?
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