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Two Korean ex-pats meet in Paris by chance encounter. One a petty thief and wannabe artist/painter (Chong-Hae), the other a tough guy (Hong San). Hong San saves Chong-Hae from a gang of thugs and the two become friends. Seizing an opportunity, Chong-Hae and Hong San perform martial arts stunts on the streets for money. A French mobster spots them and recruits the duo as hit men. While in Paris Chong-Hae falls in love with a statue-performer and Hong San yearns for the affections of a local peep-show stripper. After much backstabbing and being caught-up in murder; the duo find themselves at war with their mobster recruiters and each other. Written by Alex L

Wild.Animals.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 43mn
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https://nitro.download/view/D60C5CF6F7D2AF8/Wild.Animals.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Korean & French
Subtitles:English,Spanish

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With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides the parents, there is a daughter attending university and a son in high school. At first Jin-a is very happy there, however she continues to sell her body driving her into confrontation with the repressed daughter, Hye-mi. Things go from bad to worse when Jin-a meets Hye-mi’s boyfriend…

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Subject matter is a small brothel where a family struggling to support their kids education rents out a prostitute which get shelter, food and some percentages in return. The women of the family largely ignores her, the father sees her as a means for money and sex, the one that respects her is the son who adores her for the beautiful woman she is.

This is a very simple movie, script and execution was so different from the other Kims that I thought it to be from the early 90s not 1998. Music turns even to genuine porn variety. I was surprised to learn that the cinematographer Seo Jeong-min has made almost 130 movies as it seems a bit amateurish, at least he did better in ‘Suchwiin Bulmyeong’.

The basic storyline was good. Its about values turned bad and living poor. Men are captives of their desire and the women are in difficult positions. But the script is not so good, some characters are not believable and the finale was confusing. Go see ‘Suchwiin Bulmyeong’ and ‘Seom’ instead for similar, but much more elaborate film art.

You cant help feel sorry for Jin-a though. She is very fragile and even though she is misused quite a few times she is always positive.

Birdcage.Inn.1998.Kim.Ki-duk.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 41mn
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DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
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Codec:	x264
Resolution:	1024x540
Aspect ratio:	1.896
Frame rate:	24.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 430 kb/s
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Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FAB80049F4DC33C/Birdcage.Inn.1998.Kim.Ki-duk.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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

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I often quote Kim Ki-Duk as my favourite director of all time, partly because of his prolific output (I’m glad he numbers his films, I was losing count!) and his consistently emotional style. While I absolutely adore the “new-wave” Kim Ki-Duk (3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…And Spring, The Bow), I also thoroughly enjoy his earlier, grittier films (The Isle, Address Unknown). This film, his debut, is possibly the best and grittiest of the early films. In a setting that stands somewhere between urban and rural, and filled with Kim Ki-Duk’s beloved water motif, we see three misfits (a boy, the title character Crocodile and an elderly man) inexplicably living together on a platform under a bridge. Crocodile is an aggressive character with the shortest of fuses, and storms around as if the world owes him something. But there’s another side to him. Intercuts show him diving in the nearby river for respite. When a young woman is seen drowning in the river, Crocodile rushes to her aid, only to expect a lot in return. Horrified by her treatment, she nonetheless returns frequently to bond with the old man and the young boy who remains uninfluenced by Crocodile’s irritable nature. Soon she becomes a fixture and it all looks to be coming together for the group, if very vaguely. Add to this the most thrilling ending to a Kim Ki-Duk film I have seen so far and the film is complete. This may not be for those of you who prefer his later works, but keep in mind it does contain everything a Kim Ki-Duk fan could wish for.

Crocodile.1996.NTSC.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 39mn
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Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/B623AD7F93C6B3D/Crocodile.1996.NTSC.DVDRip.x264.mkv

https://tezfiles.com/file/b01499fefb2dc/Crocodile.1996.NTSC.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:Korean
Substitles:English

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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. In a small town on the outskirts of an American military base in South Korea, three teenagers, Chank-guk, Jihum and Eunok struggle to find their way in the violent wake of the Korean War. Chang-guk, the son of a Korean barmaid, longs to travel to America to find the soldier father who abandoned him. Timid Ji-hum can’t deal with his boastful, disabled veteran father. And withdrawn Eunok, blinded in one eye by a sibling’s prank, falls for James, a U.S. soldier, who promises to pay for restorative surgery. These three teenagers are the figures in the landscape of this story, which highlights the global implications of a very Korean reality. None of them is able to escape the withering pull of tragedy. All lives collide as each one’s hope and longing for a better future returns upon them like a letter returned stamped in red with “Address Unknown”.

