KFCC South Korea movie review listing page 5

(138 min)

2002 - Action - South Korea

A cop's job is to protect the public, but Chul-Jung is not an ordinary cop. His work involves maybe a little too much illegal activity that even his mother can't tell if he is a gangster or a cop. But after a raid at a local drug dealer, Chul-Jung and his partner receive the news that an internal investigation has been opened on their case, suspecting their illegal activities. Chul-Jung now has to give up his usual activities and try to be a good cop, something that is really new for him. Unfortunately for him, due to his lack of effort of trying to get any gangsters in prison, his superior seem to take pleasure of insulting and threatening him. One night, investigating on an old case, Chul-Jung crosses the path of a mysterious man, unaware that this man as just committed a terrible and vicious murder. That man is Gyu-Hwan, a very rich businessman with a very bad temper and a fragile state of mind that can turn him into a psycho with whoever annoys him. From that night, Chul-Jung an

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Director : Kang Wu-Seok

Cast : Seol Gyeong-Gu, Lee Seong-Jae, Gi Ju-Bong, Seo Tae-hwa, Yun Mun-Sik, Ahn Seok-Hwan

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Quiet Family, The

(90 min)

1998 - Black Comedy, Horror, Crime - South Korea

The parents along with their three children and the uncle, buys a lodge in the forest on a mountain, hoping to make a fortune running their own business. After a few weeks they received their first guest but misfortune strike the family as several of their guests are found dead. To avoid the bad publicity of the deaths in their lodge they decide to bury the bodies in the forest. As the body count increases the family seems to get used to their new way of running the business but unfortunately the police take notice that many people have disappeared in the area.

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Director : Kim Ji-wun

Cast : Park In-Hwan, Na Mun-Hee, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-shik, Ko Ho-Kyeong, Lee Yun-Seong

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R-Point

(107 min)

2004 - Horror - South Korea

A long-lost unit of Korean soldiers fighting in the Vietnam war dispatches a distress signal six months after everybody considered them dead. A squad of nine men is sent to investigate the situation, especially since the call came from a non-combat area. They come to the R-Point area, and in the midst of a vast field they discover a solitary mansion, empty and dilapidated. The area of a massive burial ground was considered sacred by the Vietnamese, and an inscription on the stone says that no one who’s got blood on their hands will leave the spot. But – they are soldiers, of course their hands are bloody. And that’s a good starting point for a lot of spooky, scary and gory going-ons…

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Director : Su-chang Kong

Cast : Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son, Tae-kyung Oh, Won-sang Park

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Real Fiction

(80 min)

2000 - Drama - South Korea

The story follows a street portrait artist, who is the subject of constant abuse. With customers trashing his sketches, people using and abusing his talents, and local thugs bullying him for money, he has little or no reason to be happy. One day he sees a breaking point, after a customer tears up and discards a sketch he’d made. What follows is retribution against all the key people in his past that have caused him grief and despair.

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Director : Kim Ki-Duk

Cast : Ju Jin-mo, Kim Jin-Ah, Son Min-Seok

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Red Shoes

(104 min)

2005 - Horror - South Korea

Sun-Jae is a young mother whose marriage is falling apart. She moves with her small daughter into a small apartment only slightly more cheerful than the one in DARK WATER, but the source of terror is not in the soggy ceiling but in – a pair of lurid pink shoes that she discovers abandoned. Apparently, they invoke greed in anyone who spots them, and those who steal them soon find their feet cut off, optionally with some other body parts taken as well. Sun-Jae is in the centre of the mystery that threatens her daughter...

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Director : Kim Yong-Gyun

Cast : Kim Hye-Soo, Kim Sung-Soo, Park Youn-Ah

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Ring Virus

(110 min)

1999 - Horror - South Korea

Seon-Joo who is a reporter decided to look into the mysterious circumstances of her nieces death. As she investigates she find that her niece was not the only one to die in a similar matter. Eventually she locates a videotape filled with strange images and seems to hold a curse where you have a week to live. Seon-Joo seeks out the help of Doctor Choi who told her that the death were caused by a supernatural phenomenon. Together they must uncover the secret of the curse before it is too late.

