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Cinema Service (Hangul: 시네마서비스) is a South Korean film production and distribution company.
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The Unfair (2015)
, 2h6Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Yoon Kye-sang, Yoo Hae-jin, Kim Ok-bin, Kim Ok-vin, Lee Geung-young, Jang Gwang
Tenants who have been evicted from their homes are in the middle of a sit-in protest, when the police arrive. A 20-year-old police officer and a 16-year-old boy, the son of a demonstrator, end up dead. The boy's father, Park Jae-ho gets arrested for the cop's death, but he insists it was self-defense and that he had only been trying to protect his son from being beaten by the riot police. Rookie public defender Yoon Jin-won is initially doubtful of Park's claims, until he gets approached by reporter Gong Soo-kyung who has her own suspicions about the government's account of the incident. Yoon then teams up with fellow lawyer Jang Dae-seok to pursue the truth through a jury trial.
Fists of Legend (2013)
, 2h33Directed by Kang Woo-suk
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about education, Sports films, Films about television, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Hwang Jeong-min, Yoo Jun-sang, Yoon Je-moon, Park Jung-min, Lee Yo-won, Jung Woong-in
A moment of bad luck derailed Deok-kyu's Olympic dreams and led him and his friends to jail. Jin-ho got out of jail quickly because of his rich parents, but Deok-kyu, Jae-seok, and Sang-hoon were not so lucky.
The Five (2013)
, 2h3Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kim Sun-A, On Joo-wan, Ma Dong-seok, Lee Chung-ah, Shin Jung-geun, Park Hyo-joo
Eun-ah was living a perfect, happy life with her family until a sociopathic young man named Jae-wook brutally and senselessly murders her husband and daughter in front of her eyes. Barely escaping alive herself, Eun-ah is left half-paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. After her recovery, she grows fixated on taking revenge on him. Two years later, following a long search, she hones in within striking distance of the killer. Faced with such a dangerous adversary and her immobility, Eun-ah gathers four people marginalized by society, each with a different skill, to help her kill Jae-wook. In exchange, she is prepared to give them something they desperately need -- her organs. All four accomplices -- which include a North Korean defector, an ex-gangster, a doctor, and a cop -- are in need of organ transplants for various reasons, and Eun-ah promises them her organs once her revenge is complete. But things don't go as planned, and the killer turns the tables and starts hunting them himself.
Tough as Iron (2013)
, 1h48Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Yoo Ah-in, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Jung-tae, Kim Sung-oh, Jeong Yu-mi, Kim Hyun-sook
Gang-cheol (whose name means "iron" in Korean) was once a legendary street gangster in Busan, but he put away his fists and cleaned up his act for the sake of his mother Soon-i, who has dementia. Things are going well for him; he now works as a stevedore at a loading dock and is pursuing a relationship with Soo-ji, a free-spirited woman from Seoul vacationing in the port city. But Soon-i is diagnosed with kidney failure and needs an expensive organ transplant that he can't afford. Knowing that Gang-cheol is desperate for money, local gang leader Sang-gon proposes that Gang-cheol come work for him and his brother Hwi-gon. At first Gang-cheol refuses, but when his debt-ridden best friend Jong-soo gives the deed to Gang-cheol's house to Sang-gon as collateral for a private loan, he's left with no choice but to get dragged back into Busan's criminal underworld. Gang-cheol is ordered to kill a visiting Japanese Yakuza boss whose death will enable Sang-gon's ascension within the Korean branch of the mob organization.
Gabi: Russian Coffee (2012)
, 1h55Genres Drama, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Kim So-yeon, Joo Jin-mo, Park Hee-soon, Yoo Sun, Kim Eung-soo, Kim Ga-eun
After his wife Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by the Japanese army and under threat of coup d'etat, Gojong the 26th king of Korea's Joseon Dynasty (Park Hee-soon) briefly seeks refuge at the Russian consulate in 1896. While he is there, he tastes and falls in love with a bittersweet drink that had yet to gain popularity in his homeland: coffee.
Attack the Gas Station 2 (2010)
, 1h47Directed by Kim Sang-jin
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Ji Hyun-woo, Jo Han-sun, Park Yeong-gyu, Park Sang-myun, Kim Su-ro, Kim Sang-jin
It's been 10 years since Mr. Park's gas station was attacked by motorcycle gangs. To get his revenge, Park hires a quartet of dodgy boys: a lethal puncher, a footballer with a killer high kick, a potbellied wrestler, and a video game addict who mastered the art of bluffing. But these employees turn out to be more dangerous when they demand their overdue salaries.
Moss (2010)
, 2h43Directed by Kang Woo-suk
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Park Hae-il, Jung Jae-young, Yoo Jun-sang, Yoo Sun, Kim Sang-ho, Yoo Hae-jin
When Ryoo arrives in a remote rural village to settle the estate of his estranged father, he stumbles into a dark web of secrets and betrayals that have lain buried for thirty years. The village is ruled over by its sinister chief, Cheon, a former police detective, and his cabal of reformed criminals - who seem to have both hated and feared Ryoo’s late father. It quickly becomes clear that Ryoo’s presence is not wanted – and that Cheon and the others are hiding something terrible. Soon the unwelcome visitor finds his life threatened as the truth becomes ever more obscured and allegiances shift beneath his feet...
