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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Yeon-woo Lee
Year: 2009
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One thing you can never accuse Korean filmmakers of is making life too easy on their heroes.
Pil-seong Jo (Yun-seok Kim) is a none too bright podunk cop with a fondness for gambling. Because of Jo’s lack of responsibility, his wife (Woo-seon Seon) is reduced […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Chan-wook Park
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Writer/director Chan-wook Park makes psychological, philosophical and political puzzles, not simple narrative cinema, but up until now, he has always taken pains to ensure that his stories make literal sense. But with Thirst, he has taken the symbolism that was always in the background and placed […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Han-min Kim
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Handphone has a number of strong elements, but not enough to put it over the top.
Oh Seung-min (Tae-woong Eom), an aspiring theatrical agent, is a typical sonofabitch of the Korean variety. He abuses his underlings, ignores his wife, and even had a romantic rival […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Cheol-hie Park
Year: 2006
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I make it a rule not to criticize a movie because it isn’t the movie I wanted the filmmakers to make, but I’ll make an exception for No Mercy For The Rude, and I’ll tell you why.
It’s a perfect title. The movie almost writes […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I first started watching The Unjust, I thought it would be about the manhunt for a serial kidnaper/rapist/murderer of children. Ha!
The central joke of The Unjust is that Prosecutor Joo-yang (Seung-beom Ryu) and cop Captain Choi (Jeong-min Hwang) could give a damn about […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Hyo-jin Kang
Year: 2007
Rating:
MOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When I sat down to watch Punch Lady, what I was expecting was a Korean version of the J. Lo vehicle Enough. I thought the major difference would be that the lows would be much lower, the difficulties would be more intense, […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Beom-gu Cho
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Okay, here’s the setup. Three high school kids start a gang named The No Touch Clan. What is the object of this gang? To lay claim to a ditch that borders their high school by means of beating up anyone who challenges them. Why? Pride, […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Han-sol Shin
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Byung-tae (Hyun-kyoon Lee). He’s one of those kids who seemed to be born with a sign on their back saying “Kick me.” His father, a policeman, keeps transferring Byung-tae from school to school, and each time, he instantly becomes the target of bullies. […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Min-Ho Cho
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Les Formidables starts out with a perfectly serviceable premise: ex-gang member Lee Su-hyun (Jeong-myeong Cheon) will have his debts forgiven if he kills a witness to a murder. When he’s thrown in jail, the cops try to pin the murder of a cop on him as […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Horror/ Comedy
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
At the center of the universe, all that exists is a howling nothingness. With our jobs, convenience stores, families, and friends, it can seem like the universe is a rational place, where morality and merit have a foothold. This is an illusion, an […]
