Sky and Sea

하늘과 바다 (Ha-neul-gwa Ba-da)

 Directed by Oh Dal-gyoon
Drama
104min
Opening Date : Oct 28, 2009

 Singer-turned-actress Jang Na-ra, nominated for The Best Actress Award at the Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Festival, the country's most prestigious film awards, plays the role of an autistic musician in the movie ``The Sky and the Sea,'' which is the story of the friendship between three friends ― Sky, Sea and Jin-gu. However, their moment to leave one another comes closer.

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 Cast
Jang Nara as Ha-neul
Hyeon Junie as Ba-da
Yoo Ah-in as Pizza delivery person, Jin-goo
Lee Ji-hee as Si-yeong
Choi Jeong-woo as Jeong-hwan

Baek Hyeon-sook as Ba-da's mother
Jeong Hye-won as Mi-mi
Kang Soo-yeong as Ha-neul's mom
Lee Da-eun as Performance producer
Kim Se-jin as Seung-hyeon
Han Ji-hoo as Kang-ho

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Invincible Lee Pyung Kang

천하무적 이평강 (Taming of the Heir)

 Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Broadcasting dates :
Nov 09, 2009 ~

 Cast
Nam Sang-mi as Lee Pyung Kang
Ji Hyeon-woo as Woo Ohn Dal
Seo Do-yeong as Edward (professional golfer)
Cha Ye-ryeon as Kwan Ja Rak
Park Ki-woong as Jo Sun In
Choi Myung Gil as Je Hwang Hu (Ohn Dal’s step-mother)
Kim Heung-soo as Je Young Ryu (Ohn Dal’s step-brother)
Yun Mi Joo as Jo Bi Yun
Lee Phil-lip
Ahn Hye Kyung
Shin Na Ri

Synopsis
Lee Pyung Kang’s father unfortunately met with an untimely death before completing his ambitious work as a golf course designer. Pyung Kang came to terms with the reality as she supports the family. Eight years later, Pyung Kang who wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps to become a golf course designer, she does chores at a resort town where she meets Ohn Dal, the owner’s eldest son. Ohn Dal’s charismatic father Pyung On demands him to pass the semi-pro qualification test in a month. When he fails to make it, Ohn Dal is told that he will be removed from the inheritance list due to his incompetence. To make matters worse, his father collapses from a sudden stroke and in the midst of misfortune rumor circulates that Ohn Dal’s step mother and her son are going to take over the resort town. Being cornered, Ohn Dal has no other choice but to stand on his own feet, but for Ohn Dal who lacks competence and determination, retaking the resort is beyond his capacity. Ohn Dal and Pyung Kang, who are on bad terms with each other from the first time they met, join hands. And Pyung Kang’s journey to taming the spoiled heir finally begins!

Production Credits
Director: Lee Jung Sub
Screenwriter: Park Kye Ok

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Star’s Lover

스타의 연인 (Celebrity’s Sweetheart)

 Cast : Choi Ji-woo as Lee Ma Ri
Yoo Ji-tae as Kim Chul Soo
Lee Ki-woo as Jung Woo Jin
Cha Ye-ryeon as Choi Eun Young
Ki Tae-yeong as Son Ha Young
Choi Philip as Kang Woo Jin

 Previously known as: 오! 나의 여신님 / Oh! My Goddess
Chinese title : 明星的?人
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2008-Dec-10 to 2009-Jan-29
Air time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:55
Broadcasting dates :
Dec 10, 2008 ~

Synopsis

Lee Ma Ri is a famous actress that is actively pursued by four men. The four men come from different backgrounds and have different aspirations. One is a literature graduate student who dreams of becoming a writer (Yoo Ji Tae), another is a famous photographer (Choi Phillip), the third is the heir to a major chaebol family (Ki Tae Young), and the last man chasing after Ma Ri is a young executive who works at a media corporation (Lee Ki Woo).

Extended Cast
Lee Joon Hyuk as (Ma Ri’s bodyguard)
Shin Min Hee as Kim Yu Ri (Chul Soo’s sister)
Jung Woon Taek as Jun Byung Joon
Shim Eun Jin as (Byung Joon’s girlfriend)
Song Young Kyu
Yang Hee Kyung as (Ma Ri’s stylist)
Kim Ji Young
Sung Ji Roo
Shin Hyun Joon (cameo)

Production Credits
Production Company: Olive Nine
Director: Boo Sung Chul (부성철)
Screenwriter: Oh Soo Yun

Quick: An Action-Comedy That Will Make Your Head Explode

Let's pretend for a moment that you're a movie director and a highly amusing action-comedy script comes across your desk. From the looks of it, if you can get the required budget and the right actors, the action sequences promise to be breathtaking and the best comedic bits will be gut-bustingly funny. The problem is that the parts in between them are, frankly, kind of boring and border on the incomprehensible. What do you do? Do you bring in another writer, a crackerjack script doctor perhaps, to tighten up the exposition and iron out the wrinkles or do you go back to the original screenwriters and say, "Give me more action, more slapstick, and less talk." I'm guessing Cho Beom-gu took the latter approach -- many times in fact -- because while Quick still has a few, fairly short, dull explanatory sections that tell us why this rash of bombings is happening throughout Seoul, it's a hell of a lot less concerned with explaining why the leather-clad pop diva Ah-rom (Kang Ye-won) has a time-bomb motorcycle-helmet strapped to her head and more committed to having her scream nonsensically and gesticulate wildly as former-boyfriend/expert-motorcyclist/indie-courier Gi-soo (Lee Min-ki) races from one location to the next. Who cares why these two ex-lovers are being forced to execute a series of death-defying assignments when you get to see so many spectacular car pile-ups and so many glamorously fiery explosions? Not me.

