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Miracle On 1st Street (Korean Comedy)
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by abixalmon
You’ve seen it before: gangsters trying to force people to move from their homes in order to clear out the area to make way for corporate construction. It was one of the major plot points of Holiday in 2006, and one of Korean society’s less charming realities. Pil Je (Lim Chang Jung, Sex is Zero) is exactly one of these thugs, raising a fuss with the entire neighborhood and trying all he can to drive the residents away so his boss and his people can build that new and shiny complex. Most people tend to be scared of Pil Je, but Myeong Ran (Ha Ji Won, Hwang Jin Yi) is not too impressed. An aspiring boxer, Myeong Ran isn’t scared by Pil Je one bit; on the contrary, she’s starting to look as menacing as some of the people Pil Je has to deal with in his line of business. But as he gets to know her and the locals more, Pil Je senses himself changing, changing enough for a miracle to happen?
Miracle on 1st Street brings back the trio who made 2002 sex comedy Sex is Zero, one of the top 20 grossing Korean films of all time. Director Yoon Je Gyun comes back to directing after years as a producer. After founding Dusabu Films and focusing on his production company, Yoon decided it was time to try his luck once again, with his two friends from the past, Ha Ji Won and Lim Chang Jung, the stars of Sex is Zero. After quitting his music career in great fashion, Lim has become one of the few surefire box office draws in Korea, proving himself to be quite a fine comic actor as well. And Ha Ji Won continues with her endless transformations. After learning traditional dance and Geomungo for the historical drama Hwang Jin Yi, this time she went through boxing training for a couple of months to make her performance more realistic.
Artist Name(s) : Ha Ji Won | Lim Chang Jung
Release Date : June 30, 2007
Language : Korean
Subtitle : Korean, English
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Curse Of The Golden Flower (Chinese Movie)
Posted on February 6th, 2007 by Editor
During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Curse of the Golden Flower is probably the most talked-about Chinese film of 2006. International star Chow Yun Fat returns to Chinese cinema to team up with Gong Li in a film directed by the famed Zhang Yimou, who continues in the period epic genre after Hero and House of Flying Daggers. In addition to these three big names, the film also features acclaimed Mainland actor Liu Ye and Taiwanese top singer Jay Chou in his first costume role. The extravagant palace and the omnipresent chrysanthemums give the film its dazzling colors, creating an unprecedented visual sumptuousness that is beyond astounding.
Turning Cao Yu’s famous play Thunder Storm into an epic film, Curse of the Golden Flower details a complicated dispute that encompasses both familial and political dimensions. Patriarchal Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat) summons his second son, Prince Jie (Jay Chou), to return to the palace after his tour of duty defending the border. Meanwhile, Prince Xiang (Liu Ye) wants to hide his incestuous affair with his step-mother, Empress Phoenix (Gong Li). Spectacularly beautiful from the outside, the royal family is actually falling apart within the golden confines of the palace. The calculating Emperor Ping wants to slowly kill the Empress with help from the Imperial Physician (Ni Dahong) and his daughter (Li Man), but Phoenix is also trying to ally with Prince Jie to start a coup…
The film demonstrates how the hunger for power eventually distorts human nature and leads to shocking brutality. Filled with jaw-dropping fighting scenes and beautifully designed costumes and settings, Curse of the Golden Flower exhibits the full potential of the genre’s aesthetics. Zhang Yimou uses the most exorbitant visual elements to narrate a thrilling story, in which the brightest colors come into contrast with the darkest acts that human beings are capable of.
Also Known As:
Autumn Remembrance (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Curse of the Golden Flower (International: English title)
The City of Golden Armor (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Liu Ye, Chen Jin, Jay Chou
MPAA: Rated R for violence.
Runtime: USA:114 min / Hong Kong:111 min
Country: Hong Kong / China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
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Love Me Not: Sarang-ttawin piryo-eopseo (korean movie)
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by abixalmon
Korean cinema sweetheart Moon Geun Young has undeniably come into her own as an actress. Having proven her acting skills and box office draw with films like Tale of Two Sisters, My Little Bride, and Innocent Steps, the young actress is ready to take on a more mature role. Departing from the endearing characters of her previous films, Moon takes on the challenge of playing a blind, emotionally distant young woman opposite the ruggedly handsome Kim Joo Hyuk (Lovers in Prague) in Love Me Not. A remake of popular Japanese television drama Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu, Love Me Not is the debut feature from Lee Cheol Ha, who previously served as assistant director for Il Mare. Though dark in tone, the beautifully shot Love Me Not is as moving as it is chilling, presenting a pure love between two lonely souls.
