≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Ki-seon Hong
Year: 2009
Rating:
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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Korea, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
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, […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Korea, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Romance
Director: Cheol-su Park
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I’ve been watching Asian cinema for about 30 years now, and during that time I’ve seen countless explicit sex scenes, but watching Green Chair, I actually found myself getting turned on. That’s a first.
Mun-hee (Jung Suh) has been sentenced to a short prison term, followed […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Korea, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Korea, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
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. […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Hae-sung Song
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Failan (Cecilia Cheung), a beautiful young Chinese woman, immigrates to Korea after her mother dies, hoping to look up her aunt. Unfortunately, her aunt has already emigrated to Canada, leaving Failan stranded with no connections in a strange land in which she barely speaks the language. […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Korea, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
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
Director: Pil-Sung Yim
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Antarctic Journal has an odd subject for a Korean movie. A group of explorers, led by Choi Do-hyung (Kang-ho Song) decide to go further into the Antarctic than any previous explorers. Why? Because, as one character notes, explorers live to put themselves in extreme situations and […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Yun-ho Yang
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
God knows there are plenty of flaws in Fighter In The Wind. During the first half of the movie, the fights are shot in such a way that you can barely make out the fight choreography. Writer/director Yun-ho Yang way overuses slow motion. […]
