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KOREA CINEMA FESTIVAL
(AUG 3~AUG 27)

From art films to films of entertainment, a cross section of recent Korean films will be presented in our "Korea Cinema Festival" program. Films to be presented will carry Japanese but no English subtitles.

SCHEDULE for August 2011

REVIEWS TO THE KOREA CINEMA FESTIVAL
Public Enemy ■Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring■
Crazy First Love■Another Public Enemy■Family Ties■
Meet Mr. Daddy■The Show Must Go On■Breath■
Secret　Sunshine■Happiness■My New Partner■　
My Mighty Princess■

Public Enemy
Dir: Woo-suk Kang
Cast: Kyung-gu Sol, Sung-jae Lee
2002
35mm
Color
139 min.
No English subtitles
Cheol-jung, a detective whose rough manner of speaking always gets him into trouble, bumps into a man in a raincoat one night and is injured. A week later, an old couple is found dead. Cheol-jung has a hunch that the couple’s son, an elite executive dealing with securities and bonds, is the killer.

Image: © C J Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved

Spring, Summer, Fall,
Winter, and Spring
Dir: Ki-Duk Kim
Cast: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim
1952/35mm
Color
102 min.
No English subtitles
The story about a man divided into section of each season starting with “Spring” when as a small boy, he lives in a mountain temple with an old priest.

Image: © Korea Pictures, LJ Film, Panda Film 2003

Crazy First Love
Dir: Jong-rok Oh
Cast: Tae-hyun Cha, Ye-jin Son
2003
35mm
Color
103 min.
No English subtitles
A mediocre student dreams of marrying an honor roll co-ed, the first girl he ever fell in love with. Her father will consent under one condition. He must produce an academic record, which ranks within the top 3000 in the country. The student studies hard and gets accepted to the Law School of Seoul University. Now the father must come up with another condition.

Image: 2003 © IM Pictures All Rights Reserved

Another Public Enemy
Dir: Woo-suk Kang
Cast: Kyung-gu, Jun-ho Jeong
2005
35mm
Color
149 min.
No English subtitles
Kang is a passionate public prosecutor, who doesn't think twice of using guns. The eldest son of a director to a foundation of his old school dies. Kang suspects the younger son who is to become the next director but Kang's forcible methods of investigation, gets him into trouble.

Image: © C J Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved


Family Ties
Dir: Woo-suk Kang
Cast: Tae-yong Kim, Sori Moon
2006
35mm
Color
113min.
No English subtitles
An omnibus group of three family stories. Mira lives alone. Suddenly, Hyung-chul, her long lost brother, shows up with a woman twenty years his senior… Sun-kyung cannot deal with her mother who brings up a child she mothered through an extra marital affair…Gyong-suk is very jealous of his girlfriend who is open to other men in her life and as a result the couple bicker all the time.

Image: 2006 © Lotte Entertainment

Meet Mr. Daddy
Dir: Kwang-su Park
Cast: Shin?yang Park, Shin-ae Seo
2007
35mm
Color
113min.
No English subtitles
A young hooligan is told he has a 7 year-old daughter and is asked to take care of her for awhile. He agrees because by doing so, he can receive money. Yet slowly, he starts to open up to her.

Image: © iFilm Co. Ltd.

The Show Must Go On
Dir: Jae-rim Han
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Dal-su Oh
2007
35mm
Color
112min.
No English subtitles
Kang, a young hoodlum with a wife and children, always dreams of living in a large single family house. However, his wife would complain asking him to quit his job. Kang is trusted by the hoodlum boss but can’t get along with the boss’ son.

Image: © 2007 Lotte Entertainment All Rights Reserved

Breath
Dir: Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Chen Chang, Jia
2007
35mm
Color
84min.
No English subtitles
Jang on death row fails in an attempt to commit suicide. Jeon, a housewife, hears about this on the news and goes to see Jang after discovering her husband’s infidelity. Claiming to be his old girlfriend, Jeon sees Jang and tells him of how she almost died at the age of five. On another visit, Jeon returns to Jang with a surprising gift.

Image: ©KIM Ki-duk Film All Rights Reserved

Secret Sunshine
Dir: Chang-dong Lee
Cast: Do-yeon Jeon, Kang-ho Song
2007
35mm
Color
142min.
No English subtitles
Shin-ae, a widow, returns to her late husband’s home town with her young son where she opens a piano school in the center of a shopping district. She then meets a car repairman who wants to meddle in her life but she shows no interest. One day her son is kidnapped and killed making Shin-ae psychologically unstable. She then takes up a suggestion into becoming a Christian.

Image: ©2007 CINEMA SERVICE CO. LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Happiness
Dir: Jin-ho Hur
Cast: Su-Jeong Lim,
　　　 Jeong-min Hwang
2007/35mm
Color
124min.
No English subtitles
An owner of a club in Seoul comes down with cirrhosis of the liver and enters a care facility in the countryside for treatment where he meets a woman with a severe case of lung disease. His pessimistic outlook in life is healed by her bright character. The two fall in love and start a life together.

Image: ©2007 M&FS,rai film & ZIP CINEMA All Rights reserved.

My New Partner
Dir: Jong-hyeon Kim
Cast: Sung-kee Ahn, Han-seon Jo
2008
35mm
Color
110min.
No English subtitles
Dectective Yeong-joon, a graduate of an elite police academy, exposes a co-worker for embezzlement and discovers the involvement of a big crime syndicate. Tracking down suspects in Busan, he is reunited with his father, who was demoted in the past for involving himself in a corruption scandal. The two, end up as partners.

Image: ©2008 KM Cultures Co., Ltd. All Rights reserved.

My Mighty Princess
Dir: Jae-young Kwak
Cast: Min-a Shin,Ju-wan On
2008
35mm
Color
115min.
No English subtitles
So-hwi, a college co-ed and the heir to a martial arts family falls for a member of the ice hockey department and pursues him by joining the department. Unfortunately, he is more interested in a beautiful woman police officer. Meanwhile someone attacks the senior member of the martial arts sect and Sohwi’s father is also seriously wounded.

Image: ©All Rights reserved by Bear Entertainment 2008


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