Tae Guk Gi, Arahan, 3- Iron, Spider Forest, and more. As 2. 00. 4 opened, the Korean film industry was still buzzing with the surprising success of films like Oldboy, Untold Scandal and Memories of Murder from the previous year. Finally in September, Kim Ki- duk returned with yet another film 3- Iron, shot and edited in under two months, that carried home the Best Director award at the Venice International Film Festival. Reviewed below: Once Upon a Time in High School(Jan 1. Ice Rain(Jan 1. 6) - - Spy Girl(Jan 3. Taegukgi(Feb 5) - - A Smile(Feb 1. Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise(Feb 2. Desire(Feb 2. 0) - - Samaritan Girl(Mar 5) - - Mr. Handy(Mar 1. 2) - - Sweet Sixties(Mar 1. Korean movie reviews from 2005, including Once Upon a Time in High School, Tae Guk Gi, The Big Swindle, Arahan, Woman is the Future of Man, Low Life, Windstruck.
Directed by Leo McCarey. With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson. A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State. Alternative Love 2016. Can’t find a synopsis on this one, let’s see if I can’t make one up. New kid in town gets a heart on for one of his only friend’s. When I Turned Nine(Mar 2. The Wolf Returns(Apr 2) - - Dance With the Wind(Apr 9) - - The Big Swindle(Apr 1. How to Make Your Boyfriend Love You More. Relationships take work from both people, but improving your relationship doesn't have to be a painful slog of a process.Arahan(Apr 3. 0) - - Woman is the Future of Man(May 5) - - Low Life(May 2. Clementine(May 2. Windstruck(Jun 3) - - Face(Jun 1. Someone Special(Jun 2. My Mother, the Mermaid(Jun 3. Everybody Has Secrets(Jul 3. The Doll Master(Jul 3. Bunshinsaba(Aug 5) - - Hypnotized(Aug 6) - - Fighter in the Wind(Aug 1. To Catch a Virgin Ghost(Aug 1. R- Point(Aug 2. 0) - - A Family(Sep 3) - - Spider Forest(Sep 3) - - Ghost House(Sep 1. Mr. Gam's Victory(Sep 1. Springtime(Sep 2. Iron(Oct 1. 5) - - Some(Oct 2. A Moment to Remember(Nov 5) - - DMZ(Nov 2. Flying Boys(Dec 3) - - My Generation(Dec 3). The Best Selling Films of 2. Korean Films. Nationwide. Seoul. Release Date. Weeks. 1Taegukgi. Feb 5. 13. 2My Little Bride. Apr 2. 83. Once Upon a Time in High School. Jan 1. 66. 4Ghost House. Sep 1. 76. 5A Moment to Remember. Nov 5. 46. My Brother. Oct 8. 57. Fighter in the Wind. Aug 1. 25. 8Windstruck. Jun 3. 49. Romance of Their Own. Jul 2. 34. 10. The Big Swindle. Apr 1. 57. All Films. Nationwide. Seoul. Release Date. Weeks. Taegukgi (Korea)1. Feb 5. 13. 2Troy (US)3,8. May 2. 18. 3Shrek 2 (US)3,3. Jun 1. 85. 4My Little Bride (Korea)3,1. Apr 2. 85. Once Upon a Time in High School (Korea)3,1. Jan 1. 66. 6Howl's Moving Castle (Japan)3,0. Dec 2. 4*8. 7The Day After Tomorrow (US)3,0. Jun 3. 68. Ghost House (Korea)2,8. Sep 1. 76. 9A Moment to Remember (Korea)2,5. Nov 5. 41. 0Harry Potter and the Prisoner.. They are listed in the order of their release. Hyun- soo, modeled in some ways after the director's own experiences, has trouble adjusting at first, but eventually the stress of his environment begins to take its toll. Park Chan- wook (JSA) and Kwak Kyung- taek (Friend) chose to shoot smaller, more personal works after their record- breaking hits, but Kang Je- gyu took full advantage of his position and aimed for the stars. Viewers who go to see this in the theater are strongly advised not to sit in the front rows, in order to avoid getting nausea from the lurching camera (not to mention the very gory scenes of battle carnage). The film also makes little effort to say anything new about the conflict. North Korean soldiers are portrayed as crazed fanatics (no JSA- style humanism here), while the Chinese are just a teeming horde. A Smile is the kind of motion picture that probably reads better as a screenplay than as an actual film. I just had to clench my teeth and get over them. The rest of the film, virtually dialogueless, is devoted to the delineation of Rosa and Gyu- min's loveless marriage, and exasperating, sometimes repellent actions of Rosa and Leo to inject some meaning into their hollow lives. Handy. The thirtysomething dentist Hye- jin (Uhm Jeong- hwa, Singles, Marriage is a Crazy Thing) resigns from a Seoul general hospital after fighting with a senior doctor. Handy is no Thanksgiving turkey, but it ain't chili con carne either, if you get my drift. Handy makes the serious mistake of compromising the powerful presence of Uhm Jeong- hwa, who radiates sex appeal like a Plutonium isotope and looks like she can eat all these macho thugs for breakfast. Handy is competently put together, with nice cinematography and production design. Handy more than I do, and that it had the gumption to fully release the sexual energy of Uhm Jeong- hwa upon its viewers. Kim, but soon mutates into a strange species of its own, a quirky comic thriller- buddy film with wonderful bits of characterization, a sort of 7. Is that wah- wah guitar on the soundtrack in the final scene?!) and decidedly lopsided sense of humor. Kim and The Way Home used the remote countryside as a backdrop for the metropolitan characters to rediscover their inner selves, The Wolf Returns assumes a more impartial, or perhaps more nonchalant, attitude about the metropolis/hinterland dichotomy. Their verbal sparring, Hwang shooting down in a pronounced (hilariously polite- sounding) Kangwon Province accent Yang's desperate, Tommy- gun delivery of one dumb idea after another about how to attract criminals to the village, is simply great to listen to. Fey- kh.) is enough to get me rolling on the floor. It is entirely consonant with the whacked- out tone of this charming doozie of a film. After the two get to know each other, Yeonhwa asks Poongshik to teach her how to dance. Dance With the Wind is the directorial debut of Park Jung- woo, who probably ranks as Korea's most famous screenwriter. Park shows a particularly fine grasp for comic details, and watching this film makes you look forward