No Mercy (2010)
, 2h5Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Sol Kyung-gu, Ryoo Seung-bum, Park Sang-wook, Han Hye-jin, Sung Ji-ru
Top forensic pathologist Kang Min-ho is about to retire so that he can spend time with his daughter who's just returned home after a long stint overseas. But when the dismembered corpse of a young woman is found by a local river, Kang agrees to do one last job. The primary suspect is environmental activist Lee Sung-ho, who readily admits his guilt to rookie detective Min Seo-young, Kang's former student. Lee says that he committed the crime in order to oppose construction that would divide the river into six parts (hence the six body parts), but the police are baffled when the clues they uncover keep contradicting Lee's confession. Then Lee tells Kang that his daughter has been kidnapped, forcing the latter to compromise his professional ethics and tamper with the evidence that must lead to Lee's release from custody within three days, or else Kang's daughter will be killed.
White Night (2009)
, 2h15Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Son Ye-jin, Han Suk-kyu, Go Soo, Lee Min-jung, Park Sung-woong, Lee Jong-won
The film starts when Kim Si-hoo, a pawnbroker, is found dead in a remote town in a derelict building, the police are divided whether it was a murder or a suicide.
Attack the Gas Station! (1999)
, 2hDirected by Kim Sang-jin
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Lee Sung-jae, Yu Oh-seong, Yu Ji-tae, Park Yeong-gyu, Cha Seung-won, Jung Joon
Having robbed and thoroughly destroyed a gas station in the first five minutes of the film, a group of street thugs with their own gripes against society sit in a convenience store and out of sheer boredom, decide to rob the same gas station (as the title card reads, "Why do they attack the gas station? Just because!"). But, since the manager had the foresight to stash the money away, the four gang members take the manager and the employees hostage and then start dispensing gas to all the customers and keeping the money.
The Hole (1997)
, 1h40Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Choi Ji-woo, Park Yong-woo
Jin-sook has a close relationship with her son, Don-woo, and is surprised when he announces his engagement to Su-jin. After the wedding, the three end up living together, with a nervous Su-jin keen to impress her new mother-in-law. But Jin-sook is determined to sabotage her son's marriage.
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Gabi: Russian Coffee (2012)
, 1h55Genres Drama, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Kim So-yeon, Joo Jin-mo, Park Hee-soon, Yoo Sun, Kim Eung-soo, Kim Ga-eun
After his wife Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by the Japanese army and under threat of coup d'etat, Gojong the 26th king of Korea's Joseon Dynasty (Park Hee-soon) briefly seeks refuge at the Russian consulate in 1896. While he is there, he tastes and falls in love with a bittersweet drink that had yet to gain popularity in his homeland: coffee.
Romantic Heaven (2011)
, 1h57Directed by Jang Jin
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Kim Su-ro, Kim Dong-wook, Kim Ji-won, Lee Soon-jae, Sim Eun-kyeong, Yoo Sun
Three seemingly disconnected people cross paths at a hospital: Part one, "Mom," focuses on the character of Mimi, whose mother is battling cancer, and needs a bone marrow transplant if she is to have any hope of surviving. With great difficulty, doctors identify a potential donor, but then the man goes into flight after being accused of murder. Hoping to find him, Mimi becomes acquainted with the police detectives assigned to his case. Part two, "Wife," concerns a lawyer named Min-gyu who has recently lost his spouse. Amidst his grief, he is distracted by the fact that he can't find a bag that she had brought with her to the hospital, and which contained her personal diary. In the meantime, he is visited by an ex-convict who has a score to settle. Part three, "Girl," focuses on Ji-wook, a taxi driver whose grandfather is on the verge of death. One day his grandmother tells him that for all of his life, her husband has been unable to forget a young woman he met in his youth. It is in part four, "Romantic Heaven," that the various threads are brought together and ultimately resolved. As fate would have it, their counterparts are gazing down upon their loved ones from heaven, dealing with their own version of remorse and regret.
The Quiz Show Scandal (2010)
, 2h1Directed by Jang Jin
Genres Comedy
Actors Kim Su-ro, Han Jae-suk, Jang Young-nam, Ryoo Seung-ryong, Ryu Deok-hwan, Sim Eun-kyeong
Four cars are caught up in a pile-up on the Gangbyeon Expressway into Seoul one night when a young woman, Im Yeon-yi, seemingly throws herself into the traffic. In the first car are Do Ho-man (Song Young-chang), whose wife is in a coma in hospital, and his cockily brilliant student son, Ji-yong (Lee Ji-yong); in the second are a gambling-addicted husband, Kim Sang-do (Ryu Seung-ryong), his nagging wife Jang Pal-nyeo (Jang Young-nam) and their young daughter; in the third are two gangsters, Lee Do-yeob (Kim Su-ro) and Park Sang-gil (Han Jae-suk), who will "fix" anything for money; and in the last car are four members of a depression-therapy group - club president Kim Jeong-sang (Kim Byeong-ok), high-school student Kim Yeo-na (Shim Eun-kyung), French teacher Lee Sang-hoon (Lee Sang-hoon) and a mobile phone salesman (Lee Moon-soo). They are all taken to Yongsan police station to sort out what happened, and are joined by others brought in for questioning, including restaurant delivery boy Oh Cheol-ju (Ryu Deok-hwan) and a drunk, Lee Jun-sang (Im Won-hee). Everyone in the room learns that the dead woman set questions for the big-money TV program Quiz Show and that a memory stick in her bag contains the answer to the final question for next month's show. No one has ever succeeded in answering all 30 questions because of the legendary difficulty of the final one: the show's accumulated pot is currently US$10 million. They all hurriedly brush up their general knowledge to apply to take part in the show, and by the night in question the pot has climbed to US$13.5 million. What they don't realize, as the show goes to air live, is that the organizers are running their own private scam, and Lee Do-yeob has decided to "fix" things his own way.
Castaway on the Moon (2009)
, 1h50Directed by Lee Hae-joon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about suicide, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe
Actors Jung Jae-young, Jung Ryeo-won, Yang Mi-kyung
Kim Seung-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.