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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
(136 min)
2002 - Action, Science Fiction - South Korea
In an alternate future, Japan has won World War II, and has chaged the future as we know it. The outcome has had a great impact on everything, and it’s a completely different world in 2009 Lost Memories. It is a world in which Japan now has Korea under it’s sphere of influence. An artifact exhibition hosted by the Inoue Foundation is layed seige to for an unknown purpose by an underground Korean anti-government group called the Hureisenjin. The two JBI (Japanese Bureau of Investigation) agents assigned to deal with the terrorist situation are special agents Sakamoto Masayuki (Jang Dong-Geun) and his close friend Saigo Shojiro (Toru Nakamura). After the raid, Sakamoto begins to investigate the case and begins to believe he’s caught up in a conspiracy that leads him to believe that Seoul may not be a part of Japan and sets out on his own to find the truth. However what he finds may be beyond even he could imagine.
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Director : Lee Sih-Myong
Cast : Jang Dong-Geon, Toru Nakamura, Seo Jin-Ho
(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
(94 min)
1995 - Drama - South Korea
In a lonely sky rise apartment building two women live as neighbors; one, a compulsive cook, the other an introverted writer. The story opens with the arrival of a plain clothes police officer. A conversation segues into a full blown interrogation as we find out that the writer neighbor is missing without a trace. As the story progresses, we learn the details that lead up to the disappearance of the writer, as well as the true nature of the two women’s relationship.
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Director : Chul-Soo Park
Cast : Eun-jin Bang, Sin-Hye Hwang
(90 min)
1983 - Martial Arts - Hong Kong, South Korea
A monastery holds four books containing the secrets of its powerful martial arts techniques. Everybody wants to get their hands on them, including a band of local evil types. The abbot is killed, and the head students begin to argue over who should keep the books safe.
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Director : Godfrey Ho, Tommy Kim
Cast : Hwang Jang Lee, Dragon Lee, Jacky Kim
(99 min)
2001 - Comedy - South Korea
Two girls decide to borrow a car and go on a road trip, but they find themselves getting into escalating trouble. They do not realise that the contains guns belonging to a corrupt cop and two gangsters. The girls meet two other girls who are frustrated with their lives, and before long, they are robbing convenience stores while avoiding the gangsters and the Korean police force. All the girls want to do is get home and pretend that nothing ever happened, but to make things even more tricky, teenagers all over Korea are comiting copycat crimes.
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Director : Shin Seung-Su
Cast : Lee Yo-Won, Kim Min-Seon, Lee Yeong-Jin, Jo Eun-Ji
(114 min)
2004 - Swordplay, Kung Fu, Comedy - South Korea
Sang-hwan is a young, naïve, but kind-hearted policeman always trying to clean the world from injustice. However, the reality is that he can’t even bring the smallest of local gangsters to justice. During an attempt to arrest a purse thief, he ends up getting accidentally knocked out by Jang Woo-rim, Jaun’s daughter. Jaun is a high member of the Seven Masters, a group of martial art masters, guardians of the secrets of Arahan. While waking up Sang-hwan from the knockout, Jaun accidentally discovers that Sang-hwan has incredible Chi powers and has the high potential of becoming a formidable disciple. Meanwhile, the evil HeugUn, an original of the Seven Master’s group, has escaped from his eternal prison and is again seeking Jaun who holds the key to his ultimate power.
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Director : Ryoo Seung-wan
Cast : Ryoo Seung-Bum, Ahn Seung-Gi, Jung Doo-Hong, Yun So-Y
(98 min)
2006 - Horror - South Korea
So-Young and her rookie assistant are investigating a series of bizarre (bloodless!) murders. All the victims seem to have died due to an acid released in their bodies. But wait a minute: what about the ghost-girl we see during each uninspired death scene? As they discover more about the case, they come to realize that the victims are somehow related to a young girl's death ten years ago. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to decide that it must be her ghost avenging upon the miscreants. Or, perhaps this whole ghost-thing is just a sham, and a human agent is behind it all? Will 90 minutes be enough to unravel this complicated mystery???
