Genre: Romance

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: April, 2005

Three tales of love set in a trio of contemporary Asian hubs: Tokyo, Taipei & Shanghai

Alternative Title: Sin-de-rel-la / 신데렐라
Genre: Horror
Film Date: August, 2006
Casts: Do Ji Won , Jun So Min
Description:

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.

Alternative Title: 7급 공무원 / 7Keup Kongmuwon / 7 Grade Civil Servant
Genre: Action, Romance
Film Date: April, 2009
Casts: Ha-Neul Kim , Kang Ji Hwan, Kang Shin Il, Seung-Yong Ryoo, Yeong-Nam Jang
Description:

Disguised as a travel agent, “Su-ji” is a government spy with six years’ experience who can’t reveal her career to her boyfriend “Jae-joon.” After she lies again, her boyfriend breaks up with her and leaves without notice, leaving her struggling alone with her sadness. Three years later, while chasing an industrial spy in disguise as a cleaning lady, she happens to run into Jae-joon. He’s become an international certified accountant, and seeing him throws her feelings into doubt.
Jae-joon has become tired of his girlfriend’s constant and suspicious lies. In one phone call, he tells her he’s leaving Korea to study in Russia. Three years later, disguised as a distinguished international accountant, he enters the NIS (National Intelligence Service) as an agent in its overseas branch. He’s a newbie who got a late start, but he’s highly motivated and takes off on his first field mission, chasing a Russian crime organization, when he runs into Su-ji. It’s shocking to see her now as a hotel cleaning lady, but his affections for her are as strong as ever…
Lying is part of the job, secrecy is the name of the game in “My Girlfriend is an Agent”.

Alternative Title: Dallyeora Jajeonkeo / 달려라 자전거
Genre: Romance
Film Date: August, 2008
Casts: Kim Seung Soo, Eun Lee, Han Hyo Joo, Jung Jae Jin, Lee Yeong-Hoon
Description:

Ha-jung (Han Hyo-Joo), a first-year college student, is interested in a boy namedSu-ook (Lee Young-Hoon) who works at a secondhand bookstore near her school. In order to see Su-wook, Ha-jung visits the shop to buy and sell books; over time, her lifestyle becomes focused on Su-wook. She learns that he rides around on his bicycle, and this leads her to learn to ride one. They begin to express their feelings for each other, but neither of them are aware of each other’s painful secrets from the past…

Alternative Title: 투사부일체 / My Boss, My Hero 2 / Tusabu Ilche
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: January, 2006
Total Episodes: 1
Korea Casts:
Jeong Woon-Taek, Jung Joon Ho, Jung Woong In, Kim Sang Jung
Description:

The original My Boss, My Hero hilarity came from the irony of a gangster in his 30s going to high school and attempting to get a diploma without revealing his criminal identity. The gangster, Kye Du-sik, tries to get along with his much younger classmates and ends up solving problems at the school.

In the sequel My Boss, My Hero 2, Kye has graduated and entered college. He is dispatched to a high school to work as a student teacher for four weeks.

The problems in high school are worse than the original. Kyu witnesses one especially corrupt teacher forge the scholastic documents of privileged students whose fathers are high-ranking politicians, and have a sexual relationship with a pupil.

Alternative Title: 광식이 동생 광태 / Gwangshiki dongsaeng gwangtae
Film Date: November, 2005
Total Episodes: 1
Korea Casts:
Bong Tae-Gyu, Kim Ah-Jung, Kim Joo Hyuk, Lee Yo Won
Description:

Two brothers, Kwang-sik and Kwang-tae, have very different attitudes toward women. Kwang-sik is extremely shy and can’t say a word to a woman. But Kwang-tae is a playboy who just sleeps around. One day, Kwang-sik meets Yoon-kyung for the first time in seven years and he tries to confess his feelings to her, in his own way. Similarly, Kwang-tae meets Kyung-jae during a marathon and he tries his own ways on her. At first Kwang-sik still finds it very difficult to even talk to Yoon-Kyung and Kwang-tae thinks of Kyung-Jae as yet another temporary conquest, but in each case something changes in the brothers. Will they be able to love this time?

Alternative Title: 호우시절
Description:

Timely like the spring rain, so has he come back into my life… Dong-ha is a thirty-something Korean man on a business trip to Chengdu, China where his company is carrying out construction projects to rebuild the city after the earthquake of 2008. There, totally by chance, he meets an old friend from his school days in the U.S. May is originally from Chengdu, and she has come back here after graduation and now works as a tour guide. Dong-ha and May were perhaps more than friends and had feelings for each other then, but they parted ways before they had a chance to define or declare them. Now that they are thrown on each other’s path again, however, they find that the old feelings remain and new ones are forming and that they resemble love.

Description:
Writer/director Ryu Seung-wan (No Blood No Tears) directs his brother Ryu Seung-beom again in Arahan, marketed as “Urban Martial Arts Action.” Actor Ryu plays Yu Sang-hwan, a bungling but honest patrolman. One day while chasing a purse-snatcher, he comes across a beautiful convenience store cashier and part-time martial arts master named Eun-jin (Yoon So-yi, making her feature debut), whom he finds about to deliver a devastating “palm blast” to the young thug he’s just chased down. Eun-jin’s aim is off, and Yu ends up knocked unconscious. She brings him back home to the temple of the “Seven Masters,” a group of five cranky ch’i masters led by her father, Ja-un (Ahn Sung-Ki from Nowhere to Hide and Slimido). Ja-un quickly recognizes Yu’s amazing untapped potential. Yu thinks the five old-timers are a bunch of kooks, but he’s attracted to Eun-jin, and after he gets beaten up by some low-level gangsters, he returns to the temple, determined to learn how to do a “palm blast,” so he can fight back. Ja-un patiently tries to teach him the ways of ch’i, but Yu is not the most attentive pupil. He wants to learn powerful fighting techniques, and seems more interested in gawking at Eun-jin than in the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of the Seven Masters’ teachings. But push comes to shove when a former Master, Heug-un (fight choreographer Jung Doo-hong), who betrayed the cause returns from centuries underground determined to seize the ultimate power and rule the world. Ja-un believes that the seemingly hopeless Yu is the only hope for humankind. Arahan was shown at the 2005 New York Asian Film Festival, presented by Subway Cinema. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Description:
During fourth period, high schooler Da-jeong finds his classmate Tae-gyu dead in a classroom and Jeong-hun standing in front of him with blood on his clothes. In order to stop Jeong-hun from becoming the prime suspect, Da-jeong must help him find the real murderer, who is still inside the school building, under 40 minutes before period four ends.

Alternative Title: Sonyeon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Film Date: November, 2005
Korea Casts:
Hae-Il Park, Jung-Ah Yum, Kwang-Rok Oh, Seo-Won Cha
Description:

The countless killifish in the neighborhood brooks that swam so fast creating rainbow glitters, the colorful dragonflies which painted the autumn sky with their black and red tails… the old man who lived down the street and gave the smile of the day as he hears the little tunes of the children… old granny who always put a lollipop in our tiny hands after every Sunday supper… where did they all go? To Mars…perhaps? - A mysterious love story delivers a very special reminiscence to all.

Little Seung-jae stays up all night and writes letters to So-hee, pretending to be her father in Mars. Leaving Seung-jae’s innocent heart behind, So-hee leaves for a big city. Both grown up to be adults, Seung-jae is a postman who writes letters to So-hee’s grandma - the letters that never came from So-hee. So-hee’s heart hardens after hardships in life and she comes back to her hometown and Seung-jae’s heart swells up again at seeing her again.