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…ing(아이엔지) January 8, 2009

Posted by mxm1295 in Korean Movies, Movies.
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…ing is a Korean movie starring Im Soo Jung and Kim Rae Won.  It was made in 2003 and is 102 minutes long....ing movie poster

Main Cast:

Im Soo Jeong as Min Ah
Kim Rae Won as Young Jae
Lee Mi Sook as Mi Sook

Synopsis: …ing is a South Korean film that follows the life of young woman who has become reserved and indifferent to the world as a result of her chronic illness and deformed hand. The film quietly portrays the unconventional, yet endearing relationship between mother and daughter Min-ah (Im Soo Jeong) and Mi-sook (Lee Mi-sook) as well as the development of Min-ah as she is befriended by the high spirited and carefree photographer Young-jae (Kim Rae-won) who happens to move into their apartment complex.

(source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…ing)

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A Love to Kill (이 죽일놈의 사랑) August 19, 2008

Posted by mxm1295 in Dramas, Korean Dramas.
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A Love to Kill is a Korean drama starring Bi/Rain/Jeong Ji Hoon (Kang Bok Gu) and Shin Mina (Cha Eun Seok). This drama aired from the end of October 2005 to the middle of December 2005 with 16 episodes.

Main Cast:

Bi as Kang Bok Gu
Shin Min Ah as Cha Eun Seok
Kim Sa Rang as Han Da Jung
Lee Ki Woo as Kim Joon Sung

Synopsis: In A Love to Kill, Bi (Rain or Jeong Ji Hoon) plays a tough guy as the role of a K-1 Fighter, Kang Bok Gu. Bok Gu is a character who is dynamic in nature and grew up in a foster home. He falls in love with a woman whom he should not love. It was because of the woman, his emotionally-wounded brother fell off from the rooftop and became a human vegetable. So, his love is forbidden and inevitably tragic.

The woman is Cha Eun Seok (Shin Mina) who is a TV talent and movie actor. It was not that she jilted his brother on purpose, but upon a basis of misunderstanding, his hatred toward Cha Eun Seok grows more and more burning.

By becoming Cha Eun Seok’s private bodyguard, Bok Gu keeps concretely practicing his revenge upon her. He only desires ‘to bring his brother’s woman to her knees.’ He is gradually taking Cha Eun Seok to destruction, while he feels his love toward her growing deeper and deeper in his heart.

Bok Gu is a cold guy character without any special concern for woman. Martial art of hand-to-hand fighting was just kind of his escape he choose from the shock of a spinster’s death whom he loved from a distance.

(credit: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/A_Love_to_Kill)

Review: Well, I downloaded this drama from some website 2 years ago and I had planned to watch it before anything else, but I watched it gradually over the summer. Anyway, I downloaded it mainly because of the main star, Rain (Bi, Jeong Ji Hoon), because I heard he was a good entertainment star, and I was like “why not?”. So, I downloaded all 16 and I had all intentions of putting them on a DVD, but that didn’t work out. ANYWAY, I came into watching it with an open mind, hoping it would be good. I was a little disappointed.

It might have been that I was expecting something more, but the acting was not up to par. It wasn’t horrible, but it something that you would’ve expected from a soap opera; average. It was an OK performance for all the actors. I don’t think it helped that the plot wasn’t that great either. I thought it was very cheesy at times and got very tired with it after a while.

And I hated the ending. It just kind of stopped. It was going so well, then it stopped. I was not impressed to say the least. It shows a weakness in the plot when they end things without the problem being finished. I would have been happier if things had developed more between Bok Gu and Eun Seok, but they didn’t. And I wish they had gone more in depth about Bok Gu’s hate for Cha Eun Seok; I wish they had made that more prominent. Because the way I saw it, he really didn’t hate her enough to kill her. He thought about it when opportunities struck, but he showed more compassion than I thought he would. And most times, it was to save his ass from being discovered.

I am not saying that this was just an awful drama to watch. It wasn’t. But it had a lot of things that I would have fixed. Overall it was okay, nothing special. I would say, if you really like Rain, you should watch it. So here are the links, and enjoy!

