Amusing movie with a hilarious ending!
If you have some time to kill, try this movie!The movie is about a group of airline stewards and stewardess who work together, a particular flight to Germany, their "down" time on layover and the "eventful" trip back home!
Beautiful scenery in Germany, by the way!
After reaching the climax near the end, I had an absolutely "Laugh Out Loud" experience...
and I am not going to tell you what it was, either!
I would have rated it higher just for the ending, but some may not have the patience to make it all the way to what happened in the end.
The supposed onboard shots looked realistic, the cast worked together well enough to make you think that they were an actual airline crew that worked together for some time, with a look at innovative ways of handling 'problem" flyers, enough to give you occasional giggles and keep you watching until the end.
I never say anything about the music or cinematography unless I feel that something didn't fit well.
As a matter of fact, what happened to the married male member of the crew after he got home may have been more fun than the midair mishap...
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It was the mother, really!
With a background in Religious Studies, mythology and knowledge of shamanism, atheism (and many other ism's) I found this movie fascinating and intriguing.Religiosity can be a strength for many people, but religious fanaticism usually is detrimental to all socio-economic classes, especially the poor!
Over-religiosity can lead to fanatics like David Koresh, Jim Jones and even a mother like Hee Jin's, briliantly played by Kim Bo Yun.
Religious fanaticism can lead to conditions such as OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and even worse, such as the disassociation of those close to the practitioners, such as Hee JIn's younger sister, Kang So Jin (Shim Eun Kyung), whose every scene except for the very last one (with mother dead) showed her mother's overbearing impact on her life. It can even lead to residual problems to others, such as Hee Jin's cough at college, which stopped after her mother's death.
Hee Jin's mother, in my opinion, had already crossed the fine line between 'believer' and 'Satan's henchman'.
I admit it was slow at times, but part of that was necessary to set up the interaction of opposing forces in the movie.
The movie started working on the question, "What is faith" to the participants, although it gave up before it go to any conclusion (and it wasn't long enough to come to any definite conclusion as well!). It should have been, possibly, a series instead looking at such topics more thoroughly.
The other reviewer complained about the film being slow at times; I agree, but this movie wasn't so much about action horror, as it was about a continuous philosophical horror which will let down some viewers.
A complaint about the "murders without reason" is answered later on in the film; the tenants of the apartment build from admiring, then fearing, and ultimately condemning Kang So Jin, as she is manipulated by her zealous mother. Enter the shamanass and the tenants find out how powerful, and dangerous, Kang So Jin' mother is!
I admire the use of black and white to make the apartments and complex itself fit the eerie atmosphere of the film during most paranormal scenes. The main and support staff also work well together to create a film that should become a classic in the future.
The director used every inch of film to build on the film's atmosphere (the furnace room lit only by a cell phone light) and did an excellent job. Without so much of a "Gotcha" moment of fright, this movie seems to keep you rather in constant suspense, which I thought the director did a good job.
I could write another 7-8 pages on this movie, but you probably wouldn't stay here that long!
Suffice to say, come here every Halloween or more often and be prepared to be glued to the edge of your seat, rather than being occasionally scared out of it!
I down-voted it due to unanswered questions at the end but really felt it deserved a better score
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Cute little melodrama that doesn't end right...
The setting, music, photography were all good for this time period and I enjoyed the feeling of actually being on a campus during the movie.However, the movie expects you to believe that this intelligent young lady, Yoon So Eun (Kim Ha Neul) is not going to fight for her love , Ji Dong Hee (Park Yong Woo), who she had written countless letters to during his mandatory military service.
It also wants you to believe that the young college student is going to go the rest of her life without a boyfriend, husband and/or lover! Had the ending not been so terrible, I would have given it a higher rating than what I did.
The characters of Yoon So Eun and Ji Dong Hee were believable, but didn't quite measure up to two individuals who knew they liked each other; that is the second reason it didn't really warrant a higher rating from me. The support character Seo Hyeon Ji (Ha Ji Won) was sidelined with a broken foot for the entire first two weeks of the movie; then steals her best friend's boyfriend...don't buy it!
The only bad performance was Heo Seon Mi ( Lee Seung Min) but since she only had two acting performances during the year 2000 (her first two acting stints then), I am not going to criticize her, except she was kind of an anti-girlfriend to the main male lead in the 2000 segment.
Also, another reviewer mentioned that he or she could not stand the way Kim Ha Neul played the young female lead during this movie: she acted as any young-girl-in-love does, going goo-goo-eyed every time her crush came into view, then acted like she was about to faint, hesitated before talking, blushing, grinning ear to ear and occasionally saying something stupid (like she was in the ham radio club when she was spotted by her crush there; she wasn't).
Also her total about-face would never have been done by someone that in love with a guy, without a fight, best friend or not as her rival!
Nor would someone that intelligent live for so many years by herself, without finding another love; she was too intelligent to do that!
WATCH VALUE: definitely: RE-WATCH VALUE: NONE, unless you want to study how not to end a movie!
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Drama Special Season 4: Come To Me Like A Star
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Worst Asian film I have ever watched!
If starts out with a warning that the movie "may not be suitable for those under 15 years of age"...they should changee this to "this movie may not be suitable for those at ANY age"!If I was KBS, I would have my affiliation with this movie REMOVED...
This movie seemed rushed through the most of it; it seemed as if it was thrown together, then someone said "let's go with it" and they filmed it, without correcting the shortcomings. I also cannot believe that Jung So Min pulled off a much better performance on the other KBS special shot 3 years afterward by the name of The Red Teacher (2016). Either the director was better, the script was better or Jung So Min actually learned how to act!
The movie did not allow enough time to develop the characters at all; poor girl not being paid by the company she works for (entirely her fault!) and the guy living above her on the low-income hostel has a job and tutors as well, but every dime he makes goes to caring for his uncoscious mother and bills!
The main female lead's only good part is where a little boy on the light rail system accidentally got some strawberry drink or what on her white dress and she placated him by putting her scarf on around her neck and hiding the strawberry stain on her dress.
