Son Ye Jin (A Moment To Remember, April Snow) masters the art of seduction in Open City, an erotic crime thriller penned and directed by Lee Sang Ki in his first feature film. The chameleon actress is enchantingly breathtaking as the sexy, manipulative femme fatale who leads an organized pickpocket ring. The first Korean film to reveal the intricate inner workings of what is considered Korea’s equivalent of the FBI, Open City also offers a riveting first-hand look at the various methods of pickpocketing that will have the audience think twice before leaving the house. Completely smitten by Son’s beauty is Kim Myung Min (Return) who breathes much charisma into his complex role as a criminal investigator. As he finds himself caught in the deadly predicament of falling for his investigation’s prime target, the onscreen chemistry between the two leads explodes to a new high. Tightly coiled with sexual tension throughout the film, Open City shows all the right moves in all the right places. (more…)

Movie : My Wife Is A Gangster 3 / Jopog manura 3 / 조폭마누라 3
Year : 2006
Country : South korea
Director : Jin-gyu Cho
Starring : Qi Shu (Aryoung), Beom-Su Lee (Ki-Chul), Yeong Hyeon (Yeon-Hee)
Website : http://gwife3.showbox.co.kr/
Run Time : 114 Minutes

Synopsis

Aryoung is sent away from her homeland of Hong Kong by her father . Her father is a powerful gang leader that is in the midst of a major power struggle. He is worried about the safety of Aryoung and thus gives her the choice to stay in another country until things settle down in Hong Kong. Aryoung picks South Korea, mainly because her mother is Korean and now lives somewhere in that country. When Aryoung arrives at the Incheon airport, three Korean gang members are there waiting for her. The gangsters were assigned to protect Aryoung by their Korean boss. Unfortunately the three unwitting gangsters were not informed of Aryoung’s background, nor are they aware that the person the would have take care of is a woman. Aryoung can’t speak Korean and the gangsters can’t speak Chinese. Thus an uncomfortable acquaintance period is endured until the gangsters hire a Chinese translator. The gangsters soon learn that Aryoung has quite a few more surprises behind her pretty appearance. (more…)

Artist Name(s) : Ha Ji Won | Lim Chang Jung
Release Date : June 30, 2007
Language : Korean
Subtitle : Korean, English

First Street sits on the run down fringes of Seoul where a small cluster of losers are barely hanging on to hope. With no electricity and a shared hole in the ground for a bathroom, they don’t have much but each other to care about. When Pil-je (IM Chang-jeong) comes around to “persuade” everyone to sell their little patch of broken down land to the thuggish real estate developers that he represents, he discovers to his amazement that to people who don’t have anything, home is everything. He settles in for the long haul but for his own convenience forces the city to bring in power and the internet and finds himself something of a hero to the community. It feels good being the good guy for a change and he begins to help the bullied kids, the boy who wants to fly like Ultraman and he can’t keep his eyes off of the lovely Myung-ran (HA Ji-won), who dreams of some day following her brain damaged father (JUNG Doo-hong) into the boxing ring. This flick has Capra written all over it like a neon sign, but Frank Capra is long gone and it’s Capra’s evil twin at the helm as the gangsters decide Pil-je has had enough time and bring their tools of the trade to work ­ bats, bricks and no mercy. As in every
feel good film suicides, beatings and self-immolation follow. (more…)

Original Title:
Annyeong UFO

South Korea 2004

Genre:
Romance, Drama, Comedy

Director:
Kim Jin-min
Cast:
Lee Eun-ju
Lee Beom-su
Pong Tae-gyu
Byeon Hie-bong
Jeon Jae-hyeong
Seon Ji-hyun
Kim Eung-su
Jeong In-seon

Synopsis

Kyeong-woo (Lee Eun-ju) is blind and her boyfriend has just broken up with her. She moves to a little town, where she wants to sort out her life. She then meets the bus driver Sang-hyeon (Lee Beom-su), who henceforth drives her home every day. Sang-hyeon is a nice guy, who’s sharing a room with his younger brother and who likes moderating and taping radio shows, which he then plays in his bus. Just by accident, he meets Kyeong-woo in the city and the two end up in a conversation, in which Kyeong-woo makes fun of the radio shows in the bus and as she doesn’t know that her new acquaintance actually is the bus driver and thus the “radio host”, Sang-hyeon introduces himself as Pyung-gu. “Pyung-gu” shows her the city and the two become friends.
Sang-hyeon begins to develop some kind of feelings for his new friend but doesn’t have the courage to tell her so. In addition he seems to be caught in his own trap of lies. But what does Kyeong-woo think about him and is she finally over her last boy friend? (more…)

Movie : Highway Star / Bokmyeon dalho / 복면달호
Year : 2007
Country : South Korea
Director : Hyun-su Kim, Sang-chan Kim

Cast

• Tae-hyun Cha
• Chae-mu Lim
• So-yeon Lee
• Seok-yong Jeong
• Yong-joon Jo
• Hyeong-ja Kim

Synopsis

Dal-ho is the lead singer of a local heavy metal band in a small rural town in Korea. A somewhat desperate owner and manager of a small record label in Seoul visits the nightclub where Dal-ho’s band is rehearsing. The owner of the label listens to Dal-ho sing and becomes convinced that Dal-ho has what it takes to become a star. They follow Dal-ho to a nearby restaurant and offer him a recording contract with Big Sound Entertainment. Dal-ho excepts on the spot. The caveat? The record label releases exclusively Trot music, a musical style loved by the older generation, but despised by the younger kids. (more…)