YouTube-http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F38C183590330E8A
MySoju-http://www.mysoju.com/a-love-to-kill/
aznV.TV-http://aznv.tv/?p=d86

Love Contract (愛情合約) June 23, 2008

Posted by mxm1295 in Dramas, Taiwanese Dramas.
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Love Contract is a Taiwanese drama starring Ariel Lin, who played Xiao Feng, and Mike He, who played Liu Jian Dong also known as Ah Ken. This drama aired from June 2004 to August 2004 with 20 episdoes.

Love Contract

Main Cast:

Ariel Lin as Cheng Xiao Feng
Mike He as Ah Ken
Zhang Rui Jia as Ah Kai
Zhong Xin Yu as Li Xin Lei
Lai Zhi Wei as Xiao Bai
Lin Yi Hong as Mu Tou

Synopsis: Outwardly, Xiao Feng (Ariel Lin) is a stubborn tomboy and the captain of the Kendo Club at her college. In her group of friends, she is the leader with her demanding nature and abrupt ways. Inwardly however, Xiao Feng is a girl scarred by her past and searching for what she wants most, love. Her friends, Ah Kai (Zhang Rui Jia), Xiao Bai (Lai Zhi Wei ), Mu Tou (Lin Yi Hong), Xin Lei (Zhong Xin Yu, and, Xiao Xiao (Yang Pei Ting) don’t know about that part of her past but they are all loyal friends to Xiao Feng; that is, until Xiao Bai and Ah Kai leave the Kendo Club for the Swim Team. Xiao Bai and Ah Kai are immediately regretful when the captain of the Swim Team, Ah Ken, turns out to be a captain as grueling as Xiao Feng. When one night Xiao Feng announces to her friends she wants love the most, Xiao Bai and Ah Ken devise a prank called the love contract. In exchange for finding swim team members to recruit, Ah Ken must court Xiao Feng.

(credit: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Love_Contract)

Review: Well, since I did one post on Mike He, I might as well do another. I thought he was good in this one as well, probably better than in Devil Beside You. Doesn’t matter what drama he will star in, he will always be a bad ass of some kind. Here he kinda plays an emotionally closed person, meaning the only emotion he shows in the beginning is anger. Of course, as the story progress he begins to have feelings for Xiao Feng, but anyone could’ve guessed that. Ariel Lin was also very good in this too. I saw her in Tokyo Juliet also, and I still think that this was her shining moment. She acted very well and it wasn’t too sickeningly sweet. I thought it was genuine for her character and I think she would be good in other roles such as this one.

Anyway, I think this drama was a little more emotionally involved than Devil Beside You was. (I could be wrong because I saw both of these dramas exactly a year ago, so I can’t remember EVERYTHING.) It dealt with bigger issues with Xiao Feng’s insecurity because of her burns, the death of Ah Ken’s mother, and of course near the end when Xiao Feng basically becomes a vegetable and Ah Ken has like a mental breakdown because of this. There are other moments not between Ah Ken and Xiao Feng that were heavy as well. Like when Ah Kai pushes his girlfriend down the stairs or something to that affect. Also, Xiao Feng’s sister becoming pregnant and then having a miscarriage. So, it was definitely a little more heavy than most dramas, in that it dealt with intense things. Although it did have its light, happy moments.

So, the ending. I won’t ruin it for the people who haven’t seen this. But I will say that it was strange, and confusing at first. I had to re-watch it to really understand what happened. Then I thought it was sweet, the meaning behind it. It was sad, but I totally got it. I gave this one a 10/10. Everything was great, a really touching story.

Okay, so I do have links for this one as well. So, here they are and I really hope you enjoy the drama as much as I did. Feel free to comment on it as well!! Enjoy!

YouTube-http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=93B0E961F140F01A
aznV.TV-http://aznv.tv/?p=d174

Stairway to Heaven [천국의 계단] April 17, 2008

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Stairway to Heaven is a Korean drama starring Kwon Sang Woo, who played Cha Song Joo, and Choi Ji Woo, who played Han Jung Suh/Kim Ji Soo. It aired from December 2003 to February 2004.

