Asian & Game Movies (Si-Z)
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Silent Hill
Language: English
Year: 2006
Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Krige, Jodelle Ferland
Rating: R
Plot: Rose cannot accept the medical diagnosis that her daughter, who suffers nightmarish trances in which she refers to the town of Silent Hill, is going insane. Over the protests of her husband, she flees with her child, Sharon, to Silent Hill seeking answers for her daughter's condition. It is revealed that the town had been evacuated thirty years earlier due to an unstoppable (and still burning) underground coal fire, and that Sharon was likely born there. A local motorcycle cop named Sybil ends up pursuing Rose and Sharon into the outskirts of the abandoned and cordoned off town on a rainy night, where they suffer simultaneous "wipe-outs" and black out. Rose awakens to find that everything is lit by an unearthly, luminous mist and that her daughter is gone from her SUV. Following what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette all over town, Rose is lured to a group of horrific creatures and blacks out again to the sound of a wailing emergency-alert siren--just as the creatures have gotten a good grip on her...
Review: ★★★


Silent Hill 2
Language: English
Year: 2008
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Plot: Set ten years after the first film, Silent Hill 2 sees a now 18 year old Sharon (calling herself Kara) trapped in a shopping mall with a strange journalist called Brett. The pair find themselves running from an unimaginable terror, that leads them back into the town of Silent Hill. Once there the couple must find a way out, and Brett discovers there's more to Kara than at first he thought.
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Silk (Guisi)
Language: Hokkien / English / Japanese / Mandarin
Year: 2006
Actors: Chen Chang, Chun-Ning Chang, Bo-lin Chen, Yosuke Eguchi, Barbie Hsu, Kar Yan Lam, Kevin S. Smith
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Plot: A team of scientists led by Hashimoto has managed to capture the energy of a ghost child, thanks to their newly invented device called Menger Sponge. The child, isolated in an empty flat, moves his lips to words no one understands. Hashimoto enlists special agent Ye Qi-Dong, who is able to read on lips, in order to figure out how this child can shed light on life...and especially life after death...
Review: ★★★


Sky High
Language: Japanese
Year: 2003
Actors: Yumiko Shaku, Takao Osawa, Shosuke Tanihara, Yuka Itaya, Yumi Kikuchi, Aya Okamoto, Masato Sakai, Eihi Shiina, Hiromasa Taguchi, Naho Toda, Maiko Yamada, Kimika Yoshino
Rating: R
Plot: A serial-murderer is removing his victims hearts and taking them with him. Kanzaki is a detective on the case. The day he is due to be married his fiance, Mina, is killed displaying the same MO as the other victims. He discovers geneticist, Kudo, and Rei, his evil "secretary" to be the killers. When they have six hearts they will be able to summon demons from beyond the 'Gate of Rage' to grant any wish, but darkness will fall upon the earth. Mina becomes Guardian of the Gate of Rage, and must fight Kudo when he is killed. Kanzaki enters the world of the dead to protect her.
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So Close
Language: Chinese
Actors: Qi Shu, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok, Seung-heon Song, Yasuaki Kurata
Rating: R
Plot: Ai Lin(Shu Qi) and her sister Ai Quarn(Zhao Wei) are computer hackers and espionage specialists who are using their late father's advanced secret satellite technology to give them the field advantage over their enemies and the local law enforcement. At the start of the movie they are handling the assassination of the chairman of top Chinese company, which is accomplished without a hitch.

In the aftermath of their successful mission, an intelligent Police Detective named Kong Yat Hung (Karen Mok) is assigned to their case and manages to track them down. The cat-and-mouse chase becomes more complicated when Lin and Ai Quarn become the targets of the very people who originally hired them and the police detective is framed for the murder of Lin. Left with no choice, the detective teams up with Ai Quarn to catch Lin's true killers.
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Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
Language: Japanese/English
Actors: Rumi Hîragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tara Strong, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Susan Egan
Rating: PG
Plot: Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a nearby building, which turns out to be a bathhouse for the thousands of Japan's gods and spirits. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotel's stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guest's dinner.
Review: ★★★★★

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Suicide Club (Jisatsu saakuru)
Language: Japanese
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase, Saya Hagiwara, Hideo Sako
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Plot: 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as one could hope.
Review: ★★★★

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Sukeban Deka
Language: Japanese
Year: 1987
Actors: Yui Asaka, Masatô Ibu, Keizo Kanie, Goro Kataoka, Ayako Kobayashi, Yôko Minamino, Katsumi Muramatsu, Hiroyuki Nagato, Taketoshi Naitô, Yuma Nakamura, Yuka Ônishi, Haruko Sagara, Shinobu Sakagami, Tetta Sugimoto, Yayoi Tanaka, Shinji Wada, Akie Yoshizawa
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Plot: When a political revolutionary takes over a remote school in order to convert its students into terrorists, young Saki dusts off her killer yo-yo, enlists the help of long-time friends, and promptly proceeds to bring the school and its revolutionary leader to their knees.
Review: ★★★★

