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'The Assassin(s)' slips to No. 2 in weekend box office
"The Assassin(s)" garnered 407,680 admissions over the weekend. The Japanese animation "Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island" topped the chart by a narrow margin, drawing 407,895 admissions.
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Film industry says audiences, not politicians, should judge artistic works amid row over 'The Assassin(s)'
Korean directors and film industry officials attending BIFF urged politicians to let audiences make up their own minds about the controversial historical movie, as Singapore’s film festival reaffirmed plans to screen it.
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'Fiction is fiction': BIFF jurors defend 'The Assassin(s)' from historical distortion accusations
At the 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), some jurors of the main competition section defended "The Assassin(s)," which allegedly suggests that the government was behind the 1974 failed presidential assassination attempt.
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Teachers' group slams ‘The Assassin(s)’ over ‘distortion of history’
The Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations expressed concern that students may not know where fact ends and fiction begins, and called for clearer guidance and explanation from filmmakers.
