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Re: Korean Film Archive

#126 Post by htdm » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:57 am

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#127 Post by sabbath » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:26 pm

The 3rd : Good Windy Day (1980), also available on KFA YouTube channel.

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#128 Post by Boosmahn » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:46 pm

Any word on which months these will be released in? We’re already 3 months into 2018...

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#129 Post by sabbath » Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:44 am

Release date not yet decided. FYI, their four 2017 releases came out in June, July, and December.

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#130 Post by sabbath » Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:46 pm

Last, but not least : Jagko (1980). The title means 'asymmetric nose' in Korean, which is the nickname of a protagonist.

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Re: Korean Film Archive

#131 Post by whaleallright » Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:35 pm

sabbath wrote:The title means 'asymmetric nose' in Korean, which is the nickname of a protagonist.
Fortunately, nowadays you can fix that.

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#132 Post by sabbath » Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:50 am

More info:

Iodo : 30,800 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
2 KFA Q&A sessions on Iodo
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery
Trailer
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Replica of Original Script
3 Postcards

Jagko : 27,500 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
1 KFA Q&A session on Jagko
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery

Good Windy Day : 27,500 KRW / October
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

Yeong-Ja's Heydays : 27,500 KRW / November
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

And since they are KFA releases, we can presume there will be booklets and everything will be English-friendly.
Audio commentary participants unknown.
800 copies each.

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#133 Post by L.A. » Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:41 am

L.A. wrote:The latest release from the label is The Lovers of Woomook-baemi (Jang Sun-woo, 1990).
DVD Compare review. Great extras like that documentary by Tony Rayns.

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#134 Post by L.A. » Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:21 pm

sabbath wrote:
Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:50 am
More info:

Iodo : 30,800 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
2 KFA Q&A sessions on Iodo
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery
Trailer
+
Replica of Original Script
3 Postcards

Jagko : 27,500 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
1 KFA Q&A session on Jagko
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery

Good Windy Day : 27,500 KRW / October
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

Yeong-Ja's Heydays : 27,500 KRW / November
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

And since they are KFA releases, we can presume there will be booklets and everything will be English-friendly.
Audio commentary participants unknown.
800 copies each.
Sure hope the two first are still coming next month. Also wouldn’t say no to Mandala (Im Kwon-taek, 1981) which is probably the best Korean film ever made, this is so beautiful and it would look wonderful on Blu-ray.

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#135 Post by sabbath » Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:42 am

Iodo release date and artwork confirmed.

July 19th / 30,800 KRW

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Runtime: 112min
Subtitles: Korean, English, Japanese
Video: 1080P 2.35:1 AVC
Audio: Korean LPCM Mono
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Jeong Sung-il (director and film critic)
- Audio Commentary by Kim Young-jin (film critic) & Oh Seung-wook (director) recorded in 2018
- Actor Lee Hwa-si interview
- KFA Q&A session
- Restoration Comparison
- Image Gallery
- Trailer
- Replica of Original Script
- 3 Postcards
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Re: Korean Film Archive

#136 Post by sabbath » Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:01 am

Jagko release date and artwork confirmed.

July 30th / 27,500 KRW

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Runtime: 103min
Subtitles: Korean, English, Japanese
Video: 1080P 2.35:1 AVC
Audio: Korean LPCM Mono
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Kim Dae-seung (director, former assistant director of Im) & Joo Sung-chul (chief editor of Korean film magazine Cine21)
- Audio Commentary by Im Kwon-taek (director of the film) & Huh Moon-young (film critic) recorded in 2012
- Audio Commentary by Song Gil-han (writer of the film) & Kim Hong-joon (director, former assistant director of Im) recorded in 2012
- KFA Q&A session
- Restoration Comparison
- Image Gallery

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Re: Korean Film Archive

#137 Post by Boosmahn » Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:05 am

Not a fan of the artwork for Jagko, but it might grow on me. The inner print also looks pretty compressed.

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#138 Post by sabbath » Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:38 am

It turned out that the previous artwork was just a draft. Even the English title has been changed. Here's the new, final, official artwork of Ieodo.

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Re: Korean Film Archive

#139 Post by Boosmahn » Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:56 pm

Looks like Yeong-ja's Heydays has been dropped for 2018. Instead, we're getting Lee Man-hee's A Day Off (a director not to be confused with the cult leader Lee Man-hee). The release date is December 11th.

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#140 Post by L.A. » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:43 am


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Re: Korean Film Archive

#141 Post by L.A. » Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:42 am

The Evil Stairs (Lee Man-hee, 1964) - also known as The Devil's Stairway - out July 4th.

Worth also mentioning that Mondo Macabro is releasing Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death (Kim Ki-young, 1978), pre-order for the LE starts June 27th.
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#142 Post by L.A. » Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:48 am


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#143 Post by L.A. » Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:42 am

L.A. wrote:
Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:42 am
The Evil Stairs (Lee Man-hee, 1964) - also known as The Devil's Stairway - out July 4th.
DVD Compare.

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Re: Korean Film Archive

#144 Post by L.A. » Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:08 am


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Re: Korean Film Archive

#145 Post by Calvin » Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:42 pm

Are the KOFA releases one pressing only deals? I wasn't surprised to see that the early releases were OOP, but I am surprised that something like The Housemaid seemingly hasn't had a standard amaray or anything since.

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#146 Post by Calvin » Fri Feb 21, 2020 7:14 am

I exchanged a few e-mails with the Korean Film Archive. Due to demand, they're considering a re-release of The Housemaid. They're going to decide on that early March, with any release happening in June.

Their planned Blu-Ray releases for 2020 are:

Early Rain (Jin-woo Jeong, 1966)
Nambugun: North Korean Partisan in South Korea (Chung Ji-young, 1990
A Flower in Hell (Shin Sang-ok, 1958)

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#147 Post by zedz » Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:18 pm

The latest two KFA BluRay releases don't seem to have been mentioned here yet, but I have both in my hand:

Goryeojang (Kim Ki-Young, 1963)
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Mother and a Guest (Shin Sang-Ok, 1961)
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Re: Korean Film Archive

#148 Post by L.A. » Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:42 pm

I did mention Goryeojang in November 2019.

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#149 Post by zedz » Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:57 pm

Sorry, I must have scrolled too fast!

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#150 Post by L.A. » Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:16 am

zedz wrote:
Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:57 pm
Sorry, I must have scrolled too fast!
No worries.

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