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Sukeban Deka: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
Language: Japanese
Year: 1988
Actors: Yui Asaka, Yuka Ônishi, Yuma Nakamura, Kosuke Toyohara, Masaki Kyomoto, Minako Fujishiro, Hiroyuki Nagato, Nagare Hagiwara, Shinjiro Ebara, Koji Tanaka, Gannosuke Yamamoto, Yosuke Inozaki, Takeshi Iwase, Mamiko Tayama
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Plot: Having debuted in the first movie, 17 yr-old Yui (the Sukeban Deka III) shares this movie with her two older sisters, Yuka and Yuma. She is now working for a the Juvenile Security Bureau, a student police force tackling juvenile crime with vicious triple-bladed yoyos!

But Yui rebels against the heavy-handed tactics and quits the force. Teaming up with her sisters and a gang of young outcasts, she tries to prove that the bureau is corrupt - creating crimes to justify their own existence...
Review: ★★★

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Sukeban Deka: Codename = Asamiya Saki
Language: Japanese
Year: 2006
Actors: Aya Matsuura, Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, Yui Okada, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Hiroyuki Nagato, Yuki Saito, Riki Takeuchi
Rating: Japan:PG-12
Plot: When a "Sukeban Deka" is horrifically killed in the middle of downtown Tokyo via remote control bomb while investigating the popular and mysterious "Enola Gay" teen blogspot, the "Tokumei Keiji" (Special Police) branch of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Dept. decide upon a desperate and radical plan.

Working with CIA, they bring back to Japan the daughter (Aya Matsuura) of a former "Sukeban Deka", who is now incarcerated in New York on various criminal charges. known only a "K", they offer her a deal. They will release her mother from prison and expung both her and her mother's criminal records if the daughter will help them.

With no other choice, "K" reluctantly agrees and is assigned a handler, the gruff former Police Inspector, Kira Kazutoshi. Kurayami Keishi (The Shadow Director) and head of the "Tokumei Keiji" branch, gives "K" a state-of-the-art, steel yo-yo and the codename "Asamiya Saki". She is then sent to a local high school which is the alleged hub for the Enola Gay blogspot. There she meets a motley assortment of delinquents and oddball students including the tragic Kana Taie (who's friend/lover Kanda Kotomi was also killed via a remote control bomb) and the beautiful but sadistically cold Akiyama Reika, who is the elite "heather" of the school.

As Saki investigates the students at the high school she also encounters the enegmatic Kimura Jiro who goes by the web handle "Romeo", who may or may not be the webmaster of the terrorist site.

The "Enola Gay" blogspot announces that a major "event" will occur in 24 hrs and promises that this will be the beginning of a new youth revolution of anarchy. Can Saki stop the teen terrorists behind this plan and what is Taie's mysterious connection to the Enola Gay blogspot?
Review: ★★★★★

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Su-Ki-Da
Language: Japanese
Year:
Actors: Aoi Miyazaki, Eita, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hiromi Nagasaku
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Plot: 17-year-old Yu (Miyazaki Aoi) has a major crush on Yosuke (Eita), the handsome young boy who plays his guitar on the riverbank everyday. He plays the same tune again and again and it fills Yu's heart with joy and longing - but also with sadness. As much as she may love Yosuke, she knows that his affections lie elsewhere, with Yu's older sister, no less. Seventeen years later, Yu (now played by Nagasaku Hiromi) and Yosuke (now played by Nishijima Hideotoshi) meet by chance in Tokyo, reawakening long-dormant emotions within Yu's heart, but also within Yosuke's.
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Sukiyaki Western Django
Language: English
Year: 2008
Actors: Hideaki Ito, Masanobu Ando, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi, Yoshino Kimura, Takaaki Ishibashi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Oguri, Masato Sakai, Hideaki Sato, Christian Storms, Yoji Tanaka, Quentin Tarantino
Rating: R
Plot: A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth.
Review: ★★★

