Korean Movie&Drama

The Throne 사도 1. Plot King Yeongjo (Song Kang-Ho) aspires to become a perfect king due to his tarnished background. His mother is from a lower class and a rumor exists that he killed his older brother to become the king. King Yeongjo then has a son at a late age. He appoints the little prince as the Crown Prince (Yoo Ah-In). King Yeongjo has high expectations for the Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince cares more for martial arts and paintings rather than focusing on his studies. Meanwhile, the Crown Prince longs for a benevolent father rather than a strict King. The relationship between the King and Crown Prince becomes shattered. 2.Cast Song Kang-ho : King Yeongjo Yoo Ah-in : Crown Prince Sado Moon Geun-young : Lady Hyegyeong 3.Comment It's amazing finale of acts! 4.What you should watch carefully Sado Seja Sado Seja is real person who was lived in 18s as a crown price of Josun dynasty. He could have been a king, but he died of starvation i

The prison 프리즌 1. Plot After a fatal accident, Yu-gon, a former police inspector, is sentenced to hard time in a prison he once helped fill. Once inside, he discovers the entire penitentiary is no longer controlled by the guards, but by a vicious crime syndicate that breaks out at night, using their prison sentences as the perfect alibi to commit intricate heists. Looking for revenge against the system that placed him inside, Yu-gon joins the syndicate... but with every man out for himself, how long can the perfect crime last? 2.Cast Han Suk-kyu : Jung Ik-ho Kim Rae-won : Song Yoo-gun 3. Comment  Copy version of Law abiding citizen? 4.What you should watch carefully Bang-eo sasimi After Ik-ho got saved by Yoo-gun from attack, Ik-ho asked Yoo-gun what is his wish. He asked some sasimi with Soju. That sasimi is Bang-eo(Japanese amberjack). In Korea, it is said No.1 sasimi of all. Because it has so much fat and sweetness and even it is quite expensive. In

HOPE 소원 1. Plot On a rainy morning, little So-Won (Lee Re) leaves for school, which is not very far from her home. Her father works at a local factory and her mother runs a modest neighborhood stationery shop below their home. So-Won is supposed to walk to school with her friend, but her friend ditched her for his group of guy friends. So-Won does not make it to school.   Hours later, So-Won's father Dong-Hoon (Sol Kyung-Gu) receives a gut wrenching phone call from the police. So-Won is now hospitalized after being brutally sexually assaulted. Can their family put back the pieces of their once happy home? 2.Cast Sol Kyunggu - Donghoon So-Won - Lee Re 3. Comment Child sexual abuse Must Be Disappeared! 4. What you should watch carefully Jo doo-sun(조두순)  You must remember this name.  This movie is based on real child sexual abuse case in 2008. He raped 7-year-old girl. He tried to make his penis in her mouth, but she denied. So he abused

The battleship island 군함도 1.Plot Under the colonial rule of Japan, 400 or so Koreans who are conscripted into slave labor on 'The Battleship Island', attempt to escape for life. 1944, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, conscripted civilians head out to the Hashima island. Nicknamed 'The Battleship Island' after its resemblance to a war vessel, some are lured by false promises of high wages. LEE, a bandmaster of a jazz bigband and his only daughter, CHOI, a thug, and Mallyeon are among the workers. But upon arrival, they found that the island turns out to be an isolated hell where the workers are forced into slave labor. As the Pacific War nears its end, PARK, a Korean independence activist assigned on a mission to rescue a Korea's spiritual leader from the island. As the U.S. launches massive counterattack on Japan, the Japanese decided to blow up the island in order to bury the truth about their awful treatment of the Korean slave labors. PARK discove

Twenty 스물 1. Plot Chi-Ho (Kim Woo-Bin), Dong-Woo (Lee Joon-Ho) and Gyung-Jae (Kang Ha-Neul) have been best friends since high school. Now, they are all 20-year-olds.   Chi-Ho has a girlfriend, So-Min (Jung So-Min), but he only thinks about wooing other women. An accident leads Chi-Ho to spend time with aspiring actress Eun-Hye (Jung Joo-Yeon).   Dong-Woo hopes to work as a comic artist, but his family's poor financial situation has Dong-Woo juggling several part-time jobs. So-Hee (Lee Yoo-Bi) is the younger sister of Gyung-Jae and she just adores Dong-Woo.   Gyung-Jae is a freshman in college. He hopes to land a job with a large corporation. Gyung-Jae then meets an upperclassman, Jin-Joo (Min Hyo-Rin), who takes an interest in him and he falls in love with. 2. Cast Chi-Ho : Kim Woo-Bin Dong-Woo : Lee Joon-Ho Gyung-Jae : Kang Ha-Neul So-Min : Jung So-Min Jin-Joo : Min Hyo-Rin 3. Comment No need to think! Some losers who just

