LEE MYUNG-SE PIC SETS RECORD

Five million dollars. Five. Million. Dollars. That's how much Lee Myung-Se's THE DUELIST made for a sale to Japan. That's the highest price ever paid in Japan for a Korean movie, and it may be explained by Japan's current mania for Korean TV dramas and the face that the star of THE DUELIST is Ha Ji-Won from TAMO, a Korean TV drama which the movie is somewhat associated with (in both, Ha plays a female detective in ancient Korea).

Read a review of the flick here. It opens on Sept. 8 in Korea and, reportedly, Japan.