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Monday, November 20, 2006

Daddy Long Legs



Running Time: 98 mins
Release Year: 2005

Director: Kong Jeong-sik

Cast: Ha Ji-won

Yeon Jeong-hoon

Park Hyun-hye

Hyeon Bin

Synopsis

In her new movie Daddy-Long-Legs that borrowed its name from the famous novel by Jean Webster, famous Korean star Ha Ji-won portrays the naïve but good-hearted high school girl Cha Young-mi. Left to her own devices after the tragic loss of her parents, Young-mi is determined to overcome whatever hardships the future may bring in order to complete her education. Through the help of an invisible benefactor who pays for her tuition fees and other necessary expenses, Young-mi is able to finish her studies and is offered her dream job as program writer for a radio station. It is there that she meets and falls in love with her colleague Kim Joon-hoo (Yeon Jeong-hoon). After Young-mi discovers a desperate message left behind by the former owner of her computer she decides to do something to help this heartbroken person …

Crazy First Love



Running Time: 108 mins
Release Year: 2003

Director: Oh Jong-rok

Cast: Cha Tae-hyeon

Son Ye-jin

Yoo Dong-geun


Synopsis


SON Tae-il(CHA Tae-hyun) is a super problem child of Kang High. He has an incredible IQ of 148, but, unfortunately, he's only interested in marrying his first love Il-mae(SON Ye-jin). When Tae-il demands marriage with Il-mae and strays farther away from school, Young-dal(YOO Dong-geun) and Il-mae come up with a proposal to 'bring Tae-il back to the right track.' He openly declares that he would allow Tae-il to marry his daughter Il-mae if he could raise his rank up to top 3, 000 nationwide from his current status of 300,000.
Tae-il accepts the ridiculous proposal without a second thought. And 2 years later, he does pull up his rank up top 3,000 nationwide and is admitted to the Law School of Seoul National University. However, fooled by Young-dal's skillfully touching(?) performance, incorporating tears and snots, Tae-il gets softhearted and promises Young-dal that he'll keep Il-mae 'pure' until he passes the judicial examination. A man's words weigh and worth as much as thousand gold! From then on, Tae-il's ultimate mission is to protect Il-mae from all the sleazeballs who approach her~! Tae-il's new job as Il-mae's personal bodyguard has begun. However, his double-duty of studying for the judicial examination and monitoring Il-mae's whereabouts is keeping him awake 24-7. On the other hand, Il-mae, who wants to enjoy her college life and date boys, gets frustrated watching Tae-il, who only focuses on his study and even rejects Il-mae's approach to kiss him. What she doesn't realize is that he's doing all this to be with her. After countless night of no sleep and nosebleed, Tae-il finally passes the 1st level judicial examination. However, at his congratulatory party, Il-mae drops the bomb by confessing her love for another man. Tae-il can't believe his ears. Can this be really happening? Will Tae-il be able to regain and keep his first love? Source http://www.cinemaservice.com

Monday, November 06, 2006

Windstruck



Running Time: 123 mins
Release Year: 2004

Director: Kwak Jae-Yeong


Cast: Jeon Ji-Hyeon
Jang Hyeok


Synopsis:


A devil-may-care police woman, Kyung-jin, gets to know a kind-hearted high school teacher Myung-woo when she mistakes him for a thief. After an awkward first encounter and a few more coincidences they start to become fond of each other. Although Kyung-jin is one tough girl, Myung-woo is always worried about her because of her recklessness. One day, when Myung-woo tries to help Kyung-jin during her risky pursuit of a criminal, an accident happens which causes Myung-woo not to be with Kyung-jin anymore. After the accident, Kyung-jin feels empty and lonely so she throws herself into perilous situations. However, whenever she falls in danger she feels that a strange but familiar sense in the wind is helping her out.

Love So Divine



Running Time: 110 mins
Release Year: 2004

Director: Heo In-Moo


Cast: Ha Ji-Won

Kwon Sang-Woo



Synopsis:


Kyushik (Kwon Sangwoo) is a serious theological student whose single and long-term goal is to serve God and become a priest. Just before his ordination, his ambition is tested due to his delinquent friend Sundal's mistake during school mass. To escape from this crisis, Kyushik has to attend a special training program called 'strengthening your spirituality.'
Kyushik and Sundal are stationed in a small church in a deserted area where everything seems strange and far from what they expected. Kyushik meets Father Nam's niece, Bonghee (Ha Jiwon), who just came from the US, only to find that her 'believed-to-be love of her life' has left her for another girl. Trying to wake up a drunken Bonghee in the chapel, Kyushik accidentally kisses her. During his confession, he is ordered to prepare her for baptism.
Consoling the broken-hearted Bonghee is a difficult task for the innocent Kyushik. They are attracted to each other as they reveal their experiences. Then as Kyushik's ordination date approaches, Bonghee's ex-boyfriend returns to win her back. They both must make the hardest decisions of their life.

