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Gangster High – [KMovie] [2006]

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High school gangs clash in a crimson-soaked display of violence in director Park Ki-hyung's brooding tale of adolescent conflict. Sang-ho (Jeong Gyeong-ho) isn't the type to take kindly to bullies, and when formidable thug Hong-gyu begins pushing around a close friend he uses his fists to show his disapproval. When peacemaker Jae-gu (Lee Tae-seong) shows up on the scene, the brawling teens decide to set their differences aside and combine forces to form a school gang they dub The Tigers. It's not long before the Tigers get an opportunity to flex their might when they find rival East High gang harassing defenseless student Su-heui (Jang Heui-jin), and commence to teaching their ill-mannered foes a painful lesson in how to treat a lady. Tensions between the gangs later heat up to a fever pitch when Sang-ho takes a liking to Su-huei, and violently jealous East High leader Jong-seok (Yeon Je-wook) uses the blossoming romance as a reason for launching an all out war against The Tigers. Later, after Jong-seok breaks the leg of mild-mannered Tiger Chang-bae (Lee Heng-seok) and another Tiger is inadvertently killed in the ensuing fracas, Sang-ho masterminds a brutal assault on the East High gang that finds an entire pool hall exploding into chaos

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Volcano High / WaSanGo – [KMovie] [2001]

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Kim Kyang-Soo (Jang Hyuk) was sleeping in his physics lesson, when teacher write X on blackboard. Teacher saw Kyang-Soo sleeping and threw his chalk towards Kyang-Soo. Kyang-Soo paused it and push it back, injured teacher. Kyang-Soo got expelled from his 8th Korean high school, and found his 9th School – WaSanGo. WaSanGo is celebrating its 108th anniversary, and the students there are excellent martial experts. They train everyday because there was a secret manuscript in WSG, with principal. The first one is the head of gang, title Dark Oxen, name Jang Rhang. He always bully classmates. The second one is the prettiest girl in WSG, Icy Jade (Shin Min-ah). She is sword expert. The third one is the Tea Expert, the best martial master in WSG, name Hak-Rim Song(SangWoo Kwone). HakRim had finished tea leaves bottle, and bring the bottle to principal, but met Kyang-Soo and both fight. Finally both got hurt and make HakRim to enter Medical Inspection Room, which HakRim had never attended, that makes some weaker WSG students to shock to see HakRim. HakRim cured himself and bring the tea bottle to principal room, but only met vice. HakRim request Vice to hand bottle to principal. Lunch time, Jang Rhang bully a classmate because the classmate was eating Fu-Yu (Fujian Red Sour ToFu) that makes JangRhang to memorize his hideous mother. HakRim stopped JangRhang by telling JangRhang that fighting is prohibited in lunch time. JangRhang order his gangster to change HakRim's tea bottle into poison leaves and principal was killed. Vice got paper that HakRim is the suspect. HakRim was jailed. Icy Jade knew HakRim isn't the one who killed principal, visited him with her best female friend. HakRim saw Icy Jade, order her to bring Kyang-Soo to HakRim. HakRim trained Kyang-Soo with all his(HakRim) known martial skills. JangRhang challenge all classmates with his "2-day Ultimatum" without any WSG-schoolmates to challenge, Icy Jade trained her sword skills so that she can prepare herself and fight against JangRhang. But JangRhang reveal that the 2-day ultimatum was just "Chasing his own Love – Icy Jade", Icy Jade refused JangRhang's love. Icy Jade violated school rules and was going to expelled from WSG but Kyang-Soo made her to stay in WSG. Icy Jade finally love Kyang-Soo and Kyang-Soo finally succeeded to graduate without being expelled from WSG anymore.

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Marrying the Mafia III / Gamun-ui buhwal: Gamunui yeonggwang 3 – [KMovie][2006]

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This installment evolves around Mrs. Hong's family, who launches a new business of setting up a kimchi manufacturing company after putting an end to their crime-related dirty business. The new business is a huge success due to Mrs. Hong's talent in food, and her three sons and their wives help her to write a new chapter for their family history, learning what an ordinary man's life is like.

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Marrying The Mafia 2 – [KMovie] [2005]

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"Marrying the Mafia II" is the most successful local comedy film, attracting over 5 million moviegoers this year. The sequel to the popular 2002 comedy stars Shin Hyeon-joon and KIm Won-hee, and tells a story of a powerful mafia family with a daughter-in-law whose job is a prosecutor. Mrs. Hong is the godmother of a big gang, and she wants to have an intelligent daughter-in-law to make her gang prosper. But she faces a major crisis as her son Jang In-jae (played by Shin) falls in love with star prosecutor Kim Jin-kyung (KIm Won-hee), who is out to rid the nation of gangsters.

