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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: 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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Review: Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong / 1999)

Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
The final few minutes of the life of middle aged businessman Yong-ho are deeply unhappy ones - shouting and screaming he becomes increasingly more upset before finally throwing himself in front of a train yelling ‘I’m going back’. PEPPERMINT CANDY unfolds in a reverse chronological...
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Review: Heaven's Soldiers (Min Joon-ki / 2005)

Posted on January 23, 2010 | No Comments
North Korea decides to hand over a nuclear warhead (developed secretly with the South) to American forces as a result of International pressure. Major Kang – a North Korean Officer- is unhappy with the arrangement and steals the warhead to prevent the handover. Kang believes...
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Review: Haeundae (Yun Je-gyun / 2009)

Posted on January 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
Scientist 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...
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Review: Save The Green Planet (Jang Joon-hwan / 2003)

Posted on December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
Byung-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...
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