Ha Jin (Jung So Min), has a spot on a romantic dating party; after being the most compatible with a person of the opposite sex, the persons gets to choose the contestant she is being paired with, and can choose a love cruise or a rice cooker...Ha Jin chooses the rice cooker, then he offers her a ride home ( even though he CAME on the light rail system with her!) . The anti-herione also carries her heavy rice cooker several blocks in order for him not to know where she lives; neither one knows that they live one floor apart in the same hostel! Kang Seok (Kim Ji Suk) thinks that her standing there afterdropping her off is her being intersted in him as a boyfriend, even though she chose the rice cooker over a week-long lovers'vacation package with him.
What is really pathetic, they could have moved in together, shared rides together and actually "lived" better has she not insisted n hiding where she lived from him.
Our main male lead, is making good money, but bills and an unconscous mother in the hospital are draining all his assets away. The whole show would have been different had she admitted where she lived!
Money problems keep popping up each and every scene; he keeps coming up with unforseen bils, or mises the first few minutes of a tutoring class, and students demand icec cream for the lost time (he has no money whatsoever), and our female lead's company comes up with no delivery of their goods because of a port strike..and the movie goes downhill from there!
Or anti-herione collapses, whether from hunger or stress or what, we ane not told); even then, she makes him let he off at the wrong address again! Finally, he sees her on the street, waiting for a bus and realizes he had not been home yet; following her, he finds out that she lives in he same hostel as him! She seems heartbroken that he now knows she is living in the same building, and he seems to be totally confused with this fact.
As Kang Seok is pouding ion Hi Jins's door wanting to talk to her, the ever-present hostel drunk verbally gives meaning to the whole charade that has been going on: "a new couple birthed in this dump."
Even after saying that he will be in a better situation soon, Hi Jan asks to break up their relatonship; she cannot wait for one of them to get out of poverty; she wants to meet a"rich" man and not a poor person like him...I personally would have dumped her then and there! What is funny, I agree with her analysis of herself!
Our male lead admits that he is afraid of losing her, to the point of wishing his mother wold either wake up or die; after she cannot see things his way, he goes to the hospital and briefly holds the oxygen line crimped on his mother, temporaily blinded by his loss of his girl. After losing his mind temporarily, he starts crying and his sister, unkown to him sleeping in the big chair in teh mother's room with the lights off, comforts him, not knowing this will bethe last time she can.
After this, he makes the ultimate sacrifice to his girlfriend, who I pesonally do not think deserves it: he sells his car, closees all his other meager assets and rents a nice house with a window for her for two years; at the same time, we see his girlfriend in the empty toy comapany offices that has not paid anyone in months, with her belongings being placed in a box to leave.
After walking back to the hostel together, he says he is sending her away, and hands her the address and passcode of the house he sacrificed everything to give to her; his car was sold and his sbank account drained. She says she is going to her mom's in the countryside AFTER he gives her the house! He also tells her that meeing her and falling in love was the best thing that ever happened to him!
What does she do? She heads to thw bus station to go to her mothers!
As she is leaving the hostel (with he ex-boyfriend upstairs in his room), she is passed by the hostel drunk carrying a gasoline can. While she is getting her ticket, she is oblivious to the news saying that a man in his 40s (the drunk) set fire to a hostel killing 10 people. After receiving the ticket and ignoring scenes of the hostel fire on TV news, she gets a call from her mother, lying that nothing is wrong to her mother and saying she is just comlng for a visit!
However, after boarding the bus, her hospital shoes fall out of her case, and she remembers that he said that she was the first thing that he ever wanted was her, and the best thing he ever did was meeting and falling in love with her. With that, she hastily leaves the bus depot leaving her luggage behind!
What is worse is how she repaid him for his last sacrifice for her! Two years later, she finally goes to the house he rented for her for two years, empty for the whole time but complete with a window showing the stars and a fancy pair of high heels shoes, replacing those she lost off her feet as he carried her to the hospital earlier in the film...SHE NEVER USED HIS LAST GIFT!
The last scene is her putting on the replacement shoes on her feet and gazing out the window at a star. He was probably looking down and thinking how stupid he was to befriend her in the first place...I don't know if she is crying or smirking in the ending scene.
RE-WATCH VALUE: Little, if any!
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"The Power Of Love Seems Limitless" - Guanyin Bodhisattva, in Madam White Snake (1960)
This is the best version of Lady White Snake I have seen yet!
Also, I have already read about the 1978 abduction of a South Korean actress and her husband director (screenwriter for this movie) Shin Sang-ok, by Kim Jong-il of North Korea but i didn't realize she was the main female lead in this movie until I did a search for her and her other movies!
The main and suport cast were great together; their timing was really good and the entire film flowed easily. Of the support cast, Guanyin Bodhisattva (Han Eun Jin) reminded me of some of my old Buddhist classes in college!
I learned that this character, although starting out male, is usually portrayed as female in China. However, this version portrays the deity as truly caring for others.
Korean horror has a long history; there is always an audience for it. many would consider this a horror film, but this isn't a horror film. It is a classical story about a demi-god and her mortal love.
You can actually see the flying wire for madam Whie Snake if you are very observant, but that is a minor detail for this time period of moviemaking; otherwise the cinematography is great! The music is also fitting for this movie.
I especially liked the portrayal of Madam White Snake in what most would call "Heaven" where Master Beop Hae (Ji Bang Yeol) and Guanyin Bodhisattva reside.
While searching for the female lead in other movies here, I realized that many of the support cast also appear in the same movies as her during her career.
I am looking forward to seeing the casts' other movies as well!
My only complaintabout this movie is the "self-righteous attitude of Madam White Snake's detractors. I know they had to take this stance in order to be the 'villians' but this is not something that should be tolerated in any religion in real life.
Surprisingly, I have already read the book on the kidnapping and enslavement of Choi Eun Hee (Madam White Snake) and her husband, Screenwriter Choi Kyung Ok before seeing this movie.
The movie about their abduction and forced servitude in North Korea is available online for anyone interested.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/kim-jong-il-kidnapping-south-korean-film-star-lovers-article-1.2099084
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovers_and_the_Despot
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely!
