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Go-eun (Song Yoon-ah), a wedding dress designer and single mom, has only a limited number of days to live. Before parting from her young daughter So-ra (Kim Hyang-gi), Go-eun wants to do everything she can for her, including making a beautiful wedding dress for So-ra for the future. As her condition worsens, So-ra finds out about the cancer and tries to fulfill her mother's wishes one by one, in secret
A girl, Su-mi, is brought to a psychiatrist. She is unresponsive until shown a picture of her family. She is taken home by her father, Moo-hyeon, along with her timid sister, Su-yeon. There, they are met by their difficult stepmother, Eun-joo.
That night Su-yeon awakes to find somebody in her room and she flees to her sister. Su-mi promises Su-yeon that she will always be there for her and they fall asleep.
Su-mi awakens after a nightmare to find that Su-yeon has begun her period, as has her stepmother, on the very same day. The girls look at some old photos, which reveal that Eun-joo was a doctor and a coworker of Moo-hyeon. Su-mi sees bruises on Su-yeon's arms and accuses Eun-joo.
At dinner with guests — Eun-joo's brother Sun-kyu, and his wife — Eun-joo acts strangely. During dinner, Sun-kyu's wife begins to choke and convulse on the floor. After they leave, Eun-joo investigates around, only to be startled by a hand that reaches out as she tries to pick up a pin.
Eun-joo insists that strange events have become frequent since Su-mi and Su-yeon returned. Her pet bird is slain and found in Su-yeon's bed. In a rage she locks Su-yeon in the wardrobe, and after Su-yeon is freed, Moo-hyeon asks Su-mi why she is making trouble.
Su-mi insists that the stepmother harasses Su-yeon, locking her in the closet. Moo-hyeon informs her that Su-yeon is dead, and that she is not getting better. The scene ends with Su-yeon emotionally screaming.
Su-mi wakes to find her sister missing and believes she sees her stepmother dragging around a bloody bag through the corridors of the house and beating it. Su-mi runs to the kitchen to grab scissors to free her sister but Eun-joo attempts to stop her by splashing boiling water from the kettle onto her. A fight ensues and Su-mi is rendered unconscious.
Moo-hyeon returns home to find an injured Su-mi, however all evidence is suspiciously gone as are the stepmother and bag.
The scene shifts, Su-mi is now shown as the stepmother. She looks up in surprise, and the camera rotates to show the real stepmother, standing in the door way, looking sympathetic. When the camera turns around again, Su-mi is back where she was. All memories flash through her mind that give evidence of her illness.
It is revealed that all along Su-yeon really has been dead, and the stepmother was absent. Su-mi was acting as the stepmother and imagining her sister throughout the film because of a severe dissociative identity disorder.
Su-mi then flashes back to a time when Eun-joo was a live-in nurse caring for the girls' sick mother. The girls sense that Eun-joo and Moo-hyeon are flirting. Su-mi displays her disapproval toward Eun-joo, who in turn takes her anger out on Su-yeon. Su-yeon then returns to her room and collapses onto her bed, in tears. Su-yeon's mother is shown trying to comfort her as she too starts crying.
The flashback ends, and the stepmother sits alone in the quiet home. A noise comes from Su-yeon's room. When she investigates, the wardrobe opens and from it crawls out the ghost, presumably of either Su-yeon or her mother. The scene ends ambiguously with a scream.
The flashback picks up again from when Su-yeon had fallen asleep, with her waking up and discovering her dead mother inside her wardrobe, who had hanged herself with an article of clothing. Terrified, Su-yeon shakes the body and screams. A bottle of pills drops and spills open, while Su-yeon accidentally pulls the wardrobe down on top of herself, causing her to scream again.
Various people in the house hear the bang, but not the scream. Out of everyone, only Eun-joo (the nurse and future stepmother) goes to investigate. She discovers Su-yeon screaming for help and attempting to claw at the wardrobe. Eun-joo leaves rather than helping Su-yeon, but then changes her mind and heads back for the scene. En route, she passes Su-mi coming out of her room to investigate the noise. An argument starts between Eun-joo and Su-mi. During the argument, Su-yeon is shown whimpering under the wardrobe.
