JohnnyRobinson
Springfield, MO
Idiot Who Wrote Synopsis Never Saw This Movie!
First of all, this is a classic, that will outlive all of the performers in the movie for generations!ONE OF THE FEW MOVIE SITES TO GET THE SYNOPSIS RIGHT ON THIS MOVIE!
"Watch Beauty in Rope Hell (1983) Synopsis : During World War II, Kazu, a lifeless postman who lives alone, becomes obsessed with the beautiful Mitsuko, newly married to Ekichi. When Eikichi was summoned by the army, he saw his chance and abducted her. He bound her and tortured her in his attic where she became his sex toy."
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Mitsuko Hiyama (Takakura Miki) is betrothed to her lover and future husband, Eikichi (Nuibe Kenji); but hwo also receives his military draft notice on the day of his official engagement to Mitsuko. Needless to say, a short honeymoon!
While Mitsuko is missing her new husband, a postman Kazu (Yamaji Kazuhiro) who is physically challenged, prepares an upper room , NOT HIS BASEMENT, in order ot kidnap, torture and rape the new bride.
What is funny is the three twists in the end, which finally frees Mitsuko and punishes Kazu the way he should have been!
My Drama List will not allow me to upload screenshots which shows the room Kazu uses to illegally hold Mitsuko is an upoper room and not a basment! Watch the movie between time checks
The main cast were superb together, and the support cast did their job especially well, including Kaya [House madam] (played by Ito Maya) and Kazu's original girfriend!
I give it top scores in script written for a movie, editing, acting by both mani ans support cast, ,akeu[p, casting, direction, and backfround music!
Why so techinical you ask? This is also the favorite film of a local movie critic I am friends with; he has written and posted many articles on this movie and other movies by Dan Oniroku, one of his favorite writers as well!
A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.
Also Known As: Dan Oniroku: My Journey to the Future , Dan Oniroku: Bijo Nawa Jigoku
Screenwriter: Saeki Toshimichi
Director: Nakamura Genji
Genres: Romance, Drama, Mature
Tags: Prostitute, Pink Film, Stockholm Syndrome, Torture, Sexual Content, Erotic, Rape, Nudity, Kidnapping, BDSM
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Only A Psychopath Would Watch This Movie!
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENCE AND DEPICTIONS OF HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION! ^BI had to force myself to finish this movie; I do not understand why 'anyone' would even want to watch this crap!
Movies like this do nothing but keep teh hate that has smoldered ince WW II going.
If you really know me, I just love an 'oddball' movie once in a while...or more often...
This does not count as an oddball movie; the only person who should watch this movie is a person who denies the atrocities of WW II!
I wouldn't even consider it an "exploiation" movie since the leadership not only kills those who were prisoners, but also their own (Japanese) men!
I remember seeubg the original film under a different name, and it actually, in my opinion, somewhat worse than this one.
I like macabre and psychedelic movies, but frankly I wou;d not include this film in either category.
The only good genre listing is "HORROR": that it is, from start to finish!
MORE LATER!
As he is forced to kill the Chinese, his mental state begins to deteriorate.
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"The Power Of Love Seems Limitless" - Guanyin Bodhisattva, in Madam White Snake (1960)
This is the best version of Lady White Snake I have seen yet!
Also, I have already read about the 1978 abduction of a South Korean actress and her husband director (screenwriter for this movie) Shin Sang-ok, by Kim Jong-il of North Korea but i didn't realize she was the main female lead in this movie until I did a search for her and her other movies!
The main and suport cast were great together; their timing was really good and the entire film flowed easily. Of the support cast, Guanyin Bodhisattva (Han Eun Jin) reminded me of some of my old Buddhist classes in college!
I learned that this character, although starting out male, is usually portrayed as female in China. However, this version portrays the deity as truly caring for others.
Korean horror has a long history; there is always an audience for it. many would consider this a horror film, but this isn't a horror film. It is a classical story about a demi-god and her mortal love.
You can actually see the flying wire for madam Whie Snake if you are very observant, but that is a minor detail for this time period of moviemaking; otherwise the cinematography is great! The music is also fitting for this movie.
I especially liked the portrayal of Madam White Snake in what most would call "Heaven" where Master Beop Hae (Ji Bang Yeol) and Guanyin Bodhisattva reside.
While searching for the female lead in other movies here, I realized that many of the support cast also appear in the same movies as her during her career.
I am looking forward to seeing the casts' other movies as well!
My only complaintabout this movie is the "self-righteous attitude of Madam White Snake's detractors. I know they had to take this stance in order to be the 'villians' but this is not something that should be tolerated in any religion in real life.
Surprisingly, I have already read the book on the kidnapping and enslavement of Choi Eun Hee (Madam White Snake) and her husband, Screenwriter Choi Kyung Ok before seeing this movie.