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63 Minutes Of Erotic Fun!
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" I'm Sorry; I Tried But I Cannot Do Any Better. I Thought That I Was Stronger Than This."
Literal translation of title: 'That Bizarre Girl'Part of the "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by Kwak Jae Yong
This is the first movie of the "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by director/screenwriter Kwak Jae Young.
The second is the film "Windstruck (2004)".
The third is the Japanese film "Cyborg She (2008)".
They are unrelated except for having a 'sassy girl' theme
Kwak Jae Yong served as screenwriter & director for all three above films.
Windstruck (2004) also stars Jun Ji Hyun, with a guest appearance by Cha Tae Hyun (this film's Gyun Woo).
I usually don't read other people's reviews, but I saw several 'low' scores here, so I thought I would address them; also, I was trying to get away from giving you an overview of the movie, but I have to do it this time in order to explain the young "Girl's" actions!
This movie is not about the "Sassy Girl"! It is about a young man, Gyon Woo, finally finding 'someone' to him to care enough about that he gets his crap together - and matures into a man!
Gyun Woo (Cha Tae Hyun) says that he was 'raised' by his mother as a girl"; this, I feel, has an effect on his dating girls in high school and now in college, where he is when this movie starts. He is having his picture taken in the second scene, but he really is stalling so that he won't have to go visit his aunt, who has a beautiful girl to introduce him to!
(He will meet her finally, but only at the end of the movie!)
He meets a young girl, (who I realized about the third time I watched this movie that the director gave no name to her, just 'The Girl', played by Jun Ji Hyun) on a subway in a large Korean city. First, he saves her from being hit by the subway and then took care of her as he was mistaken to be her boyfriend after she passes out drunk on the subway.
What most people FORGET, although it is mentioned later in the movie, she is celebrating the 1-year 'Death Day' of her late boyfriend, he dies the same day one year earlier before she meets Gyon Woo on the subway! Her ex-boyfriend who is still inside her and his memory keeps her from trying to date other men.
They also met on the subway as well, the way The Girl and Gyon Woo did.
Most of what happens revolves around this unseen boyfriend of The Girl that you never see, except his hand: The Girl is desperately trying to see her late boyfriend in Gyon Woo; however, she is slowly but surely falling in love with him!
That is why:
* She gets drunk because her late boyfriend is still in her mind and she cannot forget him
* She won't let Gyon Woo order soda when together, because that is what her late boyfriend used to order
* She pushes Gyon Woo into the lake, then jumps in to save him [a scene with the mother of her dead boyfriend (Yang Geum
Suk) and her are shown on the banks of a body of water; many feel her son/The Girl's late boyfriend drowned] The Girl is
actually 'saving' her boyfriend in her mind, warped by his death!
* Gyon Woo gives her his handkerchief to wipe her nose; her dead boyfriend had a handkerchief of the same design
* She wants to be with him, but she cannot shake her dead boyfriend's memory
* She keeps putting off seeing her old boyfriend's mother, who wants to introduce her to a new guy she thinks The Girl might
like
* She keeps telling him, "Wanna Die", when she wants him to do something with her and he gives a wrong answer.
* She beats him up when he does wrong: her late boyfriend would not approve!
* She can only 'let go' of her late boyfriend, after she thinks that Gyon Woo replanted the Wish Tree where they buried the
time capsule near the end: she finally realizes how much they care for each other!
* After 'letting go' The Girl finally throws the necklace the late boyfriend gave to her into a body of water, representing that
she finally released him (again, many think he drowned) and his memory!
* She goes to Europe for a year and a half since she couldn't find Gyon Woo again.
* Gyon Woo's mother actually thinks that she went to Europe to forget her late son, not Gyon Woo!
In case you haven't figured it out yet, The Girl's late boyfriend's mother (played by Yang Geum Suk) is Gyon Woo's aunt, and she tried for SEVERAL YEARS to introduce the two of them to no avail! The aunt has no idea that The Girl has been seeing her nephew, Gyon Woo, over the years since her son died.
On her first 'blind' date after her father told Gyon Woo not to see his daughter again, The Girl calls Gyon Woo; Gyon Woo
then gives this advice to the blind date (played by actor Im Ho) and then leaves...
Don't ask her to be feminine...
Don't let her drink over 3 glasses of soju...she'll beat someone.
At a café, instead of coke or juice, order a coffee...
If she hits you, act like it hurts...if it hurts, act like it doesn't.
Surprise her with a rose on the 100th day anniversary...in class.
Make sure you learn Kendo and Squash,..
Be prepared to go to jail sometimes...
Is she says she'll kill you, don't take it likely...
If her feet hurt, exchange shoes (with her)...
She likes to write (screenplays), encourage her.
Eggs: This movie is loaded with EGGS, fortunately not the kind that turn bad!
The man who The Girl throws up on in the subway in the beginning of the film is the man underneath the tree when The Girl goes to find Gyon Woo.
I love this movie! It was one of the first movies that I saw and became a huge Asian movie fan!
I love the main cast members who I had seen in other movies before this one. I came across Jun Ji Hyun in White Valentine (1999) in an English version and then saw her in Il Mare (2000), both excellent movies!
I saw Cha Tae Hyun in Sad Movie (2005) and the classic, Lover's Concerto (2002) before seeing him here. He also does an excellent job in the sad movie BABO (2008)!
They both gave excellent performances here and their chemistry was amazing!
The support cast also did an excellent job here; with a special kudos to The Girl's father (Han Jin Hee) and the hilarious performance in his scenes, and Gyun Woo's mother (Song Ok Sook), and her hilarious performance as well!
Just between us, there is going to be a remake, and we will find out that Gyun Woo and The Girl were switched at birth; the Girl has the genes of Gyun Woo's mother in her! (Just kidding!)
The music and cinematography were excellent and deserving of this movie being rated as high as it is!
After this movie came out, EVERY Korean girl wanted to be "The Girl', according to my friends in Korea. It has been copied in several countries but this one is still the best!