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Surprise Party
Language: Korean
Year: 2002
Actors: Ha-kyun Shin, Yu-won Lee, Min-hie Kim, Hyeong-jin Kong, Hyo-jin Kong, Hak-cheol Kim
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Plot: Mi Ryung (Kim Min Hee) wants to throw her boyfriend Jung Woo (Shin Ha Kyun) a surprise birthday party, but there are still some kinks in the plan. Jung Woo is half-Hawaiian which does not fly with Mi Ryung’s conservative father, so she needs to spend some more time convincing her father otherwise. With Jung Woo arriving in Korea in the early morn, Mi Ryung sends her best friend Ha Young (Lee Yo Won) to the airport with the task of keeping him away while she works out the details. Without revealing her identity, Ha Young goes to all lengths to keep the good-natured Jung Woo occupied by pulling out various crazy schemes. Ha Young succeeds in keeping Jung Woo busy, but in the course of the day, the two begin to fall for each other…
Review: ★★★★★

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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Language: Korean
Actors: Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi, Tony Barry, Anne Cordiner, Su-hee Go
Rating: R
Plot: All she wanted was a peaceful life.

Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae), a beautiful girl who cannot help but draw attention of all the men around her, was first introduced to the public as the one responsible for the abduction and murder of a little boy at the age of twenty. Being so young and pretty, her horrific crime drew national media attention.

But now, 13 years have passed and in that time, Geum-ja has been the most hardworking and model prisoner, earning the nickname "sweet" Geum-ja.

"Sweet" Geum-ja, however, has not been idle during her time in prison. For 13 years, she plotted revenge against her former teacher, Mr. Baek (Choi Min-sik). Her kindness while in "the joint" has paid off and has now gained many friends and allies. Now that Geum-ja is getting out of jail, she is ready to put her carefully conceived plan into action.

What happened between Geum-ja and her teacher 13 years ago? Why does she want revenge? And how will her quest for vengeance end? These are the mysteries of SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE.
Review: ★★★★

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Taiyou no Uta
Language: Japanese
Year: 2006
Actors: YUI
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Plot: YUI, a young idol on the rise, as she takes on the lead role of Amane Kaoru, a sixteen year old with a serious, life-threatening health problem. It seems Kaoru suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a “sun allergy” of sorts, which makes exposure to direct sunlight a deadly risk for her. Since she cannot go out in the day, Kaoru spends her evenings indulging in her love of music, as she plays her guitar and sings away every night in front of the local train station. Singing is her only joy in life - that is, until one fateful encounter!
Review: ★★★★★

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The Art of Seduction
Language: Korean
Year: 2005
Actors: Son Ye-jin, Song Il-gook, Park Joon-gyoo, Noh Joo-hyeon, Park Yong-woo, Hyeon Yeong, Ahn Seon-yeong, Yoon Yeong-joon, Ahn Sang-tae, Kim Ae-kyeong, Geum Bo-ra
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Plot: Put Shin Ming Joon, a man who boosts that he can make as young as 3 years old girl upto old women to fall in love with him and Han Hae Won, a young and beautiful lady who hides her 100 fox tails beneath her sweet and innocent smile together, what will happen?

Skills of Proposition is a romantic comedy that will teach you the steps of how to capture your victim's heart swiftly.

The first step, plan your moves and make them look as natural as possible, create ‘accident’ and make them look natural. Pretend to be sick and evoke the man's desire to protect a damsel in distress, sexy queen Son Ye Jin will demonstrate how best to do this.

The second step, never put your real feeling and emotion into a courtship to protect yourself, Shin Ming Joon teaches the viewer how to stay cool and do nothing.
Review: ★★★★


The Classic
Language: Korean
Year: 2003
Actors: Ye-jin Son, In-seong Jo, Seung-woo Cho, Ki-woo Lee, Sang-in Lee, Ye-jin Lim, Hyeon-tae Yang
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Plot: Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.
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The Eye
Language: Cantonese
Year: 2002
Actors: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon, Yut Lai So, Candy Lo, Yin Ping Ko, Pierre Png, Edmund Chen, Wai-Ho Yung, Wilson Yip
Rating: R
Plot: A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a journey to find the origins of her cornea and to reveal the history of the previous dead owner...
Review: ★★★★★

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The Eye 2
Language: Cantonese
Year: 2004
Actors: Qi Shu, Eugenia Yuan, Jesdaporn Pholdee
Rating: R
Plot: Pregnant Joey (Shu Qi) teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she looks up with her secretive ex-lover Sam (Tik Jesadaporn Pholdee), who may be able to shed some light upon the mysterious twilight world descending upon Joey.
Review: ★★★

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The Eye 10
Language: Thai/Cantonese
Year: 2005
Actors: Bo-lin Chen, Yu Gu, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Isabella Leong, Ray MacDonald, Kate Yeung
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Plot: In Thailand, Chongkwai is welcoming his friends Ted and his cousin May and Kofei and his girlfriend April from Hong Kong. While in a tourist tour, they see an accident on the road, and when they return to Chongkwai's home, they decide to tell ghost stories. Chongkwai shows them a mystic book with ten ways to see spirits and they decide to follow the procedures. When Kofei vanishes, April tries to fin him, while Ted and May runs back to Hong Kong. But the spirits do not leave them and insist to play with them. Ted and May return to Thailand trying to stop seeing ghosts.
Review: ★★★★


