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#crime #drama #child abuse #Gong Yoo #Jung Yu-Mi #Kim Hyun-soo #Jeong In Seo #2011 #recorded in March, 2022
Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter’s surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth; the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children’s rights and expose the crimes, he teams up with human rights activist Seo Yu-Jin. But they soon realize the school’s principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth.
Silenced (Korean: 도가니; RR: Dogani) is based on events that took place at Gwangju Inwha School for the Deaf, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s. Depicting both the crimes and the court proceedings that led the teachers off with minimal punishment, the film sparked public outrage, which eventually resulted in a reopening of the investigations into the incidents. The demand for legislative reform eventually reaches its way to the National Assembly of South Korea, where a revised bill, dubbed the Dogani Bill, was passed in late October 2011 to abolish the statute of limitations for sex crimes against minors and the disabled.
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#drama #Youn Yuh Jung #Jeon Mu-Song #Yoon Kye-Sang #2016 #recorded in March, 2022
The story takes us through a few weeks in life of So Young (Youn Yuh Jung), an independent, spunky, and experienced ‘Bacchus Lady’ (an elderly prostitute who offers Korean energy drink Bacchus-F to potential clientele) in Seoul. One day, she happens across a young Filipino boy whose mother is arrested for assaulting a doctor for fathering her child and then abandoning them. Taking pity of the boy, So-young befriends and takes him under her wing. In the meantime, she meets a client who asks her for a strange favour: to help him commit suicide.
“The Bacchus Lady” is a film about those who have often been hidden away ad looked down upon in Korean society, particularly the elderly. Outside of the protective circle with whom she lives, she has to face down demeaning assignments. Set mostly in Beautifully maintained public parks, especially around Jungmyo Confucian Shrine in Jongno park and replete with shots of autumn leaves in their burnished splendor, the gorgeous mise-en-scene reinforces the paradox of Korea’s economic clout and her class disparity.
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#comedy #drama #Cho Eun-ji #Ryu Seung-ryong #Oh Na-ra #Kim Hie-won #2021 #recorded in February, 2022
Hyun is one of the most prominent writer since he published a very successful novel. However he has not written any book for seven years. One night, he meets Yoo-jin, a young aspiring writer, and he later reveals that he has had a crush on Hyun for years. Yoo-jin keeps approaching to Hyun as one of the students attending his college class, and Hyun does not know what to do about this tricky circumstance—especially after Yoo-jin gives him a short story too good to be ignored.
Deftly juggling its several plotlines, the movie smoothly moves back and forth between comedy and drama. We already get a pretty good idea of what will happen among several main characters, but we cannot help but tickled more and more thanks to the precise coming timing between the performers on the screen, and then there comes a payoff moment much more uproarious and hilarious than expected.
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#history #drama #Eom Yu-na #Yoo Hae-jin #Yoon Kye-sang #2019 #recorded in June, 2021
In 1941, when the use of the Japanese language was forced during the colonial rule era in Korean peninsula, Kim Pan-su(Yoo Hae-jin) gets a job running errands at the secret organization, the Korean Language Society despite being illiterate. Gradually, he realize that recording and preserving the Korean language is a crucial means to obtaining independence.
Eom Yu-na used to be a scriptwriter, she is know for her groundbreaking script, A Taxi Driver(2017) which presents a story about Gwangju Democratic Movement. This movie marks the young director’s successful transition from quality screenwriter to director.
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#comedy #drama #Lee Jae-kyu #Yoo Hae-jin #Cho Jin-woong #Lee Seo-jin #Yum Jung-ah #Kim Ji-soo #Song Ha-yoon #Yoon Kyung-ho #2018 #recorded in February, 2022
This is one of the several remake films of the 2016 Paolo Genovese’s film Perfect Strangers(Perfetti Sconosciuti). The story kicks off with seven longtime friends gathered together over a meal at a housewarming party. One of the friends suggests a game; everyone puts their mobile phones on the table, and each call is answered on speaker, whilst every alarm, email or test is read aloud. As the game progresses through the night, they find themselves in an unpredictable limbo as their secrets are spilled.
In a sense, the movie made me realize how much of a role a smartphone plays in our everyday life. Watching this show brought me on a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Would I watch this show again? For sure because this movie is the perfect marriage between comedy and drama.
