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World Premiere
My Friend & His Wife
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
Director : SHIN Dong-il Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 110min
Ye-joon, a former activist, is on the fast track to upward mobility as a foreign exchange dealer. Ye-joon`s friend from the military, Jae-moon, is a sincere young man with a high school degree and a wife who works as a hairstylist; they are preparing to emigrate to the U.S. Wh...

World Premiere
The President`s Last Bang (Original Version)
Korean Cinema Today - Special Premiere
Director : IM Sang-Soo Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 104min
[The President`s Last Bang] redramatizes assassination of the President Park on Oct. 26th, 1979. Mr. Kim, the head of KCIA, hears about a little dinner party at Gung-Jeong dong held by the president, and he goes there with his secretary. Kim calls in Colonel Min and tells him ...

World Premiere
Pruning the Grapevine
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 115min
Upon receiving news of his mother`s illness, Soo-hyeon, a student at the Catholic Theological Seminary, rushes home. After a night there, he spends the next day visiting his ex-girlfriend, Su-a. Su-a is shocked by his visit and Soo-hyeon feels deeply guilty. He decides to drop...

World Premiere
Ad Lib Night
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
Director : Lee Yoon Ki Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 100min
Bo-kyung, a girl in her twenties living in Seoul happens to meet Ki-yong, who has just arrived from the countryside. He asks her a favor – to come down to the countryside to meet an old man who misses his runaway daughter. Despite her hesitation, she gets in Ki- yong`s c...

If You Were Me 3
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Director : Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 106min
The third in the human rights project after [If You Were Me] (2003) and [If You Were Me 2] (2005). The first episode, which stars the foreign migrant worker Muhammad, is enough to make one turn around and run away whenever one sees the police. Muhammad, a champion swimmer in h...

King and the Clown
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Director : Jun Ik LEE Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 119min
In the Cho Sun dynasty, a local clown, Jang-seng, runs away to Seoul with Gong-gil, his lover-like friend who used to be the nobles` plaything. Jang-seng and Gong-gil, while performing a satirical play of a king with his new clown team in Seoul are fortuitously appointed the r...

Woman on the Beach
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Director : HONG Sangsoo Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 127min
Film director Joong-rae is in a creative quagmire. For a change of scenery, he takes a trip to a beach with his friend Chang-wook and Chang-wook`s girlfriend Moon-sook. Drawn to Moon-sook`s charm, Joong-rae flirts her and she doesn`t seem to be bothered by his advances. They ...

Bloody Tie
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Director : Ho CHOI Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 117min
1998 South Korea in anarchy of IMF. Ironically, drug traffic in Busan is flourishing. A drug broker, Sangdo, and an officer in charge of crimes of violence, police corporal Do, have different intentions but the same goal: removing `Jang-cheol, the kingpin of the drug business....

Dasaepo Naughty Girl
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Director : E J-yong Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 103min
Set in Musseulmo (means "of no use") High-school, the ivy league of sexual pleasure, where the president and vice-president of the student`s association are an officially recognized S&M couple, and the teachers and students alike leave school early because of venereal disease....

Sakwa
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Director : KANG Yikwan Entry Year : 2006 (11) Country : Korea Running Time : 118min
Hyun-jeong, a 29-year-old woman with a united family and a good career, is dumped by her warmhearted boyfriend, Min-suk. He leaves her saying ¡°I feel as if I`m disappearing.¡± Sang-hoon who looks unsophisticated and innocent approaches the unsettled Hyun-jeong. She at first rej...



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