Lee Myung-se
Lee Myung- se ( born August 21, 1957 in Seoul) is a South Korean film director.
He studied at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, then became a screenwriter and co-director at Bae Chang -ho, but John Woo calls his role model.
In 1988, he led himself directed in the hit comedy Gagman whose screenplay he wrote themselves.
His film Nowhere to Hide 1999 was described as aesthetically, but handlungsarm. He functioned again as a writer and director and refers in his work to the work of John Woo. The film " to the lossy hunting of hardboiled police Commissioner Woo ( Park Joong -hon ) to the contract killer Chang Sung- min ( Ahn Sung -ki ) leads the audience into a highly artificial world of mediated life and reproduced as reflected equally ironic established aesthetic patterns of television, advertising and video clips "and" constantly redefined its genre boundaries and both comedy, thriller, action film and melodrama is at the same time. In arrested a moment still comicartigem slapstick, the next you live dramatic suspense offerierend, to then put on hard scenes of violence and then to revel in emotional tableaus, Nowhere to Hide uses in a process of continual hybridization " possibilities of filmmakers almost completely off" ( Jens Niedzielski ) ". The criticism was split, " style over substance ".