KFCC Romance movie review listing page 1

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(95 min)

2003 - Comedy, Romance - South Korea

Ha-young, a high school student, wishes to meet her prince charming, and one day her dream comes true. Sort of. She’s having ‘one of those days’, when she hits Hyung-joon, a university student, who is driving his expensive Lexus430. The car ends up against a wall with a scratch on the front. Ha-young, miraculously escapes the scene and leaves behind a furious Hyung-joon. Hyung-joon is not ready to let this go and decides to track down Ha-young and make her pay for the reparation. Ha-young unfortunately doesn’t have the money Hyung-joon wants, so between them, they sign an agreement. Ha-young has to be Hyung-joon’s slave for the next hundred days. Cleaning his house and his car, carrying his shopping bags and even assisting him with his school reports, it will be a nightmare for Ha-young, until she discovers that Hyung-joon lied about the price of the reparations. From then on, it’s payback time for Ha-young.

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Director : Shin Dong-Yup

Cast : Kim Jae-Won, Ha Ji-Won, Kim Tae-Hyeon

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2046

(130 min)

2004 - Romance, Drama - Hong Kong

2046 is about a writer who incorporates his life and those he meets into a sci-fi romance novel series. The novel in turn becomes a narration of the writer’s own life as he deals with relationships and love. Through his interactions with the girls who live next door to him in room 2046, he learns the reality of his situation.

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Director : Wong Kar Wai

Cast : Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Carina Lau

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3-Iron

(88 min)

2004 - Drama, Romance, Thriller - South Korea

Young Tae-Suk wanders through the apartments of people on vacation: for a while he enjoys their homes, doing small repair jobs and then leaving quietly, not stealing anything. His ghost-like hauntings of these homes are matched when he encounters a battered woman sulking in a lush, apparently empty house. They become attracted to one another, but there are many obstacles for their unconvential affair: an angry husband, police, murder charges, golf balls...

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Director : Kim Ki-Duk

Cast : Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jin-mo Ju

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Ardor

(112 min)

2002 - Drama, Romance - South Korea

After Mi-heum discovers her husband’s infidelity, she begins one of her own.

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Director : Young-joo Byun

Cast : Yoon-jim Kim, Jong-won Lee, Seung-Ri Ha, Min-kyeong Kim, Seong-Yong Kye, Byung-ho Son

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As Tears Go By

(94 min)

1988 - Drama, Gangster, Romance - Hong Kong

Take Scorsese's Mean Streets,I read somewhere on a Wong Kar-Wai website that he received the inspiration from Scorese's but I don't know if it's legit, and you've the basis of the film: Triad Brother Wah (Andy Lau) has to consecutively lookout for his little brother Fly (Jackie Cheung) who causes trouble whenever he's around. Wah's cousin Ngor (Maggie Cheung) just recently arrived and is staying in his flat so that she can continue receiving treatment at the hospital for her illness. The two unexpectedly fall in love but before Wah furthers his relationship with her he must help Fly one last time.

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Director : Wong Kar-wai

Cast : Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Kau Lam, Alex Man, Ronald Wong

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Bet On My Disco

(106 min)

2002 - Comedy, Romance - South Korea

During the early 80’s in a small village in South Korea, Haejok, Pong-pal and Song-gi are three good friends trying to complete their studies, but not without regular trouble. On a casual day, Haejok runs into a mysterious young girl, which he immediately falls in love with. But his attempt at trying to talk to the girl fails miserably. Trying to deal with the case of that mysterious home town girl, Haejok and Song-gig notice that Pong-pal didn’t show up in school for the last few days. They will learn later that Pong-pal`s father had a terrible accident and he and his sister now have to work to pay the regular bills and also for the hospital fees. But the worst is that the mysterious girl is in fact the sister of Pong-pal, she now has to work has a hostess in a popular disco bar owned by a powerful gangster and there is no way she can get away from that job. The only proposition that the boss is willing to accept is if Haejok can win the upcoming Disco contest, he will free Pong-pa