Suchwiin bulmyeong AKA Address Unknown (2001).576p.BDRip.South Korea.Kim Ki-Duk_VN.mkv

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#1:  	Korean 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s (Original Audio Only)
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Subtitles:English (SRT & SUP Subtitle Muxed as Optional), Korean, Chinese (SUP Subtitle Muxed as Optional)

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Consumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face. Although her lover of 2 years misses her, he falls in love with the new face, not knowing it’s the same woman.

1.78GB | 1h 38m | 858×464 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F1C851F4AC0238D/Shi.Gan.AKA.Time.2006.DVDRip.x264.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/628E13D1E4CA22A/Shi.Gan.AKA.Time.2006.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/6F758167B14E915/Shi.Gan.AKA.Time.2006.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English,Korean

The post Ki-duk Kim – Shi gan AKA Time (2006) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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People from all sorts of backgrounds set sail on a warship. They get drunk on alcohol, drugs and sex. Later, everyone grows tired and falls asleep, then the ship enters an unknown space enveloped in fog. In the morning, the people wake up to find the ship floating in the air.

4.80GB | 2h 01m | 1280×696 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5EAA886BDCC0898/Human.Space.Time.and.Human.2018.720p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-theonlyh.mkv

https://ddownload.com/xm7pencquugh/Human.Space.Time.and.Human.2018.720p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-theonlyh.mkv

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English, Chinese (muxed)

The post Ki-duk Kim – Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan AKA Human, Space, Time and Human (2018) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk bares his tortured, inebriated soul in “Arirang,” and it’s not a pretty sight. An experience that can be likened only to being stuck next to a drunk in a bar who keeps reminding you he used to be famous, all his friends are bastards and he now understands the meaning of life, pic might have proved therapeutic to make, but it’s a grind to watch, even for fans of the maverick writer-director’s work. Kim’s rep will inevitably ensure further fest bookings for what is essentially one long whine, but theatrical distribution anywhere looks highly unlikely.
Further evidence, as if it were needed, that digital is both the liberation of low-budget filmmaking and the enabler of self-indulgence, the pic was made entirely by Kim, according to credits culled from the production notes. (Indeed, the only word onscreen, apart from subtitles on the version shown in Cannes, was the title.) And like some other films that have cropped up recently (notably Joaquin Phoenix meltdown movie “I’m Still Here”), “Arirang” takes advantage of the verite connotations associated with digital to deliberately blur the line between docu and drama.

The action, such as it is, mostly consists of footage of Kim going about his daily routines — chopping wood, making food, voiding his bowels in the snow outside — in and around the mountaintop shack he’s been holed up in for some time, ever since he had a nervous breakdown precipitated by a near-fatal accident that happened on the set of his previous feature, “Dream,” in 2008. In between these quotidian tasks, he knocks back the soju (the Korean equivalent of vodka) and interviews himself via some crude crosscutting about where it all went wrong.

Like many barroom bores, he’s not shy about crowing over his own talent, little in evidence here, although supporters know he’s capable of greatness. One example of his former glory is “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring,” his international breakthrough, which, in one of “Arirang’s” most piteous scenes, Kim watches tearfully on DVD, a shadow of the former self seen in “Spring,” climbing a mountain while dragging a concrete anchor behind him.

Kim partly blames his miserable state on former friends, such as his one-time protege Jang Hun (who helmed “Rough Cut” from a script by Kim), for abandoning him. But to his credit, he also blames himself a bit, and goes over how he’s always been an outsider, even when he was a machinist and street artist. In tones more bemused than wounded, he wonders if the countrymen who gave him medals of honor when he won awards at international film festivals even saw his dark films, particular those, like “Address Unknown” and “Time,” that lambast Korean society.

Just when auds might be thinking this is an actual video diary, Kim puts his machinist skills to use on a firearm and goes out to take revenge, a swerve into pure fantasy (one hopes) that reps the cinematic equivalent of saying, “I was just kidding, this isn’t for real.” Altogether, the whole shooting match is sordid and tacky; to discuss or program it further starts to feel like some kind of enabling in itself. Fans can only hope that having gotten this out of his system, Kim will go back to making proper films, which, as he self-aggrandizingly points out, many are eagerly awaiting after this uncharacteristic three-year hiatus.

(VARIETY.com)

1.03GB | 1h 26mn | 640×368 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/B3C0301B44DCACB/Arirang.2011.DVDRip.XviD-KG.avi

Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:None

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