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Cast -
Richard Gutierrez
Sarah Lahbati
Solenn Heussaff
Al Tantay
Jay Manalo
Mark Gil
Plot -
RAM (Richard Gutierrez) is a struggling fireman down on his luck. He gets suspended from his job pending investigation into their operations. This happens while moving heaven and earth to find money for his fathers kidney transplant where he himself is going to be the donor.
Year: 2012
Country: Japan
Director: Yang Yong-Hi
Writer: Yang Yong-Hi
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 100 min
Language: Japanese
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Cast:
Arata – Seung-Ho
Sakura Ando – Rie
Yang Ik-June – Mr. Yang
Kotomi Kyono – Soon-Yi
Tatsushi Omori – Hong-Gi
Jun Murakami – Joon-Ho
Shogo – Cheol-Yi
Taro Suwa – Te-Jo
Yoshiko Miyazaki – mother
Masane Tsukayama – father
Synopsis/ Plot:
Sung-Ho (Arata) arrives in Japan, but his stay is only temporary. 25 years earlier, as a 16-year-old boy, he left Japan for North Korea with only a one way ticket. His father is an ethnic Korean living in Japan and sympathetic to the North Korea cause. Believing in the North Korean government’s promises, Sung-Ho’s father sent Sung-Ho to live in North Korea.
AKA: ?? ??? | Jongeun Chingoodeul
HanCinema: (Coming Soon)
Cast: Yeon Jeong-hoon, Lee Ji-hoon, Kazuki Kitamura, Choi Jeong-won, Cha Hyeon-woo, Seong Hyeok
Director: Jin Hyeong-tae
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Gangster
Runtime: 87 min.
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Plot:
K (Yeon Jeong-Hun), Tatsuya (Kazuki Kitamura), Joon-Oh (Lee Ji-Hoon) and Yuuji (Kim Young-Hoon) are best friends. They work for Sung-Ho’s gang in a Korean neighborhood in Japan. A power struggle over their territory erupts between their gang and the yakuza.
K, Tatsuya, Joon-Oh and Yuuji try to revenge the death of a gang member, but they are soon chased by the police. As a result, Tatsuya is arrested and the relationship between Joon-Oh and K becomes frosty.
Meanwhile, K robs the yakuza to bail out Tatsuya and Joon-Oh tries to find the snitch in Sung-Ho’s gang. They learn that someone is behind the series of deaths of their members. A plan for revenge is set forth.
Movie: Breathless
Revised romanization: Ddongpari
Hangul: ???
Director: Yang Ik-June
Writer: Yang Ik-June
Producer: Jang Seong-Jin
Cinematographer: Yun Jong-Ho
World Premiere: October, 2008 (Pusan Int. Film Fest.)
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 2009
Runtime: 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Gangster / Indie
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Cast:
Yang Ik-june as Sang-hoon
Kim Kkot-bi as Yeon-hee
Jung Man-shik as Man-shik
Lee Hwan as Young-jae
Yun Seung-hun as Hwan-kyu
Kim Hee-su as Yeong-in
Plot:
Sang-Hoon (Yang Ik-June) works as a low-level gangster collecting money for his longtime loan shark friend. Sang-Hoon seethes with rage due to his troubled childhood and abusive father. At any moment, Sang-Hoon can lash out at relatives, friends & strangers with the only way he knows how to solve problems – savage violence.
Movie: Boy (English title) / Goodbye, Boy (literal title)
Revised romanization: Gootbayi Boyi
Hangul: ??? ??
Director: Roh Hong-Jin
Writer: Roh Hong-Jin
Producer: Choi Soon-Sik, Kwak Kyoung-Taek, Song Joon-Hyoung
Cinematographer: Lee In-Won
World Premiere: October 2010 (Pusan International Film Festival)
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Runtime: 112 min.
Distributor: Indiestory
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Plot:
Winter 1988 – Middle school student Jin-Woo (Yeon Jun-Seok) lives with his unemployed alcoholic father (Ahn Nae-Sang) and his unhappy mother (Kim So-Hee) who frequently attempts to runaway from home due to her unhappiness with her husband. Jin-Woo’s older sister (Ryu Hyun-Kyung) does whatever she wants and fumes at her mother for the life she lives. Jin-Woo feels sorry for his mom who has to support the family alone and starts to work as a newspaper delivery boy. At the newspaper distribution plant, he meets another boy named Chang-Geun (Kim Dong-Young) who works hard to save money. Jin-Woo learns from Chang-Geun things like how to smoke, drink alcohol and how to deal with girls. Jin-Woo learns about life through Chang-Geun.
Cast -
Jose Manalo
Wally Bayola
Gina Pareño
Pokwang
Solenn Heussaff
Paolo Ballesteros
Plot -
Two brothers become rivals in the affections of the same woman. Their rivalry tears them apart, and causes one of them to be heartbroken. But the two are forced to reunite in order to protect their family from a greedy businessman.
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