Rinko Kikuchi, Jeon Do-yeon, Tao Okamoto and Hoyeon Lead Fall Festival Slate
This fall, a lineup of award-winning films showcases four Asian actresses. Rinko Kikuchi portrays Haru in "Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!" by Josef Kubota Wladyka, which premiered in the US last month. In this film, her widowed character finds romance with a dance instructor while grappling with memories of her deceased husband. Jeon Do-yeon collaborates once again with Lee Chang-dong in "Possible Love," set to hit US theaters this Friday and stream on Netflix starting November 6; she takes on the role of Mi-ok, caught in a complicated friendship. Tao Okamoto features as a terminally ill theater director in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "All of a Sudden," debuting November 25. Hoyeon makes her film debut in Na Hong-jin's "Hope," released in September, as a rookie officer in South Korea's most expensive film.
Key facts
- Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! was released in US theaters last month
- Rinko Kikuchi plays Haru, a widow, in Josef Kubota Wladyka's film
- Jeon Do-yeon won Cannes best actress for Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine nearly 20 years ago
- Possible Love opens in US theaters this Friday and on Netflix on November 6
- Lee Chang-dong's last feature was 2018's Burning
- All of a Sudden opens in theaters on November 25
- Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira shared the Cannes best-actress award this year
- Hope, directed by Na Hong-jin, is South Korea's most expensive film ever produced and opened in US theaters in September
- Hoyeon spent six months preparing action sequences, including firearms training and a stick-shift license
Entities
Artists
- Rinko Kikuchi
- Jeon Do-yeon
- Tao Okamoto
- Hoyeon
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Josef Kubota Wladyka
- Lee Chang-dong
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Virginie Efira
- Na Hong-jin
Institutions
- Netflix
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Vogue
Locations
- Tokyo
- Japan
- France
- Paris
- South Korea
- US