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#gangster #crime #thriller #Kang Yun-sung #Ma Dong-seok(Don Lee) #Yoon Kye-sang # 2017 #recorded in February, 2022
Well known for its Chinese immigrants and foreign cultures, the Chinatown of Garibong-dong is a low-rent district outside Seoul. It’s also a breeding ground for both local and mainland Chinese gang activities. Detective Ma and his squad have the dreaded task of restoring peace and prevent bloodshed in this troublesome neighborhood.
Overall, The Outlaws is worth two hours viewing time, it’s very interesting, moves at a fast pace and is stylish filmed. The cinematography gives the back streets, seedy bars a life of their own. Don Lee is definitely the man to watch, he’s very lovable and hilarious despite his bulky physique. If you liked him in Train To Busan, you’ll love him here.
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#noir #drug war #Lee Hae-young #Cho Jin-woong #Kim Sung-ryoung #Ryu Jun-yeol #Kim Joo-hyuck #2018 #recorded in July, 2021
This is a noir film that deals with a drug war. It is a remake of a Hong Kong film, literally, Drug War directed by action maestro, Johnny To. Same as the original, the story follows a detective who poses as a drug dealer to score a major narcotics bust.
The director tries to reach the same existential conclusion as To’s film—everybody is a corrupt middleman, justice is a lie, and there’s no such thing as closure—by notably adding more twists, reversals of fortune, and character backstories.
A vicious Chinese-Korean drug boss is played memorably by Kim Joo-hyuck in his final role before his tragic death in October, 2017. “He is the most heated character, and it is impossible to know what his boiling point is. He makes the others nervous as he is impossible to predict,” said director Lee.
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#lost generation #friendship #comedy noir #Kim Sung-soo #Jung Woo-sung #Lee Jung-jae #1999 #recorded in January, 2022
Simply become one of my favorite. The reason? Not only can I relate to the story and the characters, but every movie-making element is flawless. The acting is superb and the direction is worthy of a standing ovation.
Actor Lee Jung-jae was discovered by designer Ha Yong-soo while he was working at a cafe in the Gangnam district, then worked as a fashion model for a number of years. Upon making his acting debut with the 1993 TV drama Dinosaur Teacher, he became a star practically overnight, and was almost always cast in lead roles thereafter.
In September 2021, Lee starred as Seong Gi-hun, the main protagonist of Netflix’s hit survival drama Squid Game. Series creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk said he chose to cast Lee as Gi-hun as to ‘destroy his charismatic image portrayed in his previous roles.’
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#mystery #horror #exorcism #Jang Jae-hyun #Kim Yun-seok #Gang Dong-won #Park So-dam #2015 #recorded in January, 2022
A young girl who belongs to Father Kim’s parish becomes comatose after a hit-and-run accident. Father Kim finds out she is possessed by an evil spirit. He along with a rebellious young seminarian named Choi try to exorcise the demon and confine it in a piglet.
The Priests is known to be the first-ever-commercial film in Korea to center on exorcism. Exorcism has long been a nonexistent theme in the Korean film scene. While the popularity of the horror genre itself is at stake in Korea, no brave filmmakers have dared to attempt the occult genre, which has long been the territory of Hollywood productions.
Director Jang Jae-hyun cleverly builds up suspense while mixing it up with mystery and a message about religion in Svaha: The Sixth Finger. It does have some solid moments and asks intriguing questions, so I won’t say it would be a waste of time to check it out.
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#drama #heart-warming #Lee Jung-hyang #Yoo Seung-ho #Kim Eul-bun #Dong hyo-hee #2002 #recorded in December, 2021
The film tells a heart-warming story about a grandmother and her city-born grandson who comes to live with her in a rural village.
Yoo Seung-ho rose to fame as a child actor in this film. Since then, he has starred as a child and teenager in many television series and movie films-legal drama Remember(2015), historical films The Magician(2015) and Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River(2016) as well as historical drama The Emperor: Owner of The Mask(2017), romance comedy series I Am Not a Robot(2017) and My Strange Hero(2018).
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#crime #heist #Choi Dong-hoon #Lee Jung-jae #Gianna Jun #Kim Hae-sook #Kim Soo-hyun #Kim Hye-soo #Kim Yun-seok #Secretly Greatly #2012 #recorded in December, 2021
Popie, Yenicall, Chewingum and Zampano are a team of professional thieves in Korea. After they score a valuable antique vase, they are proposed from Macao Park to join a highly lucrative new job in Macau. All of them, including Macao Park’s ex-lover Pepsi unexpectedly, head off to Hong Kong, where another four Hong Kong thieves awaits for them.
