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See You After School

Running Time: 103 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Lee Seok-hoon

Cast:

Bong Tae-Gyu [봉태규]
Ha Seok-Jin [하석진]
Kim Tae-Hyeon [김태현]
Jeong Koo-Yeon [정구연]

Synopsis:

For Goong-dahl, nothing has gone right in his whole life. In an attempt to get rid of his 'loser streak,' he signs up for and fully immerses himself in a year-long psychological therapy program. Getting right out of the clinic and with high hopes for the future, Goong-dahl makes a fresh start in the high school battlefields. Goong-dahl manages to spot some losers who were bullying the school's most gorgeous student, Mina. But, alas! Due to a lack of information about the school's notorious thug Jae-koo, Goong-dahl mistakes Jae-koo as his prey. Naturally the tables are turned and Goong-dahl is challenged to a fight on the rooftop after school.

Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr

Mr. Wacky

Running Time: 97 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Kim Dong-wook

Cast:

Park Geon-hyeong (박건형)
Kim Hyo-jin (김효진)
Moon Ji-yoon (문지윤)
Kang Eun-bi (강은비)
Lee Kyeon (이켠)
Jeong Wook (정욱)
Jo Hyeon-jae (조현재)
Kang So-jeong (강소정)
Jeong Woong-in (정웅인)

Synopsis:

“Mr. Wacky” is a comedy movie directed by Kim Dong-wook. It’s about a playboy Woo Juho’s only enjoyment in life is hanging around with girls at a club and wasting his money. His grandfather scolds him for living carelessly and orders him to work as a teacher. Having a grandfather as the head of a school, he becomes a high school math teacher without passing any official qualifications. He lacks every sense of duty as a teacher: he is always late or absent from classes and spends a day doing nothing but listening to the bells on campus. A picky teacher, Yoon So-ju (Kim Hyo-jin), decides to change his behavior.

Source: http://idols-unlimited.com

Last Present

Running Time: 110 mins
Release Year: 2001
Director: Oh Ki-hwan

Cast:

Lee Jeong-jae (이정재)
Lee Young-ae (이영애)
Kwon Hae-hyo (권해효)
Kong Hyeong-jin (공형진)
Lee Moon-sik (이문식)
Lee In-cheol (이인철)
Kim Tae-hee (김태희)
Sa Hyeon-jin (사현진)
Kim Seong-gyeom (김성겸)
Kim Soo-ro (김수로)
Hong Seok-cheon (홍석천)
Kong Hyo-jin (공효진)

Synopsis:

The relationship of a third-rate comedian, Yong-ki, and his wife, Jung-yun is growing cold after the miscarriage of their baby. Yong-ki becomes increasingly suspicious of the wife’s coldness towards him. Little does he know that Jung-yun has a terminal disease and is preparing a last present to her beloved husband when her time is sadly running out.

Source: http://idols-unlimited.com

You Are My Sunshine

Running Time: 123 mins
Release Year: 2005
Director: Park Jin-pyo

Cast:

Do-yeon Jeon
Jeong-min Hwang
Mun-hee Na
Seung-su Ryu
Su-hee Go
Yu-seok Jeong
Bu-seon Kim
Ju-hie Seo

Synopsis:

The story is based on a real gossip some years ago in Korea, and focusing on the eternal, condition-less love between a naive peasant and a bereft ex-prostitute whose past is somewhere under the body of many male CLIENTs. Every love has its own silver line and every lover has his/her own attitude; But, the love between this couple is too candid to be understood but to be appreciated. As no scientific paradigm cannot define THE LOVE, this movie just illustrates what love gotta be even under extreme background.

Nevertheless, the emotion of love affair and the instinct of affection should be separated. This movie, regrettably, fails in the depiction of love itself but concentrates on the struggle for keeping his/her aficionado toward each other against all social rules and interference. Love will shine when it’s against all odds. However, these odds are too exaggerated in the movie to be overcome by love itself, otherwise making the love tattered with uncompromising and painful memories.

Director’s endeavor to gather every piece of elegiac elements is too evident, and the performances of two actor/actress are very easy going, enough to make audiences lost in the clearly “schematized” sadness.