After the argument, when Su-mi tries to leave the house, Eun-joo stops her. Eun-joo advises her to go and investigate the noise, warning Su-mi that she might regret it if she doesn't. Su-mi dismisses the warning as nonsense and angrily marches out of the house. Outside, Su-mi passes Moo-hyeon, who was going to investigate. Moo-hyeon assumes that the noise was Su-mi's, and he ends up not entering the house.
The scene switches back to Su-yeon crying out for Su-mi's help, because Eun-joo decided not to go back and help her. Su-yeon continues clawing at the wardrobe until she eventually dies. Outside the house, Su-mi turns back long enough to exchange angry stares with Eun-joo, who is standing on the balcony. The film ends with Su-mi continuing to walk away from the house, but stopping to pause and think.
As the credits scroll, an image is shown of Su-mi sitting on the dock by the pond. She is in the same outfit as in an earlier scene: The day she had come home and had done the same with Su-yeon. However, this time, Su-mi is sitting alone.
Riley Yip’s films seem to be getting worse and worse, though that’s a relative measure. His third film is an overstuffed, heavy-handed, but entertaining UFO comedy-drama about aroma therapist Athena (Kelly Chan), who’s stuck in a depressing rut ever since SDU boyfriend Andrew died. However, all is not lost as a wayward angel (Takeshi Kaneshiro) comes crashing through her skylight and proceeds to change her life.
The film has its attractive elements, but the little details are so cloying that you just want to slap someone at the production company. Kaneshiro (nicknamed “Angel”) is dying, but he needs to love to subsist. Sure, average physical love helps out in a pinch, but its true love that nourishes our photogenic star. In time, it seems he could get it from Athena (as many male audience members would like to, I’m sure), but the obstacles are many. Athena just can’t get over Andrew, and then there’s flaming gay neighbor Eason Chan, who should take sedatives before acting. He loved both Andrew and now Angel, but unlike Andrew, Angel ain’t no switch hitter. Eventually Angel decides he wants to love Athena. His desire is not just to heal himself, but to heal her of the heartbreak that threatens to destroy her and apparently Hong Kong at large.
Okay, my description of the film is borderline derisive, but I’m probably speaking from a position of enlarged expectations. Quite frankly, I expected the most from this film, as it paired the lovely Kelly Chan with the charismatic Takeshi Kaneshiro under the direction of one of HK’s best new directors and the aegis of HK’s premier quality production house. The result bears many hallmarks of both Riley Yip and UFO, but the mix is quite forced. There’s just too much verbal exposition, and much of it involving awful UFO clichés which should have been retired a few years ago.
At least the performances are better than par. Kelly Chan is ethereal and sexy, though I’d love to see her play a sweet, loveable girl instead of these high-maintenance beauty queens. Kaneshiro gets back on track with a role that allows him to use his boyish charisma, which has been sorely missing from films like Downtown Torpedoes and Tempting Heart. In the end, I would recommend this film for its stars and for its production design which is absolutely beautiful. Near the end of the flick Athena and Angel journey to Europe and as they stroll through fields of lavender you may be able to forget that you were jerked around for 90 minutes prior. (Kozo 2001)
The story begins with the tale of a classic Korean story of romance about a princess named Pyun-gang whose husband, On-dal dies. Then we flash forward to a mother who has brought her haunted daughter (also named Pyun-gang) to a psychic, who informs her that her daughter is haunted by the ghost of the princess . He then goes on to say that the girl must marry her On-dal by her 16 birthday and produce a child within a year otherwise she will die. The family treats it skeptically until years later, Pyun-gang has several near-death experiences and is immediately spooked, convinced she is going to die. As luck would have it, soon thereafter, a new transfer student joins Pyun-gang's class. His name is On-dal, and he's intelligent, handsome and rich which really doesn't make the prospect of high school marriage such a tough deal for Pyun-gang, what with her impending death and all.
