After seven performances at Cannes, ‘Broker’ Song Kang-ho gets his due
Song Kang-ho, an iconic South Korean actor, shot to global fame Saturday evening (French time) by winning the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The actor won the honor for his role in the Korean film ‘Broker’ during his seventh visit to the film festival, Yonhap News Agency reports. In 2007, Song became the first Korean actor to win the award at Cannes after Jeon Do-yeon won Best Actress for her role in director Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine.
He is also the third Asian winner of the Cannes Best Actor Award, after Hong Kong’s Leung Chiu Wai and Japan’s Yuya Yagira won respectively for “In the Mood for Love” in 2000 and “Nobody Knows” in 2004.
Before the start of the 75th Cannes Film Festival this year, Song was mentioned as one of the strongest candidates for the Best Actor award.
She has previously appeared in films including Bong Joon-ho’s “The Host”, Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”, Kim Ji-woon’s “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”, Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst”. Went six times. ‘ and Bong’s ‘Parasite’.
Notably, in 2019, when “Parasite” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes as the film’s lead actor, the song was chosen as a strong candidate for Best Actor by director Alejandro González Iárritu, who will be the jury was the chief of But it was pointed out that the festival’s rule that the Palme d’Or and Best Actor could not go in the same film forbade them from winning the award.
“Broker,” which earned him Best Actor this year, was written and directed by Cannes-winning Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda as his first Korean-language project. It depicts the characters’ relationships being formed through a baby box, where people anonymously drop newborn babies they cannot raise.
Kore-eda had chosen Seong as the Korean actor he most wanted to work with, long before he was cast for the role of Sang-hyun, an abandoned infant abandoned by his parents. Steals a baby box and sells it to parents who need it
Song, who debuted in 1991 as a member of a local theater group, Theater Yeonwoo, made his debut in the film industry with a role in The Day a Pig Fell in the Well (1996), directed by Hong Sang. -Soo did it. ,