The movie about their abduction and forced servitude in North Korea is available online for anyone interested.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/kim-jong-il-kidnapping-south-korean-film-star-lovers-article-1.2099084
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovers_and_the_Despot
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely!
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63 Minutes Of Erotic Fun!
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18 Year Old Muscle Queen Seong-hye's Sex Scandal
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64 Minutes Of Erotic Excitement!
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English tramslation of clinchamps's review: La cuisine est ici le chemin de la vie,...I agree!
Tampopo (Dandelion in Japanese) holds a small ramen gargotte. She is a widow with a son who is bullied by his friends from primary school. One day a tanker truck stops and the driver and his teammate go to eat. As the two men find ramen bad and they seem to know anything about them (especially Goro the cowboy-looking driver), she asks them to teach her.This learning will give rise to several digressions all as tasty as each other, because for the Japanese, Cooking is an art in its own right, like Pottery or Sabre and this film is the very essence of Japan. The narration is anything but linear: we walk through this film by crossing different characters more or less connected to the story, or even not at all like the yakuza in white suit and his mistress. Cooking as an art where all the senses are put to use is the very plot of the film (the yakuza and his mistress prove to us that the pleasures of the palate are closely linked to other pleasures!)
We meet all walks of life from clodos to a rich bourgeois and the common link is always the culinary art. Little by little the gargotte of Tampopo will become a small restaurant where people queue, because everything is linked: the appearance of the kitchen, the look of the stove make the kitchen even better! And as this film is Japanese, of course the ending is perfect, positive, (Ah! the scene of learning how to eat spaghetti without noise, or the one where tramps sing...) happy, but with a light and sweet melancholy, when the tanker goes away for the last time on its highway!
This movie is a magic potion, a slice of pure happiness that should be reimbursed by Social Security. Impossible not to finish it with a smile on your face with the irrepressible desire to put yourself in the stove.
By the way, Miyamoto Nobuko is the former wife of the late director Itami Juzo...
According to a online video interview of Miyamoto Nobuko about the movie, she said that her husband kept asking her about her opinion as to what people would think about a movie about this topic or that topic, or a movie about ramen.
Her rely to him was, "Why don't you just make the movie and see what the people think about it."...so he finally did and created a comedy to last an eternity!
There was criticism about the vignette not being 'cohesive'...it is a comedy! It doesn't have to be cohesive!
Itami Juzo is partially mocking the chefs and their secrets to making the perfect ramen. He is also portraying the Japanese city as the scene of a Western; with cowboys riding delivery trucks rather than horses; with individuals becoming jilted at the tought somenes 'stole' their ramen secrests, which they did, time and time again!
One reviewer complained about a turtle being killed; HOW DO YOU THINK ANIMALS ARE PREPARED BEFORE YOU EAT THEIR MEAT??
Cows are killed before the beef in your grocery store sells it to you, and pigs are slaughtered
Someone kills the cow and processes the meat into hamburgers!
The same process is done for pigs, lamb, birds, sheep, et al. Animals 'die' and their meat processed before you eat it!
The main and support cast worked well together and there was just enough drama to make the comedic parts funnier.
There was also criticism of the egg and oyster: take alook at daytime Japanese television and teh 'egg and oyster' sccenes are NOTHNIG campared to daily Japanese sexual hijinxs on Japanese daytime television!
This film reminds me of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)" and
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)...so funny and so universal!
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"They're Happy. We Were Right. They're Not Angry Anymore." NOT DONE PEOPLE!
This was such a cute little movie!Kids should love this is Mommy or Daddy explain to them that the Gappa's family is just as important as the kid's family. It portrayed a strong 'family values' message during the entire movie.
Contary to popular belief, most kids and many adults enjoyed being entertained in the past, and even today, by movies like this, which didn't/don't cost an arm and a leg to get into at a movie theater.
I was 10 or 11 years old when this movie came out, and I would have probably pooped my pants had I seen this movie then...
however, I didn't watch it until yesterday.
Its plot virtually duplicates that of the 1961 British film 'Gorgo'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgo_(film)
This is a great film for pre-teens, plus it had a love story, and a lesson about the importance of 'family' as well.
...A time when model buidlings, toy tanks and the likes were used by the studios, and were destroyed without a major outlay of finances; but kids really didn't care, as long as the little girls screamed loudly at every sight of the 'monster'!
It also had a historical significance as well; I used to have models of the type aircraft used in this movie hanging from my bedroom ceiling during the time period covered here. The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was a single-engine, supersonic interceptor aircraft which was extensively deployed in the late 50s and early 60s as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War with Russia. The models used look exactly like that fighter that I had hanging from my bedroom ceiling!
The main cast Hiroshi Kurosaki (Tamio Kawachi ) and expedition photographer Itoko Koyanagi (lovely Yoko Yamamoto) act as if they were really a couple and both played the melodrama excellently, adding humor to the story line as they went.
