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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
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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 […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Director: Dae-gyu Kang
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Check out this premise on the mawkishness meter: After killing her abusive husband, a woman gives birth to a boy in prison. She is allowed to raise the boy until he’s 18 months old, at which time she will have to give him up for […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Mother was Korea’s entry for 2009’s Best Foreign Picture for the Academy Awards, and you can kind of understand why. As the titular character, Hye-ja Kim gives a towering performance, easily dominating the entire film. She should be a shoe-in for any Korean acting awards. Writer/director Joon-ho […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Romance/ Comedy
Director: Ha Yu
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Once Upon a Time in High School is an unexpected delight. With that title, I was expecting a ton of martial arts and junior varsity gangster stuff, with comic overtones. Instead, Once Upon a Time in High School is a memory […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Jin-gyu Cho
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In my experience, Korean women have a tendency to be more coarse and blunt than most other Southeast Asian women. I wouldn’t want to piss one off. Now, imagine the most lowclass, least feminine version of the species. You’ve just met Cha Eun-jin (Eun-Kyung Shin), […]