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Traces of Love

Aka: Gaeulro
Director: Dae-seung Kim
Release date: 2006
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring:
Ji-tae Yu as Hyun-woo
Ji-su Kim as Min-joo
Ji-won Uhm as Se-jin
Eun-mi Bang
Jong-won Choi

Synopsis:
A touring program producer Min-joo, takes notes in her journal whenever and wherever she travels, so one day she can show all those amazing places to her longtime lover Hyun-woo. Finally Hyun-woo passes the bar exam and proposes to Min-joo. However, not long after, Min-joo dies when the department store where she was waiting for Hyun-woo collapses. Hyun-woo becomes a prosecutor, but when he digs too deeply in a sensitive political case, he ends up in detention. While in detention (five years after Min-joo's death), Min-joo's parents send him Min-joo's journal, which gives him a road to trace all the memories of his lost lover.
(Credit: Hancinema)

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Over the Rainbow

Aka: Obeo deo reinbou
Director: Jin-woo Ahn
Release date: 2002
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring:
Jung-Jae Lee as Jin-su Lee
Jin-Young Jang as Yeong-hie Kang
Hyeong-jin Kong as Young-min Kim
Bo-eun Choi
Jae-Won Choi

Synopsis:
Lee Jung-Jae, who once impressed the audience in Il Mare, takes on another romantic lead role in Over the rainbow as Jin-Soo. He is a TV anchorman who is suffering from partial amnesia after a traffic accident and is now attempting to retrace memories of a lover he no longer remembers...
Jin-Soo's search leads him to a high school friend Yeon-Hee (Jang Jin-Young). Yeon-Hee, working at a "Lost & Found" center of a subway station, is trying to erase the memories of her latest ex-boyfriend.
A comfortable and relax movie, Over the rainbow centers on the mysterious rediscovery of a faceless lover and the struggle to let go of the pain of love. Under the brilliant light of a rainbow, will these two souls find what is closest to their hearts?
(Credit: YesAsia)

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Living Death

Aka: Disbelief Hell / Possessed / Hell of the Non-believers / Bool-sin-ji-ok
Director: Yong-Joo Lee
Release date: 2009
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Shim Eun-kyung as So-jin
Young-nam Jang as Su-kyeong
Bo-yeon Kim as Mother
Hie-kyung Moon as Kyeong-ja
Chang-jik Lee

Synopsis:
When 13-year-old So-Jin disappears, her elder sister Hee-Jin returns to the apartment of their religious-maniac mother. Tae-Hwan, a cop, who reluctantly has to take the case seriously is confronted with more and more suicides that are difficult to explain rationally. And why does the skeptical Hee-Jin, who keeps having gruesome encounters with suicides, have to keep coughing? (Credit: Imdb)

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4 Toes

Aka: 4 Balgarak
Director: Yun-shik Gye
Release date: 202
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Action, Comedy

Starring:
Heo Jun-ho - Audie
Lee Chang-hun - Lecaf
Park Jun-gyu - Gak Granger
Lee Won-jong - Haetae
Kim Kap-su
An Seok-hwan

Synopsis:
The story involves four friends who become gangsters. As the film progresses they gain power and eventually find their way to Seoul.
(Credit: Wikipedia)

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Kiss Me Much

Aka: Besame Mucho
Director: Yun-su Jeon
Release date: 2001
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama

Starring:
Kwang-leol Jeon as Cheol-su
Mi-suk Lee as Young-hee
Myeong-gu Han as Han Ji-hun
Su-hui Hong as Seo-lin
Won-hui Jo as Jun-hyeok

Synopsis:
For Chul-soo and Young-hee who are in 10th year of their marriage, Wednesdays are special. This Wednesday is no exception. Although they are not wealthy, they have immense love and trust towards one another. But things turn bad when Chul-soo is laid off and Young-hee must relinquish her plans to buy a house. Young-hee is the perfect wife and mother and Chul-soo is willing to do anything not to disappoint her. They both begin to fight for their future with everything they have. Young-hee runs into an old friend of hers who had a crush on her back in school.
A successful businessman, Han Ji-hoon makes Young-hee an offer she cannot possibly refuse. Meanwhile, Chul-soo's new boss, Seo-lin, tries to seduce him. Another Wednesday comes by but now things are totally different from before. These two struggle by themselves with the issues of trust, fidelity and love. They ask themselves to what extent they are willing to go to save their marriage. Will they ultimately risk the thing they are trying so hard to save?
(Credit: KMovieaddicts)