Mrs. Hong, the big boss of a powerful mafia group gives a mission to her three sons to find an elite daughter-in-law for her first son, In-jae. In-jae finally crashes into a beautiful lady, Jin-kyung, who looks to be his soul mate. However, he finds out that Jin-kyung is a prosecutor from the homicide department and the family seems to be in big danger!

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Marrying The Mafia 1 – [KMovie] [2002]

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 Dae-suh (Jun-ho Jeong) is an up-and-coming businessman who wakes up next to a beautiful young stranger, Jin-kyung (Jeong-eun Kim), after a night of drunken debauchery. Willing to write off the situation as an unfortunate one-night-stand, Dae-suh is dismayed to learn that Jin-kyung is the daughter of a powerful mob boss who sees an opportunity for political legitimacy in the respectable young executive. It isn't long before Dae-suh finds himself being threatened into marriage by Jin-kyung's mobster family in a series of slapstick scenarios that bring a thoroughly unconventional and distinctly South Korean approach to the standard romantic-comedy formula.

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The Aggressives / Taepungtaeyang – [KMovie] [2005]

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The Aggressives centers on Soyo (Chun Jung Myung), a seemingly quiet, unassuming teenager whose ordinary humdrum life soon changes when he discovers the thrill of inline skating. His love for the sport eventually causes him to meet up with a group of skater boys that include Moggy (Kim Kang Woo), a kid whose awesome board skills immediately capture Soyo's attention. Moggy's girlfriend, Hanju (Jo Yi Jin), asks Soyo to join them and with his parents out of the picture, Soyo quickly immerses himself in this new subculture, eventually bunking with the team. His friendship with Moggy and Hanju soon takes off, and his loyalty to the team's leader Gabpa (Lee Chun Hee) soon results in an exciting new development in the romance department.
But when Moggy is forced to shoot a commercial to score a plane ticket to the world inline skating championships, he snaps and deliberately causes an accident. Moggy's act puts the whole gang into debt, forcing the team to scramble for money to recoup the loss. A rift soon develops among the team members: Moggy stops skating, Hanju and Gapba want to leave as well, and even the once-eager Soyo starts to lose interest. Can the team pull it together or is their friendship doomed to failure?
As one of the first graduates of the Korean National University of Arts' School of Film & Multimedia, Jeon Jae Eun has made quite a name for herself in the intervening years. Her feature-length debut, Take Care of My Cat received invites to nearly forty international film festivals, earning various nominations and even taking home a few awards. For The Aggressives, Jeon Jae Eun taps into the raw energy of this younger generation, intertwining fantasy and reality in her tale of urban angst and infectious vitality!

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Haan – [KMovie] [2003]

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Little is known of Han Gil Su, a Korean national who reportedly worked as a double agent in Hawaii during the Second World War. But now his story is brought to the big screen, in director Lee In Soo’s Haan. Celebrated TV actor Ahn Jae Mo stars as Han, who after moving from Korea to Hawaii with his family at the age of five, later worked for the Japanese consulate in Honolulu. There he allegedly discovered news about Japan’s imminent attack on Pearl Harbor and informed various American officials. His warnings were ignored, however, and on December 7th, 1941 more than 2000 people were killed when the Japanese attacked. Im Yoo Jin co-stars as the Japanese woman who helps Han, at the risk of her own life, in this taut military thriller about the life of an unsung Korean hero, only now receiving the acknowledgment he deserves.

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Memories Of Murder / Salinui Chueok – [KMovie] [2003]

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Based on a true story, in 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo Tae-Yoon from Seul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial-killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same "modus-operandi", the detectives find leads of the assassin.

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Guns & Talks – [KMovie] [2001]

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Sang-Yun (Shin Hyun-Joon), Jung-Woo (Shin Ha-Kyun), Jae-Young (Jung Jae-Young), and Ha-Yun (Won Bin) are professional killers for hire. Sang-Yun is the leader, Jung-Woo the explosives expert, Jae-Young the sharpshooter, and Ha-Yun the computer genius. The four are the perfect combination, working together to complete their missions. One day, another mission: this time from a TV news announcer that the four have admired for a time. Unable to refuse her request, the four agree to take on their most dangerous mission yet, aspiring to commit the perfect murder.

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Tale of Cinema – [KMovie] [2005]

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In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and move apart from one another, centering around their love for cinema. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to follow him in his fatal gesture. Coming out of a cinema, Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, and recognizes her: she is the main actress in the film he has just seen. The life of this wavering and distressed young man strangely echoes the one of the young man from the beginning…

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