Many who gave this movie a bad rating did not take the time to see WHY The Girl acted the way she did!
The New Sassy Girl (2016) was attempted, but it only starred Cha Tae Hyun but not Jun Ji Hyun: need to say, it flopped!
Be the way, the UFO is from timepoint 1:15:57 to 1:16:02; blink and you will miss it!
RE-WATCH VALUE: All the time!
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"Never Shall I Speak Of Things I Have Seen Or Heard Inside The Inner Chambers"
Alternative title: Lady Shōgun and her MenThis story revolves loosely around the Ejima-Ikushima affair of 1714, the most significant scandal in the history of Ooku, the shogun's harem, during the Edo period of the history of Japan...but with a twist!
In a 'reverse' timeline history, the Japanese Edo period is ran by powerful women instead of men.
In 1716 a contagious - for men, that is - disease hits Japan changing the ratio of men to women to 1:4 .
Women become the dominant part of society and men dress up like geishas to attract women.
With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children.
A young, handsome member of a poor family, Unoshin Mizuno (Ninomiya Kazunari) is at the age he must make major decisions about his future; he has several things going for him, but his social status presents him from taking advantage of them:
He is skilled in kendo, has a beautiful girlfriend and is 'giving' to those around him who have less.
But his girlfriend Onobu (Horikita Maki), even though they love each other, is beyond his social status and he is not interested in the marriage offers he is given through his family. He also is worried about his younger sisters marriage dowry.
He decides to join the Ooku, kept men (think of royal 'male concubines') who are at the service of the Lady Shōgun of the clan; even though the present one is only seven (7) years old at present. This decision is heartbreaking news to Onobu who longs for him and no other.
Inside the Ooku, Mizuno writes Onobu that even though the men are all handsome, their hearts are 'all dark'; this is shown through a kendo match between him and Tsuroka (Okura Tadayoshi), who loses his prominence in the ooku by being bested by Mizuno.
However, the unplanned and sudden death of the child shogun brings to the position a more mature, no-nonsense and powerful woman shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune (Shibasaki Ko) who is seen by the Ooku members as a chance for rapid promotion and fulfillment of his personal power ambitions!
Matsushima (Tamaki Hiroshi) the senior 'man' in the Ooku, elevates Mizuno above others, but not necessarily for his own good!
However, the powerful but non-traditional new Shogun has her own ideas about what should be done and how, and several plot twists leave most with a satisfactory outcome!
Some do not consider this ' Sci-Fi' for this movie: however, SciFi has to do aas much with mutant diseases as well as futuristic scenarios as anything else: why can't this be considered SciFi i that it introduces a zombie-like disease and change Japanese history? That is what this movie does!
I also love the depth to which this story for this movie is written! I also like the very colorful artistic cinematography, music and the depth of the 'detail' used to bring this scifi/historical movie to fruition!
Care was taken to make each and every passing season and scene just as colorful and brilliant as the last one shot for this movie!
And even more, the acting was superb! The main and support cast worked together as if they actually lived in such an environment with superb support from the theatrical, lighting and other unmentioned departments.
This movie was also very emotional at times witht eh cast pulling off the emotion emphatically and on cue. Personally, I think that the characters are very well developed because they are complex, deceptive and quite multi-dimensional in their basic human drives.
They make sense within the constraints in which they are cast withing the Ooku. We get the full spectrum of emotions within this movie; varied scenery and ambiance in all the right places, multiple stories occurring at the same time but not overpowering the main story at the same time; realistic characters, with a realistic society portrait of the period, and so on.
Certainly, this movie has strong characters, but like the inner chambers of any Shogun's castle, they are puppets vowing for more power. Along with intense & emotional moments, it concludes with a mind blowing twist by the female Shogun that I personally didn't see coming!
The set and costume designers should take a hell of a lot of pride in what they did with this movie!
You actually believe that you are in the Japanese "Forbidden City" and being a welcomed voyeur into the intricate machinery of its operation.
Overall, it's an entertaining movie with an understandable story and believable characters that no Asian movie lover should miss!
My only problem with this movie is that the director, after making sure that the movie was built on a firm and lasting cinematogrpahy, music and such, tended to rush the scenes and story a bit.
Had he pulled a " Kurosawa Akira" and spent a little more time on developing the characters and back story, we might just be looking about another epic movie from Japan!
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A ten episode drama, 大奥〜誕生［有功・家光篇］ aired on TBS between October 12, 2012 and December 14, 2012, starring Masato Sakai and Mikako Tabe is also available for viewers.
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers is set in an alternate Edo period of Japan, where a strange disease that only affects men has caused a massive reduction of the male population, changing the Japanese social structure as women have to fill traditionally male roles. Eighty years after the initial outbreak, with four women for every one man, Japan has become completely matriarchal with women holding important political positions and men being their consorts. The most powerful woman — the shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate — keeps a harem of handsome yet unproductive men known as the Ōoku inside Edo Castle.
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Double meaning in Chinese; (色, sè) can be "Colour", while "caution" (戒, jiè) can be "Ring"
In my opinion, this is a better movie than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Ang Lee's blockbuster which he directed seven years before this one.From Wikipedia;
The title of the work, Lust, Caution, has a double meaning in Chinese. The character for "lust" (色, sè) can be read as "colour", while "caution" (戒, jiè) can be read as "ring", therefore the title can also read as "coloured ring", an object that plays a pivotal role in the story. The two alternate readings of the title are interwoven into a cautionary tale of lust and love through the symbolic use of the ring.
This would be a better description for any preview:
"During World War II, a secret agent Wong Chia Chi, must seduce then assassinate an official, Mr. Yee, who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill."
This is one of those movies where you would pee in your pants rather than take your eyes off the movie and go to the bathroom!
Year 1938: Hong Kong - college student Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei aka Rebecca Tang) joins with a young man, Kuang Yu Min (Leehom Wang) and his college thespian group to put on patriotic plays to unite the local people against the invading Japanese military. However, Yu Min then rallies the students to attempt to assassinate a local Chinese man, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung) who works for the Japanese under the local puppet government. Chia Chi assumes the identity of Mrs. Mak, with another student assuming the role of Mr Mak, an import-export businessman and her husband.
