Cello

Running Time: 94 mins
Release Year: 2005
Director: Lee Woo-Cheol

Cast: Seong Hyeon-Ah
Park Da-An
Jeong Ho-Bin

Synopsis

There was an accident... a big accident which rewrote the fate of a cellist... Her beloved husband, two precious daughters and lovely sister-in-law were died mysteriously in front of her, one by one. In every single murder scene, the sad cello music was played continuously. What unexpected was that it was the presented work of the cellist and her best friend 10 years ago. What kind of secret was behind the music? And when will the appalling truth be unfolded?

Can't Live Without Robbery

Running Time: 106 mins
Release Year: 2002
Director: Im Kyeong-Soo

Cast: Park Sang-Myeon
Nah Yeong-Hee
So Ji-Sub

Synopsis

Designer Choi Kang-jo (So Ji-seob) has a bad passion for stealing. He frequently goes to residential areas testing his robbery skills in out-witting alarm systems. Whenever he finishes his task, he only steals things of little worth because his sole purpose is to satisfy the joy of his unusual hobby.

On his next stealing spree, Kang-jo visits the family of Ko Sang-tae (Park Sang-myun). Sang-tae and his beautiful wife Mari (Song Seon-mi) seem to lead a perfect life, but the latter has lost her taste sense, which causes the cuisine that she creates to become unacceptable to everybody. Kan-jo once again only steals very trivial things a remote control and food prepared by Mari, but little does he know that this is enough to stir up the anger of Sang-tae who pledges to take revenge …

Bystander aka Diary of June

Running Time: 105 mins
Release Year: 2005
Director: Im Kyeong-Soo

Cast: Sin Eun-Kyong
Kim Yoon-Jin
Eric Moon

Synopsis

What is man's responsibility to his fellow human beings? That's a question explored in Bystanders, an investigation thriller from Can't Live Without Robbery director Im Kyung Soo with a deeper message. Also known by the alternate title Diary of June, the film tells the story of Detectives Chu Ja Young (Shin Eun Kyung, from My Wife is a Gangster 1 and 2) and Kim Dong Wook (Eric Moon Jeong Hyuk, from A Bittersweet Life), who must solve a puzzling murder case involving a string of deaths at a local high school. Their investigation eventually leads them directly to a middle school student who has long suffered abuse at the hands of school bullies. In fact, each murder occurs just as it is described in the student's diary. On that evidence alone, one might think the detectives have an open and shut case. However, there's one problem. The student is already dead!

Who is the culprit behind all the killings? And will the detectives be able to bring the murderer to justice? Uncover the secret in Bystanders, a film that suggests that sometimes indifference to human suffering can be worse than hatred itself! Kim Yoon Jin, breakout star of the ABC megahit Lost returns to Korean film to appear in Bystanders, playing the part of Se Yun Hee, a mother who must come to grips with the startling suicide of her bullied son. The film also stars Yun Ju Sang (The King and The Clown, Duelist), Lee Yo Seob (The Crescent Moon), Jeon Hansen (Save The Green Planet), Maeng Se Chang, Kim Jin Ho, and Kim Seong Ah.

Busstop aka Lover's Refuge

Running Time: 85 mins
Release Year: 2001
Director: Lee Mi-Yun

Cast: Kim Tae-Woo
Kim Min-Jeong

Synopsis

Jaesup, a thirty-two year old man who teaches Korean at a night school, refuses to communicate with anyone other than a hooker he meets on the street. He goes to a college reunion when he hears that his old flame and alumna Hyekyung is getting married, but gets mad at himself for not being as socially mature as her. When a new student called Sohee enrolls at the night school, Jaesup senses her pain. He finds himself attracted to Sohee who seems to be both naive and mature.

Boy Goes to Heaven

Running Time: 114 mins
Release Year: 2005
Director: Yoon Tae-Yong

Cast: Yeon Jeong-Ah
Park Hae-Il

Synopsis

Ne-mo, born of an unwed mother, dreams of marrying an unwed mother. After the sudden death of his mother, a comic book rental shop replaces his mother's watch shop. Bu-ja, the shop's owner, is an unmarried mother living with Gi-cheol, her young son. Ne-mo has a crush on Bu-ja and proposes marriage to her. One day, when he goes to the movie theater with Bu-ja and Gi-cheol, a fire breaks out at the theater and he rushes into the fiery theater to save Gi-cheol. Although Gi-cheol is rescued, Ne-mo awakes after 20 days. However, Ne-mo is no longer 13 years old but has suddenly become a 33-year-old man. He had gone to heaven because of the fire, but he did a deal with the messenger who brings dead souls to the next world--Ne-mo would grow one year older for every passing day. Now he has only 60 days to live 60 years. Ne-mo, who can live only to Christmas, begins a hot and short love affair with Bu-ja...

