Kim Sung-soo’s war thriller is Korea’s Oscar submission – Blogging Sole

Kim Sung-soo’s war thriller is Korea’s Oscar submission

 – Blogging Sole

One of the darkest chapters in South Korean history is chronicled in “12.12: Today,” a dramatic account of the 1979 coup that followed the assassination of authoritarian President Park Chung-hee on October 26. Meticulously written and extremely well performed by a first-rate cast including Hwang Jung-min (“Deliver Us from Evil”), director and co-writer Kim Sung-soo’s … Read more