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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Jin-pyo Park
Year: 2007
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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 […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Jeon Man-bae/ Lee Se-yeong-II
Year: 2010
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Detective Han Jong-sik (Kim Seung-woo) is a true scumbag. He’s the sort of cop who would rather railroad an innocent man than do the hard work of investigating a crime, and sure he’s corrupt, but we’re used to that from Korean flicks. […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Kyung-Soo Im
Year: 2005
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For a while, it seemed like Bystanders was going to be truly original.
In the beginning of the film, we see a young boy stabbed to death by someone in a raincoat. Elsewhere, a man fondles a woman’s ass in a crowded subway. Ja-young (Eun-Kyung Shin) […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Hong-jin Na
Year: 2010
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For a while, I had the mistaken notion that Korea was overrun with genius writers and directors. Films like A Frozen Flower and The Chaser, not to mention directors like Chanwook Park and Kim Ki-Duk, helped to encourage that rose-colored viewpoint.
But after seeing […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Year: 2010
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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: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Han Seung-ryong
Year: 2007
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I’ve never really thought about this before, but noir, at least of the convoluted, coincidence-strewn type, almost demands a certain degree of stylization. Kitchen sink realism won’t cut it. And that’s probably the biggest problem with director Han Seung-ryong’s Off Road.
The screenwriter provides Han with multiple […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Kim Hyeong-Joon
Year: 2010
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No Mercy starts out well enough. Someone has left the dissected body of a young girl in a rural location. It’s up to Medical Examiner Kang Min-ho (Kyung-gu Sol) and detective Min Seo-yeong (Hye-jin Han) to figure out who killed her and why.
We find […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Shin-yeon Won
Year: 2006
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Music professor Young-sun (Byeong-jun Lee) is driving former student In-jeong (Ye-ryeon Cha) home from an audition. The power of his position and his feelings of privilege and entitlement embolden him to attempt a seduction. In-jeong, having grown up in a loving upper middle […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Romance/ Action
Director: Jong-seok Yoon
Year: 2009
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There is such a thing as having too many twists in a plot. In Marine Boy, the characters seem to be one thing, then another, then another, and then another yet again. The only point of stability is the title character. In the climax, the […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Horror/ Comedy
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Year: 2010
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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 […]