Korean, Chinese and Japanese Movie DVDs & Blu-ray

The debut feature of director Hur Jin Ho (One Fine Spring Day), Christmas in August stars two of the most popular actors in Korea, Han Suk Kyu (Shiri) and Shim Eun Ha (Art Museum by the Zoo, Tell Me Something). It was screened during the International Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998.

Shot in a secluded area outside of Seoul, Christmas in August centers around a small photography shop owned by Jung Won (Han Suk Kyu), who has an incurable disease that leaves him only a short time to live. Meanwhile, he meets Darim (Shim Eun Ha), a meter reader who drops by his studio to develop pictures of parking violators. As she becomes a part of his daily routine, he finds himself becoming more and more attached to her. But he can’t express his affections to her because he knows he doesn’t have much time left.

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Winning Best Film at the 50th Baeksang Arts Awards, the critically acclaimed courtroom drama The Attorney drew over 11 million admissions at the box office to become one of the top ten Korean films of all time. The directorial debut of webtoon artist Yang Woo Suk, the film features an enormous performance from Song Kang Ho as a civil rights lawyer fighting an oppressive government. Set in eighties Busan during the authoritarian regime of Chun Doo Hwan, the film is based on the Burim case of 1981 when 19 people were illegally arrested and tortured. Song Kang Ho’s character is modeled on the early life of late president Roh Moo Hyun, who became a human rights activist after defending students in the Burim case. Im Si Wan, a member of the pop group ZE:A, makes his film debut as one of the wrongfully accused students. Touching on a sensitive period of modern Korean history, The Attorney resonated greatly with local audiences and raised public awareness about the Burim case.

Song Woo Suk (Song Kang Ho) is a tax attorney of humble origins who passed the bar despite never attaining a college degree. He became a lawyer with only one goal in mind: to make money. Woo Suk is initially unsympathetic to student activists, but his entire life and worldview begin to change drastically when he agrees to defend his friend’s son, Park Jin Woo (Im Si Wan), who was arrested for subversive activities and tortured into giving a false confession..
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Directed by Park Chan Kyong, who previously co-directed the shorts Day Trip and Night Fishing with brother Park Chan Wook, Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits is an innovative documentary about the life and times of Korea’s top shaman Kim Keum Hwa. Born in North Korea in 1931, Kim Keum Hwa became a shaman at the age of 17. From then on she and her homeland would experience many ups and downs, as the film intertwines Kim’s personal stories with important events of modern Korean history. Shunned and scorned for her calling in her younger years, Kim would eventually rise to great cultural prominence as South Korea’s “national shaman.”

True to Park Chan Kyong’s roots as a visual artist, Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits is anything but a straightforward documentary, weaving together archive footage, shamanistic ritual performances, animation as well as dramatic reenactments with actresses Kim Sae Ron, Ryu Hyun Kyung and Moon So Ri into a unique cinematic treat. The film offers not only a fascinating biography of one uncommon woman’s life against turbulent times, but also a stunning meditation on past and present, mystical and modern, in the context of Korean culture and history.

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Looking for love? Come on down to Cyrano Agency!

Inspired by the 19th-century play Cyrano de Bergerac, the romantic blockbuster Cyrano Agency offers a decidedly more modern and upbeat take on the art of surrogate courting. The urban rom-com about a matchmaking agency that plays cupid for those who falter in love charmed audiences in spades, topping the Korean box office for three consecutive weeks. Uhm Tae Woong (Chaw) is the “Cyrano” of this unconventional love story co-starring young television stars Daniel Choi (High Kick 2), Park Shin Hye (You’re Beautiful), and Lee Min Jung (Boys Over Flowers), who picked up a slew of Best New Actress awards for her performance. Directed by Kim Hyun Suk (Scout), Cyrano Agency also won Best Screenplay at the 31st Blue Dragon Awards.

Byung Hoon (Uhm Tae Woong) and his team (Park Shin Hye, Jun Ah Min, Park Cheol Min) at Cyrano Agency boast a 100% success rate when it comes to matchmaking. They painstakingly concoct elaborate, covert schemes and strategies to help their lovesick clients get their dream dates, but their latest client is a different story. Socially awkward broker Sang Yong (Daniel Choi) has fallen head over heels for free-spirited beauty Hee Joong (Lee Min Jung), and he needs some serious cupid help from Cyrano to get the girl. She has a completely different personality and lifestyle than Sang Yong – and she’s also Byung Hoon’s ex-girlfriend!

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Based on Park Yoon Young’s hit webcomic, the romantic drama Her Lovely Heels explores young urban love with the new-generation pairing of Kara’s Han Seung Yeon and model/actor Hong Jong Hyun (Dating Agency: Cyrano). Han Seung Yeon plays Ji Hoo, a young woman who is afraid of love because of past heartbreak. She develops a crush on coworker Tae Soo, who doesn’t believe in love but slowly changes after meeting Ji Hoo. Directed by Ahn Kil Ho and Min Yeon Hong, Her Lovely Heels‘s sweet and relatable story of a secret budding workplace romance was developed as a ten-episode mini-drama with each episode running ten minutes long. Following the mini-drama’s broadcast on SBS Plus, a film version of Her Lovely Heels was released..
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Three years after Secret Sunshine, acclaimed director Lee Chang Dong made a splash at the Cannes Festival again in 2010 with his Poetry winning Best Screenplay. Lee wrote the bittersweet story with veteran actress Yoon Jeong Hee in mind for the gentle role of an inquisitive grandmother who seeks solace through writing. One of Korea’s most famous and prolific actresses during the late sixties and seventies, Yoon Jeong Hee came out of retirement to star in Poetry, her first film in 15 years. Also co-starring Ahn Nae Sang (Fate), seventies action star Kim Hee Ra, and poet Kim Yong Taek, Poetry quietly writes the hope, tragedy, vulnerability, and tenacity of life on screen. Poetry won Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor at the 47th Daejong Film Awards.