The Cyrano Agency consists of four people from a theater troupe who offers a unique cupid service for lovelorn clients. The company intricately devises and implements schemes, custom tailored to match the interests of their intended target, for the ultimate goal of obtaining romance for their client. The boss and mastermind behind the agency is Byung-Hoon (Eom Tae-Woong).
Things take a strange twist at the Cyrano Agency when a new client named Sang-Yong (Daniel Choi) enters their office. Sang-Yong is a straight-laced financial trader who is rather inept with personal relationships. He has fallen for a free spirited woman named Hee-Joong (Lee Min-Jung) and seeks out the Cyrano Agency’s help. The boss for the Cyrano Agency, Byung-Hoon, then notices that Hee-Joong is his ex-girlfriend with whom he has really never gotten over ….
A Better Tomorrow” is a remake of the 1986 film “A Better Tomorrow” by John Woo, it’s a co-production between South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.
Kim Hyuk (Joo Jin-Mo) lives the fast life as a high ranking mobster in the port city of Busan, South Korea. His closet friend is fellow mobster Lee Young-Choon (Song Seung-Heon). Even though Kim Hyuk seems to be on top of the world, he is haunted by the memory of leaving behind his younger brother Kim Chul (Kim Kang-Woo) and mother as they attempted to flee into South Korea from North Korea. Kim Hyuk’s mother was beaten to death and Kim Chul imprisoned after they were caught by North Korean authorities.
Kim Hyuk then travels to Thailand with new gang recruit Jung Tae-Min (Jo Han-Seon) for a meeting with Thai gangsters. The meeting turns out to be a set-up, planned in part by Jung Tae-Min. Kim Hyuk is able to shoot his way out the meeting, but he is later caught by the Thai police and imprisoned. When good friend Lee Young-Choon hears of what happened to Kim Hyuk in Thailand, he goes to the Thai gang’s holdout in Pusan to kill their boss. During the shootout Jung Tae-Min is shot in the leg.
Three years later, Kim Hyuk is finallly released from prison and travels back to Busan. He finds his close friend Lee Young-Choon washing cars now and has a limp leg. Jung Tae-Min, the man that betrayed him, has climbed up the mob ranks and is now a feared crime boss. Furthermore, Kim Hyuk’s younger brother Kim Chul has arrived in Busan and works for the Busan Police Department. Meanwhile, Kim Chul keeps close tabs on Jung Tae-Min as he attempts to take down their gang.
When Jung Tae-Min attempts to take out Kim Hyuk’s younger brother, Kim Hyuk throws himself back into the gang world to exact revenge
As Korean fever is now the trend in Thailand, two guys are put together to form a Korean style boy band, making a big break in music industry.
Tom and Teung are buddies who dream of being an artist. Tom has the look and dancing skill, but his husky voice seems to be the big problem. While Teung has no idol image and dancing skill, he's got the voice. The record company finds a tricky way to make Tom as a new idol and Teung becomes the back-up voice while Tom is lipsyncing on the stage. Their first single hits the charts and they become extremely popular over the country. While their popularity is raising and everyone is keen to know them better, they have to keep the secret; the truth about the voice behind the stage.
Soo-In (Kim Nam-Gil) was a talented cook who became falsely accused of killing his wife and then received a life sentence in prison. While in prisonSoo-In hears that prisoners infected with AIDS can leave prison. Soo-In then injects himself with the blood of HIV positive inmate Sang-Byun (Jeong Yun-Min). Sang-Byun does make the request that if by chance Soo-In is able to escape from prison to visit the café named Luth. Soo-In manages to escape from prison.
Out of prison, Soo-In confronts the priest who had an affair with his wife. The priest confesses to the murder, but then takes his own life. Soo-In, having now lost all hope to clear his name and nowhere to go, decides to visit the cafe Sang-Byun requested.