LUCK-KEY 럭키 1. Plot Jae-sung, an aspiring actor who has hit rock bottom, prepares to commit a suicide. After his landlady insults him, he first cleans himself first at a public sauna. Hyung-wook, a notorious assassin, cleans himself at the same sauna after killing a target. Hyung-wook slips on a soap Jae-sung accidentally drops and passes out. Remembering Hyung-wook's luxurious look, Jae-sung switches his locker key with Hyung-wook's and steals his car and money. Feeling guilty, Jae-sung later tries to return everything to Hyung-wook, who is recuperating in the emergency room. When Jae-sung finds that Hyung-wook does not remember anything due to a concussion, he leaves without telling Hyung-wook anything.   While Jae-sung enjoys Hyung-wook's money and fancy apartment, Hyung-wook struggles to remember his identity, assuming he is Jae-sung because of the locker key. Hyung-wook can not pay his hospital bill, so Lina, a paramedic, pays it for him after he prom

The bros 부라더 1. Plot Dreaming of Indiana Jones like success, Lee Suk-Bong puts all his money into the excavation of remains. He falls into more debt and gains more useless equipment. His younger brother is Lee Joo-Bong (Lee Dong-Hwi). Lee Jong-Bong is smart and works for a construction company. Due to a mistake, Lee Jong-Bong finds himself in a crisis and he may lose his job. On the way to their hometown of Andong, the brothers hit Oh Ro-Ra (Lee Honey). 2. Cast Ma Dong-seok : Lee Seok-bong Lee Dong-hwi : Lee Joo-bong Lee Ha-nui : Aurora 3. Comment Touching movie without romance 4. What you should watch carefully If you have ever watch korean movies or dramas, you would notice those have romance everywhere. But in this movie, there is no romance(except for little bit of). At this point, I would recommend it The head family (honored family) Jong-ga Jong-ga(head family) means traditional family which maintain old tradition with Confucian i

The age of shadows 밀정 1. Plot Lee Jung-chool (SONG Kang-ho), a Korean police captain in the Japanese police force, is given a special mission to infiltrate the armed resistance fighting for Korean independence. He approaches Kim Woo-jin (GONG Yoo), a leader of the resistance. These two men who stand on opposite sides of their historical era, each knowing the identity and intentions of the other, become close without revealing their inner thoughts. Meanwhile intel is being leaked on both sides, and no one knows who the informants are. Members of the resistance meet in Shanghai to obtain explosives that will be used to destroy facilities of the Japanese Headquarters in Seoul, while the Japanese police follow them and gather in Shanghai. The pursued and the pursuers, locked in an operation where each side uses the other and is thrown into a confusion of secret enmity and conciliation. Meanwhile, a train carrying explosives passes the border and heads towards Seoul....  

Train to Busan 부산행 1. Plot Seok-woo, a divorced fund manager, is a workaholic and absentee father to his young daughter, Soo-an. For her birthday the next day, she wishes for her father to take her to Busan to see her mother. They board the KTX at Gwangmyeong Station. Others on the same train are tough working-class husband Sang-hwa and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong, a high school baseball team, rich but selfish CEO Yon-suk, elderly sisters In-gil and Jon-gil, and a homeless man who is experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.   As the train departs, a convulsing young woman boards the train with a bite wound on her leg. The woman soon becomes a zombie and attacks a train attendant, who then also turns into a zombie. The infection quickly spreads throughout the train. Baseball player Yong-guk, a girl named Jin-hee who has a crush on him, and several passengers manage to escape to another car. News broadcasts report zombie outbreaks throughout the country. The trai

Castaway on the Moon (Kimssi pyoryugi) 김씨표류기(2009) 1. Plot Kim Seong-geun (Jung Jae-young) is deep in debt and his life seems completely hopeless. He jumps off a bridge into the Han River and washes up on the shore of Bamseom, which lies directly below the bridge. After searching the island he finds it is filled mostly with vegetation and surrounded by the city but too far to shout and he can't swim. He finds a duck-shaped boat and begins to like living on the island, free of his debt and worries of city life, though it is not easy.   As he learns to survive on the island, his cries for help scrawled in the sand are seen by Kim Jung-yeon (Jung Ryeo-won), a Hikikomori who spots him while engaging in her nightly habit of photographing the moon. They soon begin exchanging messages, with Jung-yeon venturing out of her house to throw bottled messages onto the island, and Seong-geun writing his replies in the sand.   A torrential storm arrives destroying