The Eye (Remake)
Language: English
Year: 2008
Actors: Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Rachel Ticotin, Alessandro Nivola
Rating: PG-13
Plot: The remake of the Hong Kong film "Jian Gui", a woman who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.
Review: ★★★★


The Gene Generation
Language: English
Year: 2007
Actors: Bai Ling, Parry Shen, Alec Newman, Michael Shamus Wiles, Faye Dunaway, Robert David Hall, Daniel Zacapa
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Plot: Michelle, an assassin to a new breed of killers (DNA Hackers), finds she has greater obstacles in her life... Family.
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The Ghost
Language: Korean
Year: 2004
Actors: Ha-Neul Kim, Sang-mi Nam, Bin, Yi Shin, Hie-ju Jeon, Yun-ji Lee
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Plot: The teenager Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia and being haunted by weird visions. When she meets her former high school friend Oh Yu-jeong, she receives a picture of her high school group of friends: Kim Eun-seo, who had recently died; Shin Mi-kyeong, who is in the hospital and Eun-jeong. Ji-won questions who took the picture, and when she visits her former friends, she recalls Han Su-in, a girl that was badly treated and humiliated by their group, disclosing her past and the fate of Su-in and finding a scary hidden truth.
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The Grudge (Remake)
Language: English
Year: 2004
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea DuVall, KaDee Strickland, Grace Zabriskie, Bill Pullman, Rosa Blasi, Ted Raimi, Ryo Ishibashi, Yoko Maki, Yuya Ozeki, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Hiroshi Matsunaga
Rating: PG-13
Plot: Karen Davis (Gellar) is an American Nurse moves to Tokyo and encounter a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find away to break this spell, before she becomes its next victim.
Review: ★★★★★


The Grudge 2 (Remake)
Language: English
Year: 2006
Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sarah Roemer, Teresa Palmer, Matthew Knight, Misako Uno, Takako Fuji, Ohga Tanaka, Yuya Ozeki, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Cousins
Rating: PG-13
Plot: In Pasadena, Mrs. Davis sends her daughter Aubrey Davis to Tokyo to bring her sister Karen Davis, who is interned in a hospital after surviving a fire, back to the USA. After their meeting, Karen dies and Aubrey decides to investigate what happened to her and gets herself trapped in the same situation, being chased by the ghost of the house. Meanwhile in Tokyo, the three high school mates Allison, Vanessa and Miyuki visit the famous haunted house and are also chased by the ghost. In Chicago, Trish moves to the apartment of her boyfriend Bill, who lives with his children, the teenager Lacey and boy Jake. On the next door, weird things happen with their neighbor.
Review: ★★★


The Grudge 3 (Remake)
Language: English
Year: 2009
Actors: Chuck Campbell, Matthew Knight, Patricia Belcher, Takako Fuji, Amelia Kinkade, Scott Reeves, Megumi Okina, Ohga Tanaka
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Plot: A news crew travels to Tokyo after hearing about the curse that took out a whole apartment complex. When the lead reporter finds out she's pregnant strange things begin to occur leading her to wonder what she may be carrying.
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The Host
Language: Korean
Year: 2006
Actors: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Ah-sung Ko, Du-na Bae
Rating: R
Plot: The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong's elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her.
Review: ★★★★★