When Soo-In arrives at the beach side cafe named Luth, he meets the proprietor Mi-ya (Woo Seul Hye Hwang). Mi-ya is a beautiful women, a magician, and also bears heavy mental scars from her past. Mi-ya eventually hires Soo-In as a cook. The two become closer & soon love blossoms. One day Soo-In tells Mi-ya it was Sang-Byun who sent him there and this shocks Mi-ya ..
A quiet, professional killer, Hyun-jun, arrives at a house to kill a man in his sleep, only to discover a woman alone under the sheets. She shouts at the dazed Hyun-jun, "Whats the matter with you? I paid for you, so just kill me."
Jin-young has decided to kill herself after a traumatic break up with her lover of seven years, but she wants to go out with a bang, not with a miserable and lonely dose of commonplace sleeping pills.
Hyun-jun is furious at the woman and abandons the mission despite the fact that he has a contract to fulfill. "You should kill yourself, Im not your suicide assistant." This is how Hyun-jun and Jin-young first meet. The most extraordinary love story begins ... Written by Golden Network Asia
When a man discovers that his teenage daughter is selling sexual favours to middle-aged men, he sets out to take revenge on those who have taken advantage of her.
To expect an intelligent, witty comedy from Sajid Khan is to expect a snowstorm in Mumbai. Never known for cerebral humour, Sajid goes full guns blazing with cheap slapstick in his latest comedy Housefull which boasts of a stellar starcast not excluding a bunch of shapely babes in skimpy bikinis, a tiger, a monkey, and of course Akshay Kumar playing a luckless, lazy loser trying to change his luck by finding true love.
The movie, set in London and Italy, is a purported comedy of errors about mistaken identities among characters given to slapping each other much too often. In one scene Boman Irani slaps Ritesh Deshmukh, who slaps Akshay, who completes the circle by slapping Boman. In another, the slap-duel is between apna Akshay and an Italian monkey. And for every slap that Akki whacks on the simian, he gets an equally powerful one back. If that’s the brand of humour that leaves you doubled up in guffaws, here’s more. In the climax scene, laughing gas is leaked inside the Buckingham Palace and every one of the actors in the stellar cast (excluding the monkey) can’t cease to laugh. Nitrous oxide ain’t truth serum but for some funny reason Akki reveals all about his different wives to everyone.
Yes, it’s all about wives, real or fake. Lara Dutta has to pretend to be the wife of Akshay to keep a lie from getting revealed to her parsi dad Boman Irani. Ritesh Deshmukh, who is Akshay’s friend and Lara’s real hubby, is reduced as her brother. Deepika Padukone whom Akshay loves has an authoritarian brother Arjun Rampal who can’t stand lies. Together the two couple Akshay-Deepika and Ritesh-Lara weave a web of lies from which there’s no escaping when Boman and Arjun come under the same roof with them. Akshay’s wife number three is played by Jiah Khan, a conservative girl who believes in falling in love ‘only after marriage’ provided her marriage lasts that long.
Confusion reigns supreme as director Sajid Khan twists and turns the plot between these characters and adds some crackpots like a half-Italian hotelier named Aakhri Pasta (Chunky Pandey) and an oversexed widow (Lilette Dubey) on the sidelines. Try finding sense in the plot and you’ll end up losing your common sense. But to give credit where it’s due, there are indeed a few genuinely funny moments in Housefull, particularly the ones featuring the ever dependable Akshay Kumar and Ritesh Deshmukh. Akshay’s sequence with the vacuum cleaner at the start may not be clever, but it’s funny. Keeping a straight face and uptight gait, Akshay keeps the fun going even when the script and the plot gets too dumb to be humourous. Arjun is serious for the most part, while Deepika hams like there’s no tomorrow. Lara Dutta hasn’t been used to her potential and Jiah Khan just reduced to a pretty face.
