Winner of the NEXT audience award at Sundance, Justin Chon's smart sophomore feature remembers the L.A. Riots from an Asian-American perspective. 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles ...

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The film "Gook" is set during the 1992 L.A. Riots and it explores families and relationships between Korean and African American communities. There's a movie set here in Los Angeles that's getting a ...

"When hate divides, hope remains." Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed the first trailer for the film titled Gook, which is a derogatory slang word in America used to describe Asians. The film is ...

Justin Chon wrote, directed and stars in the black-and-white feature set on the first day of the L.A. riots. By Mia Galuppo Gook Sundance Still 2 - Publicity - H 2017 Samuel Goldwyn films has picked ...

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Chon, the multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director whose film Gook won the Next category at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is partnering with MACRO on his next original feature.

Gook directed by and starring Twilight’s Justin Chon along with Curtiss Cook, Jr, David So and Simone Baker opened at Arclight Hollywood and Regal’s LA Live Friday, easily capturing the best per ...

“That’s exactly why I titled the film ‘Gook,’” Chon said. “Some people said, ‘It’s good because people don’t know what it means,’ but to me that’s a bad thing because you’re trying to erase part of ...

2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots, and those burning days don’t feel nearly so long ago in “Gook,” an uneven but compellingly immediate take on that moment in history from a ...