Archive for the ‘South Korea’ Category
Les enfants de la pluie (2003)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Oldboy (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment. |
Seven Swords (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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In the early 1600’s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. While many nationalist revolts still brew within the martial artists’ community, the newly set-up government immediately imposes a Martial Arts Ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control and order. Wind Fire (Sun Hong-Lei), a surrendered military official from the previous dynasty, sees this as an opportunity to make a fortune for himself by helping to execute the new law. Greedy, cruel, and immoral, Wind Fire ravages the North-western China, and his next goal is to attack the final frontier, Martial Village. Fu Qingzhu, a retired executioner from the previous dynasty, feels the need to put a stop to this brutality and sets out to save Bowei Fortress. He brings Wu Yuanyin and Han Zhiban from the village with him to Mount Heaven to seek help from Master Shadow-Glow, a hermit who is a master of swords and leads a group of disciples of great swordsmanship. Master Shadow-Glow agrees to help, and orders four of his best disciples to go. Together with Chu Zhaonan, Yang Yunchong, Mulong, and Xin Longzi, the SEVEN SWORDS is formed and their heroic journey begins. As they lead the entire village to the road of a safer place, they begin to encounter mysterious confusion. Food and water is poisoned, and trails of escape are marked with signs leading the enemy to them. They soon realize that there is an undercover spy, and the SEVEN SWORDS must identify him/her before Wind Fire’s army gets to them. Between this narrow gap of life and death, the situation is further complicated by the blossoms of love. |
Bad Guy (2001)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The Red Shoes (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A mysterious pair of pink shoes found on a subway platform seems to bring a curse on the owner. Those that see them must have them and a grisly end awaits those that forcibly take them. A mother, who has just left her cheating husband, finds them and ghostly apparitions and strange occurrences follow her as she tries to make a go of it with her young daughter. A helpful decorator helps her solve the mystery and put the ghosts to rest. Or does he? |
Love in Magic (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The story is of a playboy who has, through an unavoidable circumstance, run into a woman from his past. Woo Ji Hoon (Yeon Jung Hoon) makes a living as a magician and nothing is easier for him than attracting beautiful women. He has an irresistible charm that draws all females to his side like a magnet – all but one, the charming teacher Koo Hee Won (Park Jin Hee). Ji Hoon tried to make her his latest love possession but was bluntly turned down. As luck would have it both Hee Won and Ji Hoon can’t resist the temptation of arranging a blind date on the Internet setting in motion a firework of hilarious consequences. |
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu’s boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park’s daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge. |
The Bow (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard… |
Antarctic Journal (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A South Korean expedition is trekking across the Antarctic when they discover a journal left by a British team that was lost 80 years earlier. As they press onward, they begin to notice strange similarities between the ill-fated British journey and their own. In the unforgiving environment where small mistakes can doom an entire party, the team steadily descends deeper into fatal delusions. |
Crying Fist (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Gang Tae-sik (Min-sik Choi) is a former Asian Games Boxing Silver medallist who becomes a “human punching-bag” on the streets to try and pay off his debts and win back the respect of his family. Yoo Sang-hwan (Seung-beom Ryu) is a young delinquent who is always fighting and stealing. Trying to get money for compensation one day, he mugs an old man who ends up dying, leading to Yoo being sentenced to five years in juvenile detention. |
Innocent Steps (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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My Little Bride’s Moon Geun Young slips on her dancing shoes for Innocent Steps, a heartwarming motion picture about innocent love and the power of dance! In this second film from director Park Young Hun (Addicted), teen star Moon plays Jang Chae-Ryn, a young Korean girl from the poor Chinese town of Yanbian. When her dance champion sister bows out of an upcoming national dancing competition in Seoul, Chae Ryn poses as her sister and attends the event in her place. One problem: Chae-Ryn has zero dancing experience! |
Clementine (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Kim is a Taekwondo champion who decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang, Kim must agree to fight in a rigged boxing match in exchange for Sa Rang’s freedom. Kim now finds himself face to face with “King of the Cage” fighter Jack Miller. A man who has never lost. |
Acacia (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Having failed in all their attempts to achieve pregnancy, Mi-sook and Do-il, a successful married couple, decide to adopt a young boy called Jin-sung. Unsurprisingly, Jin-sung is shy and introverted, preferring his own company to that of his new parents. Mother and father struggle on, exasperated by their failure to establish an emotional link with the boy. The situation becomes noticeably worse when Mi-sook unexpectedly becomes pregnant; Jin-sung fears that he will be replaced by the new child and does his best to get rid of it. The tension becomes unbearable, and eventually the boy runs away while his adoptive parents try to put their lives back together. A missing child isn’t their only problem, however, and putting their lives back together will be much harder than they think. |
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A young boy lives in a small floating temple on a beautiful lake, together with an elderly master who teaches him the ways of the Buddha. Years later the boy, now a young man, experiences his sexual awakening with a girl who has come to the temple to be healed by the master. The youth runs away to the outside world but his lust turns his life into hell, so he returns to the lake temple to find spiritual enlightenment. |
The Legend of Evil Lake (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A thousand years ago, an evil spirit was kept imprisoned in a lake by the first emperor of the Chilla empire. Now unleashed, it possesses the body of Ja Woon-bi, the wife of general Biharang, with the aim to bring down the very dynasty that destroyed his people. Biharang is torn; to kill the spirit, he has to also kill his wife. |
Gingko Bed (1996)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Su-Hyun, a 30-year-old art lecturer and his girlfriend, Sun-Young have lived a peaceful life until he comes across an antique wooden bed made from gingko tree and gets pursued by the ghost of General Hwang. Resurrected General Hwang roves modern Seoul ripping the hearts out of people to maintain human form. Su-Hyun does not know why General Hwang seeks to kill him but soon finds out that in their previous lives they were enemies. More than a thousand years ago, court musician Su-Hyun fell in love with princess Midan, who was General Hwang’s fiancé. Princess and the court musician’s elopement ends in tragedy when Hwang abducts Midan and kills Su-Hyun. On this mournful scene arise a pair of gingko trees housing the souls of Midan and Su-Hyun. General Hwang destroys one of the trees and the other tree embodying Midan’s soul gets crafted into a bed. Confined in the bed for a thousand years, Midan longs to meet her beloved court musician, reincarnated as Su-Hyun. Discovering the heartbreaking love story in his past life leads Su-Hyun to confront with General Hwang, who still desires Midan. Su-Hyun and Midan’s short reunion was impeded by General Hwang’s bursting on the scene. Now, Midan chooses to be locked up in the bed, to run away from Hwang despite it being in flame. Midan and Su-Hyun may have to wait another thousand years to meet again but they’re convinced that their love for each other will never die. |
Elysium (2002)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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