Sajid Khan borrows generously from a number of Hollywood comedies and also adds a smattering of gooey melodrama in between the slapstick. He neither shows the craftsmanship of a skilled filmmaker nor the creativity of a good storyteller. All he cares for is to make the viewers laugh even at the cost of his story’s characters slapping each other mechanically. Agreed that he packs in some good humour at times, but his slam-dunk approach to make you laugh in the climax scene is a big letdown. It leaves you wanting for a real, lung-full of sniff of a super-potent Nitrous Oxide to drive away the disappointment.
China Film Group release of a China Children's Film Studio, CCTV Movie Channel, August First Film Studio, Stellar Megamedia, Beijing Chengtian Zhuhong TV & Film Prod. Co., Nantong TV, Dongyang Yi Fang Zi (Jackie Chan China) Film & TV, Beijing Huacheng Advertising production.
A 15-year-old Chinese boy who is studying at a wushu school in Indonesia, returns home to visit his grandparents, which he uses as an excuse to find his idol, Jackie Chan. After a series of unfortunate events, he tracks down Jackie and learns some important life lessons.
Kwon, who starred as Hyun-soo, transfers to another school. He is sent to a bottom-rank class and experiences violence in classroom by a group of gangsters in his class, led by Jong-hoon, who is a stereotypical Korean bully in school. The teachers are also depicted as authoritarian to the students, using violence for the sake of discipline, as did most Korean teachers in the '70s and to some extent in modern days as well.
Hyun-soo, after a failed relationship with Eun-joo (played by Han Ga In) , decides that he will no longer put up with the conduct of Jong-hun and his boys as well as the harsh and violent disciplinary techniques being put up by the teachers, and so starts to train himself in Jeet Kune Do, inspired by his greatest hero Bruce Lee. His father, a master in Tae Kwon Do, frequently resorted to extreme violence to discipline his son.
Hyun-soo challenges Jong-hoon to a duel one day when he is no longer able to put up with his irrational behaviour. Jong-hoon and his friends are grievously injured by Hyun-soo's nunchaku, sometimes referred to as nunchucks. Hyun-soo is expelled after this incident.
Hyun-soo meets his friend Hamburger again at the GED institute and they talk about their past. He meets Eun-joo again, but they say their goodbyes on a bus. Jackie Chan's 1978 movie Drunken Master is featured in the background at the end of the movie as Hamburger and Hyun-soo play a fighting game in front of the cinema complex.
“Mokpo” stars Jay-hyeon Jo as Soo-cheol, a bumbling cop who gets beaten up on a regular basis. But because he’s a lot smarter than all the other cops combined (not a hard thing to be, considering the intelligence of cops in these movies) Soo-cheol’s incompetence is put up with. When prosecutor Im Ja-kyung (Seon-mi Song) arrives in Seoul with a plan to break up the Mokpo gangs, she somehow ends up with Soo-cheol as a volunteer for an undercover assignment. In Mokpo, Soo-cheol encounters obstacles, mostly because he’s an idiot playing a gangster, and this doesn’t convince anyone, namely head hood Baek Sung-ki (In-Pyo Cha). But as dictated by the script, Soo-cheol eventually manages to worm himself into Sung-ki’s confidence. Soon Soo-cheol is living the high life and risks forgetting that he’s an undercover cop. Meanwhile, cinema aficionado Sung-ki is thinking of retiring, which doesn’t sit well with his underlings…
City of Father / 부산 (Korea) 2009 Cats :Kim Yeong-Ho, Ko Chang-Seok, Yu Seung-Ho, Jeong Seon-Kyeong, Lee Se-Na, Jo Jae-Yun, Kang Yu-Jin, Kim Jin-Hyeok, Do Yong-Gu
Kang-su is an alcohol and a chronic gambler. He has also never been a proper father to his rebellious teenage son Jong-cheol (Yu Seung-Ho). For 18 years, Kang-su has also held a secret from Jong-cheol - that he's not his actual biological father.
