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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Jun-ik Lee
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I’ve just been floored by yet another Korean drama.
The King and The Clown tells the true story of a troupe of acrobats/comedians that became part of the court of King Yeonsan (Jin-yeong Jeong) back in the 1500s. The king, who was unstable emotionally, used the […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Horror/ Art
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Year: 2003
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WORTH A LOOK
Alert readers might recall that I recently reviewed director Bong Joon-ho’s creature feature The Host. I thought it was an interesting deconstruction of a typical monster movie. Later on, when I became aware of another Korean movie called Memories of Murder, I noticed that […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Chan-wook Park
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Lady Vengeance is the final entry in director Chan-wook Park’s vengeance trilogy. It is the least powerful of the three, which is actually kind of a relief. The psychological effect of the other two was a bit like being stuffed into a canvas bag […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Comedy /Art
Director: Chan-wook Park
Year: 2003
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Oldboy is the second installment of director Chan-wook Park’s darkly comic vengeance trilogy, in which Park poses philosophical questions related to the pursuit of vengeance.
Amazingly, Oldboy is even more brutal and pitiless than Sympathy For Mister Vengeance, the first entry in the series.
When we […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Comedy/ Art
Director: Chan-wook Park
Year: 2002
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Ryu’s sister is dying from kidney failure. Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin) has been let go from his soul-killing factory job and has no way to find a donor or pay for the operation even if he does. Finally, he runs out of options and decides […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Horror/ Art
Director: Kyu-Dong Min/Tae-Yong Kim
Year: 1999
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WORTH A LOOK
If you’re familiar with the Tartan Asia Extreme DVD series, you’ll know that they tend to be either horror films or hard core action films. Memento Mori, which is part of the series, is kind of a horror film in the same sense that […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Art
Director: Kyung-Taek Kwak
Year: 2001
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Everybody has had friends in grade school or high school that they’ve lost touch with, or friendships that were soured by financial considerations, office politics, or other societal pressures. That’s the subject of Friend, viewed through the prism of a gangster melodrama.
Four childhood […]
