Following the short film <Tunnel> in 1998 and his time as a student at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), LIM Charn-sang entered the mainstream film industry when he acted as an assistant director on PARK Heung-sik’s melodrama <I Wish I Had a Wife>, starring SUL Kyung-gu and JEON Do-yeon. Following that experience, LIM took on his first feature project as a director with the period drama <The President’s Barber> in 2004. Starring iconic performer SO...
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Following the short film <Tunnel> in 1998 and his time as a student at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), LIM Charn-sang entered the mainstream film industry when he acted as an assistant director on PARK Heung-sik’s melodrama <I Wish I Had a Wife>, starring SUL Kyung-gu and JEON Do-yeon. Following that experience, LIM took on his first feature project as a director with the period drama <The President’s Barber> in 2004. Starring iconic performer SONG Kang-ho, the film was set in the 1960s in Hyoja-dong and featured the actor as a barber who comes to work for the president and his relationship with him over the years. Despite the film’s strong reception, it would be another 10 years before he would find himself wielding the megaphone again. Teaming up with Cineguru for their first financed production, LIM helmed <My Love, My Bride> in 2014, a remake of the LEE Myung-se film of the same name from 1990. Starring JO Jung-suk and SHIN Min-a as a newlywed couple who discover the challenges of married life, the film was both a hit at the box office and received the stamp of approval from the original’s director.
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