Movie Recommendations!

Hello! 

We hope that you are enjoying your holidays so far, and for those who are currently wracking their brains about what movies to catch up on during these two weeks, here are some juicy suggestions for you guys! Enjoy!

1. The Man from Nowhere (2010)

Alternate title: 아저씨
Release: 5th August 2010
Genre: Action; Crime; Thriller
Running Time: 119 minutes
Rating: R

Directed By: Lee Jeong Beom
Lee Jeong Beom also directed Cruel Winter Blues/열혈남아 (2006)

Summary: An ex-special agent Cha Tae-Shik’s only friend is a little girl called So-mi. Tae-Shik plunges into the deep plots of drug trafficking organizations when So-mi and her mother, Hyo-jeong, is kidnapped.

  












































Extra Fact:
It is the highest grossing film in 2010 in Korea, and was released in the United States and Canada on 1 October 2010.It has also won many awards like coming in 2^nd in the Korean Film Festival in Australia (2011), 5^th in the London Korean Film Festival in 2010 (Opening Gala Film), etc. 

Starring: 

Won Bin
























Kim Sae-ron

 



















2. Runway Cop (2012)

Alternate Title: 차형사
Release: 30 May 2012
Genre: Comedy; Romance
Running Time: 110 minutes
Rating: PG13

 Directed By: Shin Tae-ra (Terra Shin)

Shin Tae-ra also directed My Girlfriend is an Agent/ 7급 공무원 (2009) and Black House/검은 집(2007)

 Summary: An overly enthusiastic and overweight detective, Cha Cheol-Soo, is assigned with a new case. He must sneak into the fashion industry to investigate a drug trafficking case around runway business.

  
 




















Starring:

 Kang Ji Hwan

 
 
 



















Sung Yuri

3. Penny-Pinching Romance (2011)

Alternate title: 티끌모아 로맨스
Release: November 10, 2011
Genre: Romance; Comedy; Melodrama
Running Time: 114 min
Rating: -

 Directed By: Kim Jeong-hwan

 Summary: Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job and lives off of his mother's money. However, that doesn't go on forever and one day he finds himself both homeless, and penniless. On that same day, he meets Hong-sil, a miser who collects and sells empty glass bottles and newspapers for cash. When Hong-sil finds that she needs to make another bank account under someone else's name in order to reach her savings quota of 20 million dollars, Ji-woong steps into the picture... 

Starring:

Song Joong-ki

Han Ye-seul

4. Architecture 101

Alternate title: 건축학개론

Release: March 22, 2012

Genre: Romance; Period-1990

Running Time: 118 min

Rating: PG 

Directed By: Kim Jeong-hwan

 Summary: Two high school students, Seo-yeon and Seung-min, fall in love but are separated by circumstances. 15 years later, Seo-yeon sets out to reconnect with her first love... by asking him to build her a house.

Starring:

Uhm Tae-woong

Han Ga-in

Bae Suzy

Lee Je-hoon