Singapore Film Festival Stands by ‘The Assassin(s)’ After Korean Conservatives Demand It Be Dropped
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it. The festival made no mention of the PPP in a statement issued Wednesday, saying only that it was aware […]
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