February 6, 2010
Yeui-eomneun geotdeul (South Korea)
Startling shifts between post-modern comedy and brutal violence mark tyro writer-helmer Park Chulhee’s “No Mercy for the Rude” as an ultra-hip variation on the ever-popular Korean hit man subgenre. Crackerjack pace, absurdist set pieces and an intriguing lead perf by Shin Hakyun as a mute killer-for-hire have helped boost pic to solid local returns since its Aug. 24 opening, and rousing response at the Vancouver festival points to promising offshore returns at fests and upscale markets on both sides of the Pacific. If ever there were a Korean import aimed at Stateside auds and ready for the Tarantino seal-of-approval, this is it.
An early sign of the film’s strategy of unsettling the viewer is how anti-hero Killa (Shin, looking super-cool) narrates his story, even though he has long refused to talk until he gets an operation to fix a severe speech impediment. To pay for the operation, Killa has opted to work as an assassin, but the knife-wielding killer will only do in obnoxious, nasty targets.
AKA: No Mercy for the Rude (International: English title)
Runtime: South Korea:113 min
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856052/
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November 3, 2009
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Choi is emotionally scarred by the experience of losing his parents as a child. That’s why he is so surprised when he meets Kim, another orphan, and finds himself opening his heart to her. But Choi could lose Kim as easily as he falls in love with her, as she is dying from in incurable disease.
Choi is a respected doctor who lost his parents at a very young age and who is still unable to overcome his mental affliction. He meets Kim, another orphan suffering from incurable stomach cancer, at a lonely hearts bar. Miraculously, they fall in love, and must now contemplate their future before Kim’s time runs out.
Film Director(s): Lee Dong-Hyun
Cast: Ahn Jae-Wook, Lee Eun-Ju, Son Jong-Beom, Chon Moo-Song, Kang San
Released: 2003 [Korea]
Genre: Drama
Languages: Korean (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 – Stereo)
Subtitles: ENGLISH, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120875/
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The film is about these three young people whose lives are thrown into uncertainty. Jung-hee, a 21 year-old college student is a lover of dance. She is confused when her father comes back after a fifteen-year absence and finds it difficult to accept him. 25 year-old Keun-woo is a telephone mechanic who enjoys eavesdropping while at work. He gets to know a woman through eavesdropping and falls in love with her. However, he is quite lost as to how he should express his feelings for her. Thirty-year-old In-ho was already a married man when he enlisted in the army two years previous. He comes home on his last leave of absence from the service. He detects something has changed in his wife but does not know what.
Youth is always the best and worst of times, disarmingly confusing yet beautifully meaningful. Kim Young Nam, assistant director on Hong Sang Soo’s Woman is the Future of Man, presents three stories about young adults reaching turnings point in their lives in his creative debut film, Don’t Look Back. Along with Kim himself, the acclaimed film features some of the best new faces in the business. Don’t Look Back won the NETPAC and FIPRESCI Awards at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival in August 2006.
In the first story, 21-year-old dancer Jung Hee (Kim Hye Na – Flower Island and Into The Mirror) finally reunites with her father after years of separation. She experiences a maelstrom of emotional conflicts ranging from affection to the temptation to reject him. The second story follows a 25-year-old telephone mechanic (Lee Sang Woo – Almost Love) who falls in love with a woman whose phone call he eavesdrops on. In the final story, a 30-year-old soldier (Kim Tae Woo – Woman is the Future of Man) comes home on leave and realizes how much his wife has changed since he left.
Artist Name(s) : Kim Tae Woo | Lee Han
Release Date : October 31, 2006
Language : Korean
Subtitle : Korean, English
Runtime : South Korea:126 min
Country : South Korea
IMDB : http://imdb.com/title/tt0835823/
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This film tells the story of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910). Huo Yuanjia was the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.
The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, the bullied Huo Yuanjia resolves to teach himself how to fight–and win. Years of training enable him to ace match after match in his home region of Tianjin. But as his fame as a martial arts master grows, so does his pride. After an ill-advised fight leads to another master’s death, members of Huo’s family are slain in revenge. Grieving and ashamed, Huo wanders the country in shock. Near death, he is rescued by women from an idyllic village, and is offered simple kindness and generosity that help him heal and regain his equilibrium over a period of several years. Huo realizes that the future of martial arts lies in sportsmanship and not brutality, and he rejoins society to apply what he has learned. Returning to Tianjin, Huo takes steps to come to terms with his past and restore his family’s name. His evolving, graceful Mizong (Missing) Fist method of fighting brings Huo renewed success, and he forms the progressive Jingwu Sports Federation. Taking note, duplicitous members of the Foreign Chamber of Commerce engineer a Shanghai tournament pitting Huo against four fighters, each representing the major foreign powers in China. Huo commits to the bout and faces off against, respectively, a British boxer, a Spanish swordsman, a Belgian soldier and a Japanese martial artist. What happened that day in 1910 has never been, and will never be, forgotten in China.
Starring: Jet Li, Betty Sun, Dong Yong, Shido Nakamura, Collin Chou
Directed by: Ronnie Yu
Also Known As:
Fearless (International: English title) (USA)
Jet Li’s Fearless (USA) (complete title)
Legend of a Fighter (Hong Kong: English title)
Untitled Jet Li Project (USA) (working title)
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for violence and martial arts action throughout.
Runtime: USA:103 min / UK:104 min / Philippines:105 min
Country: China / Hong Kong / USA
Language: Japanese / English / Mandarin
Subtitle: English
IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0446059/
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