Source: http://idols-unlimited.com

To Sir, With Love

Running Time: 93 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Im Dae-woong

Cast:

Oh Mi-Hee
Seo Young-Hee
Lee Ji-Hyeon(a)
Yeo Hyeon-Su
Lee Dong-Gyu
Park Hyo-Jun
Yu Seol-Ah
Jang Seong-Won

Synopsis:

Six twenty-something characters are invited for a party by their elementary school classmate Mi-ja, who has been caring for her former teacher Ms. Park, now infirm and wheelchair-bound. The guests turn out to be a motley crew of losers and basket cases, however. Worse, each of them bears a serious grudge against Ms. Park. Sun-hee, traumatized by the teacher’s public taunting of her baby fat, has become addicted to plastic surgery and suffers from bulimia. Park Hyo-jun ruined his leg while being punished by Ms. Park and had to fold his childhood dream of becoming an ace baseball player. Se-ho and Eun-young, now a couple, are still struggling against the memories of insults and put-downs regarding their poverty. Even Myung-ho, an obvious teacher’s pet, is trying to medicate away the nightmares involving Ms. Park’s creepy “affection.” And wouldn’t you know it, she used to keep her horribly deformed child in the basement, whose current whereabouts are unknown. Soon, someone wearing the kid’s paper-cut rabbit mask starts to make salami and head cheese slices out of the characters (credit to koreanfilm.org for sypnosis).

Source: http://idols-unlimited.com

Our Happy Time

Running Time: 120 mins
Release Year: 2006
Director: Song Hae-seong

Cast:

Kang Dong-won (강동원)
Lee Na-young (이나영)
Yoon Yeo-jeong (윤여정)
Kang Shin-il (강신일)
Jeong Yeong-sook (정영숙)
Kim Ji-yeong (김지영)
Jang Hyeon-seong (장현성)
Jeong In-gi (정인기)
Kim Jin-hyeok (김진혁)
Oh Jeong-se (오정세)
Lee Jae-goo (이재구)
Nah Gi-soo (나기수)
Sin Yeong-jin (신영진)
Oh Kwang-rok (오광록)
Kim Boo-seon (김부선)

Synopsis:

Yu-jeong, a suicidal young woman, is introduced to a man on death row named Yun-soo by her aunt, Sister Monica. Raised by an abusive father, Yun-soo has led a hard life. It got even harder when he was left in an orphanage with his younger brother after his father’s suicide and his mother’s abandonment. Growing up in the gutter, he became involved in a violent crime, for which he was convicted of three counts of murder. Yu-jeong, on the other hand, comes from a rich family. However, her childhood was marred by traumatic neglect, which has led to her self-destructive impulses. These two wounded souls slowly open their hearts and find the motivation to live on in each other’s compassion. Yu-jeong realizes how spoiled her life has been compared to Yun-soo’s, and embraces his guilt that would otherwise never be forgiven.

Source: http://idols-unlimited.com

Hello Brother

Running Time: 95 mins
Release Year: 2004
Director: Lim Tae-hyeong

Cast:

Jin-bin Park
Dae-han Seo
Chong-ok Bae
Won-sang Park
Woo-hyeok Choi

Synopsis:

A beautiful movie that show the childrens perspective on a disease as cancer or tumors.

Han-yi (Park Ji-bin) and Han-byul (Seo Dae-han) are both brothers. Han-yi who is the youngest (9 years old) and also the most annoying brother does not treat his older brother (12 years old) properly and plays pranks on him. But one day, Han-byul is diagnosed with a brain tumor, undergoes brain surgery, and is hospitalized in the pediatric ward. While their mother (Bae Jong-ok) is busy taking care of Han-byul, and their father tells Han-byul to write down everything bad that Han-yi does in a red pocketbook, Han-yi is noticing he doesn’t get as much as attention as he wants from them. When Han-byul also meets another kid Wook-yi (Choi Woo-hyeok) in the ward who is also diagnosed with the same illness, Han-yi feels that he is not getting enough attention anymore as he used to, thus starts to worry…

A very emotional movie, from the perspective of a little kid that goes trough different emotions because his brother is in the hospital and he doesn’t get enough attention anymore from everyone.

The story and the cinematography are just brilliant. Even if there is a little fantasy in it, I still think it’s very nicely edited into the movie, and doesn’t bother at all.

Source: http://idols-unlimited.com