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Korean martial arts movie staring Won Jin "The Scorpion King". The background of the period was under Japanese rule in the 1930s. Japan's oppression and extortion devastated the lives of civilians, and a small number of pro-Japanese factions parasitize in the power class of Japan, and all kinds of evils are committed. The years like a tunnel of darkness when people's resentment and resistance consciousness reached their peak. The movie is about a pro-Japanese father who wants to marry his daughter Seung-hee to the son of Nomura, a skilled Japanese man. Won Jin plays a hook-handed martial arts master, out for revenge.

The Expert

6.0 1998
City of Outlanders

"Gunsan is a city of outlanders that has experienced waves of deterioration and revivals. Gunsan, a sparse area prior to 1910, opened doors for workers from all over Korea after it was exploited for rice harvesting during the Japanese colonial period. After liberation, the American military moved in along with large conglomerates that came to build factories, but they are now all shutting down. What remained from this history made the topography and landscape of the town. In the film, cameras float around the lonely landscape of Gunsan. A dancer from Switzerland named Anna mourns the scenes of Gunsan with sorrowful gestures, new musicians in town write a piece of music called City of Outlanders in lament

City of Outlanders

NR 2023
Le Tour: My Last 49 Days

Yun-hyeok is a young man who was diagnosed with rare cancer in the age of 26. To him, the bicycle that has been with him to fight against the illness is the hope of life. After the illness recurs, he stops receiving anticancer therapy and sets off to France with the goal of completing Tour de France, the dream of all cyclists. But as soon as he starts riding, his fellow cyclist gets injured, and right after that, his bicycle breaks in an accident. With unexpected accidents and incidents, the conflict and discord in the interim group of ten cyclists grow more and more until it explodes into a quarrel. The dream of running the entire Tour de France, the dream he visualized onto the ceiling of the hospital room–could Yun-hyeok make the dream come true?

Le Tour: My Last 49 Days

NR 2017
Gate of Woman

In 1900, there lived two widows in a village : Mrs. Seo and her daughter-in-law Ok-Nyeo. Water carriers, new job in those days, decide not to deliver a bucket of water to Mrs. Seo because they don't like her. Ok-Nyeo is saved by Hyo-jin when she is almost raped by water carriers at night to get some water in secret. Sun they fall in love each other and Mrs. Seo gets angry with her daughter-in-law. But she sends them away to live together after she realizes their love is true. Then she devises a plot that her daughter-in-law committed suicide for honor of family and even held a funeral. Therefore two gates of woman are built in the widow's house.

Gate of Woman

7.5 1972
Testimony

Hyein, who has been working as a secretary at 'Yoo Seung Precision', a small business, and was fired due to contract expiration, visits 'Yoo Seung Precision', her former workplace, to get a career certificate ahead of an upcoming interview at a large company. However, the real purpose of her visit is to get back the 67,600 won, which the manager Jin Sang-i of the same team has not paid back for running errands for coffee and sandwiches. When she finally arrives at her office, she asks Hye-in Lee to return her money, but she only gets 50,000 won. The only thing she approached the frustrated Hye-in was the (but awkward) Deputy Oh, who was the only female employee on the same team.

Testimony

NR 2018
South of Eden

One day, Seok-jin, who had been struggling to collect bonds at a private loan office, faced a once-in-a-lifetime crisis when his client Han Gyoo-tae disappeared without paying back tens of millions of won in debt. Dae-kwang, the president who has no blood or tears, even wrote an organ trading contract and threatened to collect bonds. Eventually, Seok-jin visits Han Gyoo-tae's house, but Han Gyoo-tae has already moved away. Seok-jin, who found out Han Gyoo-tae's hometown address, visits his house located in the village at the end of the West Sea, but is shocked to learn of Han Gyoo-tae's death...

South of Eden

NR N/A
The Goggles

Since losing her goggles in swimming class as a child, Ji-young has been afraid of water. Even now as an adult, Ji-young, who cannot open her eyes underwater, is anxious about her final swimming test and future career. She finds out that Soo-kyung, a precocious high school student who she tutored, has goggles and tries to borrow them, but Soo-kyung is not home on the day she promised to lend them. Soo-kyung, who ran away from home, dreams of an emergency on the rooftop in the rain that night, and Ji-young is still wandering in the water in her dream, unable to open her eyes.

The Goggles

8.0 2000
Beatmaker

In a typical rural landscape stands a pansori memorial hall, a place now ignored even by local residents. Eunsol, granddaughter of the once-renowned pansori master Park Manchun, has silently guarded this place, becoming like a relic of the past herself. Eunsol, who occasionally performs pansori for tourists, one day finds herself singing along to beats produced by Sijung, a hip-hop musician of similar age who has secretly snuck into the hall. This musical encounter gives Eunsol conviction that it might be the only hope to save the memorial hall from its impending closure.

Beatmaker

NR 2024
Ordinary Romance

1. "Confession Letter" Ji Mo, a novelist with cerebral palsy, has a crush on Nok-joo, a volunteer who helps him practice handwriting. Ji Mo tries to deliver a handwritten letter to Nok-ju from her heart. 2. "Varanasi Romance" The excitement of traveling and finding romance in a new environment. Jun Ho and Hwa Yeong met in a strange land in India, attracted to each other like magnets, leaving their real problems behind. 3. "When the Wind Blows" Han Byeol, a deaf helper, will learn sign language on the condition that she teaches lip reading to a deaf student, Eun Ha. As they learn each other's language, they get closer and closer, and they are reminded of childhood memories. 4. "Interview" In an interview with a best-selling author, magazine reporter "She" reunites with her former lover "He". The two of them interviewed and exchanged memories of each other.

Ordinary Romance

5.0 2021
Love it (then) Dump it(LIDI)

Sawol who sings arrives in an unfamiliar land at the invitation of someone. Sawol slowly builds a life for herself in this strange place. Sawol and the people living here speak in different tongues but they don’t have any difficulty communicating. Then one day, Sawol finds a poster for an auditon in a café and writes an email. She listens to music as she walks, organizes her thoughts and writes songs, and continues to repeat the mundane things that make her day worthy.

Love it (then) Dump it(LIDI)

NR 2022