Lee Hwan s "Young Adult Matters" about a group of girls trying to survive the streets of S. Korea, was one of the most popular Korean films last year, with its combination of mainstream visuals, exploitation elements and Kpop star Hani s casting working quite well for the film. Lee Woo-jeong attempts to do the same with "Snowball", in a more indie approach however, Snowball, Young Adult Matters, Bang Minah, Han Sung-min, Hani, Lee Hwan, Lee Woo-jeong, Shim Dal-gi, Yoon Hye-ri-I
So "Phone" wasn t the only horror movie joint in Ha Ji-won s early career. The famed actress actually got her start in "Nightmare" where she plays Kyeong-ah, a quiet college girl from the countryside turned vengeful ghost. The movie is also notable for having an aggressively misleading title, both in the original English and Korean. Dubbed "The Horror Game Movie Nightmare" it nevertheless had nothing to do with horror games or scissors, in Korean. Honestly, "Nightmare" is pretty generic, but not bad, Nightmare, Phone, Ahn Byeong-ki, Choi Jung-yoon, Ha Ji-won, Jung Joon, Kim Gyoo-ri, Yoo Ji-tae, Yu Jun-sang
Although internationally celebrated for the first time in "The Wailing", the concept of exorcism has been a recurring one in Korean cinema for decades, with "The Hut" a film that won the I.S.D.A.P., equivalent to Special Directing Award, at the Venice Film Festival, being another prominent sample, although this time, the concept is connected to eroticism, in a rather interesting approach that also deals with the blights of seclusion and disidemony, The Hut, The Wailing, Choi Sung-ho-II, Hwang Jung-soon, Hyun Kill-soo, Kim Yoon-kyung-I, Lee Doo-yong, Namkoong Won, Yoo Ji-in, Yoon Sam-yook
Shot in the aftermath of the April 19th revolution against the Syngman Rhee government, "A Petty Middle Manager" offered to Lee Bong-rae the opportunity to break completely free from the melodramatic chains that held the majority of the productions of the time to similarity, and present something completely different, at least within the mainstream frame. Let us see if he succeeded, A Petty Middle Manager, Bang Su-il, Do Kum-bong, Hwang Jung-soon, Kim Hee-kap, Kim Seung-ho-I, Lee Bong-rae, Park Seong-dae, Shin Sang-ok
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In the eighties, South Korean business was really starting to branch out worldwide. Consequently, Ja-yeong (played by
Go Ah-sung) grows up to be a young woman who wants to be a careerwoman. As she exictedly exclaims in her introduction, she has achieved her dream! Which is to intern with Samjin Company mostly just doing secretarial work. But worry not- a new initiative offering preferential hiring for employees with high scores on the TOEIC English exam drives the excitable Ja-yeong, the confident Yoo-na (played by
Esom) and the number genius Bo-ram (played by
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