Marriage is a Crazy Thing (Gyeolhoneun michinjishida / 결혼은, 미친 짓이다 -2002)

Starring:
Woo-seong Kam ... Jun-young
Jeong-hwa Eom ... Yeon-hee
Won-sang Park
So-Jeong Kang
Steven Lawson ... Billy the Boxer
Jeong-eun Lim
Hyeon-kyeong Ryu
Seo-jeong Yun
Ye-Ri Yun


Joon-young, who gets a blind date for being the best man at a friend's wedding. He's a charming and smart college lecturer who believes in free sex. Yon-hee, a daring and sexy lighting designer. Through a long relay of superficial questions, they get drunk. They figured, it'd be cheaper to get a motel room than to get a cab. They go all the way.

They both expected different things from each other. Yon-hee, who wanted to marry a well-to-do doctor with Joon-young on the side for sex. Will she be successful?

Again, another movie that was really interesting at the beginning. I was totally intrigued at the beginning. It started going sour when Yeon-hee got married....and it wasn't to Jun-young. I am abhorrent to extra marital affairs and when this story started going in that direction, I felt the pit of my stomach clench. They totally messed up this story. I really, truly believed this story was about modern-day courtship and trying to find the right place, time, and event to discover when we reach the pivotal moment of discovering we love the other person.

The end was so damn confusing. Actually it was the stupidest thing. Was I supposed to be sad? I think they tried to make us viewers want to hang ourselves. So another wasted movie. Eeeergh!!

Hr. Hong (어디선가 누군가에 무슨일이 생기면 틀림없이 나타난다 홍반장,Eodiseonga nugungae museunili saengkimyeon teulrimeobshi natananda Hong Ban-jang-2004)

AKA: Mr. Handy

Starring:
Jeong-hwa Eom ... Yun Hye-ju
Ka-Yeon Kim ... Mi-seon
Ju-bong Gi
Dong-jik Jang
Ju-hyuk Kim ... Hong Du-shik
Jun-seong Kim

HONG Doo-shik, there is something special about him!! He's a good-looking 31 year-old man who knows everything and knows how to do everything. He's a delivery man for a Chinese restaurant. He's a clerk at a convenient store. And he's even a singer at a live cafe! YOON Hye-jin is a righteous perfectionist and also a dentist. She gets fired when her 'supposed-to-be-threatening' resignation is accepted by the board! She moves to a small rural town to open up her own clinic.

But, something about each other draws them closer. First of all, Mr. Handy is a good fighter. He can fight like one of those Matrix characters.. Second, he has a warm heart. It seems like he lives in a world that is different from hers... And she can't help but keep thinking about him... Hye-jin is so damn loud! But sometimes... in a strange way, she sounds like a bird chirping... sounds like rhythmic beats... He can't help but keep thinking about her...



*sigh* This was better than I thought it would be. Very surprising. No real twists or turns but sure fire chemistry brought this movie together.

I have to think though, Mr. Hong, is just toooooo good to be true to be able to master EVERYTHING! Wow! This was a totally sweet movie. It was very warm and moving. Not the typical Korean romance where there is always a triangle/quadrangle that you want to reach through the screen and want to strangle someone....usually the person you don't want that is trying to hook up with the good guy. LOL! This was really good. Watch it!

My Lovely Week (Naesaengae gajang areumdawun iljuil, 내 생애 가장 아름다운 일주일-2005)

Starring:
Jeong-hwa Eom - Hur Yu-jung
Jeong-min Hwang - Na Do-chul
Kyeong-ho Jeong - Yu Jung-hun
Hyeon Ju - Mr. Kwak
Su-ro Kim - Park Sung-won
Chang Jung Lim - Kim Chang-hoo
Jin-seo Yun - Lim Soo-kyung
Ji-won Ha - Cameo
Hie-bong Jo - Cameo
Se-yeong Lee - Cameo
Hyeon Woo - Cameo
Ho-jin Jeon
Hye-jin Jeon (01/01/1976)
Yi-da Jeon
Tae-hyeon Kim
Yun-seok Kim
Yu-jeong Kim
Mi-hee Oh
Jin-woo Park
Seung-su Ryu
Jin-wook Seo
Yeong-hie Seo
Seong-rok Shin
Hyo-eun Hwang

Chang Hu (Yim Chang Jung) finds himself on the verge of poverty, as he struggles to make ends meet, while keeping his financial difficulties a secret from his dutiful, cheery wife Seon Ae (Seo Yung Hi). Chang Hu is being hassled by Seong Won (Kim Su Ro), an embittered ex-basketball player-turned-debt collector, who is surprised to learn that he's got a six-year-old daughter (the adorable Kim Yu Jeong), who just so happens to be suffering from a life-threatening medical condition. While in the hospital, she's often visited by her "boyfriend", a young boy who turns out to be the son of a sassy divorcee named Yu Jeong (Uhm Jung Hwa, from Singles). While appearing on a television show, the ballsy doctor finds herself butting heads with Detective Nah (Hwang Jung Min, from You Are My Sunshine), a tough-talking, Rambo-loving cop whose experience with the ladies is practically nil. Of course, the bickering twosome soon find they may like each other more than they think.

But that's only half the cast. Yu Jeong's ex-husband is shown to be an uptight music industry big shot named Jo (Chun Ho Jin), who has to confront his gay past head-on when he hires a male housekeeper (Kim Tae Hyun). The film's other two stories include one about nun-in-training Su Gyeong (Yoon Jin Seo) who falls for a fading pop star named Jeong Hun (Jung Kyung Ho), and another tale about an elderly theater owner (Ju Hyun) who takes a shine to the vivacious, but aging actress (Oh Mi Hi), who runs a coffee shop located on his property.

As the film proceeds, the narrative strands begin to cross as the events of each story begin to have consequences for the other characters, all of whom are, in their own way, trying to find happiness in an increasingly uncertain world. Loneliness, unemployment, strained family relations, and impending death are just a few of the not-so-pleasant themes that resonate through many of the tales spun in All For Love.



The premise of this movie was like no other Korean drama/comedy movie. At first, they had several stories that were a collage of scenes and left your brain trying to figure out what goes where, and who belonged to who. But as the movie went about it's business, all the scenes started to mix together and make more sense as you started to relate to what was going on.

I loved how they figured out how to make all the couples and relationships come together. My favorite couple were Su Gyeong (nun to be) and Jeong Hun (pop star). I wasn't too happy how they had this relationship end but the others ended on a better yet happier note.

If you can get past the mosaic of relationships at the beginning, you'll really like this movie. It does take awhile to catch on but the stories come together and you find yourself routing for all or one of the couples. Really nice and sophisticated type movie. Totally wonderful way of putting a movie together. Real cool!