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Indian Summer

Aka: In-di-an Sseom-meo
Director: Hyo-jeong No
Release date: 2001
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Starring:
Shin-yang Park as Seo Jun-ha
Mi-yeon Lee as Lee, Shin-young
Myeong-gu Han
Yong-hee Kim
Byung-ho Son

Synopsis:
Shin-young is facing the death penalty on suspicion of murdering her husband. She refuses to say anything in her own defense and is simply waiting to die. Her lawyer sees things differently and believes that there is more to this case than anyone realizes.
(Credit: Imdb)

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Tagline: When I look at you... I want to live

Award:
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea: Best Film Score: Michael Staudacher

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The Fox With Nine Tails

Aka: Gumiho
Director: Hun-su Park
Release date: 1994
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Starring:
Ko So-Young - Harah
Jung Woo-Sung - Hyuk
Bang Min-Seo - Agent from Underworld
Kwon Hae-Hyo
Park Kil-Soo
Dok Ko Yeong Jae
Ahn Seok-Hwan
Lee Keun-Hee
Kwon Tae-Won

Synopsis:
The Fox With Nine Tails is a modern-day re-telling of an old Korean folktale. The story centers on Kumiho, a half-woman/half-fox who must have sex with a human man in order to become human herself.
(Credit: Asianmediawiki)

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Castaway on the Moon

Aka: Kimssi pyoryugi / The Adventures of Mr. Kim
Director: Hae-jun Lee
Release date: 2009
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama

Starring:
Min-heui Hong
So-yeon Jang
Jae-yeong Jeong
Ryeo-won Jeong
Gyo-hwan Koo

Synopsis:
After failing to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, the man is washed up on a deserted island in the middle of the river, but within view of the city's high-rises. He attempts to escape, but soon accepts his fate and the challenges in living on the island. A reclusive young woman, who takes close-up shots of the moon and has not left her apartment in years, spies him on the island and comes to think of him as her own alien.
(Credit: Imdb)

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Award:
(29th) Hawaii International Film Festival: NETPAC Award

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A Single Spark

Aka: Jeon Tae-il
Director: Kwang-su Park
Release date: 1995
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Political

Starring:
Kyoung-In Hong
Bo-kyeong Kim
Sun-Jae Kim
Seong-kun Mun
Yong-soo Park

Synopsis:
The film intercuts two stories, one in black and white, one in color. From 1965 to 1970, we follow Jeon Tae-Il, a poor young man who quits street vending to work in a garment factory. Amid appalling work conditions, he buys a law book, seeks government help, forms an association, talks to reporters. When conditions don't change, he takes a dire step. Five years later, a young couple follow Tae-Il's path: pregnant Shin Jung-Soon tries to organize a union in her garment factory. She's harassed, then beaten. Her husband, Kim Yong-Su, an intellectual in hiding from Park Chung Hee's repressive regime, is writing Tae-Il's story. Can he elude capture to complete the book?
(Credit: Imdb)

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Award:
Blue Dragon Awards: Best Film

Award Nomination:
Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Berlim Bear: Kwang-su Park

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Interview

Aka: Dogme # 7 - Interview / In-teo-byoo
Director: Byun Hyuk
Release date: 2000
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Romance

Starring:
Jung-Jae Lee as Eun-seok
Eun-ha Shim as Yeong-heui
Jae-hyeon Jo
Min-jung Kweon
Jeong-hyeon Kim

Synopsis:
A story of a filmmaker who falls in love with a woman he interviews for his film, presents the evolution of a relationship which shifts from the objective to the subjective, and from lies to truth.
Film director Eun-suk gradually discovers his feelings for Young-hee, one of the many subjects he is interviewing for a documentary currently being shot. Young-hee resists the subtle gestures of interest Eun-suk expresses due to a past she cannot easily escape from, and moreover to sustain the lies she began from her first interview with Eun-suk. However, during the course of events, she slowly comes to terms with her own true story, which is revealed during her conversations with Eun-suk, and decides to stop the false testimonies…
(Credit: Avistaz)

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Award:
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea: Best Production: Mi-yeong Lee