to seeing what kind of projects he will go on to direct in the future. Kim (Baek Yun- shik) and that he had named his brother Chang- ho (also played by Park) as the recipient of a massive life- insurance indemnity. Kim's girlfriend In- gyung (Yeom Jeong- ah) befriends him. Kim is quite prepared for the truth behind Chang- hyuk's con game. Writer- director Choi Dong- hun keeps the action fast and snappy, following the jazzy rhythm of his screenplay, full of endlessly quotable lines and wholly believable details and character traits (At one point during the planning session, a character blurts out, . One of Choi's amusingly creative touches is the self- reflexive analogy he draws between filmmaking and con jobs. He gets to speak excellent Russian as the latter, too! Kim, who can switch his identities with the aplomb of a traveling businessman adjusting his tie in a hotel restroom. Kim is a vainglorious peacock, who nonetheless takes great pride and joy in his ability to hoodwink other human beings, all the while suppressing the anxiety that age and changing times would someday catch up with him. It is highly recommended to anyone looking for Korean films that break away from the stereotypical molds of weepy melodramas, haughty arthouse hits and . I found the character of Seonhwa, played by Seong Hyun- ah, to be more interesting, even though we get only a rare glimpse into what she is thinking. Within a short period of four weeks, it had garnered a box office of 2,2. It is no wonder that the show would be a big hit, especially since the director is none other than Kwak Jae- yong, who was responsible for the success of the 2. My Sassy Girl. Also, the main stars - - Jeon Ji- hyun, one of the most popular actresses in Korea and Asia and up- and- coming actor Jang Hyuk - - contributed to its success. This is true, to a certain extent. However, you could say that Kwak's style of directing has been recombined to give a new bittersweet formula. It seems that Kwak has drawn from his experience in directing comedies such as My Sassy Girl and melodramas such as The Classic, and decided to try both formulas in the same project. The result you get is: Windstruck! Switching between sappy and hilarious moments, this movie brings you on a roller coaster ride of outbursts of different emotions. The role played by Jeon Ji- hyun is a happy- go- lucky police officer, whose sole reason of joining the police is because that was her dead sister's ambition in life. Jang Hyuk plays a high school teacher who had lead an ordinary life until the day he met Jeon's character. Instead of a sedentary life as a teacher, he finds himself entwined in her day- to- day policing activities such as chasing after criminals. It then moves on to a flashback and switches to a narrative mode to tell the story of the preceding events which eventually lead to the opening scene. Throughout the narration, we witness the encounters of our two protagonists and how they eventually end up together. There were a couple of hilarious moments and scenes which tickle the audience's funny bone. One might feel that the plotline is ridiculous at many times, and might start wondering at some point if the film is a fantasy, ghost story, romance or an ultra- dramatic melodrama. Occupying an array of so many genres, Windstruck could be said to be one of a kind. Despite that, Kwak has attempted to insert too many of the ideas that he used in My Sassy Girl, especially the last scene, which entirely spoils the movie. Face is at least based on an interesting premise. The screenplay credited to Pak Cheol- hee and three other writers tries hard to plant red herrings and manipulate the viewer's expectations, only to hinge the entire film on a ridiculously flimsy . Someone Special seems to start off all wrong. The authentic Cheju Island dialect would have been nearly incomprehensible to most Koreans). Fortunately, they have made me realize that the pleasure derived from the parts is considerable. Freed from the need to follow the plot and chart the character arc, we can sit back and let our hearts resonate with the stirringly intricate and nuanced performances of the principal performers. Jeon resists all the easy choices and paints her characters in layers and layers of shadings, so much so that the range of her performance is difficult to appreciate in just one viewing. He's had too much Caravella limoncello mixed with champagne during the New Year's Eve. Let me post a correction here, if you don't mind. I never meant to call Matrix Relocated a glorified sunglass commercial. More recently they've become all the rage in Japan. Extremes (2. 00. 4) and Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, (2. I Love You (2. 00. Edit. Storyline. Holly Kennedy is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry. So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 3. Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and . In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P. S. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing .. Now, a new one will begin. Well, Doc says there's not much time, so I thought I'd write to you, seeing how bad we Kennedy's are with modern day contraptions like telephones. Tell Dad to not lay about, and to take care of his legs- keep them walking. I always think of Dad walking across the farm yelling after the hands too lazy to keep the chickens fed. And you Mum, yelling at Dad to treat the boys with a Father's hand, not a father's belt. I remember everything Mum. And I thank you for giving me a mother's breath of life and love. No son ever loved a mother more, I can tell you that. Never could say it to your face. But I love you. The scene cuts and cuts back at a different angle and the waitress is seen picking up the plate and menu again. And if you're so worried about it. It doesn't count when you're wearing.
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