≡ Category: Action, Korea, Martial Arts, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Martial Arts
Director: Hwang Yoo-sik
Year: 2011
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The boss of an live internet porn site has a business problem. His site is losing money and he’s pinpointed the reason; the pros he’s hiring for online sex are a turnoff. He needs amateurs, preferably models.
Siblings Bo-ra (Nalie Lee) and Tae-hoon (Jeong […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Suspense
Director: Dae-seung Kim
Year: 2005
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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. […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Korea, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Han-min Kim
Year: 2009
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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: Drama, Korea, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
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. […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
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) […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Korea, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Hong-jin Na
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