The support cast also fulfill their roles very well, and assist the main ccast in the primary story as well.
Magazine owner Mr. Funazu provided a great villian, refusing to lete teh babby Gappa go even when he knew that the baby's parents were indestructable and unstoppable by the Japanese and American military.
Mashida (Kōji Wada) provides much comic relief throughout the movie, and wins my vote for best support cast member!
Special kudos to Hiroshita Atami and Takashi Konagaias as Gappa (male and bigger) gappa parent, and Ken Misugi and Shiro Tonami as Gappa (female) gappa parent.
ThIs movie, especially sent me into the past memories of my mind, when directors and actors could tell a story witout it costing an arm and a leg. That alone was worth watching this movie!
However, I stil canot find the name of the youg actress who played Mr.Funazu's daughter; after th eGappas her and the young native boy stole the movie!
More about the Gappa!
The Gappas (ガッパ Gappa) are a species of ancient monsters. Two adult Gappas, male (雄ガッパ Osu Gappa) and female (雌ガッパ Mesu Gappa), and their baby son first appear in the 1967 Nikkatsu kaiju film, Gappa.
Contents
Design
Origins
History
Showa era
Gappa
Abilities
Flight
Amphibiousness
Physical abilities
Radiant Heat Beam
Bioluminescence
Pearl-like substance
Electricity
Filmography
Gallery
Trivia
References
Comments
Design
All three of the Gappas share the same characteristics, as they are based on various reptiles and birds, such as eagles and hawks. Overall, they resemble enormous bipedal griffins. As exhibited in the two adults seen in the film, the species is sexually dimorphic. The female has a smaller head crest and has a flatter face compared to her mate. Their scales are triangle-shaped, and their eyelids are the reverse to that of humans. The Gappas' wings are unlike those of birds; they are actually evolved ribs.[1]
Origins
In ancient times, the Gappas would fight other monsters for survival. They were already present when Earth was still an interstellar cloud, suggesting that the Gappas originated in outer space.[1]
History
Showa era
Gappa
An expedition to Obelisk Island by Mr. Funazu uncovers a baby monster, who hatches from an egg near a sacred temple. The natives plead with the skeptical scientists not to take the baby away, lest it anger the baby's parents. Sure enough, they take the baby away, and soon, inside the caverns, its two parents rise from the underground waters beneath the volcano, destroying everything in their path. Saki, the only survivor, is rescued by an American navy fleet and brought back to Japan.
The parents storm across Japan, destroying all in their wake, but their assault ceases once they recover their baby. Mercifully, they relent and depart to return to Obelisk Island.
Abilities
Flight
The Gappas can fly at a maximum speed of Mach 6.[2]
Amphibiousness
The Gappas have a maximum underwater speed of 150 knots.[2]
Physical abilities
The Gappas have a destructive force of 2 million horsepower. The Gappas' wings can emit hurricane-force winds; they can also cause tsunamis or storm surges using this ability.[1][2]
Radiant Heat Beam
The adult Gappas can fire a 4,000-degree Celsius Radiant Heat Beam (放射熱光線 Hōshanetsu Kōsen)[2] from their mouths. This is described as being "comparable to a death ray" in the film, it can also burn or melt anything it makes contact with. This ability is also speculated in the film to make the Gappas immune to poisons.
Bioluminescence
The Gappas emit bioluminescence from their eyes, which appears blue-white underwater and yellow on land.
Pearl-like substance
The female Gappa possesses a pearl-like substance within her body, likely stored in her legs. This substance can cause humans to go blind.[1]
Electricity
The baby Gappa's body is electrified and causes electric arcs/sparks whenever metals are attached to its body. This may suggest that adult Gappas are also able to emit electricity.
Filmography
Gappa (1967)
Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo (2022) [toys]
Trivia
Stock footage of the adult Gappas appears in an episode of the British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf, "Meltdown", where they are enormous wax-droids roaming the Prehistoric World section of an abandoned theme park. Though intimidated, the mechanoid Kryten quips "I can't believe how feeble and improbable those creatures were, sir. I've seen more convincing dinosaurs given away free with a packet of Wheaty-Flakes."
An anatomical illustration noted that Gappa could emit "heat wave beams" from their eyes.[3
Spookykiryu Gigan before he was gigan
Shadowthewolf432 When Rodan Finds the weed
Shadow gojira fan Godzilla + Kappa + Griffin + Rodan = Gappa
Just A GoJi FaN Why didn't they get a sequel :( they're really underrated.
Godzilla .Junior1000 This is my little brother's favourite kaiju
Shin evangelion When Gamera and other kaiju mated and then boom , Gappa was born
SKuLL cRaWLer The Gappas look like if iguanadons had wings
SkullIslandExplorer Are they inspired by the Kappa? They look pretty similar. (FYI: Kappa are water monsters of Japanese
folklore
Godzilla .Junior1000 they are
KING GHIDORAH 19 their heads look like turtles
MosuFan2005 They are very cool, but they are really really really underrated. :(
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Better movie than I anticipated!
