≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The best thing about Hindsight, a truly wretched film, is the relationship between Doo-hyeon (Kang-ho Song), a middle-aged former gangster and Se-bin (Shin Se-Kyung), a young lady who owes money to the loan sharks.
Doo-hyeon used to be second in command of the Hangang Group, but […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Kwon-taek Im
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When last we left Kim Doo-han (the baby faced Sang-min Park), he was on the way to jail after a major brawl. As The General’s Son 2 opens, he has just been released from jail. In his absence, he has been replaced as […]
≡ Category: Drama, Fantasy, Korea, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Fantasy
Director: Hae-jun Lee
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Castaway On The Moon is South Korea’s answer to the Tom Hanks vehicle, Cast Away.
Min-heui Hong is up his eyeballs in debt. In Korea, there is no such thing as bankruptcy. You owe money, you owe it for life. Expect to be harassed by mean mutherfuckin’ […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Korea, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Yeon-woo Lee
Year: 2009
Rating:
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: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Kwon-taek Im
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The General’s Son was filmed in 1990, before the Korean film renaissance that included films like Shiri and Chan-wook Park’s Vengeance series. If The General’s Son is any indication, Korean films were much less slick in those days.
Director Kwon-taek Im uses classical […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Suspense
Director: Dae-seung Kim
Year: 2005
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Is it a copout to criticize a movie for being too complex?
After a ship loaded with paper intended as a tribute to the royal court burns, detective Kee Won-kyu (Seung-won Cha) is sent to investigate. As soon as Kee arrives, people start dying in gruesome ways. […]
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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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Ki-hyeong Park
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Gangster High isn’t badly directed. I especially like how director Ki-hyeong Park shot the soccer scenes in the beginning of the film. They flow nicely and have a nicely elegiac feel to them. The fight scenes are fine, in that standard Korean flailing kind of […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Essential, Korea | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Jun-ik Lee
Year: 2005
Rating:
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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Jin-pyo Park
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Voice Of A Murderer tells a story of the 1991 kidnapping and murder of a young child, concentrating on how the mother and father cope with the uncertainty and stress.
I think the title was a mistake. It should have been called Voice Of A Kidnapper […]
