A dazzling action movie from South Korea, Shiri follows two South Korean government agents, Ryu and Lee, as they pursue a female super-assassin from North Korea. Meanwhile, an elite paramilitary squad from North Korea has stolen a shipment of CTX, an undetectable liquid explosive of enormous power, which they've planted all over the city of Seoul. As their investigations are successively foiled, Ryu and Lee begin to suspect that there is a mole within the ranks of the agency--and it may be one of them. Both hyperstylish and hyperrealistic, Shiri rips along as a smooth fusion of Hong Kong and American action movies. Ryu's troubled romance with his alcoholic fiancée adds a striking emotional counterpoint to the blazing gunfights and high-speed chases; the ending is unexpectedly moving. It's not surprising that this film beat Titanic's box-office records in Korea. --Bret Fetzer
Byung-gu a rather confused young man is the only one who can save our beautiful green planet. You see Byung-gu is convinced that the industrialist Kang is really an alien from outer space who is spying for the prince of (the planet) Andromeda who is planning to conquer the earth. With his dozy circus artiste girlfriend Sun-i Byung-gu kidnaps the industrialist and tries to force him using extremely gruesome interrogation techniques (with an iron as accessory) to reveal his 'roya
A nationalistic military-themed time travel adventure filled with equal parts action and comedy! The story centers on a group of North and South Korean soldiers who find themselves flung back in time just as their respective countries are locked in a tense standoff with the United States over the status of a jointly produced nuclear warhead.
Heaven's Soldiers
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