SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- The latest South Korean blockbuster is to be screened next week at the international film festival in Toronto, according to the festival's website.
"The Good The Bad The Weird" will premier next Friday and Saturday at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which opened on Thursday for a ten-day run, the website said. The film was selected to be part of a non-competitive gala section.
Reportedly the nation's highest budget film, "The Good The Bad The Weird" is one of few Korean films to clinch both critical acclaim and commercial success at a time when the country's movie industry is on a downward trend.
South Korean director Kim Ji-woon's tribute to spaghetti westerns is set in 1930s Manchuria and depicts three men hunting for hidden treasure.
TIFF, North America's leading film festival, will screen 312 films from 64 countries, including independent South Korean filmmaker Noh Young-seok's debut film, "Daytime Drinking."
"Tireless Mountain," directed by Korean-American Kim So-young, and Korean-Canadian director Helen Lee's "Hers at Last," a sublime drama about two women on the streets of Seoul, will also be introduced at the festival, the website said.
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