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