In terms of the film’s plotting, it’s difficult to differentiate The Thieves from any other heist film. But director Choi along with scriptwriter Lee Gi-cheol collectively put together a dynamic script full of wit and energy.
Actress Kim Hye-soo was in awe when she first read the script, saying, “It was a product of great effort, genius ideas and a detail-oriented, calculative thought. I think he knows who he is, the exact kind of films that he wants to make, and how to make them. The Thieves proves it.”
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#horror #mystery #exorcism #Na Hong-jin #Kwak Do-won #Hwang Jung-min #Chun Woo-hee #Kunimura Jun #Kim Hwan-hee #2016 #recorded in December, 2021
The Wailing is an expansive and often excruciating horror film. Na Hong-jin’s 2009 debut feature, the action thriller The Chaser, made a huge impression not least for its almost staggering flouting of genre convention. The Wailing, about demonic possession, is similarly uncompromising.
This film received universally positive reviews-‘operating on a level that makes most American cinema seem clunky and unimaginative,’ ‘By turns funny and despairing, this village noir brings the horror of uncertainty.’
Cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, who lensed Na Hong-jin’s and several Bong Joon-ho’s works, shot extensively in natural light, yielding a dusky, mist-shrouded texture. He evokes a sense of obscurity by showing human figures and clues from afar, without closeups or sharp focus.
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#drama #history #suicide #Lee Chang-dong #Seol Kyung-gu #Moon So-ri #Kim Yeo-jin #2000 #recorded in December, 2021
The film is a model of ‘national cinema,’ narrating the past 20 years of South Korean society through the saga of its main protagonist. Lee Chang-dong reminds his audience that the postwar history of military rule and repression cannot be so easily forgotten.
On the railroad, Young-ho screams, “I want to go back again!” His scream breaks through the deafening roar of an approaching train, and the film begins a journey from his suicide to the past.
This is Lee’s most formally innovative work. He based the film’s structure on Harold Pinter’s 1978 play Betrayal, which charts the dissolution of a marriage, beginning with the divorce. The scenes that follow, each going back in time, climax with some further indication of the already foretold disaster.
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#drama #love #Lee Kyoung-mi #Kong Hyo-jin #Lee Jong-hyuk #Seo Woo #Miss Carrot #Family Ties #2008 #recorded in November, 2021
This is the feature film debut of director Lee Kyoung-mi, and also the first film produced by Park Chan-wook. She was Park’s assistant director for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and is well-known for Netflix’s The School Nurse Files.
The character Mi-sook should be a hard character to be loved. Her character is profoundly unattractive because she has transformed herself over the years into a person who is so ground down by failure and disappointment. She insists to the world that being number one is for suckers. And still, I want to spend a couple of hours with this character.
In 2019, Kong Hyo-jin starred in romantic comedy film Crazy Romance and made her small-screen comeback in When the Camellia Blooms alongside Kang Ha-neul. Both hit commercial success, and solidified her position as a romantic comedy queen.
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#political #crime #action #Woo Min-ho #Lee Byung-hun #Cho Seung-woo #Baek Yoon-sik #webtoon #The Man Standing Next #2015 #recorded in November, 2021
The film has very graphic scenes of violence, and high level of sexual representation that you might think is too much. But from my perspective, I thought it justified these scenes and choices through its plot.
Comparable with Ryoo Seung-wan’s The Unjust in its canny grasp of how the country’s venal social hierarchy thrives, Inside Men represents a classy example of the genre thanks to unpredictable character arcs and a judicious use of sex and violence in an otherwise talky and convoluted screenplay.
Inside Men represents a more raw, faithful, and ultimately poignant narrative than any other Korean political thrillers. Also, it is much more mature; a piece that’s not just entertaining, but also imbued with rich socio-political commentary and relevance.
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#mystery #thriller #psychology #Lee Chang-dong #Yoo Ah-in #Jeon Jong-seo #Steven Yeun #Hong Gyeong-pyo #Murakami Haruki #2018 #recorded in November, 2021
The plot depicts a young deliveryman, Jong-su, who runs into his childhood friend, Hae-mi. They soon meet an enigmatic young man named Ben, who Jong-su becomes suspicious of and begins to believe Hae-mi is in danger.
