Bae Il-do, grown up in a country unappreciated, ran away from home and works as a tailor. His wife also went through a lot growing up under the step mother’s harsh treatment then working as house keeper and hostess at a bar. She met Il-do accidentally, lived together and ended up having a child with him. Gong-rye gets between them having an affair with Il-do while working sewing machine at a factory. Their secret meetings take place on the night train on the pay day and their secret did not last. His wife gets jealous and it is time for Il-do and Gong-rye to part.

Woomuk-Baemi.ui.sarang.AKA.Lovers.in.Woomuk-Baemi.1990.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English, Japanese, Korean

The post Sun-Woo Jang – Woomuk-Baemi ui sarang AKA A Short Love Affair AKA Lovers in Woomuk-Baemi (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

During the 1980 Gwangju massacre, a young girl witnesses her mother’s death as soldiers kill protesters opposing the military regime. The film sparked public demand for truth, leading the government to open classified files on the tragedy.

A.Petal.1996.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-MNRV.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 41mn
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Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English

The post Sun-Woo Jang – Ggotip AKA A Petal (1996) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A matchstick girl who was frozen after death 200 years ago (for failing to sell any matchsticks), becomes reborn in this movie which pays homage to computer games. Working at a Chinese restaurant, Ju (played by Kim Hyeonseong) is a game maniac who suffers from unrequited love with Hui-mi (Im Eungyeong), who works part-time at a game room next door. One day, he meets a little matchstick girl of the same countenance as Hui-mi, and buys from her a gas lighter where he finds a phone number. When he calls the number, he comes upon the question: “Will you please log in the game ‘Resurrection of the Little Match Girl?'” From that time on, Ju enters into the world of virtual reality with a view to save the girl and win her love, which is by no means an easy job. He has to fight against gangsters, secret agents, and commandos, sometimes with the help of a lesbian warrior named Lara (modeled after Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider”). His final destination is the heart of the central computer operation system which gets rid of anyone who attains access to it. Indefatigable, Ju finally encounters an Orwellian “Big Brother” type boss who controls the whole computer system. The Matrix-like movie adroitly mixes the state-of-the-art techno game with Buddhist references, by sometimes presenting portions of Buddhist texts and mantra-like music.

Review:
Jang’s splendid folly uses the form and digital effects of a mainstream blockbuster to explore two besetting questions: (1) Can you live in a tropical paradise on someone else’s money? (2) Can the ego be transcended by chasing the yellow butterfly of Taoism? Ju (Kim Hyun-Sung, admirably ordinary) delivers Chinese food for the Great Wall Restaurant and dreams of becoming a champion gamer. He enters the virtual reality game of the title (the object is to save Hans Christian Andersen’s forlorn heroine from assorted predators so that she can safely freeze to death), but very quickly loses his identity and his ammo. And the Match Girl (now selling cheap lighters) suddenly starts taking her defence into her own hands. Despite fabulous casting (famous Chinese transsexual Jin Xing as the lesbian game player Lara) and spectacular stunts, it doesn’t really work as a genre movie – which is no doubt why it lost money on Korean release. But as a Jang Sun-Woo auteur piece it’s up there with Hwa-om-kyung: a philosophical fun-ride with thrills, spills and a serenely materialistic happy ending.
— TimeOut.

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Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Sun-Woo Jang – Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim AKA Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country’s takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre.

Review:
The first mature attempt in Korean culture to come to terms with the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, an unhealed wound comparable with the Tiananmen Square massacre in the minds of Chinese. A young woman, nameless and mentally disturbed, wanders the countryside looking for her brother; she runs into a heavy-drinking labourer and starts tagging along behind him. He tries to get rid of her by insulting, abusing and finally raping her, but she stays with him. Through flashbacks (two of them animated) we learn what the man doesn’t know: how the girl’s brother and mother died, why she cracked mentally. The girl is perhaps too fragile a symbol to personify the entire nation’s trauma, but Jang’s shattering film none the less sets a new benchmark for the serious treatment of politics and sex in Korean cinema.
— TimeOut.

A.Petal.1996.DVDRip.x264.DD2.0.mkv

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Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Sun-Woo Jang – Ggotip AKA A Petal (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
A compilation of episodes from the lives of several of the amateur actors’ (who are ‘bad teens’ and the homeless of Seoul) own experiences, this film sheds light on the dark side of Korean society. Feeling alienated and persecuted, they wonder about and come into conflict with the ‘good people’ who persist in trying to reform them. They have their own reason for remaining as they are and resist attempts to reform them: they cannot change simply because they are bad.

Nappun.Yeonghwa.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/2D3132D6264A909/Nappun.Yeonghwa.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:Japanese,English

The post Sun-Woo Jang – Nappun yeonghwa aka Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie (1997) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Escaping from the sanatorium for the insane, a man who calls himself Jesus goes to Seoul. He is indulged in the illusion that he should save Seoul from the judgement of fire by finding a woman. He looks for an angel but nobody cares about him, and only a child selling the chewing gum follows him whose wish is to have mother. Finally, he finds a beautiful woman and gains her love through incessant persuasion. Seoul becomes a blessed land and, though Jesus is dragged to the hospital again, the woman becomes the child’s mother, and thus, Jesus promise for the child comes true.

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The post Sun-Woo Jang & Wan Sunwoo – Seoul Hwangje aka Seoul Jesus (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Library Synopsis
A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship. Includes film extracts from: MR PARK (Yu Hyun-Mok) , FINE WINDY DAYS (Lee Jang-Ho), DECLARATION OF FOOLS (Lee Jang-Ho), MANDALA (Im Kwon-Tack) and WHITE BADGE (Chung Ji-Young).

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Subtitles:English hardcoded

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