"In Japan, during the reign of Shogun Yoshimune, it is the era of the samurai and the ninja. Many villages are outwardly peaceful, but a twisted sexual underbelly exists that affects more than just the criminals. Kaede and her sister are unfortunately victims of this when the elder is raped and commits suicide shortly thereafter. Kaede seeks vengeance, and a lady ninja nun who hears of the events aids her in the search. There is more to the story behind the rape, however, and the lies and secrets are slowly revealed behind a trail of clothing, sweat, and blood"I don't know who wrote this main detaisl, but they never watched the movie!
This is the true outline for the movie:
"In Japan, during the reign of Shogun Yoshimune, it is the era of the samurai and the ninja.
Many villages are outwardly peaceful, but a twisted sexual underbelly exists that affects more than just the criminals. Kaede and her sister are unfortunately victims of this when the eldest sister is raped and commits suicide shortly thereafter.
Kaede seeks vengeance, and a lady ninja nun who hears of the events aids her in the search. There is more to the story behind the rape, however, and the lies and secrets are slowly revealed behind a trail of clothing, sweat, and blood"
This was a neat little movie, with just enough swordplay, suspence and action for the person who wants this out of a movie, while it also has some titillating parts for those who crave more!
There are also several twists in the movie as it progresses, with the actual rapost being taken out in a most 'unique' way!
There is comedy, satire, action, drama and plot twists here!
Luna Akatsuki aka Runa Akatsuki
as Lady Kaede
Kôji Fujiyoshi
Kazu Itsuki
Hideo Kato
Mankichi Maeda
Yuka Sakagami
Masato Takaoka
Shin Takayuki
Kagawa Tateo
Hideki Yokohori
Wakabayashi Yoshio
Director
Takayuki Kagawa
No one besides Runa appears in the MDL list of cast; and I don't have the time to try and find each and every other cast members as well.
There is a second movie, which I will add and rate as I have the time.
There was little music, but the cinematography was great, and main and support cast were well-matched and kept the story going well.
My only complaint was the death of the elder sister's boyfriend, who was assisting his beau's sister until his demise.
RE-WATCH VALUE: Yes!
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"As Time Passes We Miss People Less, But The Loneliness Stays Forever...""
I always try to put a quote from the movies I review, which I feel could stand the test of time, but this one had too many!"Many People Leaving Means That There Are More People To Miss..."
"As Time Passes We Miss People Less, But The Loneliness Stays Forever...There Are Many People Here To Miss."
...and many more!
First of all, the colors were so VIVID in this movie! It s the first thing that I remembered on the recent re-watch of it.
The cinematography was very good and I loved the relaxed feeling of the small-town atmosphere on this movie set.
I would actually change the primary details and write, " the story of a young girl who finds out that 'life' is what you make it." The story just didn't come together the way it should have, and the ending was terrible, in my opinion.
The young girl, Jeong Min (Jun Ji Hyun) starts to write letters to servicemen (but it never tells you WHY she is writing them!)
She writes a letter to many service men, including one Hyun Jun (Park Shin Yang), who actually makes an attempt to stop in Jeong Min's town and meet her. Even without meeting her, Hyun Jun can tell from her level and style of writing that she is not a teacher with five years of teaching under her belt; but Jeong Min misses her chance to tell the truth to him by being very late for the scheduled meeting!
Jeong Min lives with her grandfather (Jeon Moo Song) who openly criticizes her daily; it is later revealed WHY he is so critical of her, but he never talks to her about this reason at all. No good communication between the two of them.
She finally opens up to him and asks him about her parents and why he was so critical of her father, who seemed to have died in conflict with his father/Jeong Min's grandfather; however, this 'conversation' with her only living family member results in grandfather being admitted to the hospital.
Jeong Min was upset with her grandfather; her grandfather was upset at her;
The only person not upset wIth anyone was the flower shop grandmother (Kim Young Ok) who kinda wanted to 'take care' of grandfather, in his old age! However, she was given only two scenes in the movie.
Han Suk (Yang Dong Geun) was never mentioned by name in the movie, but since the other (younger) support actor was in the military for the most of the movie, and his character name was mentioned once in the movie, Han Suk was Hyun Jun's buddy, the way that Ji-seok (Kim Se-joon) was Jeong Min's friend, especially at the end of the movie.
Jeong Min took longer to develop emotionally as time passed in this movie; but Jun Ji Hyun's performance here is really great, especially in the second half of it!
The support cast and main cast were all amazing; their actions in this movie were good and they supported each other throughout. The movie just didn't have any direction to it.