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Director : Kim Dong-Won

Cast : Yang Dong-Geun, Im Chang-Jeong, Han Chae-Yeong, Lee Jeong-jin

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Calmi Cuori Appassionati

(125 min)

2001 - Drama, Romance - Japan

Living in beautiful Florence, Italy, Junsei Agata is an up and coming restoration expert who specializes in historical fine art. Junsei is ready to move forward in his life, but he can’t seem to forget one person from his past. Aoi was his one true love, but destiny had other plans. Remembering they had made a promise to meet atop a cathedral in Florence on Aoi’s thirtieth birthday 10 years ago, their last chance to rekindle their love maybe too late.

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Director : Isamu Nakae

Cast : Yutaka Takenouchi, Kelly Chen, Michael Wong, Kyoko Shinohara, Yusuke Santamaria

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Chinese Odyssey 2002

(97 min)

2002 - Comedy, Romance - Hong Kong

The Emperor and his sister the Princess plan to flee the palace but as usual the Queen Mother discovers their attempt and takes action. The princess managed to escape while the guards went after the emperor. The Princess (who is dressed like a man) gets robbed by a pick-pocket but by a chance encounter she meets Ah Long who invites him/her to dinner. Ah Long has a reputation for being the town bully and thus no one wishes to marry his sister, Ah Long's ulterior purpose of inviting this gentleman to dinner is to find his sister a husband. Ah Long's sister is quickly charmed by this stranger and seeks to have him as her husband. The Emperor receives permission from the Queen Mother to go look for his sister. He encounters Ah Long's sister while Ah Long and the Princess is on their way to the Palace. The Emperor falls in love with Ah Long's sister and decides to live with her at the inn she runs. And thus this is how a complicated love triangle begins.

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Director : Jeff Lau

Cast : Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Vicki Zhao, Chang Chen, Rebecca Pang, Athena Chu Yu

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Crazy Marriage

(106 min)

2002 - Drama, Romance, Comedy - South Korea

CRAZY MARRIAGE (a.k.a. MARRIAGE IS A CRAZY THING) follows Yon-hee (Jeong-hwa Eom) and Joon-young (Woo-seong Kam), two single people fighting a loosing battle in the dating game. Joon-young is the “lonely bachelor-type”, Yon-hee, the “late twenty-something, ticking biological clock-type”. Being the eldest son, Joon-young finds himself under constant pressure by his family to settle down and find a wife. Thanks to the help of a friend, Joon-young finds himself on a blind date with the beautiful Yon-hee. One thing leads to another as the two embark on a journey into learning all about the simultaneous joy and turmoil that love can bring.

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Director : Ha Yu

Cast : Woo-seong Kam, Jeong-hwa Eom, Won-sang Park

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Farewell My Concubine

(171 min)

1993 - Drama, Romance - China

‘Farewell my Concubine’ is based on a novel of the same name by Lilian Lee. Duan Xiao-lou and Cheng Die-yi are the fellow apprentices of a Peking Opera troupe. They grew up together. And they become the opera stars by performing their famous renditions of the opera ‘Ba Wang Bie Ji’ (Farewell My Concubine), with Xiao-lou in the role of the King and Die-yi playing the Concubine. They believed they would perform this opera together for the rest of their lives. During the War of Resistance against Japan, Xiao-lou marries Ju-xian, a local prostitute. This makes Die-yi feel very lonely because he has always felt that his soul is attached to Xiao-lou, so he decides not to perform in the opera with him any more. Long after, the political liberation comes; Die-yi and Xiao-lou decide to perform together on the stage again. However, the Great Cultural Revolution soon begins and they both fall into a state of terrible havoc. The revolution broke their performance again. After some hard days, th

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Director : Chen Kai-ge

Cast : Leslie Cheung, Zhang Feng-yi, Gong Li, Ying Da, Ge You

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Gingko Bed, The

(88 min)

