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●Oseam ●Love is Oh Yeah ●A Hot Roof |
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OSEAM |
A 5 year old boy and 10 year old girl are raised in a church. There is talk of adoption for the boy, but not wanting to be separated, the two escape heading for their home village… |
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LOVE IS OH YEAH |
A boy in school has bad grades but loves baseball. He proposes to form a baseball team but everyone including his teachers is opposed to it. He goes ahead anyway… |
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A HOT ROOF |
On a scorching summer day, a man uses violence against his wife. A group of women in the same apartment complex witness this and in a fit of rage, beat the man up and kill him. When the police arrive, the women barricade themselves on the roof top and exert their frustration and grudges against men to the people below… |
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THREE-OH-ONE, THREE-OH-TWO |
Yuni, with anorexia, lives in room 302 of an apartment complex. A divorced woman, who loves to cook moves into room 301. She constantly brings Yuni food, but Yuni secretly throws everything away. One day the divorced woman finally finds out about Yuni throwing away all her food… |
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THE CONTACT |
A producer of a radio program gets a request to play a song that reminds him of his former girl friend. He then becomes interested in the woman who made the request, and the two begin to communicate through email… |
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THE MYSTERY OF THE CUBE |
A college student conducts research on a poet active during Japanese occupied Korea and joins a club of similar researchers but discovers one member after another disappearing… |
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MAYONNAISE |
A housewife in Seoul suddenly gets a visit from her mother in the country. All the mother does is whine about her problems, driving her daughter up a wall… |
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CHUNHYANG |
During the Li Dynasty in Korea, the son of a feudal governor falls in love with a woman of lower status. Separated, the two vow their love for each other … |
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BICHUNMOO |
In 14th Century China, a swordsman and the daughter of a military general are in love in a remote village. The general, however, takes his daughter to the city and the swordsman is attacked by those trying to steal the secret “Book of Bichun”… |
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CHIHWASEON |
In the 1850s, the artistic skills of a youth of low rank is recognized even by the imperial court. Uninterested in fame, however, the youth continues to drink himself to drunkenness but embarks on a journey in search of beauty… |
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SEASON IN THE SUN |
A young priest named Kim is assigned to a church in a country village, which also serves as an orphanage to many children. The village has a soccer team but it always loses to the city team. Having played soccer in college, Kim, then volunteers and becomes the soccer team coach… |
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IF YOU WERE ME |
A six-part omnibus film on human rights commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission of the Korean government. Each part addresses a different aspect of human rights, A film definitely worth watching. |
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MAPADO |
A good turned bad detective is ordered by a gang boss to find a woman who has a first prize lottery ticket. So he goes to MapadoIsland where the woman is from. The island is isolated where cell phones don’t work and where a group of loud mouth old women live… |
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ALL FOR LOVE
-THE MOST |
The film, broken down into six parts, shows a week in the life of six couples. Though independent in nature, the episodes gradually inter-relate with each other… |
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CRACKED EGGS & NOODLES |
A 9 year old boy visits a youth making illegal pirated CDs and claims to be his son. The youth tries to brush the boy away but the boy threatens the youth that he will tell everybody about his illegal activities if he does not cooperate. So the youth is forced to accompany the boy on his dream of traveling across Korea by foot… |
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HELLO, STRANGER |
An escapee from North Korea starts to live in Seoul. One day he leaves Seoul to see his friend in Busan and meets an illegal immigrant from Vietnam on the bus who is looking for his girlfriend… |
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JULY 32ND |
A killer is arrested by a detective. Before going to jail, he tells his little daughter that he will pick her up “tomorrow”. However, the detective ends up selling the daughter to a whorehouse. After a lengthy period in prison, the killer is released and now searches for his daughter… |
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EIGHTEEN |
A high school boy takes his high school girlfriend on a secret trip. When their parents find out, there is big trouble. Despite an apology, the two are not allowed to see each other until they enter the university… |
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ELBOWROOM |
A physically handicapped girl in a center for the handicapped is attracted to a handicapped boy in the same facility. She becomes pregnant and an investigation is made to see whether she was raped… |
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DOOMAN RIVER |
A 12 year old boy lives in a Chinese village near the DoomanRiver, which runs through North Korea and China. One day he meets another boy who crosses into China from North Korea to help his ailing sister… |