Grandmother Mi Ja (Yoon Jeong Hee) works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson (David Lee, Paradise Murdered) by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry class, she endeavors to capture life in verse form, but her simple dream of completing a poem is stalled by the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease and the heavy financial and emotional burden of her grandson’s shocking wrongdoing..
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Directed by Han Jae Rim (Rules of Dating), the blockbuster period drama The Face Reader chronicles the life of a man whose skills in physiognomy are so great that he earns the attention of the king. Song Kang Ho (Snowpiercer) stars as the eponymous face reader who can predict the character and fates of those he comes across. The acclaimed actor is supported by an all-star cast that includes Lee Jung Jae (The Thieves), Kim Hye Su (Tazza: The High Rollers), Baek Yoon Shik (Tazza: The High Rollers) and rising stars Lee Jong Suk (No Breathing) and Jo Jung Suk (Architecture 101). Besides winning big at the box office with over nine million admissions, The Face Reader has also won many awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Daejong Film Awards.

Despite being the greatest face reader of the Joseon dynasty, Nae Kyung (Song Kang Ho) chooses to live in quiet seclusion with his son Jin Hyeong (Lee Jong Suk) and brother-in-law Paeng Heon (Jo Jung Suk) because of their disgraced family background. It is gisaeng Yeon Hong (Kim Hye Su) who finds Nae Kyung and brings him to the capital for a business partnership. Word of Nae Kyung’s amazing skills spreads quickly and soon he’s brought to the palace to assess and investigate civil servants and officials. Even the king enlists Nae Kyung’s services to identify potential traitors, pulling him into a court conspiracy involving Prince Suyang (Lee Jung Jae) who is plotting to usurp the throne.

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Actor-turned-director Yang Ik Joon makes a splash with his 2009 feature debut Breathless. The acclaimed Korean indie has had quite a run on the festival circuit, picking up awards at Rotterdam, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Fantasia, and many other international film festivals. Yang, who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film, pulls no punches in his profile of an angry, broken man at life’s crossroads. Co-star Kim Kkot Bi (The Ghost Theater) also earned rave reviews for her portrayal of a tough schoolgirl wise beyond her years. When these two loners cross paths, what unfolds is an unlikely friendship that changes both their lives in surprising ways. Dark, harrowing, and deeply personal, Breathless deals very honestly with the issue of domestic violence, leaving a deep impression with its depiction of physical and psychological abuse, while also lighting a beacon of hope at the end of the tunnel.

Brutish, brooding debt collector Sang Hoon (Yang Ik Joon) grew up in a household destroyed by domestic violence. He witnessed his mother and sister’s deaths as a child, and continues to punish his father for the past. Raging through a life of violence and bitterness, Sang Hoon begins to change after he encounters Yeon Hee (Kim Kkot Bi), a foul-mouthed high school girl who’s going through some equally hard times.

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Follow the trials, trysts, and tribulations of four beautiful singles feeling the pinch of growing up in smash hit Korean comedy Singles from director Kwon Chil In (Hellcats). Tapping into the psyche of Korea’s young adults, this sharp, intelligent and sexy comedy confronts the issues of growing up and taking responsibility with wit and style. Featuring a beautiful, talented cast and shot through with a knowing and hip sense of humor, it is no surprise that Singles was one of Korea’s biggest hits of 2003.

After Na Nan (Jang Jin Young, Over the Rainbow) loses her job and her boyfriend in the same day, she has only one place to turn to, her best friends Dong Mi (the gorgeous Uhm Jung Hwa, For Horowitz) and Jung Joon (Lee Bum Soo, The City of Violence). These three friends have supported each other since childhood and must now face the daunting World of single life, and the anxieties surrounding it, as they fast approach 30.

Dong Mi is the antithesis of the shy and vulnerable Na Nan. She knows what she wants and she knows how to get it. A serial man-eater, she’s had 46 lovers and counting – and she couldn’t care less who knows about it. Jung Joon, on the other hand, is anything but a player. He spends his days doting on his younger girlfriend, much to his friends’ dismay, until she unceremoniously dumps him for another man anyway. However, his refreshingly kind-hearted nature is not lost on Dong Mi – until one night of reckless passion forces them to re-evaluate their relationship.

Meanwhile, Na Nan is experiencing problems of her own. Forced to take a restaurant manager’s job that she hates, she must then contend with “Mr. Charm” Soo Heon (Kim Joo Hyuk, My Wife Got Married), who appears on the scene and sets his sights squarely on her. Who ever said single life was easy?.
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