Their plans fail as Mr. and Mrs. Yee leave for another city abruptly; however, they were able to kill another Chinese subordinate of Mr. Yee who did not accompany him abroad.
The acting troupe scatters to different places after the assassination.
Year 1942 - Shanghai - Chia Chi moves in to a house left by her father, but is forced to sell it and live on a government subsidy with her aunt; she is allowed to study with some of money from her house being sold. She runs into Yu Min, who has trained as a Chinese spy. he wants her to assume the identity of Mrs. Mak again and again try to set up Mr. Wu up to be killed again, who now sniffs out and kills Chinese operatives for the Japanese in Singapore,
The movie is so complete in everything seeming to be in the right place. The detail that they went to in order to film this movie is almost unbelievable! Everything from costumes, vehicles and such were painstakingly reproduced in order to make this film!
The cinematography is excellent, the music is the only thing that was not perfect to me; the single-stringed instruments which were common then drive me up the wall to a certain extent..Sorry!
The main cast perfectly portray falling in love over time, and seem to develop intimacy with each other, much to the detriment of the female lead, and her college friends! Rebecca Tang, even though it was her first movie, is breath-taking in the period costume, mesmerizing in the sex scenes and absolutely convincing in her transition from a student bent on revenge and assassination to a woman deeply and completely in love with the man who would order her and her colleague's death.
In my first viewing of this movie, I realized what was happening and I was wondering is the Kuomintang (KMT) was going to pull her off the assignment or not before something 'bad' happened to her.
Tony Leung, who I had never seen in a movie before, was great as a cold, calculating head of a Japanese secret service department set up to find and kill Chinese espionage unit members. Little did I know that this was probably his first time playing this type character, as I found out later.
I also cannot hardly wait, when I watch this movie, for the first-time 'love' scene between the two main characters, which he initiates!
He played the character well; however, he did show some emotion in the last scene in which he had already sealed the fate of the group.
Personally, had I been him, I would have sent "Mrs. Mak" and her fellow female colleague to the war front as "comfort women" instead of wasting them as they were!
The support cast as well played their roles well, playing their individual well, and adding to the ability of the main cast in telling the main story throughout the movie. I usually give a kudo or two to an outstanding support cast member here and to how they especially contributed to the film, but everything was so 'concentrated' on the two main male/female characters that no one really stood out.
Interestingly, Yu Min and Chia Chi gaze at each other, in what seems to be a loving glance, just before their end. I personally think that Yu Min could have contributed more to the Chinese war effort by volunteering as a soldier, rather than attempting to trick and kill a more experienced adversary such as Mr. Wu; he was outclassed at every turn by the senior spy master!
Had Yu Min been man enough to join the Chinese army rather than to convince his college friends take on someone who is superior to them in the game they played, he would not have caused so many deaths!
As with The Classic (2003), The Bow (2005) and Seven Samurai (1954), I notice something new in this movie every time I see it, which means it is a movie which you shouldn't see just once!
This is a half to three-quarters box of Kleenex movie, but only in the last third of the movie.
RE-WATCH VALUE: YES!
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"The Two Poles Reversed-Acted Against Fate-Chaos of Demons & Disasters-Heaven Will Punish The Wu"
I don't see how such a 'jem' of a movie could be ignored by all teh reviewers for so long!The story is really good, cast are all great, music and cinematography were excellent and the fact that these stories were based upon an ancient Chinese official who was true, virtuous and loyal to his E,press Dowanger is amazing!
(I know that this actual story never happened, but i love the fact that an actual Chinese official who lived inspired the "Dee" series of stories: ('Dee' so American version of Chinese "Di")
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Drama Special Season 3: Don't Worry, It's a Ghost
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"Hold On To The Handle; The Bus Makes A Sudden Left Turn Soon."
Contrary to the film's ending, he was not the one responsible, he tried to prevent it!This was supposedly made specifically for Park Shin Hye in her popular period before her marriage, according to a KBS review of this movie online..
Lee Moon Gi (Bong Tae Kyu) is hit by a car whose driver was arguing with his female companion.
After being checked out for injuries, the police run his fingerprints; however, before the results are back a lovely female, later identified as Kim Yeon Hwa (Park Shin Hye) appears out of nowhere and tell him his name and address.
He goes home, only to find her hovering over him in the morning. She tells him that she is a ghost and takes him to her funeral.
She later tells him that there is a reason for her being there, but she didn't know why.
He later find out something bad had happened to her, and the rest of the movie is spent trying to find out "Who done it?"
Kim Yeon Hwa is a human in flashbacks in about 33 % of the movie; the rest she is a ghost who eats, drinks, and shows all kind of human emotions, although she is dead.
The main cast worked well together and seemed to fit perfectly and had enough attraction in their acting to make it seem true. We find out later that both of them met each other in the past, and that Moon Gi and Yeon Hwa had followed each other since, but never said anything.
The support cast also did a great job in their acting, lending credibility to the movie and supporting the plot being told by the main cast.
When I found out about who was present at the incident, I suspected the plot twist, which happened; however, if you go back and analyze the scene itself, the plot twist is a lie. Enough about this, already!
What is stranger still, Yeon Hwa must have forgiven Moon Gi...the ending scene proved this.
The ending was sad but this was probably among the the best love stories ever written.. I actually don't like sad endings but this really made me admire the ending of this movie
I really found this movie touching.. no commercial elements, no stupid romantic scenes, no vulgarity or nudity; just pure emotions from mainly Park Shin Hye ; when Bong Tae Kyu showed his emotion, it was beautiful, though.
This movie would make anyone cry; he loved her, and it showed that near the end. Had he had a different start in life this would have ended differently, but his ill-fated childhood made him shy and stand-offish to women.
He could have saved her, but he instead ran and hid after the incident took place.
Can you imagine the sadness, guilt, betrayal, and regret of his character.? To be involved with a lovely lady who was trying to tell him that she liked him, ever since her first meeting together.
