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...From Me shocked audiences with its explicit sexual themes?and the main character's obsession with her own derriere. Last year he had Korea's censors in conniptions with Lies, an S&M whipfest that begins with a kinky sculptor deflowering a schoolgirl. Lies was in-your-face auteur cinema at its rawest?the censors took the scissors to it, the art-house crowd loved it and average moviegoers, well, they stayed away...
...long ago, betting on the success of a South Korean film would have been foolhardy. Only hard-core cinephiles were sitting through the dialogues in Korean, watching actors nobody had heard of. Even Koreans preferred Hollywood fare. But the nation's cinema is rapidly emerging from the obscurity of the art-house circuit. A new crop of hip young directors and producers is turning out legitimate hits, like Shiri, a slick spy-action thriller, Friends, a sentimental buddy flick, and Ginkgo Bed, a funky exploration of relationships and reincarnation. Koreans are watching their own movies in record numbers?Korean films...
...Most remarkably, Korean cinema is starting to generate buzz?and revenue?overseas. Korean films are attracting growing audiences in cinema-savvy Japan and Hong Kong, as well as in smaller niche markets like Vietnam, where Korean stars are so popular they set fashion trends. Actresses like Lee Yeong Ae and Shim Eun Ha are showing up on the covers of magazines such as Japan's popular weekly Aera. Foreign production houses are signing co-financing deals with Korean partners. Overseas sales, while still small, have tripled in the past three years to more than $7 million. Even Hollywood is paying...
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...reality tours are as heavy on left-wing politics as the Chiapas trip. Global Exchange sponsors "Jammin' in Havana," with an emphasis on music, and its next visit to Iran focuses on Iranian cinema. Nor are all reality tourists liberals. "Republicans are not uncommon," claims Global Exchange spokesman Jason Mark. He recalls with fondness a Texan who broke into God Bless America during a Cuba tour. "The Cubans groaned, and he demanded to know 'What's the problem? God or America?'" The trips have been known to provoke participants to activism. Two participants on a Global Exchange trip to Haiti...