KFCC South Korea movie review listing page 2

(97 min)

1998 - Drama - South Korea

Jung-won is stricken with a terminal illness and he doesn't have much time left. As his days become more limited, Jun-won takes it slow and enjoys life in all it's glorious aspects. One day, a parking-meter maid comes in and makes small talk with Jun-won. The small talks slowly become more personal and a relationship flourishes between the two. However, Jung-won, knowing his limited time, refuses to let Darim get too close. He knows that the relationship would take more time than he has left. Through his remaining days, he bonds with his family, friends, and most of all, Darim.

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Director : Jin-Ho Hur

Cast : Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha Shim, Goo Shin, Ji-hye Oh, Han-wi Lee, Mi-seon Jeon

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Cinderella

(97 min)

2006 - Horror, Drama - South Korea

Hyunsu has a close relationship with her mother Yoon Hee, who's job is a plastic surgeon. Yoon Hee has performed surgery on some of her daughters friends, and everyone is shocked when one of these young girls dies in mysterious circumstances. Although the incidence is viewed as a tragic accident, when more of the group of friends start to die it becomes clear that it cannot be a coincidence. Hyunsu begins to suspect that her mother may understand more about the events than she admits...

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Director : Bong Man-dae

Cast : Do Ji-won, Shin Se-kyung

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Comrade

(123 min)

2003 - Drama - South Korea

Lim Byong-ho (Han Seok-Gyu) is a ranking North Korean agent working at the embassy in East Germany, who defects by narrowly escaping and making his way through the Berlin Wall’s Checkpoint Charlie in 1980. Chased by North Korean officials and snipers, Lim is met on the other side of the wall by South Korean officials, who carry him away to safety. Lim is taken to the Central Intelligence Agency headquarte in Seoul’s Namsan Mountain. After being tortured repeatedly, the Korean CIA is finally convinced that Lim is telling the truth: that he left North Korea for freedom from communism. Lim is then put to work for the CIA, at first training operatives on North Korean tactics, and later becoming the heart of the agency as a special information analyst.

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Director : Kim Hyeon-Jeong

Cast : Han Seok-Gyu, Go So-Yeong

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Conduct Zero

(100 min)

2002 - Comedy - South Korea

Joong-Pil is the leader of his school. He runs things, he controls people lower than him, and he's pretty vacant in the studying department (despite his threatening, "scholarly" advice to everyone else). His position as king of the hill is threatened at the worst possible time. Just as Sang-Mahn seems to be rolling in on his turf, Joong-Pil finds love in someone completely different from him. Is he getting soft and threatening his position at the top of the totem, or was he all talk in the first place?

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Director : Cho Keun-Sik

Cast : Ryu Seung-Bum, Im Eun-Kyung, Gong Hyo-Jin, Kim Kwang-Il, Bong Tae-Gyu, Choi Woo-Hyuk

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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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Crying Fist

(117 min)

2005 - Drama - South Korea

Kang Tae-Shik is an aging boxer with his glory days behind him. Although a silver medallist in the Asian Games in 1990, he’s now a poor man chased by debt-collectors and with little to offer his increasingly distant wife and son. He spends his days on the streets letting passers-by punch him for money. Yoo Sang-Hwan is a young thug who spends his days committing crimes and running with a gang. When the robbery of a debt-collector turns nasty, Sang-Hwan is arrested and given a five year prison sentence. His father is heartbroken and encourages his son to improve himself. After getting into trouble for fighting in the prison, Sang-Hwan is encouraged by the wardens to learn how to box as a way to control his anger and frustration. Both Kang Tae-Shik and Yoo Sang-Hwang struggle with how to regain control of their lives. Through boxing the two of them begin their separate journeys towards self-respect.

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Director : Ryoo Seung-wan

Cast : Choi Min-Sik, Ryoo Seung-beom, Ahn Kil-Khang, Byeon Hie-Bong

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Die Bad

(95 min)

2000 - Drama, Experimental - South Korea

"Die Bad" is four stories thoroughly interconnected by tragedy and sins of the past. A Korean gangster flick dealing with one catastrophic event in a young man's life and the ripple effect it has on another, spreading through friendship, family and the roles we play in our lives. Rumble: A small scuffle in a billiards hall, between art and technical school students, end in tragedy as Sung-Bin inadvertently takes the life of Hyun-Su. Nightmare: Years later when Sung-Bin is set free from prison, he begins having waking nightmares of his past killing as he attempts to conform to regular life. With his father disowning him and an aggressive officer checking up on him randomly, Sung-Bin descends into madness and is driven into the underworld of crime. Modern Man: Struggling to leave his past and the events of the pool hall behind him, Suk-Hwan becomes an officer of the law. In a stakeout in his car, he follows the boss of a local gang, unaware that Sung-bin is a part of.