Suave womanizer Julian (Kim Joo Hyuk) has lived a fairly comfortable life by swindling rich woman, but a costly miscalculation leaves him in serious debt to the tone of three billion won. He has one month to pay off his debt, or meet a bloody end in the hands of notorious debtor Gwang Soo (Lee Ki Young, Marathon). Julian comes up with a malicious plan to pose as the long-lost brother of blind heiress Ryu Min (Moon Geun Young), and then murder her to inherit the fortune. Julian meets his match with the cold and distrusting Min, but over time their hearts begin to open to each other. The only problem: Gwang Soo is still waiting.
Artist Name(s): Kim Joo Hyuk | Moon Geun Young
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Subtitle: Korean, English
Also Known As: Love Me Not
Runtime: South Korea: 119 min
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0904068/
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Garden Of Heaven 2003 (Korean movie) (English Subtitles)
Posted on November 8th, 2006 by abixalmon
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Choi is emotionally scarred by the experience of losing his parents as a child. That’s why he is so surprised when he meets Kim, another orphan, and finds himself opening his heart to her. But Choi could lose Kim as easily as he falls in love with her, as she is dying from in incurable disease.
Choi is a respected doctor who lost his parents at a very young age and who is still unable to overcome his mental affliction. He meets Kim, another orphan suffering from incurable stomach cancer, at a lonely hearts bar. Miraculously, they fall in love, and must now contemplate their future before Kim’s time runs out.
Film Director(s): Lee Dong-Hyun
Cast: Ahn Jae-Wook, Lee Eun-Ju, Son Jong-Beom, Chon Moo-Song, Kang San
Released: 2003 [Korea]
Genre: Drama
Languages: Korean (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 - Stereo)
Subtitles: ENGLISH, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120875/
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No Mercy for the Rude (Korean movie) (English Subtitles)
Posted on October 30th, 2006 by abixalmon
Yeui-eomneun geotdeul (South Korea)
Startling shifts between post-modern comedy and brutal violence mark tyro writer-helmer Park Chulhee’s “No Mercy for the Rude” as an ultra-hip variation on the ever-popular Korean hit man subgenre. Crackerjack pace, absurdist set pieces and an intriguing lead perf by Shin Hakyun as a mute killer-for-hire have helped boost pic to solid local returns since its Aug. 24 opening, and rousing response at the Vancouver festival points to promising offshore returns at fests and upscale markets on both sides of the Pacific. If ever there were a Korean import aimed at Stateside auds and ready for the Tarantino seal-of-approval, this is it.
An early sign of the film’s strategy of unsettling the viewer is how anti-hero Killa (Shin, looking super-cool) narrates his story, even though he has long refused to talk until he gets an operation to fix a severe speech impediment. To pay for the operation, Killa has opted to work as an assassin, but the knife-wielding killer will only do in obnoxious, nasty targets.
AKA: No Mercy for the Rude (International: English title)
Runtime: South Korea:113 min
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856052/
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Don’t Look Back (Romance Korean Movie) (english subtitles)
Posted on October 30th, 2006 by abixalmon
The film is about these three young people whose lives are thrown into uncertainty. Jung-hee, a 21 year-old college student is a lover of dance. She is confused when her father comes back after a fifteen-year absence and finds it difficult to accept him. 25 year-old Keun-woo is a telephone mechanic who enjoys eavesdropping while at work. He gets to know a woman through eavesdropping and falls in love with her. However, he is quite lost as to how he should express his feelings for her. Thirty-year-old In-ho was already a married man when he enlisted in the army two years previous. He comes home on his last leave of absence from the service. He detects something has changed in his wife but does not know what.
