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Directed : Kim Han-min Genre : Action,Historical Cast : Park Hae-il, Ruy Seung-ryong Summary : 13 years after the King Injo Revolt, the Chosun Dynasty is attacked by the Chung Dynasty of China. A young man named Na-mi leaves his demolished village to find his young sister, Ja-in, and her finance Su-koon, who were to [...]
Genre : Comedy Cast : Yoo Dong Geun, Yoon Jin Seo, Kim Jung Hoon , Oh Kwang Rok, Cha Hwa Yun, Song Jae Ho Time : 100min Release : 08/12/2011 Director : Park Joong-goo Story : Jeong Min-kyeong ,Park Joong-goo Summary : This movie will tell family story of working as a rookie secretary for [...]
The Journals of Musan is the second South Korean film reflecting on the lives of such refugees that I’ve seen in the past two months, (the other being Jeon Kyu-hwan’s Dance Town), that brings table tennis into the plot like it’s as common a cultural signifier for North Korean refugees as the ’125′ that brands their ID [...]
So-young (Park Min-young) is a shy young girl working as a pet shop beautician. She takes a liking to a white-haired cat named “Silky,” and reluctantly agrees to be a temporary custodian for her when her owner dies under mysterious circumstances. Soon, she learns that the cats picked up around a particular apartment complex and [...]
Dramatization of real-life murder cases has become a sub-genre of its own in Korean cinema since the runaway box-office hit of Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder . Children… deals with the 1991 disappearance near Daegu of five little boys, having departed home supposedly to catch frogs (actually salamanders): all kinds of speculations had been bandied about regarding their whereabouts, [...]
Time for another public service message. Here we go: children, let’s use condoms. Why do you turn away from this great example of modern convenience? Does gambling away your future enhance your sexual pleasure? But of course, this no-brainer warning goes unheeded by two Korean teenagers, Hye-hwa and Han-soo. Hye-hwa was forced to quit her [...]
Many people around the world will be familiar with this work as “Park Chan-wook’s iPhone movie.” Sure enough, the fact that this 33-minute film was shot on an iPhone (or eight iPhones, to be precise) has proven to be one of the most effective marketing tools in recent film history. News stories about its creation [...]