Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin “manages” her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those man she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who’s jealous. One Day Yeo-Jin fails in doing her job overlooking police officers looking for under-aged prostitutes. In order to not get caught Jae-Young jumps out of a window almost killing herself. On her deathbed, she wishes to see the man again whom she fell in love with and turned away from. But the man only agrees if Yeo-Jin sleeps with him. She does but as they arrive in the hospital Jae-Young is already dead. Trying to understand her best friend, Yeo-Jin tracks down every man she slept with and does the same. As her father learns about this he gets on revenge with fatal consequences…Read More »
South Korea
-
Ki-duk Kim – Samaria AKA Samaritan Girl (2004)
2001-2010AsianDramaKi-duk KimQueer Cinema(s)South Korea -
Kyu-hwan Jeon – The Weight (2012)
2011-2020ArthouseEroticaKyu-hwan JeonSouth KoreaQuote:
The Weight, portrays the life of Jung(Cho Jae-Huyn) who grew up as an orphan and was adopted into a family of only a mother and a son. Jung is now a hunchback man due to scoliosis and is a live-in mortician taking care of corpses in the most eerie manner. His brother wants to become a woman and their mother, who now hates both of her sons, will not accept her real son’s female identity. Jung lives a secluded life trying to deal with his family’s problems along with his own.Read More » -
July Jung – Dohee-ya AKA A Girl at my Door (2014)
Drama2011-2020July JungSouth KoreaSynopsis:
Young-nam was a promising graduate of the police academy before she was transferred to the small seaside village, which was caused by her misconduct. On her first day to the village, she encounters with Dohee who is the girl living in the town, seeming to have somewhat gloomy looking face. As Young-nam tries to accommodate with her new surroundings, an accident of Dohee’s grandma getting killed by falling in the seashore cliff happens. As to protect the girl from her stepfather’s abuse, Young-nam let Dohee stay at her place but things turn out to be more mysterious as she gets to know her.Read More » -
Kun-jae Jang – Hwioribaram AKA Eighteen (2009)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaKun-jae JangSouth KoreaPlot summary from M-Line Distribution:
Eighteen year-old Tae-hoon and Mi-jung have been going out for 100 days. During winter break they decide to take a trip to the beach to celebrate their anniversary. When they are back home after a few days, they have to confront a harsh situation – Mi-jung’s parents don’t allow them to see each other until they become college students.
Tae-hoon struggles to keep their love and wanders around Mi-jung but she is eventually changed and avoids him as her parents wish. Winter turns to spring, and Tae-hoon and Mi-jung both turn nineteen.Read More »
-
Ki-duk Kim – Il-dae-il AKA One on One (2014)
2011-2020ActionDramaKi-duk KimSouth KoreaOne on One: After a high school student is murdered, the seven suspects are hunted down by members of a terrorist organization.Read More »
-
Man-dae Bong – Masitneun sex geurigo sarang AKA Sweet Sex And Love (2003)
2001-2010AsianEroticaMan-dae BongSouth KoreaA girl, bored with her current relationship, dumps her boyfriend and starts a new relationship. The new relationship goes well and they move in together, but things start to go downhill.
Comments from imdb:
Though this movie will certainly be remembered much more by its numerous erotic scenes, which though carefully choreographed still won’t be to everybody’s likings, the other its part shouldn’t be overlooked however; it deals with love and everyday problems of life being spent together. Overall, it’s a sad story about love between two people and their up’s and down’s while they are together swimming through everyday life. Worth looking just for the end itself if not for anything else. 7/10Read More » -
Kyung-mook Kim – Eolgul eopnun geotdul AKA Faceless Things (2005)
2001-2010ExperimentalKyung-mook KimQueer Cinema(s)South Korea“David Bordwell” wrote:
Warnings about gay sadomasochism to the contrary, this doesn’t offer much you can’t see in Warhol or Waters. What it does provide is three shots. The first, nearly 45 minutes long, provides virtually a one-act play about a motel tryst between a businessman and his teenage lover. The second shot shifts us to an anonymous sexual encounter that is admittedly fairly off-putting, but handled with the mix of casual framing and off-kilter suspense we find in, again, Warhol. The very last shot is very brief and puts the other two into a new context.Read More » -
Jeong Geun-Seop – Mong-ta-joo aka Montage (2013)
2011-2020Jeong Geun-SeopSouth KoreaThrillerIt’s been fifteen years since the apparent murder of a young child. Detective Chang-Ho (played by Kim Sang-kyeong) discovers something astonishing at an emotionally charged location- a place only known by himself, the child’s mother, and the the girl’s kidnapper. With this, a race quickly begins to try and apprehend the criminal before the statute of limitations run out.Read More »
-
Sang-soo Hong – U ri Sunhi aka Our Sunhi (2013)
2011-2020DramaRomanceSang-soo HongSouth KoreaSunhi (Jung Yu-Mi) graduated from college, majoring in film. In order to ask about a recommendation letter from Professor Choi (Kim Sang-Jung) to study in the US, she visits her university after a long time. Sunhi expects Professor Choi to give her a good recommendation letter because he likes her. She also meets two other men she knew: Moon-Soo (Lee Sun-Kyun), who just became a film director, and Jae-Hak (Jung Jae-Young), who is a well established film director.Read More »