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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Jin-pyo Park
Year: 2007
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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 […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Soo-young Park
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One day, in a rural area, a child goes off to play and never comes back. A dragnet ensues but the child is not found. There have been no ransom demands.
However, convicted child molester Se-jin (Jeong-jin Lee) has recently moved into the area with his […]
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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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WORTH A LOOK
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: 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
Director: Han Seung-ryong
Year: 2007
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WORTH A LOOK
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: Science Fiction/ Drama
Director: In-ho Yun
Year: 2008
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WORTH A LOOK
It’s an old story. An elderly person tricks a young person into exchanging bodies, usually through some type of magic.
But that’s usually the climax. In The Devil’s Game, it’s only the beginning of the story. Screenwriter Kim Mi-ra’s inspiration is to imagine the horror of […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Ki-seon Hong
Year: 2009
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WORTH A LOOK
When you adapt the true story of a crime, you have a responsibility to the victims and their family to tell the truth, even if you have to alter some details for dramatic purposes. The Case of Itaewon Homicide fails this basic test.
I find out from […]
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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, […]