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Living in Korea for going on 9 years, I've see a lot of Korean movies. Much like American movies, a good deal of them are tripe, but there's still a few gems. Park Chan Wook is awesome. Mr. Vengeance remains one of my all-time favorite movies. Song Gang Ho is such a good actor. Kim Ki Duk I just don't get. I really feel like it's an emperor's new clothes kind of thing. I just don't think his movies are that great. With the exception of Pieta, there's always a woman who's a hooker or morally bankrupt and a character that doesn't talk. One movie you may not have seen because it's Japanese (although about Korea, in a way) is Blood and Bones. I'd suggest checking it out if you like the depressing, gritty brutal life stories like Breathless (the original name is "poo poo Fly", which I think is much more appropriate).
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Hanging out with some friends last night , I remembered another interesting Korean movie Take Care of My Cat. It's about 5 female friends and how their lives change after high school, following their dreams and whatnot. No blood or suspense or anything like that, just an interesting, well done movie.
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Aug 9, 2013 05:30
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zandert33 posted:Wow, Korea makes movies that don't have blood and suspense? Tell me more. Take a look at the movies that have been named so far, and tell me how many have neither blood nor suspense.
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Aug 9, 2013 05:37
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Some Guy TT posted:So, I'd like to take a minute to discuss the Korean Film Archive. It's a complex in the Mapo district of Seoul that stores film. What's really neat about is that they have a free film library and anyone can go in and watch any movie, from anywhere, ever, for free in one of the film kiosks. If you're not picky about what movies you watch, there's also a full theater in the basement of the complex with regular bi-weekly themes. Not always Korean ones, necessarily. Right now it's a retrospective on Korean horror films. The last one was high-concept Hollywood blockbusters, and before that was Westerns, including the few period Korean Westerns. The themes can get really specific and weird sometimes, like the time they did the complete works of Michael Werner Fassbinder. Whether foreign films have English subtitles usually depends on the prints they have. Sometimes they're preloaded with English subs, sometimes not, though Korean films typically don't have them unless it's a special series. Still, if you've ever wanted to see A Tale Of Two Sisters in a full-sized surround sound movie theater for free, this is your chance. Their English website is here. I'm there pretty much every day, so if you see a young foreigner that's probably me and you should say hi. This is awesome and I had no idea. AnonSpore posted:So I'm in Korea for a few days and I caught Snowpiercer in theaters, is it kosher to discuss it in detail or is there a courtesy rule to wait until it hits western theaters? I enjoyed it a lot, though I do have some questions about the ending that I'm hoping I could discuss with other people. I'd say ask, just put it in spoilers
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Aug 19, 2013 06:45
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I watched PAJU tonight. Interesting subplot about the redevelopment issues going on (maybe some of you in Korea remember the redevelopment protests going on at Yongsan a couple years ago). The movie as a whole was meh. Also, I'd like to mention TAXI BLUES - a documentary that's not well done, but very interesting, about being a taxi driver in Seoul. Another documentary is SHOCKING FAMILY - about how poo poo it is to be a woman/child in Korea. Again, not very well done, but very interesting.
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Aug 25, 2013 13:08
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Illinois Smith posted:Can anyone recommend me some Kim Ki-Duk films? I loved Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... Spring, wasn't too crazy about Pieta and thought Bad Guy was a mixed bag but at least interesting. Samaria is interesting in a teenage hooker kind of way. The Isle is interesting in a disturbing way. I think Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... Spring was probably his most mainstreamly accessible movie.
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Aug 29, 2013 12:59
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LooKMaN posted:3 Iron is amazing. really? I found it to be one of his shittiest "What the gently caress did I just watch?" movies. The original name is "Empty House", which is more appropriate at least
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Aug 29, 2013 15:06
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I found Time to be a huge social commentary on the ubiquity of plastic surgery in Korea.
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Aug 29, 2013 17:29
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Cool, this one is on Netflix (US at least). I haven't seen a Korean horror film in a while. I think it's just that movie topics come in waves. For US movies, there was a bunch about WW2, then aliens, then zombies, then superheroes, etc.
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Sep 16, 2013 18:07
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Hbomberguy posted:Can any recommend any crime drama movies similar to bittersweet life, oldboy, memories of murder, i saw the devil, or the raid 2 ? I really like that sort of combination of intrigue and violence and want more. Have you seen "ajeosshi"? I think the English title is "The Man from Nowhere" or something like that
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Nov 15, 2014 10:44
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Hbomberguy posted:I'll be sure to look into that ASAP. Are there any more? Pretty much anything by Park Chan Wook, though his movies are not so much violent fighting as hosed up psychologically
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Nov 15, 2014 10:58
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NowonSA posted:I'm trying to find the name of a South Korean movie I saw snippets of on AMC recently (around a month ago). It starred some sort of former cop or government agent who had his wife or girlfriend die in a car bomb in front of him. There was a scene where he was handcuffed and interrogated by clumsy-ish cops, and escaped when someone made a distraction for him. The movie ended with a rad fight scene where he was wearing a black suit and wielding a knife, taking out tons of goons and finally the villain. At the end he had a scene with a young girl, presumably the person he was trying to rescue. Ajoesshi or "The man from nowhere" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527788/
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Dec 31, 2015 07:51
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Esme posted:
They said the father fed them all pesticide, so yes, murder suicide This is one of my favorite movies, Korean or not. The ending is just so perfect. Everybody dies
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Feb 7, 2016 05:36
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Zwabu posted:So Amazon Prime has a movie, "The Gift". Young guy gets laid off from his job, loses girlfriend shortly after. Starts out playing it straight working menial jobs for poo poo pay and then graduates to increasingly serious crimes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4023894/ ?
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Oct 21, 2016 06:56
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Atlas Hugged posted:
I thought this movie was absolute poo poo except for the koreans being lovely to each other like real life and the boys on the sports team tickling each other because there are no gay people in korea.
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Nov 27, 2016 06:21
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the best film, ever ftfy
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Nov 28, 2016 00:22
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Davincie posted:i thiiink you're talking about busan there, but my memory of either isn't really clear enough to confirm. anyway, here's what seoul station looks like at its worst what is this from? It's an amazing likeness
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Feb 23, 2017 03:10
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Lester Shy posted:I liked the Vengeance trilogy and loved The Handmaiden, but Thirst was a little too aimless for me (or maybe it just went over my head). Stoker, JSA and I'm a Cyborg are the only ones I'm missing from his "main" filmography. I'm a huge Park Chan Wook (and Song Gang Ho) fanboy, and I couldn't get into stoker even tho I started it like four times. Maybe because ti's in English? The cyborg one too me a couple tries to get started, but Stoker just never caught.
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Mar 17, 2017 08:23
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edit: wrong korea thread
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Mar 25, 2017 01:58
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