Chan-wook Park, the director of Oldboy has just confirmed he shot a 30 minute short movie entirely on iPhone with his brother, Chan-kyon. The movie is called “Paranmanjang (Life Full Of Ups And Downs)” and will open in South Korea on Jan 27th. The budget for the movie was $133,000.
In occupied Korea, a woman is hired as a handmaiden to secretly plot to defraud a Japanese heiress.
Dark drama Stoker has been receiving rave reviews since its release on Friday – and the film’s star Nicole Kidman has now compared its Korean director Park Chan-wook to the legendary Stanley Kubrick.
Kidman, who was directed by Kubrick in his last full movie Eyes Wide Shut, has said that both filmmakers are very similar in their working methods, themes and ambitions.
