After seven Cannes appearances, ‘Broker’ Song Kang-ho gets his due
Song Kang-ho, an iconic actor in South Korea, rose to global fame by winning best actor at this year’s Cannes Film Festival on Saturday evening (French time). The actor won the honour for his role in the Korean flick ‘Broker’ during his seventh visit to the film festival, Yonhap News Agency reports. Song became the first Korean actor ever to win an award at Cannes, after Jeon Do-yeon received best actress for her role in director Lee Chang-dong’s film ‘Secret Sunshine’ in 2007.
He also is the third Asian winner of the Cannes best actor prize 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.
Song had been mentioned as one of the strongest candidates for the best actor award well before the start of the 75th Cannes Film Festival this year.
He previously visited the festival six times for films, including Bong Joon-ho’s ‘The Host’, Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Secret Sunshine’, Kim Jee-woon’s ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’, Park Chan-wook’s ‘Thirst’ and Bong’s ‘Parasite’.
In 2019, in particular, when ‘Parasite’ won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, as the film’s lead actor, Song was singled out as a strong candidate for best actor by director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who was head of the jury. But it was reported that the festival’s rule that the Palme d’Or and Best Actor cannot go to the same film forbade him from winning the award.
‘Broker’, which earned him best actor this year, was written and directed by the Cannes-winning Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda as his first Korean-language project. It depicts the relationships of characters formed through a baby box, where people anonymously drop off newborns that they can’t raise.
Kore-eda had picked Song as the Korean actor he wanted to work with the most, long before casting him for the role of Sang-hyun, who steals an unattended infant left by its parents at a baby box and sells it to parents who need babies.
Song, who started as a member of Theatre Yeonwoo, a local theatre group, in 1991, made his debut in the film industry with a role in ‘The Day a Pig Fell into the Well’ (1996), directed by Hong Sang-soo.
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