3 - IRON

Bin-jip

Korean

One of the best slow paced movies ever, don't go by what the picture speaks here, this movie deals with loneliness, unhappy relationship, and more importantly that you can live life on your terms if you are ready to face the consequences
A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
Imagine breaking into empty homes live there, do their chores and leave. One of his masterpieces.
weird, prison, golf, romance, hiding.

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TIME (SHI GAN)

Korean

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
how far would you go to please your loved ones, just so they don't get bored of you, would you go for a complete facial plastic surgery, which in the end results in your partner fighting it out to find under what face is his love hiding, would he win back his love .Or they meet a tragic end with both of them failing to concede their fading but re-energized love..
Seh-hee and Ji-woo have dated for two years; jealousy consumes her. She worries he will tire of her face. Then, she disappears. Telling no one, she goes to a plastic surgeon for a new face. Ji-woo has no idea where she is, although when he does respond to other women, someone unseen intervenes. Then, he meets See-hee, and although he tells her he misses Seh-hee, this new relationship blossoms into love. They talk at the same coffee house, visit the same sculpture park, and pose for the same photographs he did with Seh-hee. We know they are the same woman. Has this new face and renewed love made her happy? And what will Ji-woo do when he learns the truth? Is losing face losing self?
suspense, romance, tragedy, plastic surgery

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom 

  

 

In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis

A movie that lets you see through a lifetime of a person his innocence, pain, love, anger, reconciliation and rejuvenation. One of the movies which goes deep into your minds, and questions about your deeds, the things you do and the implications it has on others, even the tiny slightest things and its impacts. A movie not to be missed in a lifetime

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Crocodile
Ag-o

Violent thug Crocodile lives under a bridge by the Han River in Seoul together with a peddling boy and a homeless old man. Crocodile saves a beautiful young woman Hyun-Jung from suicide by drowning, but only to use her for sex. Yet, for some reason the woman, betrayed by her lover, stays with Crocodile, and a peculiar family-like friendship forms between the four homeless people. Crocodile gets in ever deeper trouble because of his mindlessly violent temper, and eventually Hyun-Jung decides to attempt suicide again.

The story revolving around the old man and the little boy also adds up to the pace of the movie who doesn’t bring a lag in this slow paced art by Kim Ki-duk

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Bad Guy

Nabbeun namja

In busy downtown Seoul, a thuggish young man notices a fresh-faced college student who sits on a bench. He stares then sits next to her. She looks at him as if he's vermin, rises and walks to another bench. He sits staring. Her boyfriend arrives, she points to the stranger, the boyfriend shrugs and puts his arm around her to walk away. The stranger starts to leave as well, turns, goes to them, takes her face firmly in his hands and kisses her long and hard. The boyfriend tries unsuccessfully to break them apart, then soldiers beat the stranger. She demands an apology. He is silent. She slaps him and spits on him. They leave. The next day, he sets out to ruin her. How can this end?

Movie can be termed as a rather dark one leading to non-violent sadistic events ruining a girl’s life after she insults him for his behaviour.

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THE BOW

Hwal

 

A sixty and something year old captain has been raising for ten years a girl since she was six in his old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore with the intention of marrying her on her seventeenth birthday. He survives bringing fishermen to fish in the vessel and predicting the future using his bow and shooting arrows in a Buddhist painting on the hull of the vessel while the girl moves back and forth in a swing. He also uses the bow and arrows to protect the girl against sexual assault of the fishermen. They live happily until the day that a teenage student comes to the ship and the girl feels attracted for him. When the teenager discovers that the girl was abducted when she was six and does not know the world, he returns to the vessel to bring the girl back to her parents.

A movie to watch when you have nothing else much to do, some weirder moments building up to a rather unconvincing climax and unexplainable love between the girl and her guardian. Some may say it a disappointing attempt by Kim Ki duk.

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