Viki’s Pale Moon is a classic example of what could happen if you allowed your ambitions to lead you astray. Pale Moon chronicles the story of one Yi-Hwa (Kim Seo-Hyung), who, in an effort to escape from the boring humdrum of her life, took up a job at the Sd Savings Bank. However, in an effort to keep everyone around her happy and fulfilled, she started embezzling money out of her rich clients’ accounts, attracting a whirlwind of troubles her way.
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Why Did Yi-Hwa Take Up The Bank Job?
The real reason why Yi-Hwa joined the savings bank was to move past her modest existence as a housewife. She had everything that a housewife dreamed of, including a nice house, a wealthy lifestyle, and many more. Unfortunately, this was all there was to Yi-Hwa’s life, as her husband, Ki-Hyun (Kong Jung-Hwan), neither spent any time with...
Spoilers Ahead
Why Did Yi-Hwa Take Up The Bank Job?
The real reason why Yi-Hwa joined the savings bank was to move past her modest existence as a housewife. She had everything that a housewife dreamed of, including a nice house, a wealthy lifestyle, and many more. Unfortunately, this was all there was to Yi-Hwa’s life, as her husband, Ki-Hyun (Kong Jung-Hwan), neither spent any time with...
- 12/11/2023
- by Rishabh Shandilya
- Film Fugitives
Key Asian territories have picked up the drama.
Japan’s Free Stone Productions has secured a brace of deals on Yuya Ishii’s The Moon, following its world premiere in competition at Busan International Film Festival this week.
The film has been acquired for distribution in Taiwan (SkyDigi) and Korea (Media Castle) during the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm), which runs parallel to the festival. It is set to be released in Japan by Star Sands on October 13.
The story follows a writer named Yoko who takes a job at a nursing home, where she witnesses elderly and disabled residents...
Japan’s Free Stone Productions has secured a brace of deals on Yuya Ishii’s The Moon, following its world premiere in competition at Busan International Film Festival this week.
The film has been acquired for distribution in Taiwan (SkyDigi) and Korea (Media Castle) during the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm), which runs parallel to the festival. It is set to be released in Japan by Star Sands on October 13.
The story follows a writer named Yoko who takes a job at a nursing home, where she witnesses elderly and disabled residents...
- 10/8/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
A grief-stricken author attempts to reconnect with society by taking a job at a nursing home for the severely disabled in Yuya Ishii’s compelling drama The Moon, inspired by a real-life Japanese tragedy and adapted from the novel by Yo Hemmi. Rie Miyazawa (Pale Moon) is sensational in the lead role, but is surrounded by an equally impressive ensemble that includes Joe Odagiri (Adrift in Tokyo), Fumi Nikaido (Why Don't You Play in Hell?), and Hayato Isomura (Tokyo Revengers). Yoko (Miyazawa) and her husband Shohei (Odagiri) are battling to keep their marriage on course following the death of their infant son due to a congenital heart disease. Yoko previously found success as a writer, publishing a celebrated novel about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. Since...
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- 10/6/2023
- Screen Anarchy
There was no escaping K-content in Cannes this year, with South Korea delivering well-received Canneseries competition title “Bargain,” MIPTV’s showcase of new formats, all hoping to dethrone “The Masked Singer,” Kortop Media’s “Midnight Horror: Different Nights,” “Pale Moon,” sold by KT Studiogenie and, finally, Cj Enm’s “Island.”
Co-created by Bae Jong and Jang Jeong Do, the show – produced by Studio Dragon and Ylab – is based on a popular comic book, first published in 1997. It has since been turned into webtoons, web novels and dramas, always combining the fantastical with the ordinary.
“We designed a unique fantasy world [to accommodate] drama based on mystical folktales of Jeju Island,” explains Jang Jeong Do, also serving as the show’s executive producer.
Noting that while its setting is famous for beautiful tourist spots – with one of the show’s first scenes depicting a wedding photoshoot gone horribly wrong – it’s also “a land with a painful,...
Co-created by Bae Jong and Jang Jeong Do, the show – produced by Studio Dragon and Ylab – is based on a popular comic book, first published in 1997. It has since been turned into webtoons, web novels and dramas, always combining the fantastical with the ordinary.
“We designed a unique fantasy world [to accommodate] drama based on mystical folktales of Jeju Island,” explains Jang Jeong Do, also serving as the show’s executive producer.
Noting that while its setting is famous for beautiful tourist spots – with one of the show’s first scenes depicting a wedding photoshoot gone horribly wrong – it’s also “a land with a painful,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Korean studio Lotte Cultureworks’ drama Pale Moon, which has been selected for Canneseries, will be broadcast in Korea beginning April 7 on KT’s Genie TV, followed by a debut on pay-tv network Ena and streaming service Tving on April 10.
The show will also be launched in Japan on Ntt Docomo’s new video streaming service Lemino (previously known as dTV) beginning April 12.
Starring Kim Seo-hyung, the series has been invited to screen later this month at Canneseries (April 14-19) in the Rendez-vous section, out of competition. Lotte Cultureworks developed and produced the show, which was co-produced by Big Ocean Enm and KT StudioGenie.
Based on a novel by Japanese writer Kakuta Mitsuyo, the series revolves around a bored housewife who takes on a part-time job at a bank and makes an irreversible choice to embezzle money from rich customers. The source novel has also been...
The show will also be launched in Japan on Ntt Docomo’s new video streaming service Lemino (previously known as dTV) beginning April 12.
Starring Kim Seo-hyung, the series has been invited to screen later this month at Canneseries (April 14-19) in the Rendez-vous section, out of competition. Lotte Cultureworks developed and produced the show, which was co-produced by Big Ocean Enm and KT StudioGenie.
Based on a novel by Japanese writer Kakuta Mitsuyo, the series revolves around a bored housewife who takes on a part-time job at a bank and makes an irreversible choice to embezzle money from rich customers. The source novel has also been...
- 4/7/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
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