{"id":645779,"date":"2026-10-30T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645779\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:50:15","slug":"tokyo-finecut-inks-deals-for-justin-h-mins-journey-there-hong-sangsoos-nowhere-to-lay-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645779\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo: Finecut Inks Deals for Justin H. Min\u2019s \u2018Journey There,\u2019 Hong Sangsoo\u2019s \u2018Nowhere to Lay My Eyes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSeoul-based sales company Finecut has closed a string of international<\/a> deals for Justin H. Min-starring drama Journey There and Hong Sangsoo\u2019s Locarno award winner Nowhere to Lay My Eyes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company announced the sales Friday, the third and final day of TIFFCOM<\/a>, the content market held alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tJourney There has sold to Japan\u2019s KDDI Corporation, Israel\u2019s Lev Cinema, Mongolia\u2019s Izagur Media and Taiwan\u2019s Andrews Film. Kairos Distribution acquired inflight rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Kim Jin-yu, the drama follows a middle-aged woman who, after losing her husband, begins preparing for a journey of her own, only to find unexpected connections in her new apartment. The film marks the first Korean production for Min, whose credits include Netflix\u2019s Beef and The Umbrella Academy and Kogonada\u2019s After Yang.<\/p>\n

\n\tJourney There is Kim\u2019s second feature following Bori and was produced by his company Pado. The film opened in South Korea on Oct. 28 after festival appearances in Moscow and at the New York Asian Film Festival. It has also been invited to the Paris Korean Film Festival and London Korean Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tHong\u2019s Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, meanwhile, added deals with Kligger for Argentina, Carlotta Films for France, Mimosa Films for Japan and The Stone and the Plot for Portugal.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose acquisitions follow previously announced sales to Austria\u2019s Filmgarten, China\u2019s Hugoeast, North America\u2019s Cinema Guild, Spain\u2019s Atalante, Taiwan\u2019s Cola Films and the U.K.\u2019s Institute of Contemporary Arts.<\/p>\n

\n\tHong\u2019s 35th feature, Nowhere won three prizes at the 79th Locarno Film Festival: best direction, best performance for Kim Minhee and the independent Ecumenical Jury Prize. The film follows a woman who travels with her brother to visit their mother on Jeju Island after a decade apart.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Jeonwonsa Film Co., Nowhere to Lay My Eyes reunites Hong with regular collaborators Kim and Kwon Haehyo and marks his first collaboration with Choi Myeonggil, whose credits include the television series Durian\u2019s Affair.<\/p>\n

\n\tFinecut\u2019s next market is the American Film Market, where its slate includes animated feature Long Long Night, set for its first market screening in an English-dubbed version. The company is also handling July Jung\u2019s Cannes Directors\u2019 Fortnight selection Dora and fantasy period romance Wi-Fi Love in the Palace, starring The Boyz member Kim Young-hoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seoul-based sales company Finecut has closed a string of international deals for Justin H. Min-starring drama Journey There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2300,430,156,1019,111,139,69,77705,12330],"class_list":["post-645779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-asia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tiffcom","tag-tokyo-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}