Archive for October, 2007

Besame Mucho aka Kiss Me Much - [KMovie] [2001]

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Young-Hee and Chui-Soo are a happily married couple with four beautiful children. What starts as just another hectic day for this family, turns out to be a day that they will never forget. In the midst of economic crises, Chiu-Soo loses his job and forces a family into choices with irreversible repercussions. Choices rooted in temptation and betrayal.

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Beautiful Sunday - [KMovie] [2007]

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Faced with mounting hospital bills for his comatose wife, detective Kang (Park Yong Woo) arranges for a portion of the wares from a drug bust to end up in a rival gang’s hands in exchange for a cut of the profits. Kang is willing to do anything to get the money he needs, but the crossed gang is equally determined to recover their stolen goods. In another part of town, Min Woo (Nam Gung Min) and Su Yeon (Min Ji Hye, The Fox Family) meet in a bookstore, fall in love, and get married. What seems like a happy ending derails when Su Yeon discovers that her loving husband is the same man who raped her one night in a dark street. For these two desperate men who have erred in the name of love, crime only leads to more crime as they try to confront their wrongdoings. What happens when their paths cross one beautiful Sunday?Faced with mounting hospital bills for his comatose wife, detective Kang (Park Yong Woo) arranges for a portion of the wares from a drug bust to end up in a rival gang’s hands in exchange for a cut of the profits. Kang is willing to do anything to get the money he needs, but the crossed gang is equally determined to recover their stolen goods. In another part of town, Min Woo (Nam Gung Min) and Su Yeon (Min Ji Hye, The Fox Family) meet in a bookstore, fall in love, and get married. What seems like a happy ending derails when Su Yeon discovers that her loving husband is the same man who raped her one night in a dark street. For these two desperate men who have erred in the name of love, crime only leads to more crime as they try to confront their wrongdoings. What happens when their paths cross one beautiful Sunday?

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Barefoot Gi Bong - [KMovie] [2006]

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  When Gi-Bong was a small child suffered from a fever and became a “fool”. Basically the story is about how Mr. Baek enters him in the National Amateur Marathon, and Gi-Bong agrees for the prize. Gi-Bong really wants the prize, so he can buy his mom artificial teeth. The villagers always cheat him out of money when he works for them, but as they watch him train hard for the marathon they begin to change positively. This a touching story of Gi-Bong and his mother. Also a little side story of Mr. Baek and his son.

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Antarctic Journal aka Namgeuk-ilgi - [KMovie] [2005]

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  A South Korean expedition is trekking across the Antarctic when they discover a journal left by a British team that was lost 80 years earlier. As they press onward, they begin to notice strange similarities between the ill-fated British journey and their own. In the unforgiving environment where small mistakes can doom an entire party, the team steadily descends deeper into fatal delusions.

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An Affair - [KMovie] [1998]

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AN AFFAIR pins marriage to the dissecting tray and goes to work, laying it open and exposing its guts to the unblinking eye of the camera. Seo-Hyun has lived all her life as a good girl and, now married, she’s the kind of lady who gives the Stepford wives a good name. Her sister is getting married, and asks Seo-Hyun to help her fiance’ plan the wedding while she wraps things up in the US. The two meet, and something inside Seo-Hyun wakes up hungry. He’s hungry, too and before long their orderly lives are as shattered as their wedding vows.

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Address Unknown - [KMovie] [2001]

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Four people ravaged by war live in a quiet little town located on the outskirts of an American military base. Chang-guk and his mother live in a red abandoned bus. Chang-guk’s mother writes to Chang-guk’s father who was a black soldier stationed in Korea but who now has left them behind to go back to America. Although each of her letters come back to her stamped with “Address Unknown” she does not give up. Chang-guk despises his mother and often beats her for her actions who is defenseless. Ji-heum is a timid youth who does not attend high school but instead works at a local portrait studio. He is oftentimes overwhelmed by his overbearing father who claims he was a war hero. Ji-heum has a secret crush on Eun-ok, a girl who can only see out of her one eye. He tries in vain to protect her. Eun-ok lives in pain of having to live day to day with her condition, which was a result of her older brother’s prank. She hides half of her face behind her hair and has also withdrawn from the world. She falls for James, an American soldier who promises to pay for her eye surgery. Chang-guk is abused and ridiculed by the town’s people for being mixed and his sole patron is his boss, Dog Eye, who is the local dog butcher. All four lives collide as each individual’s hope for a better future return to them unfulfilled.

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A Cruel Attendance - [KMovie] [2006]

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The story seems familiar. The average salaryman loses money and resorts to borrowing from loan sharks; then the crazy interest and threats to his life push him to crime, in this case kidnapping. The twist? There are two kidnappers, Dong Cheol (Kim Su Ro of Vampire Cop Ricky) and Min Ho (Lee Seon Gyun of The Customer is Always Right), who just so happen to choose the same target at the same time. Forced to become partners, the bumbling pair encounter yet more problems when the victim’s father doesn’t pick up the phone. After 108 unanswered calls, they have little choice but to give up. For their second try, they ambitiously decide to kidnap Tae Hee (Ko Eun Ah of Sunday Seoul), the daughter of a rich family. But this time it seems like their target is trying to get kidnapped on purpose…

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A Bloody Aria - [KMovie] [2006]

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Park Young-sun, a college professor, meets In-jeong, one of the prettiest students in his class, by chance at an audition for a big musical project. A reckless womanizer, he asks In-jeong to take a ride with him. They drive to a riverside and he attempts to become intimate. However, to his surprise, In-jeong declines his advances, and runs away. While waiting for her to return, Young-sun encounters a group of cruel and brutal youths who may have killed In-jeong…

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A Good Day to Have an Affair - [KMovie] [2007

a good day to have an affair

Two bored housewives have affairs with two different men they meet in online chat rooms. As their relationships developed into offline relationships they often pass each other unwittingly in the hallways of the motels where they meet their lovers.

One day, the lady known as “Dew” is in a room with her aged college lover. Suddenly, her husband bursts through their door, along with police officers that he brought. The other lady known as “Small Bird” is in a adjacent room listening to what’s going on in the other room. Small Bird whispers to her lover to be quiet, because the police officer in the other room is her husband.

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200 Pounds Beauty - [KMovie] [2006]

200 pounds beauty

Hana is a lip sync vocalist for Ami, the famous Korean pop singer. Even though she is always ignored because of her appearance, she has been a bright and lighthearted girl… until Ami humiliates her in front of Sang-jun, her secret love. At last, she makes a decision of a lifetime to have plastic surgery all over her body. Will her unrequited love be returned?

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