Ahn Sung-kee Movies
- 2006
On the heels of their small screen hit The King and the Clown, filmmaking duo Lee Jun-II and writer re-team for a heterosexual all-male love story starring Ahn Song-Ki and Park Joong-Hoon. Back in 1998, rocker Choi Gon had the power to make an entire stadium full of girl weep, but these days he relegated to playing small coffee houses. Embittered and unstable, Choi is constantly picking fights, and eventually winds up in jail. Soon after, Choi is offered a DJ gig at a provincial radio station in Young-wol. At first Choi scoffs at the prospect, but soon enough his long-suffering manager Park Min-Soo (Ahn) convinces the has-been rocker to give it a try. Despite the fact that the first few months are pretty rough going, things start to look up when a local garage band announce plans to play a tribute concert to their musical hero. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Park Joong-Hoon, Ahn Sung-kee, (more)
Touted as the most expensive Korean film ever produced, Musa is a sweeping real-life epic about an official envoy from Koryo (ancient Korea) struggling to stay alive in war-torn China. The film is set in 1375 when the Yuan dynasty collapses after a 100-year reign against the insurgent Ming. As the Ming dynasty solidifies power pushing the remaining Yuan armies to the north and west, Koryo sends a delegation of diplomats to shore up their strained relations with the new government. Upon arrival the lead diplomat is thrown in jail and the rest are exiled to the dusty hinterland for spying. There, the party is ambushed by Yuan soldiers. The survivors are led by General Choi Jung and a bodyguard slave of another fallen general, Yeo-sol. After facing all sorts of adversities, the group make it to a remote country inn where they learn that the beautiful Ming princess Furong (played by Zhang Ziyi of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame) has been kidnapped. When Yeo-sol gets abducted by the same band of Yuan thugs, Choi Jung resolves to free them both. Fleeing from the same Yuan army, the Koryo warriors with Furong in tow learn that the Yuan has burned all ferryboats in the Yellow River valley. When they happen upon a group of Ming refugees, Furong promises them supplies and safe passage home if they escort the refugees to the Mud Castle upriver. The castle, however, proves to be in ruins and the Yuan are closing in. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ahn Sung-kee, Jung Woo-Sung, (more)
- 1986
In this standard melodrama, the elusive Green Card is the third protagonist in the relationship between a South Korean sailor who wants to stay in the U.S. and a barmaid who contracts marriages to Koreans only until they get their resident status. The sailor has a pregnant girlfriend in Korea who is conveniently an ocean away, so he spends his time checking out the Asian-American women on the West coast. His plans to marry into Green Card status hit a snag when he runs into the barmaid who has done this before, and their relationship becomes a strange mixture of mercenary self-interest and real attraction.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ahn Sung-kee