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Director : Kim Dong-Bin

Cast : Shin Eun-Gyeong, Jeong Jin-Yeong, Bae Du-Na, Kim Chang-Wan, Yu Yeon-Su

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Romantic President

(93 min)

2002 - Romance, Comedy - South Korea

Choi Eun-Soo is a young attractive teacher on her latest job at a new high school. Things start off perfect for Eun-Soo until she meets a rebellious teen, Han Young-Hee, who proves too much to handle. When push comes to shove, Eun-Soo demands a parent-teacher conference at once. However, unbeknownst to Ms. Eun-Soo, it seems Han Young-Hee’s father is Han Min-Wook, known to everyone else as the president of South Korea! And so the love-hate relationship of the two begin as the people’s president takes on his most challenging campaign yet—winning the heart of a beautiful teacher.

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Director : Jeon Man-Bae

Cast : Ahn Sung-Ki, Choi Ji-Woo, Lim Soo Jung, Kim Sung Kyum, Kim Hyung Il

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Samaritan Girl

(97 min)

2004 - Drama - South Korea

Two teenage girls dream of travelling to Europe. In order to collect the money, they become freelance prostitutes, or more precisely, only one of them is actually doing ‘it’, while the other is arranging the business over the internet and cell-phone. For a brief while it seems to be going well, but very soon a series of tragic events takes the plot into progressively darker and darker territory that I’d rather not spoil for you. Is there any light at the end of this tunnel?

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Director : Kim Ki-Duk

Cast : Lee Uhi, Kwak Ji-Min, Seo Min-Jung

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Save the Green Planet

(117 min)

2003 - Thriller, Black Comedy, Science Fiction - South Korea

Byung-Gu believes that Aliens live among human beings and that these extra-terrestrial life forms are the main reason behind society’s many problems as well as the misfortune in his personal life. Being the only one aware of the problem that humanity is facing, the situation puts the fate of all human lives in his hand. The only way to stop the aliens is to speak with the Alien Prince of Andromeda before the next lunar eclipse. However, finding the Aliens is quite a task since they look just like human beings. The most logical suspect at the moment is Kang Man-Shik, the president and CEO of a big chemical company. With the help of his beloved girlfriend, Byung-Gu they will kidnap the business man and try to make him confess that he is, in fact, an alien and then will try to convince him to let him contact the Prince. Meanwhile, a police inspector is on the case of Mr. Kang’s kidnapping and is becoming closer and closer to finding out what really happened to Kang. Will Byung-Gu have ti

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Director : Jang Jun-Hwan

Cast : Shin Ha-Gyun, Baek Yun-Sik, Hwang Jeong-min

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Saving My Hubby

2002 - Comedy, Drama - South Korea

Geum-sun was just married recently to Han Joon-Tae. Married to a young salary man and trying to take care of their little baby girl is not an easy task for a former volleyball super-star. Geum-sun is struggling to adapt to her new life as she tries to get use to household chores as much as she can. Today it’s Joon-Tae’s first day job but nothing is working well so far and to complicate the matter, Joon-Tae’s parents are coming to visit them. Things get worse later that day when Geum-sun gets a call from a Karaoke bar saying that Joon-Tae’s is unconscious and not in a state of being able to pay the immense drinks and services bill left by the co-worked. The owner is not willing to let Joon-Tae leave the bar until the bill is fully paid. Geum-sun packs up her baby on her back and is ready to enter Seoul's crazy nightlife to get her husband back.