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Director : Ahn Sang Hoon
Cast : Dong-Wook Lee, Jong-su Lee, Yun-ah Song
(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
(120 min)
1999 - Comedy - South Korea
Four guys are siting around in a convenience store eating some ramen soup. Looking for something to do, one of them says " Lets Attack the Gas Station again ". The 4 guys rush a corner gas station, which they robbed weeks before; they find the cash register nearly empty. While holding the staff out of sight a customer comes to the gas station, after getting paid for the gas they decide to take the whole gas station hostage and pump gas for personal profit. The night is only starting and there is a lot in store for our would-be gas station attendants.
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Director : Kim Sang-Jin
Cast : Lee Seong-Jae, Yoo Ooh-Seong, Kang Seong-Jin, Yoo Ji-Tae, Park Young-Kyoo, Chung Joon
(101 min)
2001 - Drama - South Korea
While walking through a crowded street Han-Gi notices Sun-Hwa - a young college girl - waiting on a bench for her boyfriend. Immediately fascinated, Han-Gi approaches the girl and sits down next to her, prompting the young girl to move away quickly. When her boyfriend arrives Han-Gi suddenly grabs the girl and gives her a long kiss while the boyfriend attempts to pry him off of her. The police get involved and beat Han-Gi when he refuses to apologise to the girl - who then spits in his face. Later, Han-Gi tracks Sun-Hwa and her boyfriend down. When Sun-Hwa is alone, she falls for into a trap, which Han-Gi has set, which puts her thousands of dollars into debt and forces her to sell her body for cash.
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Director : Kim Ki-Duk
Cast : Cho Jae-Hyun, Seo Won, Kim Yun-Tae, Choi Duek-Mon, Choi Yoon-Young
(120 min)
1997 - Action, Drama, Gangster - South Korea
Min is always getting into trouble with his best friend Tae-Su, they are often getting into gang fights. Tae-Su finds a job in the world of organized crime but Min declines saying his mother wishes he would get an education. After Min enrolled into a new school he befriended Hwan another trouble maker. One night at a local club Min gets auctioned off to a girl (Romy) to be slave for a night. He falls in love with Romy and continues to see her but she keeps the distance between them because she is concentrating on her education to get into college. As time goes by Tae-Su ends up in prison, Romy disappears, and Min and Hwan open a small restaurant. Tae-Su dreams of becoming a respected mob boss once he leaves prison, Romy is driven insane by an accident and gives up on her education, Hwan hopes to have a big restaurant someday and Min just keeps waiting for Romy to call him.
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Director : Kim Seong-Su
Cast : Jeong Wu-Seong, Ko So-Young, Yoo Oh-Seong, Lim Chang-Jeong, Sa Hyeon-Jin, Song Keum-Shik
(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
(118 min)
2000 - Swordplay, Drama - South Korea
In 14th century China when the country was under the rule of the Mongols, two lovers are separated by an unexpected event. Jinha is an orphan studying a powerful martial arts form from his uncle. Sullie is the daughter of a respected Mongol general. Jinha and Sullie have known each other since their childhood. Sullie now has to leave the region and marry an aristocrat, but Jinha doesn't agree with this decision and wants to do something in order to prevent this from happening. But his uncle will try to reason him and explain to him that he has to continue his training, until a more dramatic event happens. His uncle will now have to reveal to him the truth about his past and who were his real parents who really have been killed by a group of people who were looking for the secrets of Bichun, the powerful secret martial art form that Jinha just so happens to be learning. With his personal small army composed of 10 masterful swordsmen, Jinha will do everything he can to punish those who m
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Director : Kim Young-jun
Cast : Shin Hyeon-jun, Kim Hi-seon, Jeong Jin-young, Jang Dong-Jik, Choi Jin-hee, Seo Tae-hwa
(116 min)
2004 - Action, Comedy, Crime - South Korea
Choi Chang-hyuk seeks out the great Mr. Kim, a retired criminal, to put together a powerhouse team of swindlers to tackle the score of a lifetime. After it goes terribly wrong, the cops try to use Choi’s girlfriend, In-Keung, to solve the mystery behind the missing gang of thieves and ultimately gain enough evidence to end their reign of terror. Only then, everybody finds themselves trapped in a tangled web of double and triple crosses.
