CHANG’s CANOLA to Get Chinese Remake

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CHANG’s CANOLA to Get Chinese Remake

Mar 22, 2016

Writer by Pierce Conran
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YOUN Yuh-jung, KIM Go-eun Jeju Drama Bows in May

Ahead of its domestic release in Korea this May, Director CHANG’s latest film, the drama Canola, has sold Chinese remake rights to Huace Union Pictures. The film stars veteran actress YOUN Yuh-jung and new face KIM Go-eun.

YOUN plays Gae-chun, an elderly diver (or Haenyeo, literally ‘sea woman’) who harvests the waters off the coast of Jeju Island. After a 12-year absence, she is reunited with her now high school age granddaughter Hae-ji (played by KIM).

The drama marks the third directorial outing for CHANG, who debuted with the horror Death Bell in 2008 before scoring a box office hit and a Cannes Film Festival invitation with the action-thriller The Target in 2014. More recently, he completed shooting the Korean-Chinese co-production Fatal Countdown: Reset, which will bow following Canola.

Legendary star YOUN debuted as an actress in the late 1960s and has appeared in films by KIM Ki-young (Insect Woman, 1972), IM Sang-soo (A Good Lawyer’s Wife, 2003), HONG Sang-soo (Hahaha, 2010) and most recently E J-yong’s The Bacchus Lady, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last month.

Following her start in the drama Eungyo (2012), KIM has quickly become a recognizable face in the Korean film industry, appearing in Coin Locker Girl and Memories of the Sword last year.

Canola’s screenplay was jointly developed by CHANG and IM Gun-joong, the director of the Korean division of Huace Union Pictures. The film was produced by ZIO Entertainment and is handled internationally by Mirovision.

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