Everybody Has Secrets


Running Time: 105 mins
Release Year: 2004

Director: Jang Hyeon-Soo


Cast: Lee Byung-Hun
Sang Mi-Chu

Choi Ji-Woo

Kim Hyo-Jin

Synopsis:

Soo-hyun is a very attractive and intelligent guy. Jin-young and Sun-young who are sisters end up getting involved with Soo-hyun despite the fact that he is their younger sister’s boyfriend. These three sisters—Jin-young who’s married, Sun-young who’s naïve and Mi-young who’s liberal just can't help falling in love with Soo-hyun. The secrets of this tangled love story between the three sisters and Soo-hyun will eventually be revealed.
Mi-yeong, a charming vocalist working at a jazz bar, is the youngest sister of the family and is strong-will and lives a rather liberal lifestyle. She has a boyfriend Sang-il who loves her with all his heart but he’s not so appealing to her. One day, she finds Su-hyun, a guest who visits the jazz bar where she works and falls in love with him at first sight. Seon-young who believes in platonic relationships, is the middle sister of the family and a 27 year-old virgin. One day, she meets her sister’s boyfriend, Soo-hyun and then, she felt butterflies in her stomach when she met him. She wants to have him exclusively to herself and make him her boyfriend. Jin-Young who is already married and has one child is the eldest sister of the family. She feels bored with her marriage life because her role as wife and mother has become so routine for a long time, she wants some kind of surprise in her life. Soo-hyun, her sister’s boyfriend, becomes closer to her, which she doesn’t mind it. Instead she wonders what’s going on his mind.

The Classic



Running Time: 125 mins
Release Year: 2003

Director: Kwak Jae-Yong


Cast: Jo In-Seong

Son Ye-Jin

Cho Seung-Woo


Synopsis:


Ji-hae and Soo-kyoung are friends attending the same university and both have a crush on Sang-min who is in their drama club. The more clamorous and outgoing of the two, Soo-kyoung, asks Ji-hae to do her a favor - write a love letter to Sang-min. Ji-hae pours out her own feelings for him on paper, but sadly in her friend's name. Touched by the letter, Sang-min is attracted to Soo-kyoung, and Ji-hae, feeling uncomfortable and even guilty, tries to avoid him. And yet by coincidence or by fate she keeps running into him.
Ji-hae has lived alone with her mom since her childhood, when her dad unexpectedly passed away. Her mom is now on a trip abroad, and to wile away her solitude she starts cleaning the attic. There Ji-hae finds a secret box, in which her mom kept the memorabilia of her first love story of some decades past. Summer in 1968... Joon-ha is visiting his uncle's home in the countryside during his summer vacation. There he meets Joo-hee and falls in love at first sight. One day, the lovely Joo-hee secretly asks Joon-ha to escort her to a haunted house in the village. Happy and excited to be at her service, Joon-ha meets her at their promised spot. But in an unexpected storm, the two lose their boat and barely manage to return home at a very late hour. Joo-hee gets into big trouble for this incident and is sent back to Seoul. Having parted with Joo-hee without a word of farewell, Joon-ha spends the rest of the summer heavy-hearted. With summer vacation being over Joon-ha also returns to Seoul. At school, his classmate Tae-su asks him to write a love letter to send to a girl. And who would it be but Joo-hee, Joon-ha's dream girl. Unable to confess his own summer love story, Joon-ha reluctantly complies with his friend's request. Source http://www.cinemaservice.com

One Fine Spring Day


Running Time: 106 mins
Release Year: 2001

Director: Heo Jin-Ho


Cast: Yoo Ji-Tae

Lee Young-Ae


Synopsis:


Sang-Woo (Ji-Tae Yoo) is a sound recorder who meets a producer for a radio station in Gangneung, Eun-Soo (Young-Ae Lee). The two leave on a trip together to gather sounds for a program, such as the wind whistling through the bamboo and the sounds from a Buddhist temple. The two fall in love while on their travels, but Eun-Soo, a divorcee, feels burdened by Sang-Woo’s love. Because of this she refuses him, and they go their separate ways. After time passes and Sang-Woo has recovered from the past wound, Eun-Soo shows up out of the blue. Though they try to rekindle their love, they understand that even beautiful love has its season- like a fine spring day.

