[News] Lee Byung-hun cast for HERO the movie

Fuji signs Lee Byung Hun for 'Hero'
Film to be based on hit TV show

By MARK SCHILLING

TOKYO -- Fuji TV has signed Korean heartthrob Lee Byung Hun to star in "Hero," a pic based on its hit show skedded for a September release.
The original show, first broadcast in 2001, featured Japanese megastar Takuya Kimura ("Love and Honor") as a rule-bending public prosecutor. A "Hero" special aired last year scored a 30-plus rating, encouraging Fuji to make a feature pic with Kimura reprising his TV role. Also starring in the pic are Takako Matsu and Kabuki actor Koshiro Matsumoto. Lee will play Kimura's Korean counterpart, who joins forces with the Japanese prosecutor when a case brings him to the Korean port town of Pusan.
The "Korean wave" of Korean pics and TV shows that flooded into Japan in mid-decade has subsided, with hits becoming few and far between, but Lee has emerged as one of the Korean stars most recognized by Japanese auds for his work in the Japan-released "JSA," "Bungee Jumping on Their Own," "Everybody Has Secrets" and "Three ... Extremes."

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Lee Byung-hun is good actor, though I didn't like him. I prefer Jo In-sung or Song Seung-hun to be the cast.