Ki-duk Kim’s ‘Dream’ gets a Japanese release
Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 6:37pm on Monday, December 1, 2008 EST
Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Trailer Updates
Ki-duk Kim‘s Dream (Bi-mong), starring Joe Odagiri and Na-yeong Lee will be released by Odagiri-friendly distributor Stylejam in Japan this coming February with the Japanese title “Himu” (literally “sad dream”). It was released in South Korea on October 9th.
In the film Odagiri stars as a man named Jin who dreams of a car crash, only to discover it actually happened exactly as he saw in his dream. He follows police to the home of person they suspect of causing the accident, a woman named Ran (Lee), but she denies having any involvement and explains that she was sound asleep the entire night. Jin comes forward and asks to be arrested in her place, but having no basis for his claim they dismiss him as a random nut and arrest Ran anyway. Jin becomes absolutely convinced that he has a special connection with Ran that causes her to act out his dreams while sleepwalking. Because of this, he takes it upon himself to protect her.
The Japanese trailer was just released today; you’ll find it embedded after the break.
Official Japanese website for Dream (Himu)
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Tags: joe odagiri, ki duk kim, korea, na yeong lee
Comments
Well I would think you’d go to one of the advertised links on this webpage ie: CDJapan.com or the myriad of other on-line retailers that deal in Asian product like YesAsia.com. I hope this helps.
Posted by Douglas Roy at 9:29pm EST on Wednesday, December 3, 2008
if the request is specifically for this film, the korean DVD (region 3 - make sure you can play it, i recommend yesasia.com as a retailer right now) is out later this month and it does have english subtitles.
http://www.yesasia.com/global/dream-aka-bi-mong-dvd-korea-version/1013744501-0-0-0-en/info.html
however, if the request is general, it works a bit like this : the biggest licensor and subtitle provider for japanese films is america - you want a good american dvd retailer; i use dvdpacific.com for these R1 discs.
other places that relatively frequently sub japanese films include Hong Kong (i use dddhouse.com - R3 DVDs again - most of the time), korea (dvdfromkorea.com if they come back to life, otherwise yesasia.com), taiwan (R?), singapore (R3), the UK (R2; use amazon.co.uk) and sometimes japan itself (R2 yesasia or amazon.co.jp).
for all territories (except the UK) you can find all at yesasia.com but you’ll be paying a price you’ll need to compare to be certain you’re comfortable with their “includes postage” rates that often don’t compare to what you’d pay by buying directly from the country-of-issue even once postage has been factored in.
Posted by logboy at 2:45am EST on Thursday, December 4, 2008
How can I buy Japanese Movies, or DVD’s?
Posted by Kristina Quest at 8:50am EST on Wednesday, December 3, 2008