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Review: Romantic Warriors (Yun Je-gyun, 2003)
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsA group of deadly assassins kidnap a hostage in the hope of getting a high ransom but when they manage to lose themselves in a forest and end up spending the night in a haunted house they manage to disrupt the plans of the ghosts to descend to heaven. The... -
Review: Sky Blue (Kim Moon-saeng, 2003)
Posted on March 8, 2011 | No CommentsReview Sky Blue is a Korean animated science fiction film that was simply not as big a hit as it should have been. Released in 2003 and with a $30 Million budget, it disappointingly mostly just did the festival circuit, before finding somewhat of a home on DVD. There is... -
Review: The Uninvited (Lee Su-yeon, 2003)
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsUijeongbu, the present. Interior decorator Kang Jung-won begins the long journey home on the Seoul subway. As he sleeps, a single mother and her two daughters board, seating themselves nearby. At the last stop, he wakes to find the girls are dead and their mother missing, but in his panic... -
Review: My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (Jeong Heung-sun, 2003)
Posted on July 15, 2010 | No CommentsWhen 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 owner of a local restaurantt,... -
Review: My Teacher, Mr Kim (Jang Gyu-seong, 2003)
Posted on June 1, 2010 | No CommentsKim Bong-du – the ‘Mr Kim’ of the title – is a good teacher but with little sense of responsibility and a complete lack of morals when it comes to money. When his actions embarrass the school he is employed by, he is offered one chance to redeem himself –... -
Review: A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003)
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsSisters Su-mi and Su-yeon arrive home after time away for treatment of an illness. The girls have a very close and happy relationship with each other but are united in their dislike of their stepmother, a problem that their father seems content to ignore. Enjoying the comfort of a big... -
Review: Into The Mirror (Kim Sung-ho, 2003)
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsWu Young-min is the head of security at a shopping mall which is about to reopen after a terrible fire. An ex-cop, he is haunted by the tragic event which resulted in his decision to leave the police force. When a young woman is found dead inside the mall and... -
Review: Save The Green Planet (Jang Joon-hwan, 2003)
Posted on December 9, 2009 | 1 CommentByung-gu believes that aliens reside on earth and that they are responsible for all the problems on the planet. He decides that the wealthy and successful businessman Kang Man-shik is a top alien and so, along with his girlfriend Sooni, he kidnaps the man in the hope that he will...