Hyun Bin plays an assassin in ‘Harbin.’
The Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 5 to 15, will host a choice of Korean movies and documentaries this year. The movies are K-POPS, Ryoo Seung-wan’s I, The Executioner, Love in the Big City, Harbin, Paying For It, Hong Sang-soo’s By The Stream and the documentary The Last of the Sea Women.
By The Stream, the newest movie from the respected filmmaker Hong Sang-soo reunites stars Kim Min-hee (The Handmaiden) and Kwon Hae-hyo (Bitter Sweet Hell) in a bittersweet tale of solitude, connection, and imagination that takesplace throughout an yearly spoof celebration at a females’s university. It airs on Sept 5, 11, 12 and 14.
Harbin is a historic spy-thriller, directed by Woo Min-ho, that stars Hyun Bin (Crash Landing On You) as a self-reliance activist and political assassin. Hyun plays Ahn Jung-geun, the Korean self-reliance activist who in 1909 assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the veryfirst prime minister of Japan. It airs on Sept. 8, 9 and 11.
I, The Executioner checksout the dark side of justice and the risks of populism. Detective Seo Do-cheol, played by Hwang Jung-min (12.12: The Day), returns in a grasping, high-octane followup to Ryoo Seung-wan’s 2015 hit Veteran. The movie hasactually been explained as a fresh take on the criminalactivity action category. It airs on Sept 5, 6, 7 and 14.
In K-POPS a dad hopes to trip the coattails of his long-lost boy’s soaring fame. This function is a movie launching from eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak. It airs on Sept. 7, 8 and 12.
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