This is a very good movie, but heartbreaking no matter how it ends. I thought the director, main and support cast did a great job, even with the limited time the director gave to this film (having a female director and screenwriter probably didn't hurt, either.) I am always saying that the director should have given another 10-30 minutes of some aspect of a movie, but this seemed to be the perfect length for the lesson being taught here!
KBS specials always have great plot twists and good acting; I knew somewhere near the end that would still be some surprise(s) left.
For all the movies that I've watched this is very different and mysterious The twist of this story is somewhat different than most KBS specials as well.
This movie full of emotions and the story is so well written.
This movie also shows the aspects of pain and sadness that can develop in a relationship.
I really recommend this to anyone who lokes a good movie.
This is about a one Kleenex box movie, give or take your personal crying style.
I dropped the overall score simply for the terrible ending!
RE-WATCH VALUE: Defijntely.
I want another movie, where Yeon Hwa assists Moon Gi when he gets out of prison and also helps him meet another great catch, like she was.
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"A Rainbow Is The Door To Heaven. When People Die They Go To Heaven Through That Door"
"When I Saw You For The First Time, You Already Stole My Heart""Have You Ever Seen A...Ghost Before? Of Course, Every Day. What? In The Mirror. Actually, I'm A Ghost."
"You Gave Me A Firefly And Carried Me. But This Is All I Can Give You In Return."
"I'll Close My Eyes And Run So You Can Guide Me, Okay? I'm Really Closing Them. Okay?"
"Look Outside The Window, If The Branches Swing Gently In The Wind, Then The One You Love Is Loving You, Too."
"Open Your Ears. If You Hear Your Heartbeat, Then The Person You Love Is Loving You, Too."
"Close Your Eyes. If There Is A Smile On Your Lips, Then The Person You Love Is Loving You, Too."
"I'm Crying Right Now; Can't You See My Tears? Why Did You Hide You Couldn't See?""
(Joo Hee's necklace finally made it back to her daughter, Yoon Ji Hye!)
I have had a few of you like the Long and detailed synopses on some of these movies, but this one will not be one of them! This movie was too long to do it that way.
First, I am disappointed how some 'critics' compared this movie to director Kwak Jae Yong's movies before, My Sassy Girl (2001), and after this one, Windstruck (2004}. This movie is a drama/love story with some humorous parts in it; while the other two are comical movies with drama in them. There should be no comparison, except for quality...
This movie was made, in my opinion, to be a masterpiece that stands the passage of time.
My Sassy Girl (2001) and Windstruck (2004) are part of a "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by director and screenwriter Kwak Jae Yong. "My Sassy Girl" is the first in the series and "Windstruck" the second, with the 2008 Japanese film "Cyborg She" being the last one. These three are not about a traditional girl, as this one is, and the comedy is given more emphasis in the other two than here.
This is a traditional movie with traditional characters and traditional values being embraced.
I have no idea why he did "The Classic" between the the first two of the "Sassy Girl" series, but they are only connected by their Screenwriter/ Director Kwak Jae Yon did "Daisy" as screenwriter and "3 Colors Love Story" as director (both 2006) between the 2nd and 3rd of the "Sassy Girl" series.
This I believe will be a classic movie in the future, when all is said and done.
In my opinion, comparisons of this movie should be between his "Daisy" and /or "3 Colors Love Story" and this movie.
The main cast here are excellent! There is a great acting from both the main female and three main male cast (I include Yoon Tae Soo (Lee Ki Woo) since he appeared in more of the movie than Oh Sang Min (Jo In Sung) did.
Joo Hee / Yoon Ji Hye (Son Ye Jin) was excellent in her roles as mother and also her daughter and exhibited a wide range of emotions as both the young daughter of an important official and again as Ji Hye, her daughter.
The two men pursuing the mother, Oh Joon Ha (Jo Seung Woo) and Yoon Tae Su/Soo (Lee Ki Woo) performed with the abilities of older, more experienced actors and played their parts, both as best friends and of rivals for the same girl, brilliantly. All three of these cast members effectively portrayed individuals in love, and as both friend and also rivals wishing the other suitor of wasn't so attached to the female. whose love they are fighting for.
Also, Oh Sang Min (Jo In Sung) performed his role effectively as well! And his acting after being told of his father and his lost love was excellent, as if he was a carbon copy of his movie father, Oh Joon Ha!
The support cast also performed as if they were the characters that they were playing, and supported the main cast appropriately.
I loves the way that the adolescent cast members felt 'inadequate' in writing their own love letters and involved their best friends in this task, and the difference between the two parts here in the movie as well.
I loved the cinematography, plus the placing of the music at what seems just the right moments to both support the story and also bring the audience to an emotional apogee! I would also love to live in the area of the river/reservoir; it is so beautiful!
The scenes in the school are also very convincing, and even the house the mother, then daughter, lived in make such a statement toward the ambiance in this movie. The director and his assistant(s) did a spectacular job on this movie!
I have said in other reviews of other movies that I wished that the director has spent another 10 to 20, to however many minutes, on developing the main characters more; this movie seemed to be perfect in this respect as to length. Time was taking to develop the four main characters to the point where the audience 'felt' for all of them, even as the audience knew that someone would ultimately lose in their quest for their love being fulfilled in these triangles!
I think Kwak Jae Yong took a lesson out of director Akira Kurosawa's movie "Seven Samurai (1954) in his total development of his main characters, taking his time telling the story of Joo Hee / Yoon Ji Hye/Oh Joon Ha/Oh Sang Min and Yoon Tae Soo. That is most of the reason I believe that in the future , this movie will be thought of as a true movie classic and not just in name)!
WARNING: This is at least a two-box-of-Kleenex movie, so don't start the movie without at least one box on hand, and someone heading for the local store to obtain another box of Kleenex before you reach the halfway point, or simply buy two boxes of Kleenex beforehand
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely!
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Religious Theme All Th e Way Through This Kim Ki Duk Masterpiece here!