Bewtching Attraction

Running Time: 105 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Lee-Ha

Cast: Moon So-Ri
Ji Jin-Hee

Synopsis

The lovely and promiscuous textile professor Eun-sook has all the male professors wrapped around her finger. It also helps that she's slept with most of them. Eun-sook is also a member of the environmental awareness group. When the popular comic book artist Suk-gyu joins the group, he attracts the jealousy of Mr. YOO, one of other members who fears that he will steal Eun-sook from him, even though Eun-sook does not return his intense love. It turns out that Eun-sook and Suk-gyu attended the same junior high school where they share a secret and tragic history. Back then, Eun-sook was sly with sexuality and was Suk-gyu's older brother's girlfriend. But after Eun-sook decides to sleep with Suk-gyu as well, the older brother's best friend dies in an accident. As the jealous MR.YOO starts to snoop around Eun-sook and Suk-gyu's past, will their secret be kept, and will they get together again?

Barking Dogs Never Bite

Running Time: 108 mins
Release Year: 2000
Director: Bong Joon-Ho

Cast: Lee Seong-Jae
Bae Doona

Synopsis

Barking Dogs Never Bite (also known as A Higher Animal and Dog of Flanders) is a South Korean dark comedy film released in 2000. It is also the directorial debut of Bong Joon-ho, who would later go on to direct Memories of Murder in 2003. Barking Dogs Never Bite tells the story of an out-of-work college professor who is irritated by the sound of barking dogs in his apartment building, and eventually resorts to abusing and kidnapping them. Meanwhile, a young woman working at the apartment complex decides to investigate the matter after she starts receiving notices from the tenants about the missing dogs.

The film has not been officially released in the United States or other English speaking territories, but the official Korean release on Region 3 DVD contains English subtitles.

Bad Guy

Running Time: 100 mins
Release Year: 2002
Director: Kim Ki-Duk

Cast: Jo Jae-Hyeon
Seo-Won

Synopsis

Ki-duk Kim’s "Bad Guy" is about Han-gi (Jae-hyeon Jo), a antisocial gangster and pimp who notices college student Sun-hwa (Won Seo) while waiting at a bench one day. After Han-gi is beaten up by a group of bystanders for attacking Sun-hwa with a kiss in front of her boyfriend, Han-gi hatches a plan to “turn out” Sun-hwa. It works, and Sun-hwa is added to Han-gi’s stable of whores. As the days, weeks, and months wear on, Han-gi begins to express more and more feelings for the reluctant Sun-hwa, who may or may not be warming to the idea of being nothing more than what her Madame calls a “$50 whore.”

Ardor

Running time: 112 mins
Release Year: 2002
Director: Byeon Yeong-Joo

Cast: Kim Yoon-Jin
Lee Jong-Won

During the Christmas holidays that are normally filled with warmth and happiness, Mi-heun receives a distressing message from a woman who bursts into her family and reveals that Mi-heun's (Kim Yoon-jin) lover is her husband!

Mi-heun moves away hoping that in so doing she can get rid of the despair that has overcome her after this shocking revelation, but is haunted by neverending nightmares and painstaking headaches wherever she goes. In-kyu (Lee Jong-won), Mi-heun's lover is a village doctor and philanderer who spends his pastime jumping from one woman's bed to the next's. During the course of his romantic adventures he stumbles into married Mi-heun who at first rejects him, but finally cannot resist his magic spell …

Bunshinsaba aka Ouija Board

Running Time: 120 mins
Release Year: 2004
Director: Ahn Byeong-ki

Cast: Kim Gyoo-ri
Lee Se-eun
Lee Yoo-ri

Synopsis

Three girls are bullied by a couple of classmates and decide to put a curse on them. They find an old ouija board and begin the ritual. The next day,one of the bullies is found dead and the three girls start suspecting that they're responsible. As the girls in their class start committing suicide one by one by putting a plastic bag over their head and setting it on fire, the three girls start regretting what they've done. But what two of the three girls don't know is that one of them has been possessed by an evil spirit.

