Three gruesome murders have been discovered around town and all three share distinct similarities. All of them involve the killing of pregnant women with the foetus removed from their belly but each killing was executed in a different fashion. What really worries Kim Mi-yun - a cop working on these cases - is that these three murders share the exact pattern of a group of murders committed in the past. The past murderer Shin Hyun has already surrendered to the police and is now in
A macabre black-comedy musical in style of The Rocky Horror Show! A family of Fox Spirits (temporarily masquerading as a travelling circus troupe) have a chance to permanently become humans: this chance occurs only if they each eat a human liver on one specific night that occurs once in every thousand years. And so the hapless bloody quest begins to find unwitting human volunteers. WARNING: contains singing and break-dancing!
Ryoo Seung-wan directs his brother Ryoo Seung-bum alongside admired veteran Ahn Sung-ki and hot newcomer Yoon So-yi in this crazy kung-fu action comedy! Sang-hwan became a cop out of his naive desire to bring justice to those who take unfair advantage of their strengths. But the tough reality is that even local gangsters can beat him up! One day he suddenly encounters a group of strangers who proclaim ""You are destined to become Maruchi (enlightened male master)! We will teach you h
When Jung Sun-jung's young daughter is raped and murdered she is left traumatized and sets about punishing a series of apparently random yet unpleasant people who she feels have wronged society. As the victims begin to mount up two police officers one a young rookie the other Jung Sun-jung's ex-husband whose personal involvement threatens to derail the case must track her down before she kills again. As the police close in on her and the real reasons for the killing spree become clear the films reaches its thrilling climax and keeps you guessing right to the very last shot.
Originally made in 1983, Shaolin vs Lama is an example of the kung fu movie at its most cultish. The story is largely unimportant but concerns Yu Ting and his search for a kung fu master, a search that leads him into conflict with the Flying Eagle gang and their leader, Golden Wheel Lama. This is as far as it goes plotwise, not that that really matters. The focus of the film is, of course, the fight sequences and breathtaking they are too, though the whole film is given unmistakable aura of campness by its comical English dubbing. Still, it would be churlish to argue with the glowing recommendation of the Wu Tang Clan's Rza (a man who knows his kung fu stuff) of Shaolin vs Lama as one of the giants of the genre. On the DVD: filmed in a rather basic manner, Shaolin vs Lama is a colourful visual experience but not one that particularly shines on DVD. The 2.0 Dolby Digital sound gives the fight sequences an added bite but, as is so often the case, the potential of the format is frustratingly underused. There is no attempt to provide any sort of background to the film or the kung fu genre in general, instead leaving us with scene selection and the original theatrical trailer. --Phil Udell
Be careful what you wish for... Wishing Stairs is the third part of the Ghost School trilogy which includes Whispering Corridors and Memento Mori. There's a legend which claims that if you count aloud 28 steps to the school dormitory a 29th stair appears and a spirit will grant you a wish. That can bring good fortune if you are honourable. Yet in this school full of rivalry and jealousy those moods are often viciou
After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyung-Min (Oh Jung-Se) kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Suk (Yang Ik-June). For the first time in 15 years they meet and hiding, their own current situations, they talk about their school days. At school, they were classified by their wealth and grades. Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk were at the bottom and were the 'pigs'. They were bullied by a ruling class of 'dogs'. This bullying led to a harrowing incident 15 years ago at the school, and they return to the site where the most shocking truth of what happened there is finally revealed.
During a stakeout a corrupt cop under investigation by Internal Affairs has his face slashed by a mysterious raincoat-clad character. A connection is made between the brutal murder of an elderly couple not far away from the previous incident and this unknown man. The cop under pressure to deliver vows to uncover the identity of the suspect at all costs...
Jang Do-jun (Kim Seok-hun) an emotionally broken former agent dutifully serves in the subway police squad after a tragic operation that cost him the love of his life and left him disgraced in the view of his superiors. However when an ex-government agent (Park Sang-min) out for revenge kills the mayor of Seoul and hijacks a subway train full of innocent passengers Jang risks his life to save others in the face of extreme danger to thwart the terrorist holding the city hostage!
The desire for power will destroy the world. An incredible tale of deadly rivalries and bload-soaked battles Blades of Blood is a heart-pounding martial arts epic that is already being hailed as a modern classic. As a kingdom faces an invading army the court splits into two rival factions both vying for the king's trust. Frustrated with the lack of action this leads to one courtier splits away forming a rebel army that hacks and slashes its way to power leaving a trail of betrayed friends and traumatized victims in its wake. But one friend an old blind swordsman and the young warrior he is training refuse to stand down and the battle for control of the nation becomes a grudge match between the country's two greatest warriors.