This was Jun Ji Hyun's first movie and I do not hold her performance to the same standard as her character in Windstruck or other movies: it just seems she was 'wandering' in this movie with no apparent goals in life, besides one.
RE-WATCH VALUE: Not much!
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Wasted Superb Cast On A Movie That Could have Been Better!
I have to admit my first viewing of this movie was not good; it had English subtitles superimposed over three or four Asian translations as well...not good!
I finally found a clean copy which led to a better experience.
Our story starts out with Woo Ju Ho (Park Gun Hyung) living it up around the night circuit of his city; later we find out that it is his grandfather's wealth that he is blowing!
His grandfather, played by Jung Wook, has a serious medical problem (I will let you find out what it is when you watch the movie), and he is adamant to give his wealth to charity; unless or course, Ju Jo reluctantly mends his ways and teaches school for two years to earn his inheritance!
Being a former top administration, (I guess) grandfather pulls a few strings and gets Ju Ho into a high school teaching sophomore math. I wondered if you need a special "teacher's certification" or not in South Korea, or did "grandpa" pull some strings and get this waived somehow; it never tells you what degree if any Woo Ju Ho possessed.
Anyway, without even registering with the school, Woo Ju Ho shows up for the first day of class as any other playboy would: arrogant, self-assured, and completely without a clue about the educational system.
Even though he is 'teaching' he is still playing the night life; he gets into trouble several times; due to his 'social ineptness' Teacher Yun So Joo (Kim Hyo Jin) decides to teach him the social skills necessary to navigate the social climate of a high school...little did she know what she was getting into!
The first half of this movie basically follows the above outline; however, even though this is not a 'bad' movie, it is not a great movie!
I saw Park Gun Hyung in the movie Innocent Steps (2005) with the great Korean actress Moon Geun Young (I haven't had time to review it yet!). Park Gun Hyung seemed like he was not really interested in acting in this movie, or the director isn't
giving him what he needs.
He was so much better in Innocent Steps!
It is as if someone is telling him to "suppose" something is supposed to happen without a script, then after filming that scene, him being told to "suppose" something else, but different, is going to take place.
The scenes don't seem to have go together; there is comedy and some innuendo, but it doesn't seem to all work together like a movie should.
If you want some laughs go ahead and watch this movie, but it doesn't seem to "fit together" well.
The second half is better, with Woo Ju Ho actually beginning to 'act' like a teacher and gives some good advice to the students coming to him for help.
In this segment, student Choi Jin Ju (the lovely Song Eun Chae) who plays a young girl who experiences an 'incident' which causes her to want to drop out of school, or at least 'that' school, and Woo Ju Ho attempts to help her with this problem: he also chooses (again kind of "out of the blue" to attempt to woo teacher Yun So Joo after she has been helping him: there was really little inference as her being interested in him, but again, the story seems to change all the way through with little hints or setup for changes.
I liked the scene where Yun So Joo sings for her ex-boyfriend and best girlfriend: one of the best scenes!
The music wasn't bad and the cinematography also is really good. The main cast keep the story going, except for the fact that the connections aren't there always; and the support cast is also good at aiding the two main stars in the movie.
Two kudos for support staff: 'Grandpa' (Jung Wook) and the side story with Ju Ho; and Song Eun Chae, whose side story basically saves the second half!
The other problem with my enjoying this movie is the fighting between the male students; I guess if I understood Korean culture better I would understand why the last fight occurred.
It ended different that I expected, but it still was good: not great, but good!
One final note: the support cast actor Moon Ji-yoon passed away from blood poisoning on the 18th of March 2022, about the time I watched this last.
Condolences to his family, friends, acting connections and others.
RE-WATCH VALUE: Only occasionally.
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"If he farts for Se-mi, he'll shit for me!"
The sequel to Wet Dreams (2002); which from what I have learned was a Korean response to America's American Pie (1999).However, instead of just being a sex comedy, both Wet Dreams and this one have a great message to pre-teens about growing up!
Instead of male students trying to score sexual hits on a female teacher (original West Dreams), this one has four female students students who have the HOTS for a male teacher, who for some reason that only the movie director knows, has a mental psychosomatic reaction from getting aroused by a female!
The older sister of Oh Sung-eun {Song Eun Chae) gets married and her and her two friends, Soo-yeon (Jeon Hye-bin) and Mi-sook (Park Seul-ki) sit around wonderig what Oh Sung-eun 's sister and her new husband are doing the night after their wedding (LOL!)..
The next day, a new good-lookikng male student-teacher, Kang Bong Gu (Lee Ji Hoon) who is also the new PE teacher starts at the all-girls school. But Bong Gu has a 'problem' not shared with other men his age: he 'farts' when he becomes sexually aroused!
The comedy that occurs because of this 'problem' is the most hilarious thing I have ever seen!
One reviewer on anohter movie site said that his reaction was very negative of the whole premise he has an 'abnormal' reaction to being aroused by women!
