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Welcome to New Korean Cinema .com
A website dedicated to - funnily enough - news and reviews of the latest in Korean Cinema.
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Recent Posts
- News: Festivals, Podcasts, DVDs and Big Breasted Zombies..
- Review: The Sword With No Name (Kim Yong-gyun / 2009)
- Review: My Mighty Princess (Kwak Jae-young / 2008)
- Non-Korean Review: City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan / 2009)
- It’s Friday the 13th – Ten Horror films for the hell of it…
- Review: My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-young / 2001)
- Interview with Jang Jun-hwan
- Review: Secret Reunion (Jang Hoon / 2010)
- Review: My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (Jeong Heung-sun / 2003)
- Review: My Wife is A Gangster (Cho Jin-gyu / 2001)
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Review: The Sword With No Name (Kim Yong-gyun / 2009)
Posted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsJa 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... -
Review: My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-young / 2001)
Posted on August 12, 2010 | No CommentsOn 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... -
Review: Dasepo Naughty Girls (Lee Je-yong / 2006)
Posted on June 17, 2010 | No CommentsBoth 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 …... -
Review: Marathon (Jeong Yun-cheol / 2005)
Posted on June 10, 2010 | No CommentsAs a young man with autism, Cho-won is encouraged by his mother to focus on his love of running. His mother, Kyong-sook, dreams that one day her son will be able to complete a marathon on his own, so she arranges for an instructor to... -
Review: Breathless (2009 / Yang Ik-joon)
Posted on June 1, 2010 | 1 CommentSang-hoon is a debt collector with an uncontrollable temper and a foul mouth whose daily routine involves beating up anyone who can’t repay the money they owe. A chance incident with a young schoolgirl results in a violent confrontation, but Sang-hoon also finds himself making... -
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... -
Review: Vampire Cop Ricky (Lee Si-myung / 2006)
Posted on March 21, 2010 | No CommentsNa-do is a corrupt cop who, after being bitten by a mosquito carrying vampire blood, finds himself quite partial to the taste of the red stuff. He also discovers that he sprouts a pair of fangs and has incredible strength when ever he is sexually... -
Review: A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-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... -
Review: Haeundae (Yun Je-gyun / 2009)
Posted on January 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsScientist Kim Hwi believes that a recent spate of earthquakes are signposts towards an impending disaster. As he puts together evidence for his theory, he tells everyone who should listen that there is crisis ahead. Do they listen? Of course they don’t! This is a... -
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...