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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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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: 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: The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Ji-woon / 2008)

Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
A heist is arranged by cold-bloodied-killer-with-a-reputation-to-match Chang-yi to steal a map that is being transported by train but before he can get his hands on the document it is stolen by a thief by the name of Tae-goon. During all of the commotion of the...
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Review: To Catch A Virgin Ghost (Shin Jeong-won / 2004)

Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
Seok-tae decides to rip-off the group of gangsters that he works for and leaves the city carrying a bag full of diamonds. After having a road accident he finds himself stranded in a tiny village where the friendly villagers welcome him in to their homes...
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Review: Vampire Cop Ricky (Lee Si-myung / 2006)

Posted on March 21, 2010 | No Comments
Na-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...
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Review: The Foul King (Kim Ji-woon / 2000)

Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
Dae-ho is in a dead-end job as a bank clerk – a position which bores him. He is both verbally and physically bullied by his boss and feels that he has no direction and little worthwhile in his life. When he stumbles across a local...
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Review: Chaw (Shin Jung-won / 2009)

Posted on February 7, 2010 | No Comments
A peaceful rural village becomes terrorised when the remains of several missing people are found. The local investigators – who are joined by two city policemen in the investigation – think that there is a wild animal on the lose and try to work out...
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