This film has been widely regarded by several critics to be one of the best films of the 21st century, among with it being voted the all-time best Korean film by Korean Screen, with over 150 critics from 28 countries. Director Lee urges the viewers to explore the dark, unknown parts of our minds and to question whether every motive and behavior is just and ethical in the face of uncertainty.
Jeon Jong-seo started her acting career for Burning. She won the competition and landed the lead role at her very first audition. Director Lee said about her audition, “When I saw her, she seemed to have this very childlike sense of innocence, but at the same time, she carried this sense of duality—as if something much bigger was on the other side of that innocence.“
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#animal #drama #adventure #Bong Joon-ho #Jon Ronson #An Seo-hyun #Byun Hee-bong #Steven Yeun #Tilda Swinton #Lily Collins #Choi Woo-shik #2017 #recorded in October, 2021
A Korean farm girl named Mija, an orphan, lives with her grandfather in a rainforest. Her constant companion is Okja, a pig with a soft pink belly and trusting eyes, which is one of the prototype pigs that the Mirando Corporation seeded the world with.
This is an international co-production of South Korea and the United States, and it stars an ensemble cast headed by Korean actors An Seo-hyun, Byun Hee-bong, and Choi Woo-shik, and Hollywood actors Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Shirley Henderson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
All the film’s many threads ultimately come back to questions of trust: what it means to keep or betray trust, whether there are circumstances where betrayal is necessary, and whether the trust between people is more meaningful than the one between human and animal.
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#crime #gambler #manhwa(cartoon) #Choi Dong-hoon #Cho Seung-woo #Kim Hey-soo #Baek Yoon-sik #2006 #recorded in October, 2021
The film, arguably one of the best Korean motion pictures based on cartoons, is a film about gamblers. It boldly anatomizes and exposes the underworld of gamblers which seems to epitomize our greedy capitalist society. Director-cum-screenwriter Choi Dong-hoon weaves together all the characters and their stories in a seemingly effortless manner, showing his brilliance.
Cho Seung-woo is a screen and musical actor. He is best known for his leading roles in the films The Classic(2003), Malaton(2005), Inside Men(2015) as well as in the stage musicals Jekyll & Hyde, Hedwig And the Angry Inch, and Man of La Mancha.
Choi Dong-hoon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He ranks as one of the most consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits—The Big Swindle, Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard, The Thieves, Assassination, and Tazza: The High Rollers.
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#comedy #drama #radio #DJ #rock star #Lee Joon-ik #Park Joong-hoon #Ahn Sung-ki #The Book of Fish #2006 #recorded in October, 2021
Once a superstar with a music award on his belt, rocker Choi Gon now sings in a rundown cafe. His manager for more than 20 years, Min-soo makes a deal with the radio station producer to have Gon DJ at a remote radio station in the suburbs. Reluctant to work at first, Gon soon finds out that the little things matter the most, and his attitude towards his pal and manager Min-soo gradually changes.
Like King and the Clown, Lee Joon-ik wanted his next film to also be about the lives of outsiders, saying, “I think the tragedy of capitalist society is that so many people endlessly struggle to become part of the mainstream. I want to keep showing that those outside the mainstream of society can also be happy.“
Park Joong-hoon and Ahn Sung-ki had starred together in three previous films, namely, Chil-su And Man-su(1988), Two Cops(1993), Nowhere To Hide(1999). Ahn said, “If we did not sustain our 20-year friendship, we could not have done justice to the touching scenes in Radio Star.”
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#space #Sci-Fi #humanoid #Jo Sung-hee #Kim Tae-ri #Song Joong-ki #Jin Seon-kyu #Yoo Hae-in #Hellbound #2021 #recorded in September, 2021
It’s 2092, and the earth is dying. The sky is full of dust, the soil is burned and acidic, and humanity is masked up and barely getting by. A massive conglomerate called UTS has developed a floating paradise in space. Terraforming and colonization of Mars is next, but many people live their lives as ‘sweepers,’ scavenging for space debris they can salvage for hard cash.
Song Joong-ki was first included in the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list in 2013. The success of his works internationally established him as a top Hallyu star and one of the highest-paid actors in Korea.
In 2016, Kim Tae-ri made her feature film debut in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, where she was chosen from 1,500 actresses who auditioned for the role. Park recounted his first impression of Kim reminded him strongly of his first meeting with actress Kang Hye-jeong, who had her career breakthrough in his 2003 film Oldboy.
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