This is the tenth movie written and directed by Kim Ki Duk...known for his "way out" movies and plot twists all through his films.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Significance of the word "Samaritan":
A Samaritan in the Bible was a person from Samaria, a region north of Jerusalem. In Jesus’ day, the Jewish people of Galilee and Judea shunned the Samaritans, viewing them as a mixed race who practiced an impure, half-pagan, or in their eyes, "false" religion.
The historian Josephus and Jewish tradition trace the origin of the Samaritans to the captivity of the northern kingdom under Assyria in 721 BCE. Jews of the northern part of the old kingdom intermarried with Assyrians after their captivity and produced the half-Jewish, half-Gentile Samaritan race. When the Jews accused Jesus of being a “Samaritan” in John 8:48, they were rudely suggesting that He was a half-breed, born of an unfaithful mother.
The Jews of Jerusalem wanted NOTHING to do with them!
However, Jesus told a parable of a man in need, portraying the Samaritan as the hero in the story, the only one who would help the person in need. This story of the "Good Samaritan" shocked his audience of the other, stuck-up Jews. The Protestant Jesus showed that His love must transcend all human boundaries of race, religion, nationality, economic class, and educational status.
With this brief explanation, you can undertand the title of this movie better.
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Girls Jae Young (Han Yeo Reum) and Yeo Jin (Kwak Ji Min) want to go to Europe; and without money, they must make it 'somehow'... therefore, Jae Young acts as a a "socail worker" and Yeo Jin schedules her "working" gigs with clients.
Everything is fine until Yeo Jin fails at her second half of her job (security) and Jae Young jumps from a hotel window to avoid arrest by the police.
Jae Young and Yeo Jin are very close, as in "kissing" and otherwise personal 'closeness', but Yeo Jin hates the businessmen whom 'work' with Jae Young; but she has to get the one business worker that Jae Young loved so much, (as she was dying in the hospital) she then is forced to take the plunge herself. Jae Young has said that she 'loved' the men she worked with, but I feel that she would never have left Yeo Jin for any of them, as she said to Yeo Jin earlier .
What follows is a kind of penance of Yeo Jin as she is returns all the money: however, I cannot decide if Yeo Jin is doing simple penance or simply regretting not helping in the "working" part of the business that they got themselves into. I am going to say a little of both!
I see so much in this movie that I have to watch it over and over, seeing more each time that I watch it. Kim Ki Duk combined so much in the three segments, especially in the first segment, setting up the relationship of the two friends and their differing opinion on the men they obtained money from.
Yeo Jin is thrown into turmoil over losing Jae Young, and she takes her notes and returns the money to the men who had paid Jae Young in the beginning. All of the men, if i remember right, have a catharsis of sorts after sleeping with Yeo Jin and having their money returned.
Another Ki Duk's movie plays on these same themes (maybe more, since I have not seen all of them yet!); Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003, where Ki Duk plays the old monk).
I am pretty sure that Yeo Jin felt remorseful in her failure to protect Jae Young, and I believe to a lesser extent, for her not 'working' as hard as Jae Young in making the money they needed for their trip.
In the process of returning the money, Yeo Jon's father Yeong Ki (Lee Eol) catches her, as he is working a case where another young girl, possibly a under-aged prostitute, loses her life. Her father is already distraught over losing his wife, and senses that his daughter, for whatever reason, is about to become a homicide victim as well.
He starts following his daughter around after class, watching her see different men (not knowing her and Jae Young's former relationship with each man encountered.
I look upon his relationship with his daughter as with the father and daughter(s) in 'Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)' or ''The Gangster's Daughter (2017)' or even 'The Closet (2020)' a father who loses the wife/mother too early and has problems talking to his daughter; had he been able to think rationally, he could have asked her what she was doing with the men and not have taken his own personal vengeance on them!
I also believe that he called his police friends and turned himself in, knowing the last trip to his wife's grave, with Yeo Jon, would be his last for quite awhile.
The film's ending, with Yeo Jin desperately trying to catch up with her father in his car but spinning out after only one driving lesson is perfect, although I didn't at first. Both of their futures were changed by unanticipated turns f events.
I hope some young, free-thinking director in the future gets the two main cast members together again, and have him tell us what happened after years of prison for the father and years of isolation of his daughter, Yeo Jin...or did she find someone to trust and live happily with while 'daddy' was in prison?
I also liked Yeo Jin's dream just before the driving lesson, another example of Yeo Jin seeking forgiveness for what she allowed happen to jae Young! Again, I see more and more religious motifs every time I watch this movie.
There are 'images' in the film that also appear to point toward this as well, with under-aged prostitution and her father's self-serving justice being only the dressing for the more important underlying themes of redemption and penance.
As a Religious Studies major, I feel that is the reason that I fell in love wit this movie, from the first time i saw it!
The imagery (cinematography) is somewhat jagged but this adds to the story rather than detracting from it, and the music was fine for the scenes in which it was used.
The main cast members, the two girls at first and then Yeo Jin and her father in the last segments, acted perfectly, making their pairing in the segments play very well, with you believing the relationships as being real.
The support cast all did their parts as well, with their acting adding to the main story lines and making the main casts' work all the more believable.
My major complaint is that I would like for father and daughter to have talked, and possibly coe to some other conclusion.
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely, and watch for all the religious iconography in the film from start to finish!
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"For a Killer, Women Are More Dangerous Than Guns"
First of all, there are three versions of "Daisy" on the Internet, each one with a varying length of run time; one version left out an important fact that would cause someone watching that version to know what really happened...this ""armchair" director should be shot and buried without a way of adding other movies to the Internet!Go with the longest version, or stick with one of the movie sites where they only upload the original version of the movie.
"Daisy" was not only a romance, but also a macabre psychological thriller that makes you want to keep your eyes glued to the screen as you watch it...about 40% romance and the rest thriller!
I love the "flashback" method of filling in details when the are needed for a segment of a movie; and I also loved the way that the narrative jumped from Hye-young (Jun Ji-hyun) to Park Yi (Jung Woo-sung) to Jeong Woo (Lee Sung-jae ) as the story unfolded, plus with the excellent music incorporated (including classical, one of my favorites!), it and the psychological aspects made this so mesmerizing as the movie progressed.
