2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the 1997 Hong Kong Handover, when the territory was returned to Mainland Chinese rule. Dubbed a “Handover film” along with Barbara Wong’s Wonder Women and Samson Chiu’s Mr. Cinema, Law Wing Cheong’s Hooked On You gently revisits those momentous ten years through the lives of normal everyday Hong Kongers. [...]

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The director of Double Tap, Inner Senses, and Koma, Law Chi Leung returns to top form in 2007 with the tense crime thriller Kidnap. Like in Koma, Law places two strong female protagonists on center stage, with Karena Lam and Rene Liu (Happy Birthday) locked in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. Kidnap veers unpredictably over gray [...]

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Commissioned by South Korea’s National Human Rights Commission, If You Were Me is an innovative omnibus film project to promote tolerance and human rights and shed light on the hardships disadvantaged people face in Korea. The first and second anthologies in the series, released in 2003 and 2005, invited directors like Park Kwang Su, Park [...]

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Directed by Lee Han, Lover’s Concerto was Cha Tae Hyun’s first film after the blockbuster success of My Sassy Girl. Released in 2002, this quiet and moving drama sees Cha in a confused romantic triangle with Son Ye Jin (The Classic) and the late Lee Eun Joo (Bungee Jumping of Their Own). Twenty-year-old student Ji [...]

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Friend is the emotional, violent and compelling story of four schoolmates growing up over two decades in Pusan. After being very close during their school days, two of the boys go away to college whereas the other two stay at home. When the boys return from their schooling they are shocked to discover that one [...]

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SELaplana >> Movie & TV Series >> M – Title >> Everyone wants to Make It Big, but not everyone can handle the consequences. With an all-star line-up of hot male actors – Song Seung Heon (A Tale of Autumn), Kwon Sang Woo (My Tutor Friend), Kim Yeong Jun (Hi, Dharma), and Lee Bum Soo [...]

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SELaplana >> Movie & TV Series >> M – Title >> A follow-up to the 2003 hit comedy My Tutor Friend starring Kwon Sang Woo and Kim Ha Neul, My Tutor Friend 2 features a brand new cast with the same concept and charm. Fresh young stars Lee Cheong Ah (Ssunday Seoul) and Park Ki [...]

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The folk legend of Gumiho, the nine-tailed fox who wants to become human, first appeared in the 1994 film The Fox With Nine Tails, starring Go So Young and Jung Woo Sung. Twelve long years later, Lee Hyung Gon, the man responsible for the storyboard of one of Korea’s first real blockbusters, has come back, [...]

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Director Choi Ho takes an uncompromising look at Korea’s drug problem in the hard-hitting, cynical film noir, Bloody Tie. Sang Do (Ryoo Seung Bum – Crying Fist, Arahan) is a small time player on the way up. A crystal meth dealer (known in Korea as ppong) with a tragic family history, he is forced to [...]

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Directed by Kwak Kyung Taek, the 2002 film Champion revisits Korea in the early 1980s and shows one man’s struggle to lift himself out of poverty and turn himself into a boxing champion. The film is based on the true story of legendary boxer Kim Deuk Gu. Starring as the Champion is Yoo Oh Sung [...]

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