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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Jeon Man-bae/ Lee Se-yeong-II
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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/ Action
Director: John H. Lee
Year: 2010
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WORTH A LOOK
With 71 Into The Fire, writers Man-Hee Lee and Dong-Woo Kim have an incredible story to tell. In 1950, North Korea attacked South Korea and beat back the South Koreans as far as the Nakdong River. That’s where South Korea made it’s last stand.
Pohang, which […]
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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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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/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Kim Hyeong-Joon
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
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: 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: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Shin-yeon Won
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
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: 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. […]