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Review: I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK (Park Chan-wook / 2006)

Posted on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Cha Yeong-gun believes she is a robot and one day when working in a factory she decides to plug herself into the electrical mains. The shock doesn’t kill her but it does put her into a mental hospital where she is surrounded by a group...
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Review: 200 Pounds Beauty (Kim Yong-hwa / 2006)

Posted on November 15, 2009 | No Comments
Kang Han-na is unhappy being fat, even though she’s a talented singer who ‘ghost’ sings for a successful popstar. At her lowest point she attempts to commit suicide before realising that she can have a operations to have the fat removed and become the beauty...
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Review: The Guard Post (Kong Su-chang / 2008)

Posted on November 1, 2009 | No Comments
Sergeant Major Noh Seong-gyu has just one evening to investigate and uncover the story behind the bloody events events that have occurred at a Guard Post on the Demilitarised Zone – a job that he finds constantly hindered, not the least because the son of...
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Review: The Art of Fighting (Shin Han-sol / 2006)

Posted on November 1, 2009 | No Comments
Sick of being bullied and beaten up at school, Byeung-tae one day witnesses an old man who has incredible fighting skills. Seeing him as a way out of his torment, Byeung-tae tries to convicne the man to become his self-defence teacher. Initially refusing, Byeung-tae manages...
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Review: The Isle (Kim Ki-duk / 2000)

Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
Hee-Jin is a mute boat-keeper who runs and supplies bait on a fishing lake by day, and then sells her body to the same fishermen at night time. Hyun-Shik arrives, apparently to fish, but he is actually on the run and contemplating suicide. Hee-Jin becomes...
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Review: A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon / 2005)

Posted on October 11, 2009 | No Comments
Sunwoo is the very trusted right hand man of underworld boss Kang. When Kang plans to goes away for three days he asks Sunwoo to keep an eye on his young girlfriend whom he suspects may be cheating on him. Sunwoo keeps an eye on the...
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Review: Crying Fist (Ryoo Seung-Wan / 2005)

Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Kang Tae-Shik is an aging boxer with his glory days behind him. Although a silver medallist in the Asian Games in 1990, he’s now a poor man chased by debt-collectors and with little to offer his increasingly distant wife and son. He spends his days...
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Review: Flying Boys (Byeong Yeong-joo / 2004)

Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
Min-jae is in his final year of high school and is faced with has the two biggest problems of being a teenager: he needs to decide what he would like to do with his future, and he has a crush on Soo-jin – a teenage...
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Review: Bloody Ties (Choi Ho / 2006)

Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
Sang Do is a small time drug dealer who has a growing business but who also has the problem of being hassled by a wild Detective called Ho. The Detective spends much of his time repeatedly arresting him up and threatening him with prison time...
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Review: Bad Guy (Kim Ki-Duk / 2001)

Posted on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
While walking through a crowded street Han-Gi notices Sun-Hwa – a young college girl – waiting on a bench for her boyfriend. Immediately fascinated, Han-Gi approaches the girl and sits down next to her, prompting the young girl to move away quickly. When her boyfriend...
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