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Director : Ryu Sung-Wan

Cast : Ryu Sung-Wan, Ryu Sung-Bin, Park Sung-Bin, Lee Chang-Ho

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Dream Of A Warrior

(84 min)

2001 - Swordplay, Fantasy - South Korea

Dean is tormented by a recurring dream of a mysterious girl in his dream who apparently needs his help. He then meets with Dr. Jang convinces him to save his daughter, Nam-Hong (Rose) who disappeared to another dimension while working on the CS23, a time machine Dr. Jang had created years before. Dean is then sent to his past life via the new CS1004 time machine, where he realizes that Nam-Hong has a striking resemblance to the woman in his dreams. Is it all mere coincidence?

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Director : Park Hee Joon

Cast : Leon Lai, Lee Na Young, Yoon Tae Young, Park Eun Hye, Kim Ji Moo

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Failan

(116 min)

2001 - Drama - South Korea

After the death of her parents, Failan moves to Korea, penniless, hoping to make a living. She gets involved with an agency that arranges a marriage to a man named Lee Kang-jae, whom she has never met. Her new husband brings her great comfort after the troubled times of the past. In reality, he cares little for his wife, as he lives a less-than-moral life on the side.

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Director : Song Hae-Seong

Cast : Cecilia Cheung, Choi Min-shik, Gong Hyeong-Jin

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Fighter In The Wind

(120 min)

2004 - Martial Arts, Drama - South Korea

Excerpted from masutatsuoyama.com. Masutatsu Oyama (Choi Baedal) took on all challengers, resulting in fights with 270 different people. The vast majority of these were defeated with one punch! A fight never lasted more than three minutes, and most rarely lasted more than a few seconds. His fighting principle was simple — if he got through to you, that was it. If he hit you, you broke. If you blocked a rib punch, your arm was broken or dislocated. If you didn't block, your rib was broken. He became known as the Godhand, a living manifestation of the Japanese warriors' maxim ichi geki, hissatsu (one strike, certain death). To him, this was the true aim of technique in karate. The fancy footwork and intricate techniques were secondary (though he was also known for the power of his head kicks).

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Director : Yun-ho Yang

Cast : Dong-kun Yang, Aya Hirayama, Masaya Kato, Tae-woo Jeong, Doo-hong Jung

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Flower Island

(115 min)

2001 - Drama - South Korea

Three women at different points in their lives come together to escape their painful situations. The three set out to locate a mythical island off the coast of South Korea which is rumored to possess the power to take away all of one’s sorrows.

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Director : Song Il-gon

Cast : Jue-hie Seo, Yu-jin Lim, Hye-na Kim

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Flying Boys

(120 min)

2004 - Drama, Comedy - South Korea

Min-jae is in his final year of high school and is faced with has the two biggest problems of being a teenager: he needs to decide what he would like to do with his future, and he has a crush on Soo-jin - a teenage girl who lives in the same building. Min-jae and his friends finish their exams a decide to celebrate by getting drunk and 'borrowing' Min-jae's fathers car. When Min-jae is caught by the local ballet teacher - driving intoxicated and without a license – he finds himself and his friends being blackmailed into attending her dance classes. On arrival at the dance studios, Min-jae isn't pleased to find that Soo-jin will also be taking the class - although he soon realises that it might give him a chance to get to know her...

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Director : Byeong Yeong-joo

Cast : Yoon Kye-sang, Kim Min-jung, Do Ji-won, Lee Jun-ki, Nan Eun-kyeong

Foul King, The

(102 min)

2000 - Comedy, Drama, Sport - South Korea

Dao-Ho a banker with no self confidence gets beaten down by his boss because he has poor performance and is sometimes late for work. He hopelessly try to sign up for some martial art lessons but gives up before he even starts. He notices a local wrestling gym on his way home and tries to sign up but the coach does not want to have anything to do with him. A few days later the coach of the gym is offered a contract for a fixed match, he needs to find a cheating wrestler and decides to take on Dao-Ho and train him.

