Shim Eun-kyung creates history as first Korean actor to win Kinema Junpo Best Actress award

Shim Eun-kyung creates history

• Shim Eun-kyung becomes first Korean to win Kinema Junpo Best Actress award
• Her film Two Seasons, Two Strangers also won Best Japanese Film
• Shim debuted at age 9 and starred in hits like Sunny and Miss Granny

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South Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung has recently created history, becoming the first Korean to receive the Japanese cinema magazine Kinema Junpo title.

According to at9 Film on Friday, the actress' performance in Sho Miyake's Japanese film Two Seasons, Two Strangers earned her the Best Actress prize in the publication's Best Ten category.

After receiving the award, the actress expressed gratitude and said, “Thank for giving me this incredible award. I am already happy to have miraculously been able to be part of this film and am even happier to receive this award.”

The movie, which tells the tale of screenwriter Lee (Shim) who, during a period of depression, travels to a little hamlet covered in snow, won Best Japanese Film as well.

Kinema Junpo is a Japanese film magazine that was founded in 1919 and is well-known for its Best Ten awards, which are among the most distinguished in Japanese cinema.

Prior to participating in Japanese films like The Journalist (2019), Shim has starred in several box office smashes since her 2003 debut, including Sunny (2011) and Miss Granny (2014).

For the unversed, Shim made her acting debut at the age 9 with the 2004 TV series The Woman Who Wants to Marry. She gradually made a career as one of the best child actresses of her generation.

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In addition to starring in TV shows like Hwang Jini, The Legend, Women of the Sun, and The Great Merchant, she originally achieved notoriety for her portrayal of a sexually abused girl in the horror story Hansel and Gretel. Critics claim that at times, she even outperformed her adult counterparts.

The vintage dramedy Sunny, which chronicles the narrative of seven women and alternates between their current lives and the events that first drew them together as teenagers in the 1980s, featured her in a lead actress role in 2011.