The Wonder Years is a Korean movie. Su-ah, a 13-years old girl, lives with her single mother. But she is convinced that her real mother is actually a famous pop singer. One day, she joins a friend and go to Seoul where the singer is performing a concert. (more…)
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Heavenly Path / 천상고원 / Cheon-sang-go-won is a Korean documentary movie. This story is about a man named K, who travels to Tibet in search of a former girlfriend who left him. Eventually, however, the trip begins to take on a separate meaning of its own. (more…)
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Sorrow Even Up in Heaven / 저 하늘에도 슬픔이 / Jeo Ha-neul-e-do Seul-peum-i is a Korean movie. This movie is a remake of a famous film from the 1960s. The story is about a family of six faced a crisis because of the father’s gambling habit. The mother finally leaves the family. It means that those remaining have to struggle to get by. (more…)
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Boys of Tomorrow is a Korean drama movie. Jong-dae and Ki-su are trying to hold onto their dreams as they enter into adulthood. But they find that the world become a difficult place. (more…)
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Oldboy / 올드보이 is a Korean film, based on a Japanese manga of the same name. The film begins in medias res, with the silhouette of a man holding onto a rope-like object - a neck-tie, by which one man is dangling another off the edge of a building. The man holding the neck-tie is Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who commands the other man to hear his story. The movie then cuts backward to the year 1988. Dae-su is a Korean businessman with a wife and daughter. On being picked up by police for being drunk and disorderly, he has to be bailed out by his friend, Joo-Hwan. While Joo-Hwan is in a phone booth talking with Dae-su’s daughter, Yeun-Hee, and his wife, Kim Ja-Hyun, Dae-su is kidnapped by unidentified people. (more…)
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Mapado / 마파도 is a Korean movie. A gangster and a corrupt Police Officer travel to the tiny remote island of Mapado to hunt down a young woman who has run off with a winning lottery ticket. Upon arriving, they discover that no one lives there except for five old women who have not once seen a man for 20 years. Both men soon experience a nightmare of hard labour and harassment. (more…)
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A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련 Janghwa, Hongryeon literally ‘Rose Flower, Red Lotus’) is a South Korean psychological horror movie. The film is inspired by a Joseon Dynasty folktale entitled “Janghwa Hongreyon-jon”, which has been adapted to film several times. The film opens in a psychiatric hospital, where a doctor is interviewing a young girl whose dark hair hangs over her face. He shows her photos of her family in an attempt to coax her into talking about “that day”. In an apparent flashback, we see a family arrive at their house in the country. Two girls, Su-mi and the younger Su-yeon, step out of the car and go off to play while their father walks into the house. Later, when they go inside, they are met by their new stepmother, Eun-joo. We learn that the girls’ mother has died. Eun-joo tries to be conciliatory to them at first, but their clear resentment of and indifference to her drives her to become shrill and hectoring and she storms off. (more…)
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Spirit of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon a Time in High School / 말죽거리 잔혹사 is a South Korean drama movie. The background of the film was set in a high school in South Korea, 1978. Hyun-soo transfers to another school. He is sent to a bottom-rank class and experiences violence in classroom by the group of gangsters in his class, led by Jong-hun, who is a stereotypical Korean bully in school. The teachers are also depicted as authoritarian to the students, using violence to the students for the sake of discipline, as did most Korean teachers in the 70s and to some extent in the modern days as well. (more…)
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My Little Bride (어린 신부 eorin sinbu) is a Korean language romantic comedy film about an arranged marriage between a new teacher and a student. Boeun is an ordinary high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school’s baseball team ace, named Jungwoo. One day, Boeun’s grandfather orders her to marry Sangmin. When they were young, during the Korean War, Boeun’s and Sangmin’s grandfathers had promised that they would become in-laws. Despite the grandchildren’s opposition, they are forced to marry because of the strong influence of Boeun’s grandfather. Boeun’s undercover married life begins. She pretends that she doesn’t have a husband and starts dating Jungwoo. Boeun believes that she can manage both men and live a double life. Everything goes smoothly until Sangmin visits Boeun’s school as a student teacher. (more…)
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Untold Scandal is a South Korean film. Adapted from Les Liaisons dangereuses, the film is set in the late 18th century, towards the late Joseon dynasty. (more…)
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