Freshly granted a new - and much shorter - English title for the international marketplace, Lee Jun-Ik's Blades of Blood has just launched a brand new website complete with a new, and significantly lengthier, trailer for the picture.
Formerly referred to by the literal translation of the Korean title - Like The Moon Escaping From The Clouds - this latest from the director of The King And The Clown drew instant comparisons to Japan's iconic Zatoichi series thanks to the inclusion of a blind swordsman at the core of the story but with every successive piece that trickles out from this one Lee's unique stamp on the material becomes more obvious. And, for the record, the source material for this is not Zatoichi but an unrelated Korean graphic novel. Check the new trailer below.
Formerly referred to by the literal translation of the Korean title - Like The Moon Escaping From The Clouds - this latest from the director of The King And The Clown drew instant comparisons to Japan's iconic Zatoichi series thanks to the inclusion of a blind swordsman at the core of the story but with every successive piece that trickles out from this one Lee's unique stamp on the material becomes more obvious. And, for the record, the source material for this is not Zatoichi but an unrelated Korean graphic novel. Check the new trailer below.
I didn't see this posted anywhere else on your site- my apologies if I am duplicating info already available elsewhere- but it looks like Blades of Blood is opening on nine screens in the US on June 11. Here are the locations, cut and paste from what looks like the official US site:
Los Angeles - CGV Cinemas
Orange County - AMC Fullerton 20
San Jose - AMC Cupertino 16
D.C. - AMC Loews Rio Cinemas 18
Seattle - AMC Loews Alderwood Mall 16
Dallas - AMC Grapevine Mills 30
Houston - AMC Studio 30
Atlanta - AMC Colonial 18
Chicago - AMC Northbrook 14
http://blades-of-blood.com/