Panaji, Nov 29 (UNI) Kim Jee-Woon, director of South Korean action thriller which was screened as the closing film at the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFF) which concluded yesterday, has said that he would like to mix the elements of Indian cinema into Korean films. Interacting with the media on the sidelines of the festival, he said he would like to mix the elements of Indian cinema like humour and other real life emotions into Korean films. Stating that he had been greatly inspired by the stalwarts of Indian cinema like Satyajit Ray and his films like Pather Panchali, Aparajita, among others, had had a major impression on his style of film making, he said he would like to collaborate with the Indian film industry to make films on history and the Independence struggle in both the countries. Set in Seoul and Shanghai, during the Japanese occupation in the late 1920s, 'The Age of Shadows' depicts an intense drama that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, on one side, and Japanese agents trying to stop them, on the other. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause. Mr Kim said that his film was not an attempt to show action and violence on the screen but to depict intense emotions associated with the Korean Independence struggle against the Japanese occupation. He said he had tried his best to show these emotions through special sound effects and the ability of his actors to emote them on the screen. Kim Jee-woon is one of Korea's greatest film stylists, whose innovative take on film genres has brought him worldwide acclaim. His debut The Quint Family ingeniously fused horror and comedy in a film that skirts the boundaries of commercial cinema. ‘The Age of Shadows’ has also been selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. UNI AKM NV SB 1231