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The Legend of the Evil Lake
Language: Korean
Year: 2003
Actors: Jeong Jun-ho, Kim Hyo-jin, Kim Hye-ri
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Plot: Legend of the Evil Lake opens with the massacre of a primitive tribe by Silla’s first king, Pak Hyeok-geo-se and his technologically advanced army. The tribal chief in death throes vows vengeance against Silla, but his soul is sealed in a lake by the First King’s magic sword. The narrative resumes nearly one millennium later, circa A. D. 896, as the kingdom is showing symptoms of strain and the court is beset by constant rebellions. Queen Jinseong (Kim Hye-ri), troubled by the threats to the throne, leans on General Biharang (Jeong Jun-ho, My Boss My Hero, Marrying the Mafia), against the counsels of her ministers. However, he spurns the queen’s romantic attentions in favor of his betrothed Jaunbi (Kim Hyo-jin), the daughter of an executed rebel. Unfortunately, Jaunbi becomes a victim of political intrigue and is thrown into the cursed lake. Possessed by the spirit of the tribal chief and transformed into a flying phantasm with superpowers, Jaunbi seeks to lay waste to Seorabeol, capital of Silla.
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The Park
Language: Cantonese/English
Year: 2003
Actors: Laila Boonyasak, Bobo Chan, Wing-Hong Cheung, Matthew Paul Dean, Kara Hui, Tiffany Lee, Pubate Maganit, Edwin Siu, Chalerm Taweebot, Kwok Cheung Tsang
Rating: R
Plot: Yen's brother Alan has been missing for six days.Somehow, it is connected to an amusement park where a girl died 14 years ago in a ferris wheel accident. Their mother, who has the power to capture ghosts with a camera, believes he is dead, but Yen decides to go to the park to look for him. Along with friends Yen is chased out by a watchman. But they ignore his warnings and, one by one, they die.
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The Princess Blade (Shura Yukihime)
Language: Japanese
Year: 2001
Actors: Hideaki Ito, Yumiko Shaku, Shirô Sano, Yoichi Numata, Kyusaku Shimada, Yôko Chôsokabe, Yoko Maki, Naomasa Musaka, Yutaka Matsushige, Shintarou Sonooka, Takashi Tsukamoto
Rating: R
Plot: In the near future, Japan is ruled once more by a monarchy. But, rebels opposed to this rule seek to overthrow the government. The House of Takemikazuchi, a band of assassins is hired by the government to suppress the rebels. As a conspiracy from within signals the shadowy organization's impending demise, Yuki, the last of the Takemikazuchi bloodline befriends one of the rebels and seeks revenge against the group's leader.
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The Promise
Language: Mandarin
Year: 2005
Actors: Dong-Kun Jang, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Ye Liu, Hong Chen, Cheng Qian
Rating: PG-13
Plot: An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess, she regrets her promise, for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy. In love again with a man behind a red armor and a golden mask who rescues her from death, she is tormented by their inevitable parting. Meanwhile, Kunlun, the slave of a great general, is searching for the lost memories of a family he once had. Soon the fate of these two intertwine when the princess believes the general to be her hero, thus pulling him into this web of fate. What end will befallen our three characters? Are their fates already sealed by a higher power, or can they still choose a life they want?
Review: ★★★★★

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The Rebel
Language: French / Vietnamese
Year: 2006
Actors: Johnny Nguyen, Thanh Van Ngo, Dustin Nguyen, Stephane Gauger, David Minetti, Chanh Tin Nguyen, Thang Nguyen
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Plot: 1920s. Vietnam under colonial French ruling. Anti-French rebellions emerge all over the country to disrupt the foreign occupiers. In respond, the colonialist employed units of Vietnamese agents to track and destroy these rebels. The film follows the journey of LE VAN CUONG, a French cultured undercover elite. Although branded with a perfect track record, Cuong's inner conscience is troubled by the sea of Vietnamese blood he had spilled to uphold a French washed ideal. Following an assassination of a high ranking French, Cuong is assigned to seek and kill the notorious leader of the resistance. Cuong encounters VO THANH THUY, a relentless revolutionary fighter and the daughter of the rebel leader. Cuong's superior intends for him to use Thuy as a mean to get to her father but Cuong soon has feelings for her. Thuy's patriotism ignites conflicts between Cuong's consciousness and his cultured faith. Will Cuong discover his inner-self and find love or will he continue his mission? The journey unfolds...
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The Ring (Remake)
Language: English
Year: 2002
Actors: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella, Daveigh Chase, Shannon Cochran
Rating: PG-13
Plot: Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son's and her own life.
Review: ★★★★


The Ring 2 (Remake)
Language: English
Year: 2005
Actors: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek, Ryan Merriman, Emily VanCamp, Kelly Overton, James Lesure, Daveigh Chase, Kelly Stables
Rating: PG-13
Plot: Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think they'll be safe. Soon after they arrive, however, Rachel hears about a college student who died nearby in circumstances similar to Samara's past victims. Now it appears that Aiden's life is in danger from Samara once more, and Rachel must investigate the little girl's past if she wants to save her son.
Review: ★★★


