Hill of Freedom (2014)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 6M
Director : Hong Sang-soo
Sinopsis
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.
Agent Lam (Tony Leung) sets out to track a pair of plates used to make fake American dollars. When he discovers the plates, they are conned out of him by enigmatic US Embassy workers Owen (Richie Ren) and JJ (Shu Qi). With the trail now leading to Korea, Lam sets off in hot pursuit. There, amidst the dangerous and glamorous urban landscape of Seoul, Lam finds himself confronting an underworld crime boss known as the Polar Bear, head of the biggest counterfeiting organisation in Asia.
Min-Soo es un playboy que no tolera las relaciones largas a quien, sin embargo, el destino le lleva hasta la bella Hye-Won. Mientras que Min-Soo queda totalmente cautivado por Hye-Won, ella trata de resistírsele, temiendo que su amor se vea afectado por su enfermedad terminal.
Bei trabaja en una tienda de deportes mientras sueña con tener una vida llena de aventuras. Todo cambia para él cuando un día corriente decide salir del trabajo para seguir a unos hombres sospechosos. Pronto descubre que están a punto de cometer el asalto a una joyería y decide entrar en acción.
Joong-ho, un antiguo detective convertido en proxeneta, tiene problemas financieros, ya que algunas de sus chicas han desaparecido. Al intentar encontrarlas, averigua que han sido reclutadas por un cliente que padece una oscura obsesión. Thriller coreano que se colocó en el Top de las películas más taquilleras de la historia del país. (FILMAFFINITY)
Basada en personajes reales y una historia verídica ocurrida en 1988, cuando unos presos condenados a penas enormes por delitos mínimos deciden fugarse con la intención de hacerle saber al Dictador Chun Doo-Hwan que la Ley de Cuidados y Custodia (que extendía las penas de cárcel) era una verdadera injusticia, y que sólo el dinero compraba la justicia en una Corea dictatorial, y a punto de celebrar sus Juegos Olímpicos. La Ley no se derogó hasta Septiembre de 2005, mientras se rodaba esta película, que está dedicada a todos aquellos que tuvieron que sufrirla en carne propia.
Under the Sungsan Bridge, in a waterside stand by the Han River, a poor and tired-looking father and daughter, Jae-mun, and In-seon, are arguing the generation gap over whether to buy boiled eggs or instant crackers. The stand owner Hee-bong hears Jae-mun suddenly declare that boiled eggs float.
Following the last wish of an old master, three monks head to Seoul to rest his remains in the Mushim Temple. However, they discover that the heavily indebted host monk has abandoned the temple and its inhabitants. The three monks make every effort to help the temple by promoting it to the public and raising funds through donations. But just when things begin to look much brighter, a team of four gangsters reach the temple indicating their need to reclaim it for an urban redevelopment project.
Basada en la webtoon "Covertness", de Hun. Tres espías de Corea del Norte viajan a Corea del Sur donde se disfrazan para no levantar sospechas, Won Ryu-Hwan como un individuo sin trabajo y torpe, Lee Hae-Jin como estudiante de secundaria y Lee Hae-Rang como aspirante a idol. Se acostumbran a la vida de pueblo y se vuelven cercanos a la espera de sus órdenes, hasta que un día, debido a un cambio repentino de poder en Corea del Norte, su misión resulta ser una orden de cometer suicidio.
Un equipo de vigilancia de la policía intentará atrapar a un grupo de despiadados ladrones de bancos. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.
Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.
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