Arang

Running Time: 97 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Ahn Sang-hoon

Cast: Song Yoon-ah
Lee Dong-wook

Synopsis

Veteran detective So-young and her rookie partner Hyun-gi happen onto an incendiary homicide case. While Hyun-gi is goofing up and distracting So-young, So-young senses that there is something wrong in the case. They discover that the present case is somehow related to the mysterious death of a girl ten years previously. At this point, So-young becomes plagued with nightmares in which the girl appears. And the serial killings continue . . .

April Snow

Running Time: 107 mins
Release Year: 2005
Director: Heo Jin-ho

Cast: Bae Yong-joon
Son Ye-jin

On that day, nobody knew they would take a long way trip.

Accident
On live concert hall, lighting director, In-su (BAE Yong-joon) leaves the hall in a hurry putting the concert in charge of his junior worker. Then in a hallway at a hospital operation room in Samcheok, Kangwon-do, he meets Seo-young (SON Ye-jin). The reason he went there is a car accident of his wife, Su-jin (LIM Sang-hyo). Also, Seo-young's husband, Kyung-ho (RYU Seung-su), was in the car with her.

Betrayal
While Su-jin and Kyung-ho are in unconsciousness by serious injury, In-su and Seo-young realize that Su-jin and Kyung-ho are in 'special relationship' on settling the accident. For In-su and Seo-young, it is harder to accept than the fatal accident. Love becomes confusion, anger, and betrayal. While they pray for their spouses' peaceful recovery even though they blame for it, the two people fell each other's existence slowly.

Chaos
In a motel in front of the hospital, the two people start long term stay and meet each other again and again. Eventually, they fall in love spending their time together. Even they were confused by their spouses' betrayal, now they experience the same pain their spouses did as they fall into the same situation. At this time, Su-jin comes back to consciousness. In-su cannot look away from his wife shedding tears. While looking at In-su, Seo-young realizes that it is time to go back to their own places. Then, they prepare for going out, which might be the last time, only for the two.

Apartment aka A.P.T.

Running Time: 90 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Ahn Byeong-ki

Cast: Ko So-young

Synopsis

Se-jin, a young woman who lives in an old apartment in a Seoul suburb, amuses herself by observing the windows of the apartments on the other side. One day, she notices that the lights of some of these apartments are turned off at the very same time. She begins to suspect that this pattern is somehow related to a series of mysterious deaths in the neighborhood. She becomes more and more deeply involved as she attempts to solve the mystery.

Almost Love aka Youth Comic

Running Time: 116 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Lee Han

Cast: Kwon Sang-woo
Kim Ha-neul

Synopsis

Ji-hwan and Dal-rae are old friends and they have grown up in the same neighborhood. Ji-hwan admires Hong Kong movie star "Jacky Chan" and wants to be a world action star. Dal-rae has a desire to be an actress. They always bear grudges against each other with their private weak parts, and they quarrel everyday, however they are great friends who care for each other.
One day, Dal-rae goes out with Young-hoon who is in the same Taekwondo group as Ji-hwan. Young-hoon is a student representative of the department as well as an all-round athlete. Ji-hwan is also dating a girl, Ji-min, a gorgeous glamour girl who has a well-shaped figure.
It seems that there would be no problem between the good friends Ji-hwan and Dal-rae, but somehow a strange atmosphere arises after they start seeing someone else. Everybody knows it is more than just a friendship, except Ji-hwan and Dal-rae.

A Tale Of Two Sisters

Running Time: 115 mins
Release Year: 2003
Director: Kim Ji-woon

Cast: Yeom Jeong-ah
Moon Geun-yeong

Synopsis

Bae Su-mi (Lim Su-jeong) and her younger sister Bae Su-yeon (Moon Geun-yeong) return home to live after a spell at a mental institution. There they must deal with their stepmother Eun-joo (Yum Jung-ah) who appears to abuse the sisters all to the apparent disbelief or wilful ignorance of their father. Over time there appear hints of something else in the house – the ghost of the girl’s mother perhaps, or the manifestations of a disturbed mind …

A Perfect Match

Running Time: 101 mins
Release Year: 2002
Director:Moh Ji-eun

Cast: Shin Eun-kyung
Jung Jun-ho


Synopsis

Hyo-jin is the manageress of a dating service company.She easily manages to help others to find their lifelong partners.Conversely, she can't find a truehearted partner for herself.Perhaps her requirements are too harsh or her silly characteristics have scared away all the men?Receiving her clients's profiles is part of her job but many of them disappoint her after meeting them.Every time she feels disappointed,she treasures more being single rather than in a relationship. However,the problem of being single and unmarried worries her the most.Hyun-su is a handsome and charming computer programmer.Due to his unwillingness of joining the dating service company,his meetings with other girls usually fail.Hence he becomes Hyo-jin's most difficult client to handle.After meeting on several occasions,Hyun-su and Hyo-jin begins to feel for each other and they somehow loses their direction and don't know what to do...

