Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.
Category: Movies
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Jane Bonda’s Bizarre Workout
How can you call a bondage film “cute?” Don’t all of those whips and chains hurt? I guess they do, sometimes, but what we have here is a real first: a dominatrix with a good sense of humor. This neat little parody of exercise videos has all of the spikes, leather, plastic balls in the mouth, collars and whips you’d ever want —yet it has the ability to make us laugh, easing our way into at some bizarre fetishes.
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The Adventures of the Little Muk
A musical TV story based on the work of Wilhelm Gauf “Little Muck”.
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Scrap: A Love Story
The film depicts the strange live-in lifestyle of three people: Yasuko, a 14-year-old girl who insists that all things are equal and sex is no exception, Boku, a university student, and Ryosuke, a photographer for Binimoto. M, a girl who was popular for her photo books and videos at the time, plays the role of the girl who lives a carefree life, and is flanked by other celebrities.
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He’s Not Your Son
Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revelations and decisions threatens both families.
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Dangerous Encounter
A woman’s life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.
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According to Lopotukhin…
A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.
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The Owl vs Bombo
Sammo and George Lam are partners in crime and they scam some triad big shot out of a load of money and decide to retire. Three years later they both receive letters from Stanley Fung, in which he informs them that he has proof of all their criminal activity and unless they do exactly what he says–he will turn it over to the cops. Fung is an ex-cop himself and is trying to get the goods on the same triad leader that Sammo and George scammed.
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The Rooks
Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary participant in serious crimes and, in the end, is in the dock. A sentence is not passed for a long time, because it is important for a judge to understand the degree of guilt of each of the brothers, to get to the bottom of the truth, to find out what turned ordinary guys into robbers and killers.
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Ryoko Watanabe – Lesbian Stewardess
Veteran stewardess Ryoko tries to relax in her apartment the night prior to embarking on an overseas airplane flight. Her co-worker, a nervous novice stewardess named Yoshikawa, comes over unexpectedly and the pair partake in a torrid lesbian encounter. Matters get complicated when Ryoko’s boyfriend Hiroshi, who Ryoko invited over earlier, also shows up looking for sex.