Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And we continue nothing but last November worldwide with an episode on South Korean superstar Shim Young Ray.

Yes, and just to reiterate the premise of this month,

every week this month we're doing a comedian who is hugely popular in their homeland,

maybe even popular internationally, but never quite crossed over into America.

And in the case of this week's subject, never crossed over into North America.

Except for his non-cometic movies.

Oh, sorry.

Except.

Okay, we'll get to that.

Let's save up to that.

Because this is the weird thing about Shim Hung Ray is that he, out of all the people

we're talking about, may have one of the most not high profile and that people cared but like such a baffling attempt at a legitimate English language film so late into his popularity.

Let me just we'll talk about the movie later but I just want to set up like what our context for this guy is and why we wanted to do him. He is hugely famous in South Korea. In 2008, I believe it was,

a movie was released in North America called D-Wars Dragon Wars, which stars Robert Forster,

several other slumming American stars. It played theatrically in North America. It played

wide. One of the most expensive Korean movies of all time. Made a lot of money, I think. Not good. And it was very badly received here. But nevertheless, and it was one of those movies. Every now and then a movie opens where it gets a 2000 screen release, a movie like, I don't know, Uve Bowles, Blood Rain or just one of these movies that comes along where you're like, how'd that get such a wide release? What the hell is this? What weird tax loophole is going on here? Yeah, so that was that. And apparently, it was directed by this man named Shim Hung Ray, who is a huge comedian in South Korea. And then, two years later, in 2010, a movie comes along. And I remember

seeing, did you not hunt this movie down? So I was going to go see this in a theater,

but it only played a week here. So I saw the trailer for the movie. It's called the last God

and I saw ads for it in the newspapers. And I was so baffled. I remember me and my friends

watching the trailers like over and over again, because we could not believe this movie, which is basically Shim Jung Re, who at the time was in his 50s, he looks 70 years old in this film. Playing his very famous character, Young Gu. That's right. Which we didn't know that. We didn't know that. Who seemingly he played this character his entire career.

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