Tazza Closes Asian Film Fest in Dallas

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Featuring Korean beauty KIM Hye-soo on the front cover of its program guide, the 6th annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas (AFFD) wrapped August 30th with closing film Tazza: The High Rollers. With the film’s lead actress KIM striking a glamorous pose, the AFFD program guide proposes calling the film’s director CHOI Dong-hoon “Korea’s Guy Ritchie.”

Running August 23rd to 30th, AFFD featured 25 films of Asian and Asian-American origin. The ‘Centerpiece Film’ of the festival was Korean-Japanese director SANG Il-lee’s Hula Girls, a heartwarming true story set in a coal mining town in northern Japan. The film was selected by Japan as its submission for the best foreign film category nominations at the Academy Awards.

Award-winning Korean documentary director LEE Ho-sup’s And Thereafter II screened in a double-bill with And Thereafter, the first part of his intended trilogy. The films deal with the fates of Korean women who married American G.I.’s. The screening will be accompanied by a documentary short entitled I, Too, Am America by PARK Joon-he, about a Korean adoptee’s experience leaving Busan, South Korea at age two to live with her new American family in Idaho.

A Battle of Wits, a Hong Kong ? Japan ? South Korea co-production starring veteran Korean actor AHN Sung-ki and Andy Lau among others, also screened at the festival.

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