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Lotte Entertainment is showcasing \u201cMr. Shota\u2019s Last Business Trip,\u201d a Korea-Japan drama from \u201cRed Family\u201d director Lee Ju-hyoung, as its marquee title at the Hong Kong FilMart.<\/p>\n
The film pairs Korean star Jin-young, known for \u201cYou Are the Apple of My Eye\u201d and TV series \u201cPolice University,\u201d with Japanese actor Otani Ryohei, a veteran of \u201cRoaring Currents\u201d and the TV series \u201cWe Married as a Job!\u201d The story unfolds in Enoshima, Japan, where a middle-aged salaryman, unable to submit his resignation letter, meets a heartbroken young Korean man at a ramen shop. The two strangers make a half-joking pact to deliver each other\u2019s unsent letters \u2014 one a love letter, the other the resignation \u2014 and find themselves gradually drawn into the emotional weight of each other\u2019s lives. The film is targeting a Q2-Q3 2026 release.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Lotte is also generating heat around \u201cWild Sing,\u201d a K-pop comedy from \u201cSecret Zoo\u201d director Son Jae-gon. Gang Dong-won leads an ensemble that includes Um Tae-goo, Park Ji-hyun and Oh Jung-se as former members of Triangle, a celebrated mixed-gender group whose career imploded 20 years ago following a scandal, and who are now clawing their way back to the stage. That one is also due in Q2-Q3 2026.<\/p>\n Three Vietnamese titles fill out the scripted slate. Phan Gia Nhat Linh directs \u201cBlood Moon Feast 8,\u201d a horror-comedy produced by Charlie Nguyen about a struggling filmmaker who agrees to shoot a one-take livestream movie to reconnect with his daughter, only for everything to go sideways once the cameras roll. Ha Vu\u2019s \u201cDouble Couple Trouble,\u201d starring Dustin Nguyen and MisThy, follows a wedding planner and his daughter as a decade-old secret between the bride and groom surfaces 48 hours before the ceremony, pulling five families into the fallout. And Luk Van\u2019s \u201cBus,\u201d opening in Vietnamese cinemas later this month, is a supernatural drama about an amnesiac ghost who uncovers a devastating truth connecting her death to the family of the man she loves.<\/p>\n Rounding out the lineup is \u201cBlue Archive: The Orchestra in Cinema,\u201d a concert film capturing the \u201cSound Archive: The Orchestra 2025\u201d performances at Seoul Olympic Hall last September, directed by Jo Yoon-soo and already released in Korea in December.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lotte Entertainment is showcasing \u201cMr. Shota\u2019s Last Business Trip,\u201d a Korea-Japan drama from \u201cRed Family\u201d director Lee Ju-hyoung, as its marquee title at the Hong Kong FilMart. The film pairs Korean star Jin-young, known for \u201cYou Are the Apple of My Eye\u201d and TV series \u201cPolice University,\u201d with Japanese actor Otani Ryohei, a veteran of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2334058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[387620,452243,452242,452241,452244,452246,452247,452245],"class_list":["post-2334057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-business-trip","tag-director-lee-ju-hyoung","tag-korea-japan","tag-lotte-entertainment","tag-otani-ryohei","tag-phan-gia-nhat-linh","tag-resignation-letter","tag-roaring-currents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lotte-Entertainment-Brings-Korea-Japan-Drama-\u2018Mr-Shotas-Last-Business-Trip.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334059,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334057\/revisions\/2334059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}