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Director : Kim Ji-wun

Cast : Song Kang-ho, Chang Jin-young, Park Sang-myeon, Cheong Wung-in, Song Young-chang, Chang Hang-seon

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Friend

(113 min)

2001 - Drama - South Korea

Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grow up together in the wearisome years of the 1970's. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different path in life. After enrolling in college, Sang-taek and Joong-ho return to visit Dong-su and Jeong-suk, only to find one of them in jail and the other on drugs. Slowly, life takes a difficult turn where friends become rivals in the world of crime. "Friend" is a remarkable true story about friendship and the different places that fate takes them, from being the best of friends to enemies on the streets of the real world. "Friend" is a must see Korean event film that will raise the bar for every drama there afterwards.

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Director : Kwak Kyung-taek

Cast : Yoo Oh-sung, Jang Dong-gun, Seo Tae-hwa, Jeong Un-taek

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Fun Movie

(120 min)

2002 - Comedy - South Korea

Japanese extremist plots to smuggle in a briefcase of a new brand of explosives into South Korea. They plan to infiltrate the commemoration ceremony of the World Cup games and blow up the North and South Korean leaders and the Japanese emperor. Wait, this sounds so familiar. Hmm...

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Director : Chang Gyu-seong

Cast : Im Won-Hwi, Kim Jun-eun, Kim Su Roh, Suh Tae-hwa

Ghost House

(120 min)

2004 - Comedy, Horror - South Korea

The day that Pil-gi waited for so many years has finally come: he’s getting his own house, the last wish of his deceased father. And what a perfect house it is! Big, beautiful, isolated, next to the ocean and at that price, Pil-gi couldn't have found a better place. All is going fine, until some inexplicable event start to happen in the house. It seems that there’s an evil spirit claiming the house as its own. The village gossip confirms Pil-gi's worries. Each night is becoming a nightmare for him, as the ghost is doing everything it can to expel Pil-gi from living peacefully in his new home. Then one day, an unpleasant accident happens to Pil-gi. When Pil-gi finally wakes up from his bad experience, he discovers that he possesses a new ability. Now he can not only sees ghosts, but can also communicate with them. It is time for Pil-gi to take revenge on the ghost that’s been haunting his beloved house.

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Director : Sang-jin Kim

Cast : Seung-won Cha, Seo-hee Jang, Tae-yeong Son, Yu-yeong Jin, Hang-Seon Jang, Hang-jun Kang

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Ghost, The

(64 min)

2004 - Horror - South Korea

Ji-Won is a bright student (or so we're told: we never see her say or do anything really bright). Only trouble: she suffers from amnesia. Something terrible happened in her past, but there's no one in the world to tell her what that was. Her demented mother doesn't tell her, her schoolfriends don't tell her. Then some of the friends start dying. They're technically drowned (lungs filled with water), although found in their living or photo rooms. The police don't find this particularly strange, even after a mental patient who was tied up to her bed is found drowned in this very bed. Happens all the time. Anyway, the usual 'unraveling of the mystery from the past' follows, with the usual 'mean trick backfired' revealed, the usual 'revenge', the usual confrontation, and the slightly unusual (because so preposterous) twist ending.

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Director : Kim Tae-Kyung

Cast : Kim Ha-Neul, Nam Sang-Mi, Ryu Jin

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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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Go

(117 min)

2001 - Drama - Japan, South Korea

Based on the novel by Kaneshiro Kazuki, the film centers around Sugihara: a young Japanese teenager of Korean ancestry in Japan. Up until now, he has attended Korean school, but through curiousity, decides to attend a Japanese high school. The story focuses on the alienation Sugihara feels being considered "a foreigner" in his own country, as well as dealing with the usual teenage problems...dealing with parents (his father tries to push him into boxing), and falling in love.

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Director : Isao Yukisada

Cast : Yosuke Kubozuka, Kou Shibasaki, Kim Min

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Green Fish

(111 min)

1997 - Drama, Gangster - South Korea

Mak-Dong ha just finished his military service and is returning home to his family. On the train ride home he saves a woman from some thugs but takes a beating himself. When he finally gets home he finds everything has changed in his small town, in his memories it was pleasant and quiet and now there are high rises going up everywhere. Mak-Dong goes out searching for a way to make some money for his family and eventually meets the woman from the train. Little did Mak-Dong know that she is linked to organised crime, she gets him a job but it is one that leads him to the doorstep of the underworld. There will be no turning back for Mak-Dong.

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Director : Lee Chang-Dong

Cast : Han Suk-Gyu, Sim Hye-Jin, Moon Sung-Keun

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