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Director : Hyeon Nam-Seop

Cast : Bae Du-Na, Kim Tae-Wu, Ju Hyeon, Lee Chan-Min, Go Du-Sim, Park Jae-Dong

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Sex is Zero

(96 min)

2003 - Comedy - South Korea

Eun Sik is 28 years old and has recently started school at the university. He is a member of the Cha Ryu group and practices with them daily, through painful endurance training. He meets the much younger and gorgeous Eun Hyo, for whom he holds a completely one-sided attraction. Eun Sik's amazingly unlucky, and a host of embarrassing situations happen to him. Through all of this, him and his insanely horny group of friends help make one of the most memorable sex comedies, complete with both hilarious and somewhat dramatic moments.

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Director : Yun Je Gyun

Cast : Im Chang Jung, Ha Jin Won, Choi Seong-Guk, Jin Jae-Yeong

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Shiri

(125 min)

1999 - Action - South Korea

The South Korean intelligence service uncovers a plot of North Korean agents that are trying to acquire a new liquid bomb called CTX. It is feared that this weapon will be used to various acts of terrorism as this explosive is undetectable. During the course of the investigation, the North Koreans always have the upper hand because an information leak is suspected. The two lead agents on this case start to suspect each other of being the information leak. They must find the source of the leak and what is the real target of the North Koreans before it is too late.

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Director : Kang Je-Kyu

Cast : Han Seok-Kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-Sik, Kim Yun-Jin, Yun Ju-Sang, Park Yong-Wu

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Silmido

(135 min)

2003 - Action, Drama, War - South Korea

In 1968, a group of North-Korean commandos composed of 31 men cross the border in an attempt to assassinate South-Korea president Park Chung-hee. The South-Korea military intercept the commandos before they successfully accomplished their mission. This scandalous attempt outrages the South-Korea Central Intelligence Agency, and therefore decide replicate the North-Korean attempt by sending their own group of 31 men behind the Northern border to kill Kim Il-sung, the North-Korea leader. The group, codenamed Unit 684, is secretly developed on an isolated island, with no one except a few executive government members aware of the project. To compose Unit 684, death row inmates were given a second chance, or more specifically, an ultimatum: to be terminated or join the special unit team. By the end of their tumultuous training, these men will be known as some of the most amazing soldiers South Korea will have ever produced. However, when the time finally comes, the political situation,

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Director : Woo-Suk Kang

Cast : Kyung-gu Sol, Jun-ho Heo, Sung-kee Ahn, Jae-yeong Jeong, Seong-jin Kang, Won-hui Lim

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Snowpiercer

(126 min)

2013 - Action, Science Fiction - South Korea

A runaway cooling effect chilled the earth after an attempt to geoengineer the climate went terribly wrong. Now the Earth is an uninhabitable ball of ice, the last refuge that remains for humans is a train called snowpiercer. With a network of rails that spans the globe and a nuclear powered locomotive, the train keeps ahead of the cold night. Carrying what remains of humanity, the train is the last safe place.
For those passengers confined in the tail end of the train life is bleak and hopeless. At most they are simply kept alive, victim to the whims of those who control the train. Facing impossible odds they choose to fight for their freedom and to take control of the train.

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Director : Bong Joon-ho

Cast : Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Go Ah-sung, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton

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Sorum

(100 min)

2001 - Drama, Thriller - South Korea

A 29 year old Taxi driver named Yong-hyun moves into a new apartment. But his new home is very dilapidated and even worst; the whole building is about to be torn down because of its poor condition. Only four other people remain on the same floor as Yong-hyun. Mr. Lee an old writer who never got any real success in his life, Eun-su a young piano teacher and Sun-young an abused wife who can't escape her drunken husband. But soon after that Yong-hyun moved into his apartment, he learned that a man died in a fire in the same apartment not too long ago. H Also 30 years ago, a husband, who ran away with the woman living next door, killed his wife and abandoned a newborn baby who almost died in a fire. With the time passing, these fives tenants will begin to know each other a little more. Yong-hyun is developing a very close relationship with Sun-young the abused wife and he will also befriend the writer Mr. Lee. But it seems that all these characters hide a very dark past. Yong-hyun is susp