I thought the male lead pulled it off very well, especially the scene in the doctor's office!
Oh Sung-eun, being at the age of having her first menstrual period and being made curious by her sister's weddikg makes up her mind that she is going to make Bong Gu her first 'boyfriend' and lover!
Also, to complicate matters, Oh Sung-eun has a rival for Bong Gu's affection: Baek Se Mi (Shin Joo Ah), who not only has 'matiured' faster than Oh Sung-eun (in the secondary female body characteristics) but also takes a liking for Bong Gu as well.
What follows is a wild, free-for-all between Sung-eun and Se Mi for Bong Gu. It is so hilarious watching Sung-eun trying to act 'gown-up' as she tries different ways to seduce Bong Gu at both school and elsewhere!
Early in the movie, after listening to Bong Gu and another student-teacher talk about Se Mi 's effect on Bong Gu, Sung-eun says the headline phrases that makes you almost fall in the floor from laughing!
What is funny is Oh Sung-eun and her friends know absolutely NOTHING ABOUT SEX or catching a boyfriend! She timidly tries to 'show some skin' in her school uniform in an awkward way, which makes you laugh your head off!
Oh Sung-eun, also tried to lose her virginity to Bong Gu but what her girlfriends give her to boost her confidence made her pass out, and Bong Gu wisely lets her sleep it off insteadof takig advantage of her.
The thing that makes this and the first movie so great is the support of the teacher and parents for the adolescent students trying to work out their feelings at their sexual awakeing; especially so in this movie by
Sung Eun's father (Jung Dong Hwan) and mother (Kim Hae Sook); even though they are wary of Sung Eun's yearing for her teacher, they let her know that they are always there for her, no matter what bad mistakes she may make during her 'growikng up' years between childhood and adulthood.
I especially liked the way Sung Eun's father was shown to away dancing with her: it made me so respectful of a fatehr who (in geh movie at least) takes the time t dance ad tlak to his daughter! The parents deserves keods for their performances as such in this movie!
Bong Gu also deserv es mention of not taking advantage of Sung Eun, and through his talks and guidance, along with her parents' support, Sung Eun matures by the end of the movie and chooses a more 'appropriate-aged' beau for her learnig about love life and sex!
Great direction by Jang Hyun Soo!
GReat performance by all: main and support cast here!
You will need a few Kleenex by the end of the movie, but not that many!
RE-WATCH VALUE: Yes!
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"I've Been Working All My Life...Now I Have Forgotten How To Do That"
First of all, my apology to Ang Lee...more later.I put off watching this movie due to the fact that I figured it was a "copy" of Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) with a few changes, the same way Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016) was basically a carbon copy of Scarlet Heart (2011) with a few plot changes...
Boy, was I wrong!
First the similarities between the two Eat Drink Man Woman movies:
Both deal with a father of 2 or more female kids, who are at ages where their lives are becoming less dependent on their fathers...
Both deal with a "getting old" father who has came to a turning point in his life, the first no longer to 'taste' the food he is preparing properly and the second forgetting the "small" details in his cooking, and his life!
In both movies, the single father has a problem with talking about important "issues" affecting him and his daughters (I said in the review of Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) that I felt the father's inability to 'talk' to his female daughters probably led to his pouring his love into cooking for them instead); in both movies their daughters are also better educated that their father's generation and also have a different outlook on life in general.
In the 2nd version, the father would not tell his daughters about his medial diagnosis, until it started making them worry about him.
There is no returning cast members or director between the two movies but they both leave you with a sense of tranquility and that "everything is gonna be alright" for the households of both movies.
Both movies had actors/actresses who made you feel they were part of a established family the way they responded to each other, in the range of the director's wishes.
Supporting cast in both movies were excellent in their individual side stories and their support of the main story being told by the main actors/actresses...
Let me get back to Ang Lee: I want to apologize to him since i am giving EDMW-2 a higher rating that his original movie, but only by 0.5 of a point!
Ang Lee is known for his 'twists' he throws in his movies just after you think you have figured out everything about his movie and you have already told your friends how the movie is going to end: EDMW is a typical example of this.
However, the 2nd version has a more melodramatic 'twist' one that is sure to send some women into their tissue supply!
Tang Shi Zhe [Wa Er's father/restaurant owner] (Kenneth Tsang) did an excellent job of playing the head of the Tang family; and an even better job of "remembering' something from the past that he thought would never need to remember again, and Gui Ya Lei (Bai Ping) played a magnificent job being a pain to Tang Wa'er (Huo Si Yan) the manager of an exclusive spa and the girlfriend of Gui Ya Lei's "son" Zhang Quan (Blue Lan), who gave Shi Zje the 'reason' for remembering his past at the most opportune time!