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Director : Dong-hun Choi
Cast : Shin-yang Park, Jung-ah Yum, Yun-shik Baek, Wong-sang Park, Mun-shik Lee, Sang-ho Kim
(114 min)
2005 - Action, Drama, Gangster - South Korea
Sunwoo is the very trusted right hand man of underworld boss Kang. When Kang plans to goes away for three days he asks Sunwoo to keep an eye on his young girlfriend whom he suspects may be cheating on him. Sunwoo keeps an eye on the girl who begins to intrigue him, while keeping things under control at his boss’s hotel. Sunwoo is a man who likes to remain in control at all times – using whatever means are necessary. One day he makes an uncharacteristically merciful decision, the result of which changes his life completely.
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Director : Kim Jee-Woon
Cast : Kim Young-Chul, Lee Byung-Hun, Shin Mina
(116 min)
2006 - Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime - South Korea
Sang Do is a Busan drug dealer for whom business is going very well. His only problem is that he is being hassled by a Detective Ho who repeatedly arrests him up and threatens to send him to jail if he doesn’t inform on other dealers and suppliers. When an arrest involving Sang Do’s help goes badly wrong, the small time dealer finds himself serving jail-time and Detective Ho is suspended. On Sang Do’s release the two try to re-establish themselves on their opposite sides of the law by working together to take down a major drug-lord…
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Director : Choi Ho
Cast : Ryoo Seung-beom, Hwang Jeong-min, Kim Hee-ra, Choo Ja-hyeon
(108 min)
2003 - Drama, Action - South Korea
The story revolves around three officers who meet while studying deep-sea diving in a naval academy. Of the three, the talkative and carefree Kim Jun (Shin Hyeon-jun) and the quiet and serious Lee Tae-yon (Kim Yeong-ho) are best friends, inseparable since childhood. They are willing to do anything for each other, including risk their lives, until Kang Su-jin (Shin Eun-gyeong), an attractive and ambitious fellow officer, comes between them. Strong feelings develop between Jun and Su-jin, but when Jun realizes his best friend is also in love with her, he suddenly breaks off the relationship just as she leaves for England to receive special training. Time passes, and the two friends become trainees at the Special Salvage Unit, top deep-sea diving program of the nation, and Su-jin, promoted to major, returns into their lives as an instructor. The three find themselves back in an awkward triangle, but they have bigger problems now, as they have to deal with the head of the training progr
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Director : Lee Jeong-Gul
Cast : Shin Hyeon-jun, Shin Eun-Gyeong, Kim Yeong-Ho
(116 min)
2002 - Drama - South Korea
Champion is the true story of Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo who rose from poverty in the late ‘70s, and through the Korean boxing ranks, onto his fight against Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini in 1982, which ended in tragedy.
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Director : Kwak Keung Taek
Cast : Yu Oh-Seong, Chae Min-Seo, Yun Seung-Won, Jeong Du-hong, Kim Byeong-Seo, Ji Dae-Han
(104 min)
1996 - Comedy - South Korea
Jeha is an ex-reporter with hacking skills who is hired by the police to find Dark Messiah, the creator of a new deadly computer virus. Jeha decides to track down the girl that is shown on the screen when the virus is run. He eventually find Minhee, an aspiring porn start, who had no clue that she appeared in this virus, together Minhee and Jeha decide to track down the hackers. After they discover the location of the hackers, Jeha decides to join forces with them due to a twist of events and they will try create a pirate porno movie station.
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Director : Lee Jeong-Kuk
Cast : Shin Hyeon-jun, Hong Kyeong-In, Choi Seon-Min, Park Keun-Hyeong, Sohn Jong-Ho, Lee Tae-Yeol
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