26years (2012)

Hello there, I’m going to introduce some Korean movies to you.

Hope you enjoy!

The next movie that I’m going to introduce is ‘26years (26년)’. This movie was released at November 28^th, 2012. The director is Guen-Hyun Cho. He has directed many famous movies like ‘My way’, ‘GoGo 70s’ and ‘Herb’. The movie ‘26years’ is made out from Webtoon by Kangpull. Kangpull is famous Webtoon writer. Wbtoon is cartoons that authors post on the web. Many of Kangpull’s webtoons were made in to movies. Main characters are Jin-Gu, Hye-Jin Han, Suel-Ong Lim and Su-Bin Bae.

 The movie is about the revenge of some people who had lost their family because of the dictator. In 1980, Korea was in a chaos because of dictators and coup. And the dictator Du-Hwan Jun is ‘elected’ as a president. So many people got mad at the unfair situation and undemocratic society. So people in city Gwang-Ju, started demonstration against the president. But the president was a soldier, so he just order to kill all the people who are against him. This is the Gwangju Democratization Movement. In this movement thousands of people died.

 In this movie, there are 3 people who lost their family. One guy came to see them and tell them to join with him. The guy was planning to kill Du-Hwan Jun. Du-Hwan Jun is still alive. The guy’s father was a soldier when he was young and he did kill people at Gwngju at 5.18. But he regret his acts so he try to kill the Du-Hwan Jun. they plan all the story. But Du-Hwan Jun is still protected by the government and the police. So it is hard to get closer to him. But all 4 of them think about their pains in the life and try their best. Mijin lost her mother when the movement was occur and her dad killed himself because he was so shocked about Mijin’s mom’s death. Jin-Bae, he is a gangster but his mom got some mental problem because of the movement. And Jung-hyck lost his only family, his sister. But their plan fails. And the movie end.

I guess, Du-Hwan Jun is still alive so the director couldn’t kill him. But this movie made me to think one more time of sacrifices of many people who wanted democratic society in Korea. The 5.18 is a movement that we should never forget. There are still many people who have hurts. So many people lost their family and friends at that time. We should always think that the democratic lives we have now are really valuable and we should always try to save it.

 

I didn’t read the Webtoon but I liked it a lot! But one of my friends, she read the Webtoon and said that the movie is not that great as the Webtoon.

Blind (2011)

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The next movie that I’m going to introduce is ‘Blind (블라인드)’. This movie was released at August 10^th, 2011. The director is Sang-Hun Ann. He directed movies like ‘Arang’ and ‘Rainbow’. This movie’s genre is a thriller. And it is rated R movie. When I saw this movie, I was under 18. But my friend downloaded it and we watched it together. The main characters are Hanuel Kim and Seung-Ho Yu.

 This movie is about one girl named Su-a who is blind and Ki-sup, the high school student. One murder case happened, Su-a was there, but she is blind. She was not blind when she was born, she had a bad car accident and because of that accident, she lost her eye sight. She was talented police officer.  There was another eyewitness, Ki-sup. He is a high school gangster. He report the accident to the police and he met Su-a too. But Su-a’s statement and Ki-sup’s statement are different so the accident got in to mystery. All the police try to catch the suspect.

 The real suspect is professional killer. He knew Su-a and Ki-sup know the truth of the accident so he try to kill them. Ki-sup and Su-a work together to find the truth of the murderer. But they got in to troubles that the murderer has made. they fight against the murderer and finally the murderer caught by the police. Ki-sup and Su-a became good friends. Also Ki-sup quit bad things he did at high school. He stared to study to become police and he pass the test. Su-a and Ki-sup became like family.

 This movie contains several cruel scenes like killing a girl, killing the dog and fight scenes. So if you don’t like cruel things, this movie is not that good choice. But I liked the tense when I watch thriller movie!   

Harmony (2010)

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The next movie that I’m going to introduce is ‘Harmony (하모니)’. This movie was released January 28^th, 2010. The director is Dae-Kyu Kang. This movie is his debut movie. And he is working on new movie now. Movie Harmony had many audiences. The main characters are Yoon-Jin Kim, Moon-Hee Na and Ye-Won Kang.

 This movie is about one woman’s life in a jail with her baby. Her name is Jung-hye. She was pregnant when she got in to the jail. If someone give a birth in the prison, she is allowed to have the baby for 18 months and she has to send baby away after that. Jung-hye gave birth, and she start to raise the baby. In the jail, there are many women. They all have their own tragic story of lives.