Cast:
Kwon Sang Woo as Cha Song Joo
Choi Ji Woo as Han Jung Suh
Kim Tae Hee as Han Yuri
Shin Hyun Joon as Han Tae Hwa
Lee Hwi Hyang as Tae Mira (Tae Hwa and Yuri’s mother)
Ha Jae Young as Han Su Ha (Jung Suh’s father)
Kim Ji Sook as Chairman Min Suh Hyun (Song Joo’s mother)
Jung Han Young as Han Pil Su (Tae Hwa and Yuri’s father)
Baek Sung Hyun as young Cha Song Joo
Park Shin Hye as young Han Jung Suh
Lee Wan as young Han Tae Hwa
Park Ji Mi as young Han Yuri

Synopsis: Song Joo is the only son of a wealthy family. Jung Suh is Song Joo’s childhood friend, and they were there for each other when one of their respectivStairway to Heavene parents passed away. They spent a lot time together, playing, and sharing their inner most thoughts. When Jung Suh’s father re-married Tae Mira, Mira brought her children Tae Hwa and Yuri from her previous marriage. That marked the end of Jung Suh’s happy days. Yuri was jealous of the privileged life that Jung Suh led, and vowed to take everything away from Jung Suh, including Song Joo. When Song Joo left for his studies in the U.S., he gave Jung Suh a necklace as a gift of his love.

On Tae Hwa’s birthday, Jung Suh gave him a birthday present. Tae Hwa mistook Jung Suh’s kindness as love, and he fell head over heels in love with her. Jung Suh never accepted Tae Hwa as her heart is with Song Joo, but Tae Hwa became Jung Suh’s soulmate after Song Joo left as she weathers life under the tyranny of Mira and Yuri.

Song Joo returns 3 years later from his studies and calls Jung Suh to meet him. Yuri runs Jung Suh down with her car in a mad bid to stop Jung Suh from her rendezvous with Song Joo. In her state of panic, Yuri sends a bloodied Jung Suh to her own father’s place. Tae Hwa tracks Jung Suh down and takes care for her. Jung Suh survives the accident but forgets everything about the past. Tae Hwa decides to start life afresh with Jung Suh by giving her a new identity as Kim Ji Suh.

(credit: http://www.crunchyroll.com/series-232/Stairway-to-Heaven.html)

Review: I remember this drama as the first korean drama I watched. At the time, I had just begun to get into dramas. I had found A Love to Kill on another website, downloaded it and started watching that at the same time. However, I really became hooked on this drama and dropped A Love to Kill for a while. I remember getting very frustrated with YouTube because the videos wouldn’t load or something like that…Good times! Anyway, I watched it for like a week straight, crying through many parts.

As much as I liked it, Tae Hwa I could not stand. He creeped me out because when they went from him being a kid to an adult, he looked so much older than he was supposed to be. I don’t know if that bothered anyone else, but man, it was weird. I think he was supposed to be a little obsessive and creepy like that mainly because of the feelings he had for his step-sister.

All of the acting was done very well, but I think at some parts it was very much overdone. For example, when Song Joo would be running to find Jung Suh, they would be playing Ave Maria in the background as Song Joo was almost in tears and the camera was spinning. I mean, come on!

Like I said before, at the time, I didn’t really notice these small little things, but I started to become more aware of this as I watched more dramas and as this drama progressed. However, I think the chemistry between Jung Suh and Song Joo was tragic, but magical at the same time. Everything in this drama made me want to burst out into tears, even when there were happy parts because I knew something bad was going to happen. Just knowing that Jung Suh had eye cancer made me cry!!!!

This is a very good drama for women! It will make you cry like you wouldn’t believe, so get your box of tissues ready and enjoy!! I give this drama a solid 8 out of 10.

Also, if you have seen this drama and are looking for something similar, I suggest you try Tree of Heaven starring many of the same actors and actresses of this drama (which would make sense because it was done by the same director).

I have yet to find this drama on online sites like Dailymotion, Crunchyroll, or YouTube. If anyone has a link, please send it to me. However, one site that I know of called aznV.TV (see links section), has it available for streaming. You would have to join (registraiton is free) and download Winamp to view it though.

MySoju-http://www.mysoju.com/stairway-to-heaven/
aznV.TV-http://aznv.tv/?p=d85