A Moment To Remember

Running Time: 117 mins
Release Year: 2004

Director: Lee Jae-han

Cast: Jeong Woo-seong
Son Ye-jin

Synosis

Su-jin, a beautiful and vibrant girl, deeply falls in love with her carpenter fiance Chol-su. They embark on the journey of their adult lives as do most young couples-by getting married, buying a house and starting a family. However, Su-jin is soon diagnosed with Familial Alzheimer's Disease, an amazingly rare and hereditary form of AD that afflicts people aged from 30 to 60 years. Unlike common AD ravages its victims at an accelerated rate and death is imminent within a year. The youngest diagnosed patient was 28 years old; Su-jin is 27 years old. The young lovers lives are changed forever. They had the perfect life, but the fate is never kind to star crossed lovers in the realm of the Korean romantic tragedy.

A Millionare's First Love

Running Time: 116 mins
Director: Kim Tae Kyun

Cast: Hyun Bin
Lee Youn Hee

Synopsis

Jae-kyung is a senior in high school but he doesn't go to school often. Once he turns nineteen years old, he is going to be a millionaire. But the day before he gets a certificate of residence, his family lawyer tells him about the will from his deceased grandfather. It is specified that the fortune will go to him only if he graduates from Boram High School which is located in the countryside. He has no choice but to go there. Life changes a lot for him at Boram High School. He can`t use his credit card and can't even drive his sports car.

Meanwhile, Jae-kyung gets to know Eun-hwan there. She is different from the other country bumpkins and seems to have some secret. Jae-kyung starts to change his attitude, and the secret is about to be revealed...

100 Days With Mr. Arrogant

Running Time: 96
Release Year: 2004
Director: Shin dong-yeob

Cast:
Ha Ji Won
Kim Jae-Won

Synopsis

Ha-yeong is dumped by her boyfriend on the 100th day of their relationship, an important milestone for every couple. Hyeong-jun is a wealthy and handsome man who melts women wherever he goes, but is not interested in dating. One day, as the later is driving his luxury car, the two will meet. Disgruntled by her recent rejection, Ha-yeong kicks a soda can out of frustration, which finds its way onto Hyeong-jun's head. Startled by the impact, he loses control of his car and scratches it against a wall. When Ha-yeong is unable to pay for the damages, he persuades her to repay him by signing a contract that binds her to his service for 100 days. What happens next is strictly by the (silly) book and inevitably, they both start having feelings for one another.

...ing

Running Time : 110 min
Opening date in Korea: 28 Nov 2003
Director : LEE Eon-hee

Cast:
IM Soo-jung as Min-ah
KIM Rae-won as Young-jae
LEE Mi-sook as Mi-sook

Synopsis

Min-ah is a high school student who has just been transferred from another school. She is quiet and keeps to herself as she has a deformed hand and has spent most of her life in the hospital battling a life-threatening disease. She lives with her mother Mi-sook, who is widowed. Mother and daughter share a close and intimate relationship, and Mi-sook wishes for Min-ah to experience all aspects of life, including first love.

Min-ah befriends Young-jae, the new neighbour downstairs, and starts to experience her first love. However, everything is short-lived as Min-ah finds out that she is dying...

just like the kmovieaddicts blog (well, sort of) =p

i'll be posting some of the movie/drama reviews just like what honeynutcheerios have in her blog. hope it's just ok with her... in the meantime, i'll try to do some research about other korean films so that i can all forward it to her and see if she could patiently find them all and upload it for us. till here...

yufeifei went on vacation... ;c

this is so frustrating... i'm used to checking out on honeynutcheerios' blog and other related sites just to see what's new in Korean movies... but now, she's on vacation and i'm sad...

oh well, hope she's having a blast there! (wherever she is)... i'll miss her.

in the meantime, i've decided to make something similar to what she has on her blog... i'm not a copier but i'm putting up some of the movies i've seen/watched from her and from our friends in YouTube and DailyMotion. i hope someday, she could also view my blog in here...(^_^) (Yufeifei---> my iDoL) lol =x