Lee Je Hoon-Starrer “Taxi Driver” Premieres Today

Lee Je Hoon x Esom. Need I say more?

SBS’s gritty revenge drama starring awesome thesps Lee Je Hoon (Time To Hunt, Signal) and Esom (Because This Is My First Life) premieres today.

Can’t tell you how excited I am to watch this. And I’m not really into gritty, gory, revenge plotlines – it’s the two leads that are just fire.

Lee Je Hoon is such a tremendous acting talent (ahem, Bleak Night), and Esom blew me away with her last few roles (Microhabitat is a freaking gem!).

Not to be confused with the Korean and American films with similar titles.

Taxi Driver premieres today. Your Friday-Saturday nights are now busy for the next 8 weeks.

Guest Star Alert: Lee Je Hoon On “Stove League”

ICYMI.

Lee Je Hoon makes an appearance on Episode 16 of Stove League.

Whoo, honestly, this cameo was a sight for sore eyes – more of a guest star appearance (yay!).

With the Dreams team headed for disbandment after 15 episodes of ups and downs, it was yet another looming doomsday in the regular life of a last place pro baseball team.

In comes Lee Je Hoon’s character.

And the thesp did not disappoint. A breezy new energy in the room, Lee played a young startup CEO musing over the possibility of buying the beleaguered team, potentially saving it from getting dismantled by its current owner.

He offers Baek Seung Soo (Nam Goong Min) the opportunity to try to convince him to acquire the team, via Powerpoint presentation.

Stove League is a sports drama chronicling a pro baseball team which gets a new team manager (Nam Goong Min) who disrupts the status quo. Also starring Park Eun Bin, Oh Jung Se, and The Uncanny Counter‘s Joe Byeong Gyu.

The series took home the award for Best Drama at 56th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2020.

Did you catch that cameo?

P.S. Lee Je Hoon – Bleak Night love <3.

Korean Films: Song Joong Ki, Kang Ha Neul, Park Seo Joon, & Lee Je Hoon Hit Theaters

And, on the silver screen:

Midnight Runners (청년경찰)

The s&h duo (sexy & handsome, y’all, get with me here) all over one feature length film. I already told ya so. Kang Ha Neul and Park Seo Joon play two bumbling police academy cadets that witness a crime. Buddy cop comedy with these two? I’m in. If only it could get to the US faster..sigh.

The Battleship Island (군함도)

Veteran’s helmer Ryu Seung Hwan returns with some familiar friends for a graphic and violent feature portraying the forced labor of Koreans by the Japanese during that war which split a nation in two, and provides seemingly endless cinematic fare, of late.

Hwang Jung Min’s the desperate father, trying to save his daughter from the danger and uncertainty of life during colonial occupation. Song Joong Ki spends much of his time bloody and dirt-faced (as most of the characters do) as a soldier secretly sent to free an independence fighter. Particularly impressive are a beautifully choreographed and gut-wrenching fight scene with So Ji Sub and Kim Min Jae (both nearly naked in the shower), and the visual artistry of Song Joong Ki’s first reveal on the island.

And, a reason to look forward to September:

I Can Speak

Lee Je Hoon’s gonna be there. ‘Nough said.