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Review: The Sword With No Name (Kim Yong-gyun / 2009)

Posted on August 31, 2010 | No Comments
Ja Yeong takes a trip to the coast to see the sea before leaving to be married. She meets Moo Myeong, a rough, low class bodyguard who immediately falls in love with her. When Moo Myeong finds out that the person Ja Yeong is to...
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Review: My Mighty Princess (Kwak Jae-young / 2008)

Posted on August 19, 2010 | No Comments
So-hwi possesses amazing martial arts abilities and super strength, and while her father wants her to focus on her martial arts training she just wants to blend in with her friends at school and win the attention of the ice hockey team Captain. Her childhood...
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Non-Korean Review: City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan / 2009)

Posted on August 15, 2010 | No Comments
In December 1937 the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, early on in the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the brutal weeks that followed, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed… Review Written and directed by Lu Chuan, CITY OF LIFE AND...
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Review: My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-young / 2001)

Posted on August 12, 2010 | No Comments
On his way home college student Kyun-woo notices a young girl in the subway station who appears to be too near the edge of the tracks. Almost drunk to the point of unconsciousness, she barely notices Kyun-woo moving her back to safety. On the train...
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Review: Secret Reunion (Jang Hoon / 2010)

Posted on July 18, 2010 | No Comments
An attempt to capture a North Korean spy by the National Intelligence Service (N.I.S.) goes badly and in the aftermath two men are dismissed by their agencies. The N.I.S. expel Agent Lee, an obsessive man happy to ignore protocol in order to do his job....
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Review: My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (Jeong Heung-sun / 2003)

Posted on July 15, 2010 | No Comments
When female gang boss Eun-jin is involved in a fall from a building she is miraculously unhurt except for one small problem – she has lost her memory and has no recollection of who she is. Taken home and cared for by Yoon Jae-Choi, the...
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Review: My Wife is A Gangster (Cho Jin-gyu / 2001)

Posted on July 12, 2010 | No Comments
With a fearsome reputation proceeding her, Eun-jin is the boss of a criminal gang which shows her nothing but complete respect due to her no-nonsense attitude and incredible fighting skills. Eun-jin tracks down her long lost sister but discovers that the two of them won’t...
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Review: No Blood No Tears (Ryoo Seung-wan / 2002)

Posted on July 3, 2010 | No Comments
Su-ji is an ex-criminal who drives a taxi to make a living. When the girlfriend of a local gangster crashes into her car, Su-ji finds herself dragged into dealing with both people from her past life and that the young girlfriend – Kyeong-seon – won’t...
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Review: Dasepo Naughty Girls (Lee Je-yong / 2006)

Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
Both students and teachers at the No Use High School are quite unconventional when it comes to their sexual habits – which are liberal to say the least – and DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS follows several students struggling with teen-issues within this highly charged environment …...
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Review: Kidnapping Granny K (Kim Sang-jin / 2007)

Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
A gang of petty thieves decide to pull off kidnapping in order to get their hands on some big money. Their target is a local woman by the name of Mrs Kwon – an elderly self-made millionaire who has made her fortune with her secret...
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