The Ring 3 (Remake)
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Tokyo Friends: The Movie
Language: Japanese
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Actors: Otsuka Ai, Kobayashi Mao, Maki Yoko, Matsumoto Rio, Eita, Kitamura Ikki, Hiraoka Yuuta, Tanaka Kei, Sato Ryuta, Katsumura Masanobu
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Plot: This movie is about four girls’ lives in Tokyo: Rei, Maki, Ryoko, and Hirono. These four girls all moved to Tokyo in search for their dream. They all met at a local pub called Yume no Kura, which roughly translates to “Dream Warehouse”. While the girls worked hard at night as part-time waitress in the pub, they spent the days searching for their dreams. While they try to fulfill their dreams, they also fall in love. Sadly, not all their love lives end “happily ever after”. But all is good, because the four of them will always have each other to share their happiness and sadness with.
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Tomie
Language: Japanese
Year: 1999
Actors: Miho Kanno, Mami Nakamura, Yoriko Douguchi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kouta Kusano
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Plot: Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are two connected?
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Tomie: Another Face
Language: Japanese
Year: 1999
Actors: Runa Nagai, Akira Hirai, Chie Tanaka, Mitsuaki Kaneko, Eriko Odaira, Mayumi Yoshida, Hiroaki Muroi
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Plot: Another movie about Tomie, the girl who just won't stay dead. This film is split into three separate stories in which Tomie is at different times in her life, first as a high school student, then as a young woman who falls for a photographer, and finally as a woman engaged to be married to her true love. In each story, she is murdered after her unusual secret is discovered, but she somehow manages to come back from beyond to take her revenge.
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Tomie: Replay
Language: Japanese
Year: 2000
Actors: Sakaya Yamaguchi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kenichi Endo, Makoto Togashi, Moro Morooka, Yoshiko Yura, Kumija Kim, Shun Sugata, Masatoshi Matsuo, Mai Hosho
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Plot: A young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything in his notebook looks ordinary until near the last page, at which point his handwriting deteriorates and the name "Tomie" is mentioned several times. From that point forward his notes are written in what looks like blood. At the same time, another young girl escapes from a hospital. Who is she, and what does she have planned?
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Tomie: Re-Birth
Language: Japanese
Year: 2001
Actors: Miki Sakai, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Endou, Masaya Kikawada, Shûgo Oshinari, Yuri Hachisu
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Plot: Hideo, a young, talented painter, is obsessed with his girlfriend Tomie, but Tomie demeans his painting abilities and in a moment of rage he kills her. His friends Shuichi and Takumi help him dispose of the body, but later, at a restaurant party, Tomie shows up and sits down next to Hideo as if nothing had happened. The men at the party are all hopelessly attracted to her, the women all leave, and Hideo, despairing that Tomie cannot be his and his alone, kills himself in the toilet. One by one, Hideo's friends succumb to Tomie's allure...
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Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Language: Japanese
Year: 2002
Actors: Nozomi Andô, Aoi Miyazaki, Jun Kunimura, Yuka Fujimoto, Ayaka Ninomiya, Chiaki Ôta, Tetsu Watanabe
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Plot: Tomie Hashimoto (Aoi Miyazaki) is a dreamy teen who writes homo-erotic horror fiction in which she imagines herself as Ann Bathory, vampire. Introspective and lonely, she is picked on and bullied by her classmates at school, and lives alone with her loving, but distant widower father, Kazuhiko Hashimoto. One day, while admiring an ornate, jewel encrusted cross necklace in an antiquities shop, Tomie meets a strange, beautiful girl (Nozomi Ando) with a mole under her left eye. The mysterious stranger says her name is Tomie Kawakami. The girls become fast friends, but it soon becomes clear that theirs was not a chance meeting. Tomie Kawakami has an agenda, and it involves Kazuhiko.
Review: ★


Tomie: Beginning
Language: Japanese
Year: 2005
Actors: Rio Matsumoto, Asami Imajuku, Kenji Mizuhashi, Nahana, Maya Kurokawa, Yuka Iwasaki, Akifumi Miura, Fujiyama, Takashi Sugiuchi
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Plot: A Japanese town is falling under a bizarre curse of disordination and Murder which involves the obsession and supernatural confrontation with Tomie Kawakami, as portrayed by Andie MacDowell Look-a-like Rio Matsumoto.
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Tomie: Revenge
Language: Japanese
Year: 2005
Actors: Hisako Shirata, Minami, Anri Ban, Kyusaku Shimada, Hideo Nakaizumi, Daisuke Honda, Takashi Imada, Hitoshi Kato
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Plot: This time round, Tomie is played by Anri Ban. The story revolves around a young, female Doctor (played by Hisako Shirata), and an unidentified naked woman she runs down on the road one night. In her search for the wounded girl (who has a mole under her left eye) the doctor ends up in an abandoned house filled with bodies, madmen and an unconscious girl. Surely Tomie is not too far away...
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Tomie vs Tomie
Language: Japanese
Year: 2007
Actors: Yû Abiru, Chika Arakawa, Tôru Hachinohe, Yôzaburô Itô, Aki Kajiwara, Emiko Matsuoka, Masaki Miura, Hidekazu Nagae, Daikichi Sugawara
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Too Beautiful To Lie
Language: Korean
Year: 2004
Actors: Kim Ha-neul, Kang Dong-won, Song Jae-ho, Nam Sang-mi, Kim Ji-yeong, Im Ha-ryong, Lee Cheon-hee, Kwon Tae-won
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Plot: Ju Young-ju, a beautiful ex-con artist who has been recently released on parole, is planning to attend her sister's wedding. On her way she crosses paths with Choi Hee-chul, a shy and unsure young man who is on his way to see his girlfriend in Seoul. By a small series of unexpected events, the precious ring that Hee-chul planned to give to his girlfriend end up in Young-ju's possession, who at the same time, looses her bag. With only the information she had a chance to gather on Choi Hee-chul, she decides to find him, give him back the ring and take back her bag. However, at the moment of giving back the ring, her old lying habit kicks back and obviously, hilarity and adventure ensues.
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Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)
Language: Japanese/English
Actors: Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Tanie Kitabayashi
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Plot: Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.
Review: ★★★★