Blue Lan did an excellent job portraying the computer-nerd boyfriend of Tang Wa'er, to the point I was yelling at Tang Wa'er to dump the jerk! However, he did redeem himself in the end and saved his relationship.
The 'twist' that director Tsao Jui-Yuan placed his 'twist' just at the right location and I experienced a great emotional catharsis for the couple reuniting after many, many decades!
It left me with such a sense of emotional euphoria and well-being that i wanted the movie to go on and show more of the three couples as they grew together in their personal lives!
I recommend a full box of Kleenex, especially for the last half of the movie.
I am going to look for more Tsao Jui-Yuan movies online as well.
RE-WATCH VALUE: Yes, especially with a good female friend
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"You Have The Right To Remain Silent...But If You Do, You're A Dead Man."
Part of the "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by Kwak Jae YongThis is the second movie of the "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by director/screenwriter Kwak Jae Young.
The first movie is My Sassy Girl (2001).
The second movie is the film Windstruck (2004).
The third movie is Cyborg She (2008), a Japanese movie.
They are unrelated except for having a 'sassy girl' theme
Kwak Jae Yong served as screenwriter & director for all three above films.
The main male lead for My Sassy Girl, Cha Tae Hyun, appears in a bit part in this movie.
"Windstruck is a comedy/romance/drama/fairy tale/
I had White Valentine (1999) recommended to me: my late fiance was into Asian movies and knew that White Valentine was available online with English subtitles (She introduced me to My Little Bride (Moon Geun Young) and saw all the movies she had with English subtitles. After that list dried up, my fiance started me on White Valentine, with Jun Ji Hyun, a great little sleeper so I started on her list of movies then.
Movies do not have to be "real", as in everything in a scene being scientifically possible or probable! They are made, and should be viewed, with your imagination and mind being allowed to wander. That is why this review is longer than my normal movie review.
There has been so much written about how you cannot ride a large balloon through the sky without being killed; this is a 'fairy tale' about the love of two people: a 'sassy' girl and a physics teacher. It is not supposed to be 'real' in its being told! No police officer in real life would do, or even TRY TO DO what Officer Yeo Kyung Jin did in this movie: they would be kicked off the police force if they did survive the gun battles portrayed in this movie!
When "My Sassy Girl" came out, every high school and college girl "wanted" to be "The Girl"; but being "The Girl' would turn many guys off, especially wearing a female's high heels shoes! Like "Windstruck" it made females believe in themselves and it drew woman back, year after year, watching a 'sassy' girl in control of her life!
It is a feel-good movie which people watch over, and over, and over and ....well, you get the picture!Women, and even men, go from laughing until they cry, then crying in the next part and wanting to enter the movie and change the story!
This is one of the cutest movies from Korea! I saw it about ten years ago for the first time, as I was going up the movies list of Jun Ji Hyun, starting with a chance reference to her "White Valentine."
The first part is very comical and you will be sh*tting in your pants and rolling on the floor from the hijinx of Police Officer Yeo Kyung Jin (Jun Ji Hyun) who accidentally "bumps" into all-girl school physics teacher Myung Woo (Jang Hyuk), who is doing his 'Boy Scout' duty by trying to catch a purse thief (Kim Young Joo) running ahead of him.
Yeo Kyung Jin, as it turns out later, bumbles this case as she does most other cases she is involved in during the first half of this romantic-comedy movie; but she finds a 'boyfriend' this time out of her 'bumbling'!
That is in line with the "sassy girl' motif that My Sassy Girl, Windstruck and Cyborg She have in common! This is a movie, not a documentary of hos police are 'supposed' to run things when they are on the beat... it is 'make-believe" so quit comparing "Officer" Yeo Kyung Jin with a REAL police officer! It is a comedy like the Mr Bean character from England.
The second half leads into a more drama-comedy, as a major mishap ends her romantic relationship she just found; she spends months in grief and second-guessing herself, until a miracle happens to reconnect her with her Significant Other.
Coming from a Religious Studies and former EMT (ambulance) background, many have said that Yeo Kyung Jin "cried too much" when Myung Woo dies: Russell Friedman and John W. James of The Grief Recovery Institute will tell you that whether you’ve known your partner a few months or been married for 50 years, when your significant other dies, it may feel like part of you is gone too. It can have severe psychological and/or physical attributes on a person.
The death of a loved one can lead to a stroke, heart attack or even death (without using a weapon!).
The director does not say how long that the new couple were together before Myung Woo died; In the first of the trilogy (MSG), it was at least 4-5 years between the time the two main cast members did not see each other after planting the letters under the tree.
"Death" affects each person in different ways, so I personally saw no problem with Yeo Kyung Jin's crying as much as she did!
Also, too many people keep talking about this movie being a 'prequel' to MSG: it is not! Quit thinking that way.