Jong-cheol's real father, Tae-sok (Kim Yeong-Ho), is a pimp that abandoned love for success. Now, to save his son, Kang-su must go to Tae-sok ...
The Scam / 작전 (Korea) 2009 Cast : Park Yong-Ha, Kim Min-Jeong, Park Hee-Soon, Kim Moo-Yeol, Jo Deok-Hyun, Kim Joon-Seong, Park Yong-Yeon, Park Jae-Woong, Sin Hyeon-Jong, Lee Yeong-Ih
The scam is actually a slick movie theft happens to use the stock market and stock rigging illegal as a means of theft of choice.
Lee assembles all the elements of theft of a typical film here: "not guilty" outsiders, who dopes know anything, which doublecrosses and even violent gangster but stupid.But the point about the Scam was not owned a cliche, but that they presented in an entertaining and fun.Instead of saving any details of the complex stock-fraud scam, Lee instead creates an interesting character to watch, make this film worth following even when the audience (especially those having to read subtitles) is not able to track every single development.
Unfortunately, the most interesting character is not going to be a "good person" Hyun-Soo (TV star Park Yong-Ha).A full-time traders nicknamed the "ant", Hyun-Soo stumble into fraud titular film after making a fortune from what he sees as a clear stock rig, ie a stock with a price rigged by people who use rumors to control values.Although the character's ambition to greed makes it a potentially interesting anti-hero, he was exiled to the status of the typical fraud get rolling very well, making him just the right enough to be followed.
Conversely, the most charismatic character is Park Hee-Soon former gangster-turned-stock Helah Jong-Goo.Playing violent thugs wearing expensive suits and start every other sentence with the English word "Okay", Park-screen commands."Operators smooth" His actions clearly forced, but the Park provides just the right amount of roughness, and steals every scene he is in. also fun to watch is "foreign, dark-haired" Kim Joon-Seong's Brian Choi, a fund manager who also played a part in fraudand can not spend the scene without speaking English, many are not happy Jong-Goo's.
Along with financial planners Seo-Yeon (Kim Min-Jeong) and bond broker Min-Hyung (Kim Moo-Yeol), five are out to rig stock a construction company.With a start all sorts of false rumors and trends to buy artificial, riggers will make a large amount of money to essentially bet on stock prices and eventually them.Or something like that.Hyun-Soo just dragged into the scam because he accidentally slipped past the rig stock Jong-Goo, and soon found himself in the midst of a whole lot of distrust and affairs under the table.However, Hyun-Soo is all really want to make it through life.
Viewers who do not know much about the stock market is likely to disappear at points of actual fraud Scam, and Lee seemed to know it.Although there is much talk throughout the film stock to make the game complicated Lee appeared intelligent and convincing, he continued to focus on the stakes more than the game itself.Though we never quite sure what the characters do to win, we know how far they will go and how much they should lose.Even when there is almost no action (except for the explosion Jong-Goo's gangster-style) and no obvious tensions (how can anyone really make online stock trading tense anyway?), Pacing rapidly Lee and the characters make a ScamThe entertaining.
On the other hand, Lee's script gives the weakest aspect of the film.The audience most likely know that the stock fraud is wrong, but Lee tries too hard to make the movie was not more meaningful.The characters and their situation enough to film that will involve, but Lee also injects a kind of lesson about humanity during the second half of this film.A most striking example emerged during the end credits, when Lee including what appears to be a deleted scene featuring a teacher shares preach to Hyun-Soo before an important plot twist.If Lee has the sense to cut scenes from the story, no need to bring it back, mainly because it is disturbing, and educational trends will probably eventually leave bad taste in the mouth of the audience.However, most of what came before is slick entertainment presented by the Hollywood-standard production values.There are no melodramatic twist, no terminal illness, not overacting - just beautiful people at the site polished to do things no ordinary filmgoer would dream to do so.Even if the scam is not good as it is packed into just a dream fulfillment aspect of the story makes this more than worth sitting