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Director : Youn Jong Chan, Jong-chan Yun

Cast : Jin-yeong Jeong, Myeong-min Kim, Chang Jin Young, Jin-Young Jang

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Soul Guardians, The

(97 min)

1998 - Horror, Fantasy - South Korea

A cult committed a mass suicide, the only survivor was a pregnant women. She died on the operating table but the doctor was able to save the child. Twenty years later several people are found dead, the police believe it is the work of a serial killer. The only link between the victims is a missing finger. Three people with supernatural power believe the devil has returned for the child that was saved twenty years ago, they track her down and try protect her from the forces of evil.

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Director : Park Kwang-Chun

Cast : Ahn Seong-Ki, Shin Hyeon-jun, Choo Sang-Mi, Oh Hyeon-Cheol, Lee Beom-Su

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Spark the Lighter

(90 min)

2002 - Comedy, Action - South Korea

Bong Gu has no job, no friends and no money, only a mother who really worries about his condition. After an exhausted reserve military drill exercise, on his way back home, he buys one of those cheap plastic lighters with the only money he has left in his pocket. With nothing in the future in perspective and no money at all, the only thing that it remains to him his cheap lighter. Taking a break in a public restroom at the train station, he loses his precious lighter. Trying to find desperately were he left it, he finally discover that his precious is now in the hand of a low life gangster named Chul Gon, who is on his way to an important meeting. Bong Gu is now ready to do more than everything to get back his belonging and that includes facing this gangster and his mean bodyguards.

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Director : Jang Hang-Jun

Cast : Kim Seung-Wu, Cha Seung-Won, Park Yeong-Gyu, Kang Seong-Jin, Kim Chae-Yeon, Kim In-Mun

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Spirit of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon A Time In Highschool

(116 min)

2004 - Drama - South Korea

Spirit of Jeet Kune Do is the story of transfer student Hyun-soo Kim and his journey through that harrowing and character building time known as the high school experience. As we follow young Hyun-soo, a time warp occurs, taking the viewer back to those same joys and hardships all over again. From the bully and his violent quest for territorial dominance, to those unforgettable friendships formed, to the awkward silence shared between adolescent lovers; all those bitter sweet days of youth are revisited with a nostalgic eye and a melodramatic sense of realism.

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Director : Ha Yu

Cast : Sang-woo Kwon, Jeong-jin Lee, Ga-in Han, Hyo-jun Park, Won-kwon Kim, Jong-hyeok Lee

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring

(105 min)

2003 - Drama - South Korea

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring chronicles the existence of a man and his quest for enlightenment. From growing up in a small temple, to his first exposure to the outside world, and finally, his last days as an elderly man; SSFW&S provides the viewer with a delicate glimpse of the cycle of life through the gentle eyes of Buddhism.

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Director : Ki-duk Kim

Cast : Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Young-min Kim, Jae-kyeong Seo, Yeo-jin Ha, Jong-ho Kim

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Steal It If You Can

(107 min)

2002 - Comedy, Action - South Korea

Ko Sang-tae is what we call a successful man in life: a beautiful wife, who her parents are extremely rich and two smart young kids. He is also the owner a very luxurious house, in the middle of nowhere, but that’s just a small detail. From the outside, the family look’s just prefect but from a closer look, it’s not really the case. Especially between the kids and their father, the kids think their father is just a small businessman with no will power and courage. On the other side of the town, Choi Kang-jo, a videogame designer, is having big success with his latest online game, which pushed the man to the level of stardom in the industry. However, just like Ko Sang-tae family, from the outside he look’s perfect, but in fact Choi Kang-jo is living the secret life of a professional thief, stealing not for the money but for the challenge of doing it. One night, Choi Kang-jo decides to pay a visit to Ko Sang-tae house, leaving a few traces of his passage as a mocking message. From th

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Director : Im Gyeong-Su

Cast : So Ji-Seop, Park Sang-myeon, Park Gwang-Jeong

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