My Brother



Running Time: 112 mins
Release Year: 2005

Director: Ahn Kwon-Tae


Cast: Sin Ha-Gyoon

Won-Bin


Synopsis:


Two brothers were born within a year of each other. The younger brother 'Jong-hyun' is only good at fighting, and his older brother 'Seong-hyun' is good at studying and has a warm heart. Jong-hyun has largely ignored Seong-hyun. They have studied in the same class and in the same school. Their mother loves only Seong-hyun. They fall in love with the same girl, but she only likes Jong-hyun. Because of their mother and Seong-hyun, the brothers' conflicts never seem to stop.

Cinderella



Running Time: 94 mins
Release Year: 2006

Director: Bong Man-Dae


Cast: Do Ji-Won

Shin Se-Kyeong


Synopsis:


Though having never once in her life seen her father, Hyun-soo has never felt his absense, as there is a perfect mother for her. Her mother is also a renowned plastic surgeon, so she is never lonely, surrounded by girls who want beauty consultations from her mother. But her happiness comes to an end as her friends who have received facial surgery from her mother start to commit mysterious suicides by cutting out their faces. She also starts to feel that there is someone else in the house where she lives alone with her mother. One day, she discovers a hidden basement and there, she comes to find a secret from her past, which will bring great turmoil to mother and daughter.
Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr

Bungee Jumping Of Their Own




Running Time: 101 mins

Release Year: 2001

Director: Dae Seung-Kim


Cast: Lee Byung-Hun

Lee Eun-Joo

Synopsis:
On a rainy day in 1983, In-Woo (Byung-Hun Lee) meets Tae-Hee (Eun-Joo Lee) to experience love at first sight. But just as their love ripens, In-Woo must leave for mandatory service in the army. On her way to see him off, Tae-Hee dies in a fatal car accident. Fast forward to spring 2000. Now a high school Korean teacher, In-Woo meets a male student who reminds him of Tae-Hee. He has the lighter than Tae-Hee gave In-Woo as proof of her affections, and says the same words that Tae-Hee once said to him. In-Woo soon finds himself in love with the student…

Chulsoo and Younghee


Running Time: 90 mins
Release Year: 2004

Director: Hwang Kyoo-deok


Cast: Jeong Ha-Eun

Park Tae-Young


Synopsis:

What happens when a naughty boy meets a cute, sophisticated girl and falls in love? When it comes to mischievous behavior, Chulsoo is second to none though he has the lowest academic record at school. The only two who greet him are his mother, who is completely engrossed in investing money on the cyber stock market, and a parrot, which repeatedly mimics the phrase, "Chulsoo, you fool."

Chulsoo changes completely after Younghee transfers to his school. With both of her parents dead, Younghee, who lives with her grandmother who runs a flower shop, is grief-stricken but so excels in academics and conduct that her other male peers fall in love with her. Chulsoo gradually approaches her but she rarely opens her heart. Finally, Chulsoo prepares a gift for her, but that is just the beginning.

Christmas In August




Running Time: 97 mins
Release Year: 1998
Director: He Jin-ho

Cast: Han Seok-kyu
Shim Eun-ha


Synopsis:

This film tells the heartbreaking love story of Jeong-Won (Seok-Kyu Han), a photographer facing death, and Da-Rim (Eun-Ha Shim), a parking law enforcer. Jeong-Won, dying from a terminal illness, chooses to face the last days of his life alone inside his small photo studio at the edge of Seoul city. One day he chances cross Da-Rim, who is enforcing the parking laws on a street neat the photo studio. The two grow closer and closer, nurturing their love for one another- but Jeongwon’s health fails him, and he is carried off to the hospital, leaving Da-Rim waiting outside the closed door of the photo studio without a clue what is going on. When Christmas arrives, Da-Rim visits the studio once more, and smiles at the sight of a framed photo of her hanging on the wall- not knowing that Jeong-Won is already gone.

Ditto



Running Time: 110 mins
Release Year: 2000
Director: Kim Jeong-kwon

Cast: Kim Ha-Neul
Yoo Ji-Tae
Ha Ji-Won
Park Yong-Woo


Synopsis:

When high school student So-eun (Kim Ha-neul) accidentally becomes the owner of a ham radio, she begins an airwaves correspondence with In (Yoo Ji-tae), who attends the same high school. The two decide to arrange a meeting under a clock tower, but when they miss each other they realize that they exist 21 years apart: So-eun lives in a politically tumultuous 1979, while In, situated in 2000, is a member of the relatively worry-free Internet generation. Ditto was released in South Korea within a few months of Il Mare, another film to explore the themes of national identity and love across time. Rebecca Flint

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