{"id":4206,"date":"2015-01-03T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2015-01-03T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:01:58","slug":"actor-ha-back-with-film-adaptation-of-chinese-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/actor-ha-back-with-film-adaptation-of-chinese-novel","title":{"rendered":"Actor Ha back with film adaptation of Chinese novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"16-01(380)\"<\/a>Actor Ha Jung-woo, second from left in the front row, and actress Ha Ji-won, to his left, in a scene from “Chronicle of a Blood Merchant”<\/p>\n

\/ Courtesy of NEW<\/p>\n

By Baek Byung-yeul<\/p>\n

While Korea’s box office is occupied by heart-warming films like “Ode to My Father” and “My Love, Don’t Cross That River,” expectations are mounting for star actor and director Ha Jung-woo’s upcoming directorial feature “Chronicle of a Blood Merchant.”<\/p>\n

The film has garnered much attention not only because it is the 36-year-old movie star’s second directorial film but also it is based on literary super star Yu Hua’s 1995 novel of the same title.<\/p>\n

Set in the early 1950s to the 1980s in China, the novel tells the story of a man who sells his blood to feed his family. “Chronicle” is the second film adaptation of Hua’s work following his 1993 novel “To Live,” which was put on the big-screen in 1994 by Chinese director Zhang Yimou.<\/p>\n

In the film adaptation of “Chronicle,” the scenario is transposed to a fictional village in the 1950s of Korea, right after the Korean War (1950-1953), and revolves around Heo Sam-gwan, a man married with three children, who sells his blood to earn a living.<\/p>\n

Ha plays the role of Heo, while actress Ha Ji-won stars as his wife Heo Ok-ran. The couple encounters a lifetime crisis as a rumor that their eldest son doesn’t take after his father spreads in the village.<\/p>\n

For supporting roles, “Chronicle” is filled with A-list stars \u2015 actor Lee Geung-young plays the father-in-law of Heo and actors Sung Dong-il, Cho Jin-woong and Kim Sung-kyun perform the roles of Heo’s friends.<\/p>\n

Despite the flawless casting line-up, Ha cited difficulties in making a film version of the novel.<\/p>\n

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