National Treasure Director Lee Sang-il Reunits with Director Bong Joon-ho for the First Time in 8 years
Nov 06, 2025
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Director Lee Sang-il, a Korean in Japan who directed National Treasure, will meet with director Bong Joon-ho on the morning of the 14th during his visit to Korea to talk about National Treasure and each other's views on film life.
Director Lee Sang-il and director Bong Joon-ho first met in the 2011 film 'Villain' and reunited through a meeting with the audience when director Lee Sang-il visited Korea for publicity in March 2017. It was their third official meeting through 'National Treasure' and they met again in Seoul after eight years.
Lee Sang-il and Bong Joon-ho are also interesting encounters from the perspective of Korean-Japanese film exchanges and networks between Korea and Japan. In addition, the meeting between director Lee Sang-il and director Bong Joon-ho, who gathered a monumental audience of 10 million viewers, is already drawing expectations. Meanwhile, director Lee Sang-il said in an interview that Bong Joon-ho `is a director who inspires and inspires a lot about movies.'
The meeting between Lee Sang-il and Bong Joon-ho will be recorded as a video and will be released around the end of November on Media Castle and distributor NEW's official YouTube and SNS.
Meanwhile, 「National Treasure」, which announced the birth of the biggest Japanese live-action movie in 25 years in Japan, was directed by Korean director Lee Sang-il, and exceeded 10 million cumulative viewers in 102 days after its release in Japan, recording 16.4 billion yen (about 154.4 billion won). 'National Treasure' is the second 10 million movie in the history of Japanese live-action films, and this year set an unprecedented new record of being the biggest box office hit after 'The Blade of Extinction in Theater: Infiniteity'.
A film of novelist Shuichi Yoshida's novel of the same name, 'National Treasure' is a painting of Kabuki actor's half-life until he blossomed his talent and was selected as a human national treasure. Yoshizawa Ryo, Yokohama Ryusei, Takahata Mitsuki, Terajima Shinobu, Morinana, Kurokawa Soya, Watanabe Ken, and director Lee Sang-il of 'Hula Girls'The Evil'The Unforgiven' got the megaphone. 'National Treasure', which was released in Japan on June 6, will be released in Korea on the 19th.
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