Youth is always the best and worst of times, disarmingly confusing yet beautifully meaningful. Kim Young Nam, assistant director on Hong Sang Soo’s Woman is the Future of Man, presents three stories about young adults reaching turnings point in their lives in his creative debut film, Don’t Look Back. Along with Kim himself, the acclaimed film features some of the best new faces in the business. Don’t Look Back won the NETPAC and FIPRESCI Awards at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival in August 2006.
In the first story, 21-year-old dancer Jung Hee (Kim Hye Na - Flower Island and Into The Mirror) finally reunites with her father after years of separation. She experiences a maelstrom of emotional conflicts ranging from affection to the temptation to reject him. The second story follows a 25-year-old telephone mechanic (Lee Sang Woo - Almost Love) who falls in love with a woman whose phone call he eavesdrops on. In the final story, a 30-year-old soldier (Kim Tae Woo - Woman is the Future of Man) comes home on leave and realizes how much his wife has changed since he left.
Artist Name(s) : Kim Tae Woo | Lee Han
Release Date : October 31, 2006
Language : Korean
Subtitle : Korean, English
Runtime : South Korea:126 min
Country : South Korea
IMDB : http://imdb.com/title/tt0835823/
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Jet Li’s Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia) (english subtitles)
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by abixalmon
This film tells the story of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910). Huo Yuanjia was the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.
The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, the bullied Huo Yuanjia resolves to teach himself how to fight–and win. Years of training enable him to ace match after match in his home region of Tianjin. But as his fame as a martial arts master grows, so does his pride. After an ill-advised fight leads to another master’s death, members of Huo’s family are slain in revenge. Grieving and ashamed, Huo wanders the country in shock. Near death, he is rescued by women from an idyllic village, and is offered simple kindness and generosity that help him heal and regain his equilibrium over a period of several years. Huo realizes that the future of martial arts lies in sportsmanship and not brutality, and he rejoins society to apply what he has learned. Returning to Tianjin, Huo takes steps to come to terms with his past and restore his family’s name. His evolving, graceful Mizong (Missing) Fist method of fighting brings Huo renewed success, and he forms the progressive Jingwu Sports Federation. Taking note, duplicitous members of the Foreign Chamber of Commerce engineer a Shanghai tournament pitting Huo against four fighters, each representing the major foreign powers in China. Huo commits to the bout and faces off against, respectively, a British boxer, a Spanish swordsman, a Belgian soldier and a Japanese martial artist. What happened that day in 1910 has never been, and will never be, forgotten in China.
Starring: Jet Li, Betty Sun, Dong Yong, Shido Nakamura, Collin Chou
Directed by: Ronnie Yu
Also Known As:
Fearless (International: English title) (USA)
Jet Li’s Fearless (USA) (complete title)
Legend of a Fighter (Hong Kong: English title)
Untitled Jet Li Project (USA) (working title)
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for violence and martial arts action throughout.
Runtime: USA:103 min / UK:104 min / Philippines:105 min
Country: China / Hong Kong / USA
Language: Japanese / English / Mandarin
Subtitle: English
IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0446059/
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A Dirty Carnival (Biyeolhan geori) (korean movie)
Posted on October 21st, 2006 by abixalmon
Byung-doo, the No.2 man in a small-time organized crime gang, leads an aimless and wild life. Life is hard for him since he is the sole support of his mother and two younger siblings. However, when Mr. HWANG asks him to embark on a secret mission, Byung-doo realizes that this is one chance he should not let pass by. The mission is dangerous, but success would mean that Byung-doo would no longer have to worry about supporting his family…
Byung-du is a 29-year-old career criminal, working for the middle-rank enforcer Sang-chul. Burdened with a terminally ill mother and taking care of younger siblings, Byung-du is feeling financial pressure as a substitute patriarch. When the big boss President Hwang is cornered by a corrupt prosecutor, Byung-du volunteers for a whack job and wins the big man’s trust. However, his real trouble begins when friend Min-ho, an aspiring movie director, asks him to be a consultant for the latter’s debut film.
Casts: Yoon Jae-Moon, Ho-jin Jeon, Ku Jin, In-seong Jo
Directed by: Ha Yu
Also Known As: A Dirty Carnival (International: English title)
Runtime: South Korea:141 min
Release Date : November 9, 2006
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0821442/
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