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Thirst

Aka: Bakjwi
Director: Park Chan-wook
Release date: 2009
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance

Starring:
Song Kang-ho as Sang-hyun
Kim Ok-bin as Tae-ju
Shin Ha-kyun as Kang-woo
Kim Hae-sook as Lady Ra, Tae-ju's mother-in-law
Eriq Ebouaney as Immanuel
Hwang-woo Seul-hye as Girl with a whistle
Mercedes Cabral as Evelyn

Synopsis:
Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He realizes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh.
(Credit: Imdb)

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Curiosities:
Awards:
Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize: Chan-wook Park
Fant-Asia Film Festival: Best Asian Film (3rd Place)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Actress: Ok-bin Kim

Award Nominations:
Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm: Park Chan-wook
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Film

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Our Town

Aka: Uri dongne
Director: Jeong Gil-yeong
Release date: 2007
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring:
Oh Man-seok as Kyung-ju
Lee Seon-gyun as Jae-sin
Ryu Deok-hwan as Hyo-i
Park Myung-shin as Yeo Sa-jang
Jeong Hye-won as Kim So-yeon
Lee Mu-saeng as Jeong Myeong-bo

Synopsis:
A neighbourhood is terrorized by a serial killer, who kills and hangs up his female victims in a very distinctive way. When Kyung-ju, a struggling crime fiction novelist, kills his landlady, he stages her death to make it look like the other murders. Realizing that the crime looks like a copycat, he decided to find the killer with the help of his detective friend.
(Credit: Wikipedia)

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The Isle

Aka: Seom
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Release date: 2000
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed included in mkv container)
Genre: Drama, Mature 18+

Starring:
Jung Suh - Hee-Jin
Yu-seok Kim - Hyun-Shik
Sung-hee Park - Eun-A
Jae-hyeon Jo - Mang-Chee
Hang-Seon Jang - Middle-aged man
Yeo-jin Kim
Won Seo

Synopsis:
A depressed and suicidal man goes to a fishing resort where he forms an unusual relationship with the prostitute/caretaker that works there.

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Curiosities:
There are some controversial scenes in the movie. Not surprisingly, the two scenes involving attempted suicides with fish hooks caused audiences and some critics to cringe. There are also numerous scenes involving cruelty to animals, which according to the director Kim Ki-duk, were all real.

Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 2001: Golden Raven - Ki-duk Kim

Cinemanila International Film Festival 2001: Best Actress - Jung Suh

Venice Film Festival 2000: Netpac Award - Special Mention Ki-duk Kim; Nominated - Golden Lion - Ki-duk Kim

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The King and the Clown

Aka: Wang-ui Namja
Director: Jun-ik Lee
Release date: December 29,2005
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical, Thriller

Starring:
Woo-seong Kam
Jin-yeong Jeong
Seong-yeon Kang
Jun-gi Lee
Hang-seon Jang

Synopsis:
Two clowns living in the Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution, but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh. (IMDB.com)

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Curiosities:
Awards:
43rd Daejong Film Festival:
Best Film
Best Director- Lee Jun Ik
Best Script/Scenario- Choi Seok Hwan
Best Cinematography- Ji Gil Woong
Best Leading Actor- Gam Woo Seong
Best New Actor- Lee Jun Ki
Best Supporting Actor- Yoo Hae Jin
Most Popular Actor- Lee Jun Ki
Most Popular Actress- Kang Seong Yeon
Most Popular Actor Overseas- Lee Jun Ki

42nd Baeksang (Paeksang) Film Festival Arts Awards 2006:
Best New Actor- Lee Jun Ki
Judge's Special Film Awards

14th Chunsa Film Festival 2006:
Best Leading Actor - Gam Woo Seong
Best Supporting Actor - Jang Hang Seon
Korea Film Awards 2006:
Best New Actor - Lee Jun Ki

27th Blue Dragon Film Awards 2006:
Best Music- Lee Byong Woo
Most Popular Stars- Lee Jun Ki & Kang Sung Yeon
Best On-Screen Performing Couple Award- Gam Woo Seong & Lee Jun Ki

Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF) 2006:
Best Feature Film Award
Best Screenplay- Choi Suk Hwan & Kim Tae Woong