You'll see Gi-soo's motorcycle leap from buildings, smash through glass, crash through steel, outrace trains, cop cars and overweight detectives running nonsensically after him on foot. The implausible part is a major contributing factor to why Quick is so deliriously good. The ridiculousness elevates the movie, even as it extends outside the action. How crazy does it get? How about when a weary, naked Ah-rom showers with her helmet on or when Gi-soo's self-deluded romantic rival Myeong-sik (Kim In-kwon) backbends under a sixteen-wheeler careening and aflame right above him? While that particular moment is clearly the result of some fancy green screen CGI special effects, Quick is by no means without its own dose of reality. Stick around for the closing credits which reveal behind-the-scenes footage of the bruises, the bang-ups, and the broken bones suffered by both the cast and their body doubles who skid motorcycles under trucks or propel their bodies recklessly through space for the perfect shot. The risks taken may seem crazy when you consider that they're all just for a silly action pic but personally, I think their efforts were worth it.

Marry Me, Please

결혼해주세요 (Kyeol-hon-hae-joo-se-yoo)

 Chinese Title : 跟我結婚吧
Genre: Romance, family
Broadcast Network: KBS2
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 19:55
Broadcasting dates :
Jun 19, 2010 ~

 Synopsis
This drama tells the story of four couples that live under the same roof getting married.

Cast
Kim Ji Young
Lee Jong Hyuk
Baek Il Sub
Go Doo Shim
Han Sang Jin
Oh Yoon Ah
Ryu Tae Joon
Sung Hyuk
Lee Hwi Hyang
Lee Da In
Jung Soo Young
Kang Soo Han
Lee Tae Im
Yoon Jung Hee

Production Credits
Director: Park Man Young
Screenwriter: Jung Yoo Kyung

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Wet Dreams

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Director : Jeong Cho-sin(정초신)

Cast : Kim Seon-ah(김선아)
Lee Beom-soo(이범수)

Genre : Comedy
Running Time : 94min
Opening Date : Nov 06, 2002

Supporting Cast
Jeon Jae-hyeong
Jeong Dae-hoon
Kong Hyeong-jin

Kim Ae-kyeong
Sin Hyeon-tak

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Night Fishing: There's a Great Horror Film Playing on Your iPhone

The universal language of the movies ended with the advent of the talkies. Or so people say. But watching Park Chan-wook's Night Fishing, the short film he made (on an iPhone no less) with his brother Chan-kyon, leads me to disagree. Even without subtitles, this mini-movie speaks volumes, especially in its opening sequence, basically an addictively watchable music video featuring the South Korean indie ensemble The UhUhBoo Project. Watch those fantastical first few minutes in which the four band members jam on an abandoned country road while a kat -- a traditional wide-brimmed hat -- floats magically through the air as the world turns upside down then tell me you think that English is necessary.

Actually the Park brothers subvert the need for dialogue quite a bit throughout Night Fishing. In other sections of the film, you'll find the fisherman (Oh Kang-rok) singing to himself (language unimportant) or listening to the radio (language unimportant) for short stretches. Even the night itself speaks its own comprehensible tongue as the wind blows through the reeds and some bells atop a fishing pole are set to ringing. Later a shaman (Lee Jung-hyun) conducting an elaborate ritual at the fisherman's funeral reminds us that symbolic visuals too speak a language all their own. Talking is so overrated, isn't it?

And really, how much needs to be said explicitly when the topic is life and death. The first half of Night Fishing is surreal but pretty easy to follow: A middle-aged loner has a freakish encounter with a resurrected drowned woman who gets entangled in his fishing lines. (Because this is a Park flick, of course a hook gets caught in her lip and she vomits water repeatedly in his face upon returning from the dead.) The second half is a bit more cryptic: The drowned woman is leading a spiritual ceremony involving self-baptism, the cutting of a long translucent fabric, and a young girl (Kim Hwan-hee) in a wheelchair. I can't say this latter part makes total sense in the end but given the entire film is only about a half-hour long, Night Fishing never tries the patience. To the contrary, it invites repeated viewings.

With technology making filmmaking as readily accessible as the phone in your pocket, now anyone can create a mini-masterpiece without a lot of money. All they need is a cool script, great actors, a willingness to test the limits of technology, and the singular vision of a true artist. Don't believe me? Pick up your phone and play Night Fishing now.