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Director Lee Kwangmo took 10 years to complete Spring in My Hometown, a movie dealing with the Korean War period. The main plot is the life of a boy named Sungmin and his view of adults trying to continue life with what is remains after the Korean War. Rather than dealing with the historic facts of the Korean War itself, this movie depicts the emotions of the post-war generation during that time. Thus, the movie views the historic tragedy in a very contemplative, nostalgic way. The movie’s beautiful images explain why those days that everyone remembers as miserable, were in fact beautiful. Rather than a memory of the Korean War, Spring in My Hometown indirectly reflects the war through the memories of the post-war generation. Other Korean War movies opt to directly show painful experiences and suffering associated with the bloody conflict; in contrast, Spring in My Hometown shows the emotional side of this painful period through the filter of experience that is in the past. In that sense, this movie deals with history yet is not historic because the experience of the Korean War and its aftermath is still an ongoing situation. (Korean Film Archive)

1.37GB | 2h 00m | 698×377 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D569F31BA5B01DA/Spring_in_My_Hometown.mkv

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

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Synopsis:
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)

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Six years after leaving the secular life to become a Buddhist monk, Beob-wun is still haunted by memories Young-ju, his ex-lover. He tries to find the path to the truth and meets Ji-san another monk who doesn’t even have his holy orders. Their association leads to greater pain and conflicts for Beob-wun. Ji-san dies in the snow, as partly a man resembling Buddha and a man drowning in the ways of the secular world. Beob-wun cremates Ji-san’s corpse and seeks out Young-ju and his mom. He also meets Ok-sun, a woman Ji-san could not forget. These encounters reinforce his belief that the ways of the world are meaningless and continues on his path to find the truth.

1.72GB | 1h 52m | 855×380 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7F62A9A7F1228ED/Mandala.1981.DVDRip.x264-SMz.mkv

Language(s):Korean (both main feature and commentary)
Subtitles:English (both main feature and commentary)

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Plot:
The village of Hitosuji lies on a river which comes out of the mountains. In a farmer’s house, Takuji lies unconscious. Back from South America, he had an accident in the mountains. Several Southeast Asian women work in a bar. One of them, Tia, once had a son who drowned in a flood caused by deforestation in her own country.Kamimura is Takuji’s schoolmate. Coming to visit his friend, he starts to remember how they would play as boys, and visit a hut deep in the forest. As the seasons pass, the villagers come to know Tia, and she learns of Takuji. The summer brings a change in Takuji’s condition. His family and several villagers gather. His mother notices a dust-devil and announces that Takuji’s spirit has left his body. They try to call the spirit back, but to no avail. Takuji is dead.
After the performance of a Noh play, Tia walks alone into the forest. She spends the night in an abandoned hut. Meanwhile Kamimura, looking at the full moon, senses that Takuji has returned to the mountains…
At dawn Kamimura climbs up into the mountains, to the hut. There he finds Tia and they hear the sound of water in the well which was supposed to have dried up.

1.50GB | 1h 43mn | 935×556 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/EB9E40953270965/Sleeping.Man.1996.DVDRip.x264-SMz.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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In 19th-century Korea nobleman Kim Byung-moon saves a young beggar from a savage beating, and in return the beggar, Jang Seung-ub, draws him a picture. Kim is astonished by his rough yet extraordinary talent and arranges for him to study at the house of an eminent Chinese teacher. Here, the young painter falls in love with Mae-hyang, the daughter of a fallen aristocratic family, but the young lovers are unable to overcome the class difference that divides them. This sets Seung-ub on the path he follows for much of his life: that of a drunken wanderer. Despite his self-destructive behaviour, his penchant for consorting with prostitutes, his impoverished background, and the political turbulence of the times in which he lives, Seung-ub’s fame spreads and he becomes known by the name Ohwon. He is courted by wealthy and powerful patrons including the king, all of whom he ends up rejecting. Ultimately, Ohwon departs once again – drunken, obsessed, and alone – as the shadow of Japanese colonialism looms over Korea…

1.88GB | 1 h 59 min | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8B27E757C66FE4F/Chihwaseon.AKA.Strokes.of.Fire.2002.DVDRip.CorrSubs.x264.mkv

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English (srt,default); Portuguese (srt)

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