Specializing in multinational joint production such as <Seven Swords>, <A Battle of Wits> and <The Warriors Way>, LEE Joo-ick changed the paradigm of Chungmooro. Fluent in English, Chinese, and Japanese and utilizing his long stays overseas, he was able to pull off many global projects. LEE Joo-ick is credited for negotiating his joint projects to help Korean staff and actors jump onto the global arena or craft films that include Korean elements.
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Specializing in multinational joint production such as <Seven Swords>, <A Battle of Wits> and <The Warriors Way>, LEE Joo-ick changed the paradigm of Chungmooro. Fluent in English, Chinese, and Japanese and utilizing his long stays overseas, he was able to pull off many global projects. LEE Joo-ick is credited for negotiating his joint projects to help Korean staff and actors jump onto the global arena or craft films that include Korean elements.
In his first project, Together by Chen Kaige, he included KIM Hyung-koo as director of photography. In <Seven Swords> by Hark Tsui, which was the opening film at the Venice International Film Festival, he cast the Korean actress KIM So-yeon. He also cast AHN Sung-ki in the Korea-China-Japan-Hong Kong joint production <The Warriors Way>, which was co-produced by New Zealand and the US. It was also the first Hollywood film that had Korean staff in the positions of director and director of photography and for the leading male role at the same time. The remake of LEE Man-hee’s <Late Autumn> was a Korea-US joint project that cast TANG Wei. The film scored the biggest success in history among Korean films released in China, grossing USD 10.5 million dollars in total when released in March 2012. His latest film was the Chinese-Mongolian epic An End to Killing by Wang Ping, which made a buzz in the industry when Universal Pictures Intl. Entertainment acquired all rights for multiple territories. It was released nationwide in China in March 2013, and will be shown worldwide.
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