Since he first caught the world's attention in Volcano High international audiences have been waiting for South Korea's Kwon Sang Woo to really establish himself as an international action star. The physical skills and big screen charisma are very definitely present for Kwon to go down that road should he choose to do so, but given his fashion model looks it's been parts in romantic comedies and weepy melodramas that have really paid his bills at home.
Though Kwon has a key role in Jackie Chan's upcoming third Operation Condor movie action parts at home have been few and far between. Enter director Kwak Kyung-taek who is taking the romance elements that has Kwon's fanbase swooning in Korea and fusing it with his more physical skills for the upcoming Pain.
A melodrama-action-comedy fusion from the director of Friend and Mutt Boy, Pain casts Kwon as a young man who cannot feel physical pain who falls into a relationship with a young woman who is a hemophiliac. While Kwon gets battered to hell and shrugs it off she must take great care to never be hurt.
The fusion of elements in this one is very odd on the surface, a definite callback to the 'everything goes' style that drove many Korean films during the height of the production wave there in the late nineties and early 2000s. And like those years the production values here are absolutely fantastic. Check out a teaser and trailer below.
Though Kwon has a key role in Jackie Chan's upcoming third Operation Condor movie action parts at home have been few and far between. Enter director Kwak Kyung-taek who is taking the romance elements that has Kwon's fanbase swooning in Korea and fusing it with his more physical skills for the upcoming Pain.
A melodrama-action-comedy fusion from the director of Friend and Mutt Boy, Pain casts Kwon as a young man who cannot feel physical pain who falls into a relationship with a young woman who is a hemophiliac. While Kwon gets battered to hell and shrugs it off she must take great care to never be hurt.
The fusion of elements in this one is very odd on the surface, a definite callback to the 'everything goes' style that drove many Korean films during the height of the production wave there in the late nineties and early 2000s. And like those years the production values here are absolutely fantastic. Check out a teaser and trailer below.