Lee Myung-se

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 이명세
Revised
Romanization 		I Myeong-se
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Myŏngse
Lee Myung-se

Lee Myung-se (born August 21, 1957 in Seoul ) is a South Korean film director.

He studied at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, then became a screenwriter and co-director with Bae Chang-ho, but calls John Woo his role model.

In 1988 he directed the successful comedy Gagman , the script of which he wrote himself.

His 1999 film Nowhere to Hide has been described as aesthetic but lacking in action. He acted again as a writer and director here and refers in his work to the work of John Woo. The film “about the loss-making hunt of the hard-boiled police commissioner Woo (Park Joong-hon) on the contract killer Chang Sung-min ( Ahn Sung-ki ) leads the viewer into a highly artificial world of mediatized life and reproduces, as it were, ironically established ones aesthetic patterns from television, advertising and video clips ”and“ which continuously redefines its genre boundaries and is comedy, thriller, action film and melodrama at the same time. In one moment still arrested in comic-like slapstick, in the next offering suspense dramatic tension, in order to then rely on hard scenes of violence and then indulge in emotional tableaus, Nowhere to Hide uses "the possibilities of the filmmaker almost completely" in a process of continuous hybridization ( Jens Niedzielski) ". The criticism was split, “style over substance”.

Filmography

  • 1988: Gagman
  • 1990: The Dream (Ggum)
  • 1990: My Love, My Bride (Naui sarang naui shinbu)
  • 1993: First Love (Cheot sarang)
  • 1995: Bitter and Sweet (Namjaui goerowe)
  • 1996: Their Last Love Affair (Jidokhan sarang)
  • 1999: Nowhere to Hide (Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda)
  • 2005: Duelist (Hyeongsa)
  • 2007: M (Em)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on cinekorea.com (English) ( Memento from February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Steve Erickson: Review Nowhere to Hide , in: jump-cut.de. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ Review Nowhere to Hide , in: ikonenmagazin.de. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Review Nowhere to Hide , on asianfilmweb.de ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )


Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Myung-se is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Myung-se
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이명세 (Korean, Hangeul); I, Myeong-se (Revised Romanization); Yi, Myŏngse (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul