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Actor Kang-ho Song and his crew, who returned after receiving the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, had a meeting with the domestic media today (31st).

Actor Song Kang-ho said that he felt that his perception of Korean films had changed significantly, and director Koreeda said that there is a lot of interest in the movie 'The Broker' in Japan as well.



We met with reporter Lee Joo-hyung.



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Japanese NHK reporters are covering the movie 'The Broker', which gave Song Kang-ho the Best Actor Award in Cannes.



We interview Korean journalists and shoot large posters hanging in theaters.



Director Hirokazu Koreeda, who came to Korea right away from Cannes, said that Japan is also interested in the film and that NHK is currently closely covering him.



[Hirokazu Koreeda/Director of 'The Broker': Right now (in Japan) there are a lot of requests for previews, so it's getting a lot of attention to the point of adding a preview.]



Today's first domestic press conference after winning the award, many media gathered and showed great interest.



Song Kang-ho, the most experienced Cannes director and actor, realized that the perception of Korean cinema had changed significantly.



[Song Kang-ho / Starring in 'The Broker': The gazes on Korean actors and directors are not from a certain outskirts of the past, but from the same mainstream country as Hollywood, from a cultural powerhouse...

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He even went to the Cannes judges last year, but he said he didn't know whether he won the award or not.



[Song Kang-ho / 'Broker' Starring: About 7 out of 21 episodes and 22 episodes are called to attend the closing ceremony.

That phone call is the happiest and the happiest moment.

So, the next prize is any prize, so I just want you to attend the closing ceremony...

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On the other hand, many media reported that Kore-eda was in tears when Park Chan-wook won the award, and Kore-eda laughed, saying that he was just wiping off his sweat because the awards ceremony was hot.



However, he smiled saying that director Park's acceptance speech was really moving.



(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, VJ: Oh Se-gwan, video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon)