Korean actress Han Hyo-joo, wearing a bright pink, breezy frock in Macau, walked the red carpet at the 8th Asian Film Awards, where she was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in “Cold Eyes.”
![South Korean actress Han Hyo-joo on the Asian Film Awards red carpet in Macau on Mar. 27, 2014. (photo by Yuan-Kwan Chan / Meniscus Magazine)](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/han-hyo-hoo-2014-asian-film-awards.jpg)
Although she lost the category to Zhang Ziyi (“The Grandmaster”), Han’s performance as one of three leads in the action thriller was notable. Han plays Ha Yoon-joo in one of the top-grossing South Korean action films of 2013.
![Han Hyo-joo (right) in an early scene in "Cold Eyes" while co-star Jung Woo-sung lurks behind. (photo courtesy of the Busan International Film Festival)](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cold-eyes-still.jpg)
Co-directed by Jo Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo, the remake of Johnnie To’s “Eye in the Sky” eschews gimmicks and unnecessary side plots to focus on one thing and one thing only: an intelligence squad’s chase of a lethal, robotic killer for hire (played against character type by Jung Woo-sung – while absent in Macau, he did appear at the concurrent Hong Kong International Film Festival to support his directorial debut, “The Killer Behind, The Old Man,” a short film as part of the trilogy “Three Charmed Lives” with fellow first-time actor-turned-directors Chang Chen and Francis Ng).
![Actor-directors Chang Chen (left) and Jung Woo-sung at a Hong Kong International Film Festival press conference for "Three Charmed Lives." (photo courtesy of the HKIFF)](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/chang-chen-jung-woo-sung1.jpg)
“Cold Eyes” came away with just one award – Shin Min-kyung for Best Editing – but it is an example of yet another work continuing to push the action genre in Korea.
Video: Han Hyo-joo – 2014 Asian Film Awards red carpet
video by Yuan-Kwan Chan / Meniscus Magazine
Video: 2014 Asian Film Awards red carpet highlights
video courtesy of the Asian Film Awards