1996 - Horror, Romance - South Korea

In our modern time, a College art instructor named Su-Hyeon lives an ordinary and happy life with his girl friend Seon-Young, who is a professional surgeon. One day, this ordinary life change to a more supernatural adventure when Su-Hyeon begins to have some visions and dreams of a beautiful woman from the old century. One night, wondering in confusion and thinking about the woman of his dreams, Su-Hyeon finds in an open air market, an antique wood gingko bed that is anything but ordinary. Not so long after he got his new acquisition in his apartment, he gets the unexpected visit of two spirits. The first one is Midan, the women he see in his dream, she has come to warn him that his life his in endangered by general Hwang, the second spirit. Su-Hyeon will learn that he is in fact the reincarnation of the lost love of Princess Midan. Midan wanted desperately to see her lost lover again but her efforts awakens the evil spirit of general Hwang, who wants to do everything he can to keep t

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Director : Je-gyu Kang

Cast : Han Seok-Kyu, Shim Hye-Jin, Jin Hee-Kyeong, Shin Hyeon-jun

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Green Snake

(98 min)

1993 - Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Action - Hong Kong

Two snake spirits, ‘White’ (Wong) and ‘Green’ (Cheung) wish to become human and experience human emotions, especially love and sex. In a world where spirits and humans should not mix, White falls in love with a local teacher, but Green becomes deeply jealous of what the couple have, causing a rift between the two. Meanwhile, a Buddhist monk sworn to keep humans and spirits apart is struggling with a snake of his own. He is trying to make sense of his role as a monk, and his weakness seems to be his sex drive. Obviously envious of the ghostly love triangle, he throws himself into trying to expel the snakes from the human world.

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Director : Tsui Hark

Cast : Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Zhao Wen Zou, Wu Kuo Chie

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Green Tea

(83 min)

2003 - Drama, Romance - China

This is an urban love story based on a short novel named Adiliya by the River by Jin Renshun. Wu Fang (Vicki Zhao) is a master's degree student in university, she always blind dates with different men. During each date, she orders a cup of green tea and tells the story about another close friend named Langlang. Wu Fang and Langlang believe that green tea can forecast a person’s love. Chen Ming-liang (Jiang Wen), an experienced man, falls in love with Wu Fang. But later he meets Langlang, a piano player in the bar, who has the same face of Wu Fang but with an absolutely different character. That makes Chen fell into great confusion. Wu Fang and Langlang, what is the relation between them and whom Chen really loves the most?

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Director : Zhang Yuan

Cast : Jiang Wen, Vicki Zhao

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Her Name is Cat

(90 min)

1998 - Action, Crime, Romance - Hong Kong

John, a Chinese cop who has been raised in England, is back in Hong Kong investigating the mysterious death of several Triad bosses. He catches a glimpse of the beautiful female assassin known as Cat, and begins to track her down, unaware that she has been following him with more than business in mind. Despite their opposite roles in life, they embark on a steamy affair.

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Director : Clarence Fok

Cast : Almen Wong, Michael Wong, Ben Lam, Kenix Kwok

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House Of The Flying Daggers

(119 min)

2004 - Wuxia, Drama, Romance - China

During the last years of the Tang Dynasty, a secret faction emerged to fight the corruption that plagued their government. Having killed its leader, police deputies Jin and Leo seek out to wipe out every last member of the House of Flying Daggers clan. Their only lead is a blind girl that works at the local brothel. From there, the movie weaves itself into a story of love, devotion, and betrayal.

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Director : Yimou Zhang

Cast : Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Dandan Song

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Love

(99 min)

1999 - Drama, Romance - South Korea

A marathon runner goes to LA to live with his brother and an adopted sister he never met. He feels an attraction towards her, but she can't seem to stand him and just ignores him at will. While he admires her from afar, a team-mate of his finds him in LA and begs for his return to Korea. His story unfolds before the brother and adopted sister's very eyes. And at that moment, she begins to respect him and the feeling gradually becomes mutual.

