Hand Phone (핸드폰-2009)

Starring:
Tae-woong Eom -Seung-min Oh
Yong-woo Park -Lee-gyu Jung
Additional Cast Members:
Sol-Mi Park - Jeong-yeon Kim (Seung-min's wife)
Bo-yeon Hwang - Dae-jin Kim (Seung-min's assistant)
Se-na Lee - Jin-a Yun (actress - Seung-min's client)
Kil-soo Park - Choi (loan shark)
Ku-taek Kim - Choi's bodyguard
Nam-gil Kim - Yun-ho Jang (model- blackmails Seung-min)
Yu-seok Kim - Jun-su Han (attorney)
Jin-mo Ju - Captain Kim
Seo Woo - Lee-gyu's sister
Jong-seok Kim - Wedding toastmaster
Ku-ra Kim - Radio DJ (interviews Jin-a)
Bae-su Jeon - Sound enginer @ Radio Station
Man-dae Bong - movie director
Ju-bong Choi - man who lost dog in the store

Talent manager Seung-min sees YOON Jin-ah, a rising actress, as his one last hope to turn his life around. Just as Jin-ah is on the path to stardom, he receives a threat from her former lover and gets her sex clip on his phone. Seung-min tracks down the culprit and retrieves the tape but ends up losing his phone. He realizes there is one last evidence of the sex tape on his phone and anxiously looks for it. Lee-gyu, who found Seung-min's phone, calls Seung-min's wife and asks her to come pick it up. On the night the phone was suppose to be returned, Lee-gyu doesn't show up. Now Lee-gyu is the one holding the leverage. Seung-min tries to do everything possible to get back his phone but Lee-gyu's demands are escalating to the point of no return.

Oh let me count the way of how freakin' awesome this movie was. I will tell you that I had this downloaded for months....sitting quietly on my hard drive....waiting for me to watch. One afternoon, I was bored. No drama updates to be had. Fail safe....the downloaded movies out the wazooie on my ever trusty laptop.

I double click Hand Phone and what I watched was totally amazing.

I will tell you that I was really hesitant with this movie. I only downloaded it because it had Uhm Tae Woong in it. That was it. This movie was over powering. It was non-stop. No time to breathe. I was on the edge of my seat the whole damn 2 hours.

Just like my previous post about Keitai Sousakan 7, we are totally deluded into believing that our cellphones are our life and we can't live without them. *Okay, okay.....I admit my beloved Pantech sits lovingly by my side....shhhhh!*

Just one cellphone wrought havoc to this one man's life. OMG! At first it was kind of funny but as the movie got momentum....what was funny was really quite scary. This one phone changed the lives of many people and became a hell on earth. As time has gone on, our cellphones have progressed from just being phones but cameras, video recorders, mp3 players, voice recorders, maps, computers, typewriters, and memos. Think about it for one second. With all this information that can be established into one phone, what was once safe can be your life taken in a split second.

This is about that one person who saved information into his phone.....and what became a private affair became one person's twisted fate. But not just himself but of the lives of people around him who had to suffer along with the insane escapade of cat and mouse.

All I can say is.......watch this freakin' Grade A movie. You won't be disappointed one iota.

Musa (무사 -2001)

Starring:
Woo-sung Jung ... Yeo-sol
Sung-kee Ahn ... Jin-lib
Jin-mo Ju ... Choi Jung
Ziyi Zhang ... Princess Bu-yong (as Zhang Ziyi)
Yong-woo Park ... Ju-myeong
Jeong-hak Park ... Ga-nam
Hye-jin Yu ... Du-chung
Seok-yong Jeong ... Ha-il
Du-il Lee ... Ji-san
Yeong-mok Han ... Dan-saeng
Jae-ho Song
Hae-jin Yu
Rongguang Yu ... Rambulhua, Yuan General

In 1375, China was in a state of chaos because of fighting between the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The korea dynasty, one of Korea's ancient kingdoms, sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave as envoys to make peace with the new Chinese government, Ming. However, this delegation was accused of spying and sent in exile to a remote desert. On the way, they were attacked by Yuan troops who killed all the Ming soldiers, leaving only korea warriors. The head envoy General CHOI Jung of the Royal Guard decides by himself that they must return to korea. Vice Envoy LEE Ji-hun dies from the strain of the march, and tension builds between LEE's bodyguard slave Yeosol and CHOI Jung.

After overcoming countless obstacles, the Korea warriors arrive at a peddler's inn in the middle of the desert and run into Yuan cavalry who have kidnapped Ming's princess Buyong. CHOI Jung falls in love with Buyong the moment he sees her. Meanwhile, Yeosol arrives later, dragging vice envoy LEE Ji-hun's body. He cuts off the head of a gypsy who spits on the dead body. Yuan general Rambulhwa sees Yeosol decapitate the gypsy with one strike. Princess Furong also looks on from her wagon. Yeosol is eventually taken captive by the Yuan cavalry. CHOI Jung picks up a note from Buyong written in her blood that says 'Help', and he decides to rescue her so that they can get a boat bound for Korea. CHOI Jung's aide Ganam and a warrior from the Commoner's Army, Jinlip, oppose the idea, saying it would be futile. However, they end up proceeding with the rescue with Jinlip shooting the first arrow. Buyong is rescued, but only at the expense of many korea warriors' lives.