 One day, women in the jail form choir. It is part of their social work. Jung-hye is bad singer but she try hard to sing well and finally she sings well. So she can sing lullaby to her baby. And she becomes friends with Mun-ok and Yu-mi. They cheer each other up and always practice hard to sing better. They became famous, so they got invite from outside. Women in the jail try to heal their hurts by singing and it seems pretty working well. Upper officers seem happy about it too. Time flies and 18 months passed. Jung-hye had to send her baby away to someone else. She was terribly sad but she didn’t have any choice.

 After several years, the girls at the jail give another performance at outside of the jail. And Jung-hye’s baby, come to sing with them. Sadly, Jung-hye’s baby doesn’t recognize her. They sing together and the movie ends.

 This movie is sad home movie. It shows the love of mother. I cried a lot after I saw this movie. It will be good time watching movies like this sometimes.

King And The Clown (2005)

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The next movie that I’m going to introduce is ‘King And The Clown (왕의 남자)’. This movie was released at December 29^th, 2005. The director is Jun-Ik Lee. He directed movies like ‘Radio Star’ and ‘You Are Far Away’. Main characters are Woo-Sung Kam, Jin-Young Jung, Sung-Yeon Kang and Jun-Ki Lee. ‘King And The Clown’ had 1230 ten thousand audiences. So far by now, this movie is ranked in 6^th of most popular movie in Korea.

 

 The movie is about life of two poor clowns in Joseon dynasty. They are Jangsang and Gonggil. They are clown in the small country. They had harsh life but they had big dream of being rich so they decide to go to Hanyang, the capital city of Joseon. They are good at performance, so they join the other big clowns. So they perform together through the city. Their performance’s main idea is satire of the King and the government. At that time, the king was incompetence and the government was full of corruption. One day, the clown got caught by the government because of their too much satire performances. The king is mad so the king was going to weigh off them. But the clowns suggest that they will make the king laugh. They made a deal. Gonggil, the pretty and delicate clown, play big part at the performance and the king let them stay at the castle. (Gonggil is a man though.)

 After that, the clowns stay at the castle and keep play the show for the king. They performance about the corruption and secret of the castle that the king didn’t know. So the king got mad and killed many of his subordinates. So other subordinates were worry about their lives, they try to kill Gonggil and the clowns. Beside that the king fall in love with Gonggil, even though Gonggil is a mand and the clown. So the king’ fiancée got mad and try to kill him. But Jangsang say it’s all his fault and he lost his eyesight instead of Gonggil. And later, they performance together in front of the king promising that they will reborn into clown and perform together. And the movie ends.

 This movie can show people the corruption of the government at that time and the hardness of people. Also it implies the loneliness of life that everyone has. Also the visuals of this movie are really cool and pretty!

Maundy Thursday (2006)

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 The next movie that I’m going to introduce is ‘Maundy Thursday(우리들의 행복한 시간)’ This movie was released at September 14^th, 2006. The director is Hae-sung Song. He had directed movies like ‘The Old Family (2013), and ‘Love Affair (2012)’

 This movie had 3hundred ten thousand audiences. One thing about this movie, it is based on the book. The book’s title is same as the movie. The author is Ji-young Kong. She is bestselling book writer. I read this book before I saw the movie. So I was interested about the movie.

 The main characters are Dong-won Kang and Na-young Lee.

 This movie is about one criminal named Yoon-su and a gloomy girl named Yu-jung. Yoon-su is poor and had harsh life before he got in to the jail. He had one younger brother and he didn’t have parents. So he had to suffer all the adversities through his young life to save his brother and himself. On the other hand, there is Yu-jung. She was famous singer when she was young. And she is very rich. She can have everything she wants. But she is always gloomy. She tried to kill herself three times but fails all the time. Her aunt was worry about Yu-jung so she tell Yu-jung to go to jail to have talking time with the criminal. It is one way to treat mental problem. Yu-jung didn’t want to go mental hospital so she chooses to go jail. At the jail, she met Yoon-su. He is sentenced to be death. He killed two women but additionally, he got false charge. Yoon-su and Yu-jung didn’t get along well at first. They had such a different life before. But they start to talk their real story. They become honest with their feelings. Eventually they felt they had same sadness in their life. So they became real friends and fall in love. But since Yoon-su was sentenced to death, they didn’t have much time together. They know each others’ feeling. But later, Yoon-su got killed and the movie ends.

 This movie has some points to think about. First, Yoon-su was false charged because he was poor and didn’t have any power. So he got killed by the government. Second, it is important to have someone know how I feel. if there is just one person who know how I feel when I’m really depressed, the person can be a big help. If Yu-jung met Yoon-su before, she might not have tried to kill herself.

 This movie is sad and gloomy movie but worth watching it!