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Tripping
Language: Japanese/Mandarin
Year: 2006
Actors: Bo-lin Chen, Jimmy Hung, Lichun Lee, Tzu-chieh Miao, Ren Osugi, Rena Tanaka
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Plot: Shaodea is a Japanese girl, living in Taipei with her father. He moved to Taiwan
with his wife to start a Chinese herbal medicine shop. Ever since her mother died,
Shaodea wants to return to Japan, but her father refuses to give up his dream. One
day, after an argument with him, Shaodea goes out with her friends. While breaking
in into a museum, the girl is transported back in time to feudal Taiwan. Thinking
she’s on a movie set, the girl gets involved in a bank robbery and soon has to run
from the authorities. She teams up with Haishon, an attractive young man who became
a thief to save the economic crisis of his hometown. Together with a Tao-master,
who is transporting 2 zombies back to their ancestral lands, they set off on a
fantastic adventure.
Review: ★★★★


Twilight
Language: English
Year: 2008
Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Welch, Justin Chon, Peter Facinelli, Kellan Lutz, Christian Serratos, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Rachelle Lefevre, Anna Kendrick, Jackson Rathbone, Cam Gigandet
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Plot: Twilight- Based on the best-selling book series by Stephenie Meyer. Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and sent Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But what will they do when Laurent and James, the Cullens' mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for Bella? Based on the #1 New York Times Bestselling series by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight is a cultural phenomenon, with a fanatic fan-base that eagerly awaits this movie. Critically acclaimed director Catherine Hardwicke brings to life this modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between vampire and mortal.
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Unfair
Language: Japanese
Year:
Actors: Ryoko Shinohara, Yosuke Eguchi, Kippei Shiina, Sadao Abe, Susumu Terashima, Junpei Shina, Hiroki Narimiya, Ren Osugi
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Plot: Hard-boiled, hard-drinking, and hard-hitting female detective Yukihira Natsumi (Shinohara Ryoko) has the best record in the police force, but it has come at a cost. Her fiercely independent personality and penchant to not go by the books has alienated her from colleagues, while her dedication, or perhaps obsession, with work has already cost her a marriage and custody of her eight-year-old daughter. Natsumi has no time for apologies and misgivings though when there is crime to be fought. She is forced to reconsider everything she knows, however, when terrorists take over the hospital her daughter is being treated at. How far will she go to save her daughter?
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Versus
Language: Japanese
Year: 2000
Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda, Yuichiro Arai, Minoru Matsumoto, Kazuhito Ohba, Takehiro Katayama, Ayumi Yoshihara, Shôichirô Masumoto, Toshiro Kamiaka, Yukihito Tanikado, Hoshimi Asai
Rating: R
Plot: Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
Review: ★★★

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Virgin Snow (Hatsuyuki no koi)
Language: Japanese
Year: 2007
Actors: Jun-gi Lee, Aoi Miyazaki, Ayaka Morita, Otoha, Shun Shioya, Miyu Yagyu, Kimiko Yo
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Plot: Min moves to Japan following his professor father. One day at a local shrine, he meets a beautiful Japanese girl with innocent eyes. Her name is Nanae, and she is an aspiring painter. Min falls for her at first sight, and soon learns that Nanae attends the same school to which Min has just transferred. They become friends, and despite the culture and language barriers it is an intense friendship. When his grandmother suddenly falls ill, Min hastily returns to Korea but can’t get in touch with Nanae beforehand. After his grandmother regains her health, he hurries back to Japan to reunite with Nanae, but she is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?
Review: ★★★★★