A soldier is killed in Iraq and then finds himself resurrected as a revenant, or one who has returned from the dead. He turns to his slacker best friend to help him manage his newfound thirst for blood, and the duo quickly realize that this zombie-fied state is a perfect opportunity to become vigilante crime fighters. However, their adventure quickly becomes more complicated and bloody than they expected as the movie escalates into a series of unexpected and horrifying twists.
Innocence is a casualty of war. Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country. Three forlorn teenagers Chank-guk Jihum and Eunok are figures in the landscape of this story which highlights the global implications of a very Korean reality.
Want to know how to use men to your own advantage? With just a few simple steps you too can learn How to Use Guys with Secret Tips! The directorial debut of Lee Won Suk How to Use Guys with Secret Tips is a hilarious anti-romantic comedy starring Lee Si Young (Meet the In-Laws) as a young woman who acquires a set of self-help tapes that teaches her to use the misogynistic attitudes of the men she works with to her own advantage. Oh Jung Se (Quick) goes all-out co-starring as an arrogant soap opera star who unwittingly becomes the heroine's victim. Lee's creative directing style and twisted sense of humor has tickled audiences around the world from the Udine Far East Film Festival (where it won the top prize) to the Shanghai International Film Festival. Bo Na (Lee Si Young) works as an assistant director at a production company. Stuck in the same job for five years Bo Na feels like she's hit a glass ceiling in a misogynistic society. After one disastrous shoot Bo Na encounters a truck filled with self-help tapes. The shady owner sells her a set of tapes called How to Use Guys with Secret Tips promising that it will help her get somewhere in the world. By following the tips Bo Na invents a new personality and begins using male mentality to her advantage. Soon she sets her aims on Lee Seung Jae (Oh Jung Se) an arrogant soap opera actor who was rude to her on one production. Seung Jae soon falls for Bo Na but is he in love with the new Bo Na or the real Bo Na? Special Features: 5.1 Surround Sound Anamorphic Widescreen with Removable Subtitles
'Champion' tells the true story of Kim Deuk-gu a poor man from the countryside that took up boxing and became one of the world's elite fighters. In 1982 after winning fame in the ring and marrying his first love Kim travelled to Las Vegas to fight Ray ""Boom Boom"" Mancini the reigning lightweight world champion. After 14 intense rounds in which Kim refused to give in he fell into a coma from which he would never wake changing the sport of boxing forever and throwing a nation into
Though outwardly cynical Korean CIA chief Kim secretly nurtures a personal disgust with his dissolute president's embarrassing appetites and impatience with his dissent-mired nation. During yet another banquet with President Park the chief executive's corrupt top advisors and two wary party girls Kim impulsively improvises a conspiracy that will change the course of world politics. When Kim and his thuggish enforcer Ju (Han Suk-kyu Tell Me Something) make their move they initiate a bloodbath that threatens to drown both victim and assassin.
In 1976 French director Patrice Chereau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but by the end of its last performances in 1980 this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause.
In-mo (Park Hae-Il) is an unsuccessful film director with nothing going for him in life. He's been out of work since his film flopped at the box office and he was abandoned by his wife. Just when things can't get any worse and he can't make rent his nonchalant mother (Youn Yuh-Jung) extends a helping hand. She offers him a place to live and In-mo is glad to take her up on it. In-mo's older brother Han-mo (Yoon Je-Moon) a former gangster and five-time convict has already settled in comfortably as a jobless couch potato and soon their twice-divorced adulterous sister Mi-yeon (Kong Hyo-Jin) joins them with her pre-teen daughter Min-gyeong (Jin Ji-Hee). At home once again the grown-up siblings are forced to learn to live with each other once again but under very different circumstances.
Shown in reverse chronological order Peppermint Candy is the tale of a solitary man's painful growth in life set against the back drop of nearly three decades of Korean history. A distraught and weathered man Yong-ho stands on the rails of a train track staring oncoming death in the face. Through divided sequences we retrace the steps that brought him to this place and this state of mind. From his failed marriage and unsuccessful career to his first love and his traumatizing experience in the army we are shown all of the elements that went into the psychological demise of a broken man.
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Kim Ki Duk Double Pack (2 Discs)
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