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ds_fan · Joined: 07 Apr 2008

Bit of a movie buff and was wondering if anyone could reccommend any decent korean movies that i could download with english sub?
thanks

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

Oldboy (+prequel and sequel)
Welcome to Dongmakol
Silmido
Chingu
The Gambler

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

Or since you are in Korea you could stop being so cheap and lazy and pay the 1-2,000 won rental fee...

I can understand downloading western flicks while in Korea, but it is faster to just pay and get a good quality dvd at the rental place then d!ck around looking for subbed korean flicks on the net.

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

Papa Smurf · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Seoul

The King and the Clown is awesome

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Anything by Lee Chang Dong and Hong Sang Soo is worth a look. Especially The Day A Pig Fell Into the Well, Peppermint Candy and Oasis.

Also, Memories of Murder, Memento Mori, Once Upon a Time in High School, Friend, Host, My Sassy Girl, Secret Sunshine.... I could go on and on..

You've hit the mother lode. Korea is one of the world's great, yet largely unrecognised, film making nations.

evilive · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Location: England

I'm a CYBORG

Bigfeet · Joined: 29 May 2008 Location: Grrrrr.....

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

The "English subtitles" part is the tough part.

The "You no say yes, maybe, why are you lightbulb?" stuff is pretty bad.

KumaraKitty · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Location: Bucheon

My favorites are "My Sassy Girl" and "Classic". We just saw "once upon a time in Korea" and it was good.
I also enjoyed "My wife is a gangster" , just the first 2.

On a subtitle note, most DVD's you can rent have the option for English subtitles. Look on the back of the display box, on the bottom it should list available languages.
"My Sassy Girl" has the best subtitles ever! The often subtitled facial expressions! And at one point there is a gun fight with machine guns, and the subtitle says "Sound of guns firing.Bang bang." Too much fun!

safeblad · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

I watched My Sassy Girl after reading a thread on daves where people were saying how awesome it was. Big mistake on my part, the safest way to describe it is irritating.

Same goes for Welcome to Dongmakgol though that one is worth watching if you are new to Korea just because it has a good insight into the Korean mindset... though the white guy in that movie seems like an english teacher they pulled of the street...why do they always do that?

I did enjoy 'Save the Green Planet' and the 'Oldboy' vengeance trilogy though that goes without saying.

PS while we are on the subject does anyone have any invites for that 'avistaz' asian movie torrents site? If someone could send me an invite i would be incredibly thankful and could always send you one for the 'thebox.bz' British TV site if thats your thing???

kiwiduncan · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Location: New Zealand

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

You are My Sunshine: Is about a simple farmer who falls in love with a
coffee girl. She quickly learns that there is more to life than earning the short time fee from customers. Unfortuantly she ends up back in the buisness shortly after they marry. The movie has a tragic twist and their love is comprimised.

Cerriowen · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Location: Pocheon

I can't remember exactly... the name was Korean.

What's the name of their national wrestling sport?

"(wrestling) can make you a real woman too!" Or something like that.

Anyone know the name of the movie?

It's about a boy who wants to be a woman, and the only way to get the money for the trans-gender surgery is to enter a wrestling competition.

mrgiles · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Location: Seoul

some others that are good:

i think the korea war movie's called brothers in english (태극이 휘날리며).

um the one about the gwangju massacre. (화려한 휴가). sorry i dunno what it i s in english, something like magnificent holiday i guess.

if u like ur emotions manipulated, marathon and hello/goodbye brother(?) sorry i dunno what they call that in english either, it's the one about a little boy with cancer (안녕 형아).