herbiehancock

Before I begin here, I want to thank Mr. Coffin Jon of Varied Celluloid (a weekly genre-centric videocast on Livestream) and Large William of The Gentlemen's Guide to Midnite Cinema for helping me out with Korean name structure (?) this week. I honestly had no clue which name was first or last, and was calling people by their first names instead of last simply out of confusion. So Mr. SONG, this is your theme month. And Jon and Will, this review is dedicated to you both! Original Title : Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA Year : 2000 Director : Chan-wook Park Writer : Seong-san Jeong , Hyeon-seok Kim , Mu-yeong Lee , Chan-wook Park , Sang-yeon Park (novel "DMZ") IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260991/ Genre : Drama synopsis: In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount...

Original Title: Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom Year: 2008 Director: Kim Ji-woon Writer: Kim Ji-woon , Kim Min-suk IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901487/ Genre: Western synopsis: The story of three Korean outlaws in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits. If the title of the film alone wasn't enough to clue you in, this is a high budget Korean retelling of sorts of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Three less than desirable fellows all pursuing a common "treasure" and dealing with one another along the way. Replace the American military and the Civil War backdrop with Chinese military circa 1930 or 40, and there you have it. I guess it's "inspired by" the Leone epic. This is actually the first film I ever watched with Song Kang-ho. He is Yoon Tae-goo or The Weird. In addition to his awesomely frizzy hair, he does a great job acting-wise living up to his name as the offbeat ...