The main cast are superb together: Hye-young , a 24 year old virgin, who doesn't know, through no experience, much about dating; Park Yi , who is a professional assassin who takes up flower growing and learning about art and flowers from following Hye-young, who he stumbles upon and starts following as if she is a hobby for him (he is not "stalking" per se, but knows to keep his distance from anyone who may be used to get to him as an assassin); and Jeong Woo, who starts out using Hye-young due to her position doing drawings on the main plaza at first, but then falls in love with her.
To correct the review of another reviewer here, Jeong Woo is investigating drug smuggling, not Park Yi! The drug smugglers are operating near where Hye-young makes money drawing people's portraits on her time off.
I wound up watching "Daisy" because I was given a recommendation to watch My Sassy Girl (2001), and if a movie I watch is good, I will watch as many of an actor's or actresses' movies as I can find with English subtitles. I had only seen two of Jun Ji-hyun's movies before this one, which were both comedies.
However, the young lady proved her ability to do drama as well; doing an excellent job as Hye-young; extra kudos for her facial expressions and body language after her becoming mute here. She actually was able to portray the "confusion" of a young girl who had not dated yet in this movie, and was being 'pursued' by the other main cast members. Also the confusion she faced, and appropriately portrayed. I also give her extra kudos for the 'gun' scene, using body gestures, her face and body to convey loathing of Park Yi , yet at the same time showing her inability to do anything, since she was slow but surely falling in love with him as well (in the movie) .
This was the first movie seeing the other two main cast, Jung Woo-sung and Lee Sung-jae. Both did excellent job here, but I cannot compare either with other movies, since I had not seen them act before. If they do as well in other movies as they did in this one, you would be smart to try their other movies as well!
Both did a fantastic job at being interested in Hye-young while playing their role of assassin and Interpol cop, respectfully.
I questioned Jeong Woo not exactly admitting that he was not the daisy provider, but I guess I would have also 'not told the truth' if I was falling in love with Hye-young myself (you guys know what I mean!).
The support cast also did excellent jobs in this movie, playing thier roles and supporting the main story between the three main cast. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe President Cho (director and actor David Chiang) played the head of the assassin group; the script, especially in his roles, shows that he knew more about Park Yi's life and flaws than Park Yi, did and he played the cool, unemotional assassin head perfectly!
The cinematography was outstanding...I checked out websites on Amsterdam and its surrounding area; this movie does an excellent job of portraying that beauty as well! The internal shots were outstanding as well...
This could have eaily been a "10" movie all-round, but as with many Korean movies I deducted 0.5 off my review for the fact it portrayed what would have actually happened had this been 'real-life"; I love this about Korean movies, but detest it as well!
As I have said before, Shakespeare left America and moved to SE Asia a few decades ago!
CAU TION: have at least a full box of tissue handy if you watch it, especially by yourself!
I rate this just beloe Wedding Dress (2010) More Than Blue (2009), The Millionaire's First Love (2006) and the much-underrated Mural (2011).
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely, with Kleenex!
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Drama Special Season 5: The Three Female Runaways
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Three females escape their reality for a brief time...and find new family members!
I really enjoyed this drama it wasn't overly complicated and had funny moments;it was a cute movie about three females escaping their reality for a brief time period...if the scriptwriters could keep the momentum going, this would make a great drama series as well!This movie also shows that 'family' is not always blood..
The grave misunderstanding just made the story so hilarious yet emotional; the sad part is that Chairman Yoon (Jo Young-Jin) was so out of touch with his daughter that he allowed the situation to become so bad to begin with...men should understand that birthdays, anniversaries et al, are important to ladies.
I love the chemistry between all the actresses; the dram part, the comedy, the underlying lesson, the friendships that developed, the understanding that the men acquired after the women ran away, in effect EVERYTHING!
This is heartwarming film with its unexpected twists and turns, while being quite funny as well! The screenwriters more than earned their salaries putting together this movie!
The main cast acted as if they were actually quite good together, and it reminded me of how real women I know act when they get together and have a girls' night out. The support cast also did an excellent job and more than supported the main story presented by the interaction of the three main female cast.
Soo Ji (Seo Yea Ji), Kim Yeo Jin (Jang Hee Jin) and Hyung Ja (Park Hae Mi) all have various reasons for running away; two of them their home lief an the third, Yeo-Jin, is escaping a tyrannical and abusive boss.
They all are victims of men who don't appreciate their individual talents and they are all being forced into situations which they detest.
On different platforms, there was talk about the female playing Soo-JI (Seo Yea Ji) being in her mid-20s,playing a high school student; All you have to do with a good-looking female is change her hairstyle, clothes and makeup.... and through 'acting' older or younger she can pass herself off for a wide range of 'age' in a movie.
That is how a female actress can play any certain character for a motion picture which requires the main or support actress to BECOME a younger or older person to fit into her role (showing the passage of time in a movie or drama), especially if the director/script requires it.
Also, 20-25 year olds portray "teenagers" in American soap operas (A 'soap opera' or 'soap' for short is a radio or television serial dealing especially with domestic situations and frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers in the early days of American radio] The term was preceded by “Horse opera”.)
Asian "dramas" are basically Eastern 'soap operas' themselves.
The story of this short movie was really nice. From 3 different strangers turned into family and best friends. Worth it to watch.
The music was just right and the cinematography was all-around perfect. I also like the way that the men working for the Chairman used the public security cameras to trace the women; however, I felt it was cold and inappropriate the use of a tracer on Hyung Ja's phone. I don't believe that spouses should ever do that!
This movie reminds me of the problem that developed in "The Closet" (2020) where the father Sang Won had a problem relating to his daughter Si Na after his wife died unexpectedly, or "Eat Drink Man Woman" (1994) where Chef Chu couldn't relate with his daughters after his wife died as well. In all these films, the characters did not really realize how important a person (their wives) were until they were gone!
I deducted 0.5 points overall only due to the corny over-acting of Chairman Yoon in his last scene; he could have said teh same thing in only half the time the director gave him to say what he said!
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely!
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