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Les Formidables (Movie - 2006)

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Directed by Jo Min-ho (조민호)

Screenplay by Choi Yeong-hwan (최영환), Jo Min-ho (조민호), Seong Jeong-hoon (성정훈), Son Jeong-woo (손정우)

Action Drama Crime Thriller

118min | Release date in South Korea : 2006/06/22

Synopsis

Su-hyun wants to leave the syndicate and opens a small restaurant. Helping his life-long friend from an orphanage, he gets arrested for a murder that he didn't commit. To catch the real killer, he hurts himself in prison and is transported to the hospital. Sung-woo is a homicide detective. His wife has left him, and his son's life is in... More

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"Breathless" (Ddongpari) by Korean director and actor Yang Ik-joon won the top prize at the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam.

"Breathless" shared the Tiger award with two others, Iran's "Be Calm and Count to Seven", directed by Ramtin Lavalfipour and Turkey's "Wrong Rosary", directed by Mahmut Fazil.

"Breathless" was praised by the jury as "a powerfully rendered and acted film with a keen sense of reality in its portrayal of a situation that has been seldom seen in the cinema".

Yang was also given high marks for his sense of warmth and humor dealing with a troubling subject matter.

The film centers around Sang-hoon who gets paid to retrieve lent money. His life changes after he meets Yeon-hee, a high school student. Director Yang himself played the role of Sang-hoon.

For winning, Yang received 15,000 euros ($19,270) and the right to air his piece through the Dutch public TV channel VPRO.

A prominent figure in Korea's independent film industry, Yang, 34, has ...| More
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A slick, Hollywood-style thriller will satisfy Kim Yoon-jin fans

Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

A hotshot defense lawyer Yu Ji-yeon (Kim Yoon-jin, TV's "Lost") learns to her horror that someone has kidnapped her daughter. Instead of a ransom, the kidnapper demands that Ji-yeon defend a vicious rapist-murderer to an acquittal at an upcoming trial. She has only seven days to locate her daughter, or, conversely, prove that the prosecuted murderer is innocent.

The only help around is her thuggish cop friend (Park Hee-soon, "Boss X File", "Antarctic Journal"), while a corrupt prosecuting attorney (Jeong Dong-hwan) and the victim's headstrong mother (Kim Mi-sook, "Marathon") stand in her way.

"Seven Days" turned out to be the biggest box office draw in the fourth quarter of 2007 in Korea, enthusiastically embraced by the moviegoers, even though critical reaction was more ambivalent. The film's MTV-on-speed editing style and narrative rhythm received some criticism, but I don't feel like...| More
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Director Lim Pil-seong is back with his second feature, Hansel and Gretel, a fantasy-horror loosely based on the famous Brothers Grimm's fairy tale and updated to modern day Korea. While his debut feature "Antarctic Journal" (2005) placed a group of men in an icy, barren polar landscape, where the human psyche preys on itself, in "Hansel and Gretel", director Lim uses a strange forest and house to explore even deeper recesses of the psyche and imagination.

It stars Cheon Jeong-myeong ("Les Formidables") as the Hansel figure, Eun Won-jae and Sim Eun-Kyeong. Cheon plays Eun-soo, a man who, while left wandering on a country road after an accident, meets a mysterious young girl and is led to her house in the middle of the forest. There, he meets her siblings and parents who live a fairytale-like life, eating cakes and sweets. The next day, when Eun-soo tries to leave, the forest brings him back again and he soon realizes he is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Th...| More
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It is probably every film director's nightmare to tell a story that's already been told before (especially one that's been told better). It's that fear that is behind the bad habit of many directors to omit or manipulate critical parts of their narratives, opting for cinematic cliches over straightforward explanations.
Sure, there's no one proper way to tell a story. Yet in films such as "Gangjeok" (Les Formidables), the editing is so choppy that by the time the closing credits start rolling you wonder whether everything you just saw was completely delusional.
It's understandable why the director Jo Min-ho had to take this approach. Drama overwhelms the film, which is about a strung-out cop who is taken hostage by an escaped inmate of a prison.
Sung-woo (played by Park Joong-hoon) is desperately trying to pay for an operation for his sick son; Su-hyun (Cheon Jeong-myeon) eats broken pieces of his lunch plate in prison to protest that he was falsely accused of a murder charge. He esc...| More
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"A Dirty Carnival" directed by "Yoo Ha" drew the most viewers at the box office on Tuesday, with some 80,000 viewers at 390 theaters nationwide, leaving U.S. blockbuster "X-Men: The Last Stand" behind, which tallied some 75,000 viewers at 428 theaters.

"A Dirty Carnival" has become the first Korean movie in seven weeks to beat Hollywood blockbusters that had topped the box office here since "Mission: Impossible 3" was released on May 3. The top spot has since been occupied by "The Da Vinci Code", "Poseidon", and "X-Men" before "A Dirty Carnival" captured it on Tuesday.

The news particularly pleased the Korean film industry, although it is just a daily tally. CJ Entertainment, the movie's distributor, said, "We expected that the movie would draw more viewers than 'X-Men' from Monday, and it finally did on Tuesday. The difference is no more than several thousand people, but we are really happy". On Monday, "A Dirty Carnival" drew 55,000 viewers, closely following "X-Men" with 60,60...| More
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Showeast (쇼이스트)
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Joo Min-soo<br />(주민수)  Choi Young-hwan (최영환)
 Cinematographer
Joo Min-soo<br />(주민수)  Kim Dong-joo (김동주)
 Production department
Joo Min-soo<br />(주민수)  Lee Jeon-ho (이전호)
 Poster designer
Joo Min-soo<br />(주민수)  Kim Min-su (김민수)
 Stunts
Joo Min-soo<br />(주민수)  Sin Seong-il (신성일)
 Stunts
Joo Min-soo<br />(주민수)  Kwon Kwi-deok (권귀덕)
 Stunts
 Yoo Sang-seob (유상섭)
 Stunts
Technics
118 min 35mm Cinemascope (2.35)
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Release date in South Korea : 2006/06/22
South Korean Box Office
Source : www.cine21.com & www.kobis.or.kr
As of 2006.07.02 : 287,582 admissions (total)
As of 2006.06.25 : 169,546 admissions (total)
Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr

Synopsis

Su-hyun wants to leave the syndicate and opens a small restaurant. Helping his life-long friend from an orphanage, he gets arrested for a murder that he didn't commit. To catch the real killer, he hurts himself in prison and is transported to the hospital. Sung-woo is a homicide detective. His wife has left him, and his son's life is in jeopardy. He can't afford to pay the hospital bills, not to mention the liver transplant needed to save his son's life. To make matters worse, he gets reprimanded at work for walking out on his undercover post, which led to the death of his partner. Having gotten drunk out of guilt, he creates a scene at the funeral for his late colleague and gets kicked out, only to end up becoming a hostage of a jail breaker, Su-hyun.

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The movie isn't that great but I still like Jung-myung :-)
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