Mr 3 Minutes (Hong Kong) 2006

April 25, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Mr. 3 Minutes reunites director Gordon Chan (A1 Headline) and singer-turned-actor Ronald Cheng (Fatal Contact, Dragon Loaded) after Undercover Hidden Dragon. Co-starring veteran actress Teresa Mo (Man Suddenly in Black series) and Cherrie Ying who has worked with Ronald in various comedies, Mr. 3 Minutes promises to bring about laughter as well as reflections on father-son relationships. Apart from hilarious scenarios in which Ronald Cheng really excels with his comedian talent, the film also features some touching yet not overly melodramatic moments.

Cast: Ronald Cheng, Cherrie Ying, Teresa Mo, Tony Lau Kar Fai
Directed: Gordon Chan
Genre: Comedy
Year Released: 2006
Also Known As: Saam fun chung sin saan
Runtime: 01:33:16
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (HardSubbed)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0885518/

Filed Under: Comedy, Hong Kong Movies

Arang (2006) (Korean)

April 24, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Arang starts out with the usual duo of detectives. Song Yoon Ah (Hotelier and Lost in Love) is So Young, a seasoned veteran who just returned from suspension, while rookie Hyun Gi is played by My Girl’s Lee Dong Wook in his film debut. Investigating a serial killer case, the two find clues leading them to a young girl violently murdered in a rural village ten years earlier. Plagued by external and internal ghosts, the detectives must unravel the disturbing mystery.

Released: 2006
Genre:Horror
Director:Sang-hoon Ahn
Writers:Sang-hoon Ahn
Seon-ju Jeong
Runtime:South Korea:97 min
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Subtitles: English Hardsubbed.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0826031/

Filed Under: Horror, Korean Movies

To Catch A Virgin Ghost (Sisily 2km) (2005) (Korean)

April 24, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Suk-Tae who stole diamonds worth billions from the ‘family,’ has an accident while trying to escape. He ends up in this beautiful, peaceful country village–Sisily. Yang-yi who is determined to find the diamonds, comes to Sisily village through the Global Positioning System on Suk-tae’s cell phone. But the villagers deny ever having seen Suk-Tae and Yang-Yi decided to stay for investigating the case. Yang-yi then discovers they are harboring a terrible secret — the seemingly friendly townsfolk may not be so friendly. In fact they may not even be folk–after all.


Release Date: 2005
Director: Shin Jung-Won
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Lim Chang-Jung, Im Eun-Kyung, Kwon Oh-Jung
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 102 Minutes
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420183/

(6.5 rating out of 10)

Filed Under: Comedy, Korean Movies

Jenny and Juno. (2005) (Korean)

April 24, 2007 by 4 Comments

Jeni , Juno is a drama based on what is becoming a serious trouble in Korean society. While the main characters in Jeni, Juno are not as bad as the real ones in society, the movie tries to reflect the issue with more light-hearted way.

Jeni and Juno are 15 years old. And they are an official couple that every student knows in their school. They really do get along well and very close, close enough to have sexual relationship apparently.
One day, Jeni takes pregnancy test and it is positive!
Jeni panics at first but calms down rather fast and tells Juno about the baby. Despite of the problem, Jeni and Juno are still bright and positive. They wanted to protect the baby and the only way to do so was hide the fact from everyone else, even from their parents. Their secretive life begins like that..

Directed:Ho-joon Kim
Genre:Comedy
Cast:Sun-yeong Ahn,Nam-kil Kang,Hye-sung Kim,Ja-ok Kim,Eung-kyung Lee,Dong-jin Lim,Min-ji Park
Runtime:108 min
Country:South Korea
Language:Korean
Subtitles:Eng Subs From klOOfy
Release Date: 2005
IMDb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453115/

Filed Under: Comedy, Korean Movies

Heart is… (2007) (Korean)

April 24, 2007 by Leave a Comment

11-year-old Chan-yi is looking after his lovely younger sister So-yi, by himself ever since their mother left them to find her own future. Despite their desperate situation of being abandoned by family and neighbors, these kids try their best to carry on life. One day, a little puppy joins this small family as Chan-yi steals it from an old couple’s kennel as a gift his sister’s birthday. Especially clever, this dog, whose name is “Ma-eum”, returns the love received from his new family with great loyalty and it seems as though their happiness would continue forever…only until a sudden accident brings them into collapse.


Genre: Drama

Also Known As: Ma-eum-i…
Country: Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (Hardcode)

Filed Under: Drama, Korean Movies, Romance

Sway (2006) (Japanese)

April 24, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Yureru (a.k.a Sway) tells story about 2 brothers facing each other in the court because of death of their childhood friend case. In Yamanshi, Minori (Kagawa Teruyuki) runs a family gas station. His younger brother Takeru (Odagiri Joe) is a successful photographer in Tokyo. In a family reunion Takeru returns home and go hiking together with his brother. Along with them, their childhood friend Chieko (Makimura Yoko). In this trip a tragic incident happened. Chieko falls and died. It is not clear, is it an accident, or is it murder? The two brothers are pulled into a court investigation in which secrets and true personalities are gradually revealed.

Directed: Miwa Nishikawa
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jo Odagiri
Runtime: 120 minutes
Also Known As: Yureru
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809535/

(7.3 rating out of 10!)

Filed Under: Drama, Japanese Movies