Yang Ik-june
Birthday: 1975-10-19 Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Synopsis
Yang Ik-june (born October 19, 1975) is a South Korean actor and film director. He is best known for the 2009 film Breathless, which he wrote, directed, edited, and starred in.
Acting
Sunwoo and Ikjune
Currently, Sunwoo and Ikjune are lovers and co-directors of a movie. The film starts with a landscape shot at dawn. Ikjune is smoking a cigarette from the veranda of his house, looking at the village across the street. In the bedroom, Sunwoo is lying on Ikjune's bed with her eyes open. Next to them are the same movie scenarios. You can predict what they are thinking by looking at their faces. Production is half-way and the two are having a long conversation about what to shoot today as they are headed to the set. At the set, they are talking with the actors and giving acting directions. In the process, Sunwoo and Ikjune experience various feelings about love, either individually or together.
Hellbound
Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.
To. Jenny
A story about a young man who expresses his unrequited first love for a girl through music and a young woman who chases after her dream despite a harsh situation.
Bad Guys: Vile City
Ordered to take down a villainous business leader who controls the city, a prosecutor gathers a team of men who may not be so clean themselves.
The Fake
A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
Our Homeland
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.
The King of Pigs
After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyeong-Min kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Seok. Jong-Seok now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own novel. For the first time in 15 years they meet. Kyeong-Min and Jong-Seok both hide their own current situations and begin to talk about their middle school days.
Breathless
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to him, feisty school-girl Yoon-hee they become unlikely friends.
