Lee Sang Yeob. Name: Lee Sang Yeob.
Native name: 이상엽. Also Known as: Lee Sang Yub;Lee Sang Yeop. Nationality: South Korean. Gender: Male.
Born: May 8, 1983. Age: 36Lee Sang Yeop is a South Korean actor. He is best known for starring in the sitcom I Live in Cheongdam-dong (2011), the melodrama The Innocent Man (2012), the period drama Jang Ok Jung, Living by Love (2013), and the fantasy drama While You Were Sleeping (2017). Lee was cast in his first leading role in the weekend drama Give Love Away.Lee is the only grandson of the former Dongguk Jaekang chairman Kim Jong Jin.
In August 2013, he admitted he had been in a relationship with Gong Hyun Joo for half a year and affection began when they were colleagues in the same agency. In August 2016, the agency announced they broke up due to personal reasons. They changed agencies respectively after they broke up.(Source: Wikipedia).
With: Youn Yuh-jung, Chon Moo-song, Yoon Kye-sang, An A-zu, Choi Hyun-jun (Korean, Tagalog, English dialogue)Official Site:“Don’t call me granny. My vagina is still young!” snaps the feisty female protagonist of “The Bacchus Lady,” South Korean helmer-scribe E J-yong’s impassioned study of old ladies who turn tricks to make ends meet. Taking on a potentially sordid subject, E brings attention to the harsh realities of growing old without a safety net, but also infuses his characters with warmth and racy humor, typified by the never-say-die attitude of the heroine as played by the magnetic Youn Yuh-jung. The film expands beyond senior prostitution to explore a range of social issues, championing diversity in a subtle, unpatronizing way. The controversy of this phenomenon and E’s lively storytelling could help the film reach beyond its domestic market to niche overseas venues, especially online platforms.The problem of senior prostitution in Korea first drew attention abroad when BBC News reported about it in June 2014. These Bacchus ladies, or bagkaseu halmeoni (Bacchus grannies), are named after a taurine energy drink they sell to older men, often as a pretext for offering cheap sex.
There are reportedly some 400 of them who ply their trade at Seoul’s Jongno Park, the main location of the film. The film pulls no punches about the Bacchus ladies’ predicament, as the 65-year-old So-young (Youn) goes to a clinic to get treated for an STD. During her consultation, her doctor is stabbed by his Filipina g.f. Over a paternity dispute involving their son, Min-ho ((Choi Hyun-jun).


Amid the chaos, So-young grabs the boy and takes him back to her home, where she bosses her neighbors into sharing child-sitting responsibilities with her. Although Min-ho is anxious and reticent at first, he soon settles into the bickering, laid-back surrogate family provided by So-young, her transgender landlordy Tina (An A-zu, elegant and dignified) and her amputee neighbor Do-hoon (Yoon Kye-sang).In a couple of scenes brisk enough to avoid any prurience or suggestion of eroticism, E sketches the indignity as well as the mundane nature of So-young’s job. Yet, even when he unsentimentally records fleshy contact in seedy love motels, there’s a deadpan element to So-young’s businesslike approach, as when she couches her infection in a cunning euphemism — “I have some issues” — when servicing a john.However, the film also makes clear through sadly telling details that, although not quite destitute, she definitely needs to pinch her pennies. Her predicament is brought home at one point when she stares at an elderly cardboard collector arduously pushing her trolley, and the look on her face shows she’s trying to determine who’s sunk lower in life. Without lingering gratuitously on the sexual aspect of So-young’s routines, the narrative moves on to her relationships with her regular customers, whose lonely existence is no less painful or meaningless than So-young’s.
Set mostly in beautifully maintained public parks, especially around Jungmyo Confucian Shrine in Jongno Park and replete with shots of autumn leaves in their burnished splendor, the gorgeous mise-en-scene reinforces the paradox of Korea’s economic clout and her class disparity. On a more poetic level, it also echoes So-young’s melancholic pickup line to her clients: “How many more autumns will we live to see?”Other craft contributions are ace without overly glossy aesthetics. Poignantly accentuating So-young’s straitened circumstances, costume designer Ham Hyun-joo outfits her in bargain basement casual-wear, which Youn carries off with a tacky flamboyance.The Korean title is “Killer Lady.”. Berlin Film Review: 'The Bacchus Lady'Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (Panorama), Feb.
Running time: 110 MIN. (Original title: 'Ju gyeo ju neun yeo ja')Production:(South Korea) A CGV Arthouse release of a Korean Academy of Film Arts presentation and production. (International sales: M-Line, Seoul.) Produced by Suh Dong-hyun. Executive producers, Yu Young-sik, E J-yong.Crew:Directed, written by E J-yong. Camera (color, widescreen, HD), Kim Young-ro; editor, Hahm Sung-won; music, Jang Young-gyu; production designer, Song Hye-jin; costume designer, Ham Hyun-joo; sound, Lee Seung-cheol; associate producer, Kim Tae-hoon; assistant director, Lee Sang-moon.With:Youn Yuh-jung, Chon Moo-song, Yoon Kye-sang, An A-zu, Choi Hyun-jun (Korean, Tagalog, English dialogue).