Skeletons in the Closet

Aka: Shim's Family / Johji-anihanga
Director: Yoon-Chul Jeong
Release date: 2007
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Starring:
Ho-jin Jeon
Hie-kyung Moon
Hye-su Kim
Ah-in Yu
Bo-ra Hwang
Yu-mi Jeong
Ki-woo Lee
Hyeok-pil Lim
Hae-il Park

Synopsis:
Chang-soo family seems to be the representative of the middle class family in Korea. Headed by Chang-soo, a high school English teacher with a tag of incompetence, Hee-kyung, a ordinary housewife who leads a life with her husband like brother and sister. And a daughter and a son, Yong-sun and Yong-tae. And Mi-kyung, Hee-kyung`s sister, who flatters this family. All of them look emotionless to everything, but are their innermost feelings the same as what they look like? (Credit: Sensasian)

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Cinderella

Director: Bong Man-dae

Release date: August 17, 2006
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama

Starring:
Ahn Ah-hyun
Ahn Gyu-ryun

Jeon So-min

Shin Se-kyeong

Synopsis:
Hyeon-su is a normal girl on summer break. Hyeon-su's mother is a plastic surgeon who has coincidentally operated on all of Hyeon-su's friends. Her friends discover that all of them saw something very strange and very frightening when they went under the knife. Hyeon-su's mother is keeping a secret that is somehow connected to this ghost that is haunting all of her patients, and Hyeon-su takes it upon herself to figure out what's going on before more of her friends kill themselves, or worse. (IMDB)

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H

Director: Jong-yuk Lee
Release date: December 27, 2002
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Starring:
Yeom Jeong-ah,

Ji Jin-hee

Jo Seung-woo

Seung Ji-roo

Kwon Kyeok-poong

Synopsis:
A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. Warning, the full summery reveals certain spoilers. (IMDB.com)

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Rules of Dating

Aka: Yeonae-ui mokjeok
Director: Jae-rim Han
Release date: 2005
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Mature 18+, Romance

Starring:
Hae-il Park - Lee Yoo-rim
Hye-jeong Kang - Choi Hong
Dae-yeon Lee
Grina Park
Yeong-hwa Seo
Jae-han Choi

Synopsis:
LEE Yu-rim is a high school English teacher. He's cute, clever... and shameless. CHOI Hong is a student teacher, even though she is one year older than Yu-rim. She's cynical and always plays hard-to-get when a man shows interest in her. While going out for drinks one night, Yu-rim suddenly tells Hong that he wants to have sex with her. Hong is hardly impressed. And so begins a battle of will and wits, both between each other and within themselves, as both Yu-rim and Hong are unsure of what each other wants and what they want themselves. Dating and desire mix explosively. What is the point of this strange relationship? What is the object of their desire? (asianmediawiki)

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Seven Days

Aka: Se-beun De-i-jeu
Director: Shin-yeon Won
Release date: 2007
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring:
Yunjin Kim as Lawyer Yu Ji-yeon
Mi-suk Kim as Han Suk-hie
Hie-sun Park as Kim Sung-yol
Myeong-su Choi as Jeong Cheol-jin

Synopsis:
A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.
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Hwang Jin Yi

Aka: Legendary Courtesan Hwang Jin Yi
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Release date: 2007
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Ancient, Biography, Drama, Historical, Romance

Starring:
Hye-kyo Song - Hwang Jin Yi
Ji-tae Yu - Nomi
Seung-yong Ryoo
No-shik Park
Bu-seon Kim
Eung-su Kim
Hyeon-a Kim
Yeo-Jong Yun
Yu-jeong Kim

Synopsis:
The film traces the life of Hwang Jin Yi, a 16th century gisaeng - a female entertainer-artist similar to the Japanese geisha - remembered as both a distinguished poet and alluring femme fatale.
Born into a respected noble family, the charming Hwang leads a peaceful life in the city of Songdo. But when her scandalous birth secrets are revealed, she voluntarily chooses the lowly life of a gisaeng.
Hwang, brought to life by Song Hye-gyo, evolves from an innocent damsel to smoldering temptress. Song gives an impressive performance of her character's winding emotional journey, and breaks away from her image as a sweet-faced starlet.
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4 Toes

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Indian Summer

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Castaway on the Moon

A Single Spark

Interview

Thirst

Our Town

The Isle

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