When Romance Meets Destiny
Language: Korean
Actors: Kim Joo-hyeok, Bong Tae-gyu, Lee Yo-won, Kim Ah-joong, Jeong Kyeong-ho, Kim Hyeong-min, Lee Dae-yeon, Park Cheol-min, Kim Il-woong
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Plot: Two brothers, Kwang-sik and Kwang-tae, have very different attitudes toward women. Kwang-sik is extremely shy and can't say a word to a woman. But Kwang-tae is a playboy who just sleeps around. One day, Kwang-sik meets Yoon-kyung for the first time in seven years and he tries to confess his feelings to her, in his own way. Similarly, Kwang-tae meets Kyung-jae during a marathon and he tries his own ways on her. At first Kwang-sik still finds it very difficult to even talk to Yoon-Kyung and Kwang-tae thinks of Kyung-Jae as yet another temporary conquest, but in each case something changes in the brothers. Will they be able to love this time?
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Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo sumaseba)
Language: Japanese/English
Actors: Youko Honna, Kazuo Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, David Gallagher, Brittany Snow, Ashley Tisdale, Jean Smart, Cary Elwes
Rating: G
Plot: Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'. Curious as to who he is, Shizuku meets a boy her age whom she finds infuriating, but discovers to her shock that he is her 'Prince of Books'. As she grows closer to him, she realises that he merely read all those books to bring himself closer to her. The boy Seiji aspires to be a violin maker in Italy, and it is his dreams that make Shizuku realise that she has no clear path for her life. Knowing that her strength lies in writing, she tests her talents by writing a story about Baron, a cat statuette belonging to Seiji's grandfather.
Review: ★★★★

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Whispering Corridors
Language: Korean
Actors: Lee Mi-Yoon, Kim Kyu-Li
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Plot: Jookran High School is an ordinary high school with its pressures and requirements for the students to conform and pursue the better education. However, underneath its seemingly normal struggle between discipline and the resistance of the adolescence lie the school's dark and dirty secrets, and a terrifying fury, which is unleashed with the death of Mr. Park, a teacher of room 3-3, whose nickname was an "Old fox". The fear for the unrest in the school forces teaches to impose a "silent regime" on students who had seen the dead body of the Old fox hanging in the school's overpass. As if it had been expected, painting the scene of death by a senior classmate Ji-oh arouses a lot of abuse from a room 3-3's new teacher called Mad dog. Amid the strange rumors that spread throughout the school, Jung-sook, who always used to be compared with the Mad dog's favorite student So-young, commits suicide, and the Mad dog himself disappears with no traces left. Meanwhile, a former senior student from room 3-3, Eun-young who a literature teacher appointed to his alma mater is molested by the words left over his telephone by the Old fox the night before he died. Eun-young finally suspects that the horrific events happened in the school, had something to do with the death of her best friend nine years ago...
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Windstruck (Nae yeojachingureul sogae habnida)
Language: Korean
Actors: Gianna Jun, Hyuk Jang, Su-ro Kim, Ki-woo Lee, Ye-jin Im, Chang-wan Kim
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Plot: When police officer Kyungjin met with Myungwoo accidentally in a crime, she found that this responsible teacher was a really nice guy. At that night, Kyungjin got into a fight with a bunch of high school kids and got trouble in a big gun fight between rival drug dealers. Myungwoo tried to help her but then something happened that forces them stayed together all day long. They got closer to each other and Myungwoo was not able to repulse the strange but pure nature. He fell in love with her. One day, when Kyungjin was chasing a notorious criminal, Myungwoo helped her again, however, not knowing that what would happen that day changed their relationship forever...
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Wishing Stairs
Language: Korean
Actors: Ji-hyo Song, Han-byeol Park, An Jo, Ji-Yeon Park, Su-a Hong, Ji-min Kwak, Jung-Hee Moon
Rating: R
Plot: In a Korean boarding school, there is a legend about its twenty-eight steps stairway: when the twentieth-ninth step appears, the fox will grant a wish to the climber. The lesbian ballet student Kim So-hee is in deep love with her passive girlfriend and also ballet student Yoon Jin-sung. When there is a competition for a single spot in a famous ballet school in Russia, the envious Jin-sung finds the twentieth-ninth step and asks to beat the favorite So-hee. However, there is a price to pay for the wish unknown to Jin-sung and the consequence is the accidental death of So-hee. Meanwhile, the fat student Eon Hae-ju, who is despised and tormented by her classmate Han Yoon-ji, misses So-hee. When she also finds the mysterious step, she wishes the return of So-hee with tragic consequences.
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You Are My Sunshine
Language: Korean
Year: 2005
Actors: Do-yeon Jeon, Jeong-min Hwang, Mun-hee Na, Seung-su Ryu, Su-hee Go
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