Princess Furong and the Korea warriors, whose destination is Nanjing (the old southern capital of China), arrive at the Yellow River Valley where they find all the ferry boats burnt by Yuan soldiers. There they run into a group of Han tribe refugees. Furong feels empathy for her people and promises to give the warriors a boat to Korea if they take the refugees to the coast next to Mud Castle. They arrive at Mud Castle after even more trials, only to find the castle in ruins and no Ming soldiers. By this time, the Yuan soldiers have caught up with them and the Korea travelers become increasingly nervous. The underlying conflict between CHOI Jung and Yeosol over princess Buyong also deepens. Now they must choose. Give up princess Buyong or fight to the death together. The moment of truth approaches Can they return to Korea safely?

This was a pretty good movie. It wasn't what I thought it would be. I guess more dramatic would be the interpretive word. The copy I saw lots of blank areas for subs so a lot of translation was missed but the idea was still there.

I was a little irritated with the Princess. I had to agree with the guys to drop her off with the Yuan army and leave for Korea. But no.....General Choi Jung believed that saving her was more beneficial for them seeing as she promised them a boat if they got her to the "mud castle". Eeeergh!

Then we have Yeosol. I really loved his character. He was awesome with the lance! Totally cool choreograpy! But damn what is it with the Princess. She was all nice in the beginning but then her "niceness" was getting them all killed! Then she got all hoity-toity! Yeah, should have just fed her to the Yuan army. The whole movie would have ended quickly but then there would have been less dead people!

Then I cried when a particular member of the envoy was killed. I won't say who as to not ruin the movie for everyone else. But that was such a sad moment that I was all weepy. Then from that point on.....I was waiting for the guillotine to drop. I knew this had a sad ending but I wasn't sure how it would go down.

Now on a good note...even though his character was a little messed up was...Ju Jin Mo was so damn hot in period clothing. Oooh-la-la! And speaking of eyecandy, yo!............Jeong Woo Seong was looking all fine with the long, straight black hair. Kind of reminded me of another particular Korean in the Duelist! I've seen other JWS movies but this one he looked totally the best!!

Beautiful Sunday (뷰티풀 선데이 -2007)

Starring:
Yong-woo Park ... Kang
Gung-Min Nam ... Min-Woo
Ji-hye Min ... Su-yeon
Gi-yeong Lee ... Ki-chyul
Dong-hwa Kim ... Sang-tae
Byeong-ok Kim
Jeong-se Oh
Eung-su Kim


Min-woo seemed innocent enough, preparing for his civil service examination. Yet when he unexpectedly runs into a Soo-Yon, he can’t control his feelings for her and rapes her. Two years later, not knowing his past, Soo-Yon ends up marrying Min-Woo. However, when she finds out that he was the one who raped her, Min-Woo accidentally stabs her, and she becomes a human vegetable. Meanwhile, Detective Choi arrests a drug dealer named Jo upon information supplied to him from another gangster named Lee. Three years later, when Jo is released from jail, he tries to blackmail Det. Choi by providing information on Lee and some dirty money and drugs. Although none of the events seem to be related to each other, a connection is found between them.




OMG! This was a freakin' awesome movie. I can't believe this movie ended so perfectly. And I don't know how to describe this movie without blowing the ending and the twist of the movie. Oh yeah, there was one helluva twist that I figured out just right at the end. Well, maybe I didn't figure it out. LOL! Maybe I came to realization when they wanted me too. Damn them! LOL!

I will say this......or ask this.......can we ever forgive our past mistakes? Can one sin be forgiven for the exchange of one love?

We meet Minwoo. Innocent, caring, loving of one girl. He sees her with another man, gets drunk, loses it, and eventually rapes her. She doesn't ID him and later on eventually marries him.

We meet Det. Kang. His wife is in a coma. Bills are piling up. He has eventually become a "bad" cop to pay for the rising cost of medical bills. But in reality, he hates what he is doing. Can he get out of this mess?

As we watch these two lives spiral out of control, you can't help but be captivated by their traumatic lives. They fight desperately for the one they love but as they fight to stay afloat, the more they sink further in the depths of despair they created for themselves.

As time runs out, we watch these two lives mirror each other in ways you wouldn't expect.

This movie had an excellent plot. I couldn't stop watching having to know what the hell was going on. Geez, the last 40 minutes you'll be on the edge of your seat. And eventually you'll stair at the screen in disbelief because of that damn "twist". LOL! Oh, and even though these men did bad deeds you can't but help but feel their pain. Okay, I cried like a drama queen at the end. It was so good. My throat hurt from holding in the tears but they came out anyway in sobs. This movie was definitely beautiful in every way....................

Nam Goong Min


Park Yong Woo