'Dragonball' to Make World Premiere in Korea

Chow Yun-fat!!! Hotness :) He's such a smiley, pleasant ajushi in person, saying "My wife made me do the film because she needs money to buy a very famous bag" and showing off his Korean skills, "Bballi bbali~ Sigan eopseo" (빨리 빨리! 시간없어!)


From left, director James Wong and actors Joon Park, Emmy Rossum, Chow Yun-fat, Jamie Chung, Justin Chatwin and James Marsters promote their movie ``Dragonball: Evolution'' in Seoul Tuesday. The film, based on the popular Japanese comic, will make its world premiere March 12 in South Korea. / Yonhap

The explosively popular Japanese comic ``Dragon Ball’’ comes to life via Hollywood as ``Dragonball: Evolution.’’ Before its world premiere March 12 in South Korea, the movie’s cast of fresh young actors, Asian superstar Chow Yun-fat and former K-pop star Joon Park (Park Joon-hyung) turned up the temperature a notch in Seoul with their promotional tour Tuesday.

The original 500-plus-episode cartoon is based on the epic fantasy ``Chinese Odyssey.’’ First published in 1984, it sold over 200 million copies worldwide and has been made into three TV animation series, 21 movies and 25 video games.

The new Stephen Chow production brings the story of a teenaged Goku (Justin Chatwin) who, upon the dying wishes of his adoptive grandfather (Randall Duk Kim), seeks out the great masters Roshi (Chow Yun-fat) and Bulma (Emmy Rossum). With his friends Yamcha (Joon Park) and Chi Chi (Jamie Chung), he must gather all seven magical orbs or Dragon Balls before the evil Lord Piccolo (James Marsters) uses them to conquer the world. >>More