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Films from the country "coree du sud", sorted by revenue
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Peppermint Candy (2000)
, 2h10Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Actors Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin, Kim In-kwon, Gong Hyung-jin, Yang Hee kyung
At the beginning, the main character Yong-ho wanders to a reunion of his old student group. After causing some general mayhem with his deranged antics, he leaves and climbs atop a nearby train track. Facing an oncoming train, he exclaims "I want to go back again!" What follows is a series of prior events in the main character's life that show how he became the suicidal man portrayed in this scene.
Nightmare (2000)
, 1h38Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Ha Ji-won, Kim Gyu-ri, Kim Gyu-ri, Choi Jung-yoon, Yu Ji-tae, Yoo Jun-sang
A clique of six friends separate after their graduation from college: Hye-jin continues to pursue her tertiary education, Seon-ae moves to the United States, Jung-wook works as a lawyer, Se-hun opens an art studio while preparing for his directorial debut, Mi-ryeong becomes an actress, and Hyun-jun is stuck as a construction worker due to the cast on his leg. Seon-ae returns back home and tells Hye-jin and Se-hun about the deceased Kyung-ah pursuing her. Back when they were in college, the clique decided to include a new member, Eun-ju, whom Hye-jin befriended at a botanical garden. Hyun-jun fell in love with her at first sight, much to the disappointment of Seon-ae, who was in love with him. Seon-ae made Eun-ju a scapegoat for the misfortunes that the clique experienced and correctly deduced her as Kyung-ah, a girl from Seon-ae and Hye-jin's past who became an outcast for apparently causing problems around her, including the death of Hye-jin's father. Eun-ju apparently committed suicide by jumping from a building after Hye-jin rejected her.
Joint Security Area (2000)
, 1h50Directed by Park Chan-wook
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Actors Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo, Shin Ha-kyun, Gi Ju-bong
The film begins when two North Korean soldiers are killed in the DMZ at a North Korean border house, before Sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok (Lee Byung-hun), a South Korean soldier on border duties, attempts to flee back to the South Korean side. The southern troops rescue him while the gunfire erupts and, two days later, the fragile relationship between the two Koreas now relies on a special investigation conducted by Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean (Lee Young-ae) on behalf of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission.
The Foul King (2000)
, 1h52Directed by Kim Jee-woon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films
Actors Song Kang-ho, Jang Jin-young, Kim Su-ro, Park Sang-myun, Jung Woong-in, Jang Hang-sun
Im Dae-ho (Song Kang-ho) has been a huge fan of professional wrestling since his childhood. In South Korea, a wrestler called Kim Il was a big star in the 1970s, but Dae-ho preferred a cheating fighter called Ultra Tiger Mask. Years later, when his job at a bank isn't going well, Dae-ho decides to try professional wrestling himself.
Ditto (2000)
, 1h50Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Time travel films
Actors Yu Ji-tae, Kim Ha-neul, Park Yong-woo, Ha Ji-won
The film begins with Yoon So-eun (Kim Ha-neul), a student at Silla University eagerly awaiting a certain student Dong-hee (Park Yong-woo) returning to school after serving in the army. She meets him outside the amateur radio club room, where she tells him HAM radio is her hobby, and he thanks her for all the letters she wrote him during the war. Visiting her friend Sunmi-Hur who is recuperating from a broken leg in the hospital, So-eun tells her she is in love with Dong-hee.
Out Live (2000)
, 1h58Directed by Kim Young-jun
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Fantasy, Action, Romance, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Shin Hyun-joon, Kim Hee-sun김희선, Jung Jin-young, Gi Ju-bong, Kim Su-ro, Ryu Hyun-kyung
Jinha, élevé par son oncle dans la pure tradition du Bichun, un art martial unique et très puissant, aime depuis l'enfance Sul Ri, fille d'un général Mongol. Mais la violence et la guerre les séparent... Fou de douleur, Jinha part reconquérir son amour perdu. Il est poursuivi par les meurtriers de ses parents, avides des secrets du Bichun dont il est le dernier détenteur...
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
, 1h48Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Bae Doona, Lee Sung-jae, Byun Hee-bong, Kim Ho-jung, Go Soo-hee, Kim Roi-ha
Yun-ju était déjà dominé par sa femme et préoccupé par le financement du pot-de-vin qui lui permettra d'avancer sa carrière dans l'enseignement. Il est maintenant dérangé par un chien qui aboie dans son immeuble. Hyeon-nam, autre égarée de la vie, s'occupe de cet immeuble et notamment de diffuser les annonces de recherches de chiens perdus...
Yonggary (1999)
, 1h39Directed by Shim Hyung-rae
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Dan Cashman, Harrison Young
An archaeological party explore some caverns underground. Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition, and get separated. While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond, Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself. Two years later, Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary, a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Out of nowhere, people slowly are being killed around the site. While Holly is working, Dr. Hughes, who has been legally dead for 2 years, goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig. Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off. Holly quits the expedition when another "Accident" occurs. In the town bar, Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur, which he calls Yonggary, are going to bring the end of the world. After explaining, Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary. After Yonggary's first appearance, the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again. The army sends choppers after Yonggary, but he destroys them. Yonggary is then sent to the city (which was thought to be New York by fans, but is actually an all CGI Los Angeles near Korea Town) and does some damage, where some jets attack him. Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers. During the fight, Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary. Yonggary is transported back into the city, where the remainder of the soldiers destroy the diamond on his head. Enraged, the aliens send down their own monster, Cycor. Yonggary and Cycor battle, with Yonggary winning. The following morning, Yonggary went to sleep and sent to an uninhabited island where Yonggary can adjust to normal life and become a hero.
