The entertainment news cycle has been busy with big name drama castings and considerations lately but one name hasn’t been raised in the mix. Lee Min Ho delivered one of the highest rated K-dramas last year in Heirs, which is still minting money by staying hot on many large streaming portal rankings, but doesn’t appear to be in a rush to go back to television. Even without filming a K-drama in 2014 he was still a busy bee with other activities and his one acting gig this year was in film and soon we’ll see the results.
Lee Min Ho and Kim Rae Won‘s period gangster thriller Gangnam 1970 (formerly Gangnam Blues) will be released next month in November. I’ve been waiting for Lee Min Ho to do a more serious acting project and this movie helmed by famed director Yoo Ha is certainly on the right track for his acting career. The three official posters look nice as does the official movie trailer, Yoo Ha’s gritty touch clearly evident and stylistically on point. I can’t say Lee Min Ho blows me away (yet) while my first impression is that Kim Rae Won comes across as more impactful in the snippets. Check it out for yourself.
Movie synopsis:
In the 1970s, during the height of political corruption, Gangnam the southern part of Seoul is starting to be transformed into a developed area. Childhood friends Jong Dae (Lee Min Ho) and Yong Ki (Kim Rae Won) struggle to get by, until their shanty homes are demolished by local thugs. Desperate for cash, they get involved in violent political clashes, and are separated during one of the skirmishes. Three years later, Jong Dae lives as an honest man with former gang leader Kil Su. Meanwhile, Yong Ki has joined Seoul’s most powerful criminal organization, the Myeongdong-pa. As a gangster, Yong Ki is entangled in a high-stakes battle over land in Gangnam, all in the name of putting together secret presidential election funds that drive up the value of the city. As the gangs fight over the rights to various plots of land, Yong Ki is captured and interrogated by a rival gang.
Trailer for Gangnam 1970:
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So, you are disappointed he is not doing a drama this year. Now I get it.
overrated and creepy actor.
Kim Rae Won! Nuff said.
EXACTLY!
The only reason I even care.
Yeah I agree, Kim Rae Won has more a screen presence than LMH in the posters, screen shots and teasers.
Don't know what's up with LMH these days, he seems to be more mellow the older he grows... Don't know quite what it is, can't put my finger on it... Maybe he's too comfortable and it comes across in his work? No hunger anymore, maybe? Or maybe his heart really isn't in it anymore?
i read in a recent interview he said he wanted to increase his popularity before he enters army (which really, is what he's doing right now) and after his service he'd want to work towards being recognized as an actor. i feel it's a little weird but if that's really the case, i hope he goes into army soon and come back out better than before.
I also feel that something is off with LMH...
I think I read somewhere that he says he tends to suffer from depression and that he's a loner...
It seems like he's not really interested in what he's doing as if he's struggling with some demons unknown to us...
He seems to embody (at least that is the vibe I get ) the saying that success does not always means happiness...
He really looks like an unhappy kid to me....that's really sad if true.
I think that he is being "over-managed". I get the impression that his management team decides almost everything he does from what he says in interviews to where he goes, to CF's, promotions, movies, dramas, everything. If that's the case, then he should take a leaf from his Best Friend's book - Jung Il Woo and break free from all of that. Il Woo took some time off the spotlight in 2012-3 and focused on finishing his education before joining the media circus again with Golden Rainbow. From my observations he seems to control his media exposure more carefully, I rarely see him in magazines or in much CF's lately, on the other hand LMH is all over the place. I guess that's the difference between a "Star" and an "Actor".
I don't know where you read these rumours but as a fan i can surely say that he never said anything about depression or loner.
I find him also unhappy as compared before that's why i want the old lee min ho..
i love how Koreans love that Filipino folk song "Anak", hahaha.
I never got the LMH thing. I tried and tried and it never happened. His acting is not very good IMHO. In heirs Kim woo bin ran circles around him acting wise.
But it is a matter of preference. I am not taken with Kam woo sung. An actor I have never heard off until last month and now I am smitten. So I am going to say that LMH has his charms but my eyes are blind to them.
In some of these still shots of him so look like a young Andy Lau.
What with this Lee Min Ho. I can't get his acting not matter how much I tried to like or love his acting. He is overrated I can't even.
KIM RAE WON!!!!
I just wonder two days ago, where did he go. He is super talented and my fav actor. He should in a drama soon!
Even though is LMH I'm not interesed in this movie looks so plain to me! :(