DVD: Sang-kyung Kim

DVD: Sang-kyung Kim

DVD:

Sang-kyung Kim

Hyo-jeong Lee, Seung-woo Cho

New Yorker Video, 2001

Beyond brilliant!
Chunhyang This is simply the most unusual and most beautiful film ever. The morally uplifting romance is a nice enough story-and you find yourself rooting for Chunhyang and Mongryong-but the story is secondary to the way it is told. Using the device of a modern ...

Memories of Murder

Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim

Palm Pictures / Umvd, 2005

A thrilling and unsettling depiction of what happens when old school Korean detectives meet American style psychotic killers
A hotshot young detective from Seoul is enlisted to help out the old school small town detectives when it becomes clear they have a sophisticated serial killer on their hands. The local detectives' old school methods -- unscientific crime scene investigation, ...

Marrying the Mafia

Dong-geun Yun, Jeong-eun Kim

Adv Films, 2005

Best in Show at AFFD
This film, while woefully under appriciated at the festival I saw it at, by far deserved a best screen play award. It's lively and funny dialoge is boosted by the outrageously funny characters and situations plus one of the most perfect endings to this kind of comedy ...

Lies

Sang Hyun Lee, Tae Yeon Kim

Fox Lorber, 2002

Lies...
This Korean production left me somewhat suprised. That is, it was a love story. Yes, a slightly twisted love story. My view is that interaction between our main characters was love indeed. In any relationship, there must be a willingness to give and take, to stand ...

R-Point

Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son

Tartan Video, 2006

Great cinematography
An eerie story shot in a war format....not just a "horror" story.This is precisely why I liked it, because the horror element isn't the only story line at first....the soldiers in war theme is.If you want a good well made movie that is realistic in the Vietnam sense ...

Lies

Sang Hyun Lee, Tae Yeon Kim

Lies...
This Korean production left me somewhat suprised. That is, it was a love story. Yes, a slightly twisted love story. My view is that interaction between our main characters was love indeed. In any relationship, there must be a willingness to give and take, to stand ...

Chunhyang [Region 2]

Hyo-jeong Lee, Seung-woo Cho

Beyond brilliant!
Chunhyang This is simply the most unusual and most beautiful film ever. The morally uplifting romance is a nice enough story-and you find yourself rooting for Chunhyang and Mongryong-but the story is secondary to the way it is told. Using the device of a modern ...

The Foul King

Doo-hong Jung, Ka-Yeon Kim

Tai Seng, 2004

Witty & Fresh!
Being a huge admirer of Asian cinema and pro wrestling, I picked up "The Foul King" with few expectations; I was curious how a comedy about pro wrestling in South Korea would play out, especially years after South Korea's glory days of the pop-sport have come and gone. ...

Turning Gate

Kim Sang Kyung; Yi Jin Won and Choo Sang Mi

YA Entertainment, 2007

Long Over Due
It's hard to believe that this film has just recently found a major domestic release, considering that it is actually one of director Hong Sang Soo's most accessible and more well-known films. Fans of his movies will be delighted to know that the subject matter here ...