Articles in South Korean Movie Reviews
Friend (2001) Movie Review
Kyung-taek Kwak’s “Friend” is a memoir, a recollection of memories about 4 friends and their divergent paths from childhood to school to adulthood. The film is narrated by one of the 4 friends, middle-class Sang-taek (Tae-hwa Seo), the smartest kid in the bunch. The rest of the friends include Jeong-suk (Oh-seong Yu), the son of [...]
April 4th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreMusa (2001) Movie Review
“Musa” tells the story of an official government convoy from Korea making its way to Nanjing, China; the convoy is under the leadership of young General Choi (Jin-mo Ju), a nobleman with a lot to live up to. Along for the ride is Yeo-sol (Woo-sung Jung), a slave for one of the government officials on [...]
March 30th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreSorum (2001) Movie Review
I was hesitant to watch Sorum, simply because I’ve seen too many Asian horror films that just didn’t, well, horrify me all that much. The Slow Bore Horror genre, in particular, is wearing thin, and I’ve gone out of my way to avoid them. I suppose it’s a case of too much hype and not [...]
March 20th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreMy Wife is a Gangster (2001) Movie Review
The most extraordinary thing about My Wife is a Gangster isn’t how well it manages to balance its serious side, its comedy side, and its action side, but how effective the whole thing is. As Gangster opens, we hear someone telling a story about one rainy night when a legend was born. It’s the kind [...]
March 12th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreWhispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori (1999) Movie Review
“Memento Mori” is a South Korean movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be, and when it finally decides what it should be, it makes the wrong choice. “Memento mori,” for those who don’t know, is a Latin phrase that, loosely translated, means “images of death.” They can be photographs or anything left behind [...]
March 7th, 2002 | Nix | 2 Comments | Read MoreMy Sassy Girl (2001) Movie Review
The oddest thing about Jae-young Kwak’s “My Sassy Girl” is that its entire premise of a young, 20-something woman acting outrageous and going against the norm of how a “young woman” is supposed to behave is not, well, all that outrageous. Perhaps in Korean society, which takes its cue from the closed and internalize structure [...]
March 3rd, 2002 | Nix | 2 Comments | Read MoreGuns and Talks (2002) Movie Review
There is very little doubt that writer/director Jin Jang (”No Comment”) has a firm technical handle on his new movie, “Guns and Talks”, but I doubt if he knew what he wanted to say, or if he had anything to say at all. “Guns and Talks” is a South Korean movie that revisits the tired [...]
February 27th, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreOne Fine Spring Day (2001) Movie Review
Love hurts.
That simple statement expresses everything there is to know about Jin-ho Hur’s One Fine Spring Day, a movie that is about the awkwardness of attraction and the pain of a burning passion suddenly doused. It is about love found, love enthralled, and finally love lost.
Sang-woo lives with his father, his stepmother, and grandmother [...]
Failan (2001) Movie Review
Kang-Jae is not much of a man. In fact, he’s not much of a human being. He’s boisterous and loud, a tough guy without any toughness in him. His boss abuses him and his fellow gangmembers have no respect for him whatsoever. The first time we meet Kang-Jae (Min-sik Choi) he’s just been released from [...]
February 14th, 2002 | Nix | 2 Comments | Read MoreAttack on the Gas Station (1999) Movie Review
Ahe plot of “Gas Station” is a simple one. Four robbers, whose name escapes me, (and maybe that’s because they’re rarely mentioned in the movie) have come to a gas station to rob it for the second time that day. The station’s manager, believing there is no way the robbers would come back after just [...]
November 24th, 2001 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
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yeah, u're right..ok,i know we shouldn't compared the movie with the book or anticipate it to be exactly like the ...
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