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Director : Lee Jang-Soo

Cast : Jung Woo-Sung, Go So-Yeong, Lee Beom-Su, Park Cheol, Jason Lee, Andrew Kwon

Love Undercover

(103 min)

2002 - Comedy, Romance - Hong Kong

A job desk at the Lost Property Department is the only opportunity that L.K. Fong could get after graduating from the Police Academy and god knows how boring that job is. But one day an opportunity strikes her, when the Special Crimes Division chief chooses her for an undercover mission. The mission is very simple, try to sneak a microphone to a dinner table where the Godfather's son, Ah Kuen is making a deal, even a simple recruit can do this, right? But thing turn out into a complete mess and Ah Kuen is starting to fall for Fong. The chief see this opportunity and decide that Fong should play the game. But with spending time with Ah Kuen, Fong is also stating to have real feeling for the gangster, which is making the situation very complicated as she will have to choose to follow her duty over her feelings.

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Director : Joe Ma

Cast : Miriam Yeung, Daniel Wu, Iris Wong, Raymond Wong, Joe Lee, Wyman Wong

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Love on Delivery

(99 min)

1994 - Comedy, Romance - Hong Kong

Stephen Chow plays a mild-mannered delivery boy who is essentially down on his luck. He meets Christy Chung at the Judo school where she is taking lessons. The instructor there considers himself quite the ladies man, thus frequently attempting to hit on young Christy. When Chow arrives for a delivery, Chung pretends to be interested in him to get the instructor off her back, of course making Chow extremely smitten. The instructor challenges Chow, but he is deemed a coward when he ducks a punch. So our hero goes under the instruction of a shady martial arts teacher (see con man) played by Ng Man Tat. Training commences and confidence is built, resulting in some of the most side-splitting fights ever!!

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Director : Lee Lik Chi

Cast : Stephen Chow, Christy Chung, Ng Man Tat, Peter Lai, Ben Lam, Paul Chun

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Love on a Diet

(94 min)

2001 - Comedy, Romance - Hong Kong

After Mini Mo's Japanese boyfriend, Kurokawa, left her ten years ago to pursue his musical career abroad, she helplessly falls victim to a case of "after-breakup depression." During her time of anguish and misery, Mini Mo turned to food to satisfy her loneliness. She ate and ate until she became too obese for her own good. When Kurokawa returns from his trip, Mini realizes that she cannot confront him with her "new look" and becomes his hapless groupie who admires him from afar. During this time of adversity, Mini befriends a fellow fatty and knives seller, Fatso. While Kurokawa's thoughts linger on the times he spent with Mini, he professes his love for her on a radio station and asks to meet him in three months where they first separated. How can Mini Mo lose a considerable amount of excess fat in three months? It is up to Fatso and his gang of colon cleaning, tapeworm feeding friends to aid in this dilemma.

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Director : Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai

Cast : Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Rikiya Kurokawa, Asuka Higuchi

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Madeleine

(119 min)

2003 - Drama, Romance, Comedy - South Korea

Ji-Suk (Jo In-Seong) and Hee-Jin (Shin Min-Ah) were junior high school classmates. By chance, the two happen to meet again several years later when Ji-Suk goes to cut his hair, where Hee-Jin is a senior hair designer. Their paths cross by chance a few more times and the two grow closer. Finally, Hee-jin suggests a ‘one month romance.’ “Neither one of us can say ‘Let’s break up’ before the month is up! After a month, we part ways grandly!” The two have nothing in common, but when they are together, everything is so right. Things take a turn for the worse when an unexpected complication and old friends come into their lives. This is the story of Hee-Jin and Ji-Suk’s romance through happy and tragic moments.

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Director : Park Gwang-Chun

Cast : Jo In-Seong, Shin Min-Ah