Yellow Hair (1999)
, 1h25Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Lee Jae-eun
Yu-na and Sang-hee are two young women with dyed-yellow hair who live and sleep together, and do not care for the usual responsibilities of life, simply doing what they want. At a club that they frequent, they meet Yeong-kyu, another person drifting through life, and Yu-na brings him back to their apartment. Yu-na and Yeong-kyu strike up a sexual relationship, and Sang-hee joins in as well. They two girls are very sexually open with one another, but they become furious when they learn that Yeong-kyu has started seeing an ex-girlfriend, and the girls kill her out of anger. Delirious after a group of young men beat him and the two girls, and rape Yu-na, Yeong-kyu tells the girls that he needs to go see the woman they just murdered. Furious, Yu-na and Sang-hee kill Yeong-kyu, and proceed to vandalize the closed bar that they had taken Yeong-kyu to. When the police catch up with the two girls at the bar, yellow hair having been found in the murdered woman's apartment, they find the two girls having sex with one another.
Nowhere to Hide (1999)
, 1h52Directed by Lee Myeong-se
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Park Joong-hoon, Ahn Sung-ki, Jang Dong-gun, Choi Ji-woo, Ahn Jae-mo, Lee Won-jong
Les agents Woo et Kim enquêtent sur le mystérieux meurtre des quarante marches. Utilisant des méthodes assez expéditives, ils vont très vite retrouver la trace du coupable, un charismatique trafiquant de drogue, Chang Sungmin, mais celui-ci s'avère très coriace, changeant à maintes reprises d'apparence.
Shiri (1999)
, 2h5Directed by Kang Je-gyu
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Choi Min-sik, Han Suk-kyu, Kim Yoon-jin, Song Kang-ho, Yoon Joo-sang/윤 주 상, Jang Hyun-sung
In October 1992, an elite group of North Korean soldiers are put through a brutal training regime. Under the auspices of their commander, Park Mu-young (Choi Min-sik), they will be sent into South Korea as sleeper agents, to be reactivated at some later date. The most promising of the group is Lee Bang-hee, a female sniper who assassinates several key South Korean figures over the next six years.
The Ring Virus (1999)
, 1h48Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Documentary, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Jung Jin-young, Shin Eun-kyung, Bae Doona, Kim Chang-wan, Yoon Joo-sang/윤 주 상
Followed by the death of her friends, journalist Hong Sun-Joo comes across a videotape containing incomprehensible images. Towards the end of the tape, she finds the curse which states that the viewer would die at the same time next week if he/she does not perform certain tasks. However, the next scene explaining the nature of the task has been erased. Sun-Joo and a doctor named Choi-Yul embark on a journey to break the curse placed upon them. They discover that the videotape was made by the psychic called Park Eun-Suh. Eun-Suh was an illegitimate daughter of a female psychic and was born a hermaphrodite. She was romantically involved with her half-brother and worked in a night club for a while. There, a man who found out about her secrets was killed as she had the uncanny ability to protect herself. The video tape is the medium Eun-Suh uses to reveal herself to the society. Her first exposure to the media was a painful experience, which caused her to withdraw from the outside world. When it became difficult for her to relate to the society, she retaliated by infiltrating it like a virus. The way of infiltration is one-way only and any attempt to block the process ends in extremely negative consequences.
Memento Mori (1999)
, 1h37Directed by Min Gyoo-dong, Kim Tae-yong
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Ghost films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Gong Hyo-jin, Park Ye-jin, Kim Gyu-ri, Kim Q-ri, Lee Young-jin
The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-eun (Lee Young-jin) and Min Hyo-shin (Park Ye-jin). As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with the social pressures of having a lover of the same gender, Shi-Eun tries to distance herself from the increasingly dependent Hyo-shin. Hyo-shin reacts poorly to Shi-eun's changed attitude, viewing it as both a betrayal and rejection. Hyo-shin consequently commits suicide by jumping off of the school roof. It is also heavily implied that she was pregnant at the time of death, the father being literature teacher Mr.
Lies (1999)
, 1h51Directed by Jang Sun-woo
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Erotic, Romance, Pornographic
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about virginity
Actors Kim Tae-yeon
A high school senior, Y, is friends with another girl who has struck up a correspondence with a middle-aged artist, J. After talking to him on the phone, and determined not to lose her virginity through rape as her two sisters did, she decides to have sex with him and a meeting is arranged at a cheap motel. They have sex almost as soon as they enter the motel; though she is a virgin they have oral and anal sex. In their next rendezvous he tells her about his interest in sadomasochism and she allows him to beat her on her buttocks before they have sex again.
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.