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Monday, January 15, 2007
Love Me Not
Running Time: 119 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Lee Cheol-ha
Cast: Kim Joo-hyeok
Moon Geung-yeong
Synopsis:
Julian has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Min, the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Min’s eyesight relapsed, threatening her life.
Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr
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
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