Kwak Jae Yong in this movie used flashbacks, story and scene repetitions from MSG to elicit an emotional response to the movie; he also used scene repetitions (first and last commentary) to link the beginning and the end of the movie together, and he did it brilliantly! I loved it so much..a stroke of genius on his part!
If you have never seen MSG, you can enjoy this movie and all of its ups and downs and its emotional roller-coaster ride without ever have seen MSG before.
There is talk online about 'Windstruck' being 'two different movies edited together': that also is false!
The first part is about the meeting and pairing of the two love birds; the second is the death of one and the recovery of the other; EVERYONE has lost a significant other and gone through the agony of recovery, one way or the other. If and when one of your loved ones die, you too can have your world tuned upside down in an instant!
Plot Twists...You will enjoy the movie more if you pay attention to:
Officer Yeo Kyung Jin as she is waking up and stretching the morning after (still) being handcuffed to Myung Woo...
Officer Yeo Kyung Jin having a man "get down" and squat so she can go over the wall in one of the chases...
Watch for the parts of [Assistant Inspector] Kim Yeong Ho (Kim Jeong Tae) in this movie: he has a major contribution to the story.
The main male/female characters are really great here: they interact like they were a real couple!
The support cast also did an excellent job at making the main and side story believable, supporting the main cast and the story excellently.
This movie, alth9ught many do not see it as that good, does what any GREAT movie does: it makes people laugh, cry, wince, say "WTF" to something that happens out of the ordinary! That why I was so surprised at all the negative reviews on MDL.
There are several copies pf "Windstruck" online, and each one has counted MILIIONS of views: that in itself should tel you what great of a movie this is!
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" I'm Sorry; I Tried But I Cannot Do Any Better. I Thought That I Was Stronger Than This."
Literal translation of title: 'That Bizarre Girl'Part of the "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by Kwak Jae Yong
This is the first movie of the "My Sassy Girl Trilogy" by director/screenwriter Kwak Jae Young.
The second is the film "Windstruck (2004)".
The third is the Japanese film "Cyborg She (2008)".
They are unrelated except for having a 'sassy girl' theme
Kwak Jae Yong served as screenwriter & director for all three above films.
Windstruck (2004) also stars Jun Ji Hyun, with a guest appearance by Cha Tae Hyun (this film's Gyun Woo).
I usually don't read other people's reviews, but I saw several 'low' scores here, so I thought I would address them; also, I was trying to get away from giving you an overview of the movie, but I have to do it this time in order to explain the young "Girl's" actions!
This movie is not about the "Sassy Girl"! It is about a young man, Gyon Woo, finally finding 'someone' to him to care enough about that he gets his crap together - and matures into a man!
Gyun Woo (Cha Tae Hyun) says that he was 'raised' by his mother as a girl"; this, I feel, has an effect on his dating girls in high school and now in college, where he is when this movie starts. He is having his picture taken in the second scene, but he really is stalling so that he won't have to go visit his aunt, who has a beautiful girl to introduce him to!
(He will meet her finally, but only at the end of the movie!)
He meets a young girl, (who I realized about the third time I watched this movie that the director gave no name to her, just 'The Girl', played by Jun Ji Hyun) on a subway in a large Korean city. First, he saves her from being hit by the subway and then took care of her as he was mistaken to be her boyfriend after she passes out drunk on the subway.
What most people FORGET, although it is mentioned later in the movie, she is celebrating the 1-year 'Death Day' of her late boyfriend, he dies the same day one year earlier before she meets Gyon Woo on the subway! Her ex-boyfriend who is still inside her and his memory keeps her from trying to date other men.
They also met on the subway as well, the way The Girl and Gyon Woo did.
Most of what happens revolves around this unseen boyfriend of The Girl that you never see, except his hand: The Girl is desperately trying to see her late boyfriend in Gyon Woo; however, she is slowly but surely falling in love with him!
That is why:
* She gets drunk because her late boyfriend is still in her mind and she cannot forget him
* She won't let Gyon Woo order soda when together, because that is what her late boyfriend used to order
* She pushes Gyon Woo into the lake, then jumps in to save him [a scene with the mother of her dead boyfriend (Yang Geum
Suk) and her are shown on the banks of a body of water; many feel her son/The Girl's late boyfriend drowned] The Girl is
actually 'saving' her boyfriend in her mind, warped by his death!
* Gyon Woo gives her his handkerchief to wipe her nose; her dead boyfriend had a handkerchief of the same design
* She wants to be with him, but she cannot shake her dead boyfriend's memory
* She keeps putting off seeing her old boyfriend's mother, who wants to introduce her to a new guy she thinks The Girl might
like
* She keeps telling him, "Wanna Die", when she wants him to do something with her and he gives a wrong answer.
* She beats him up when he does wrong: her late boyfriend would not approve!
* She can only 'let go' of her late boyfriend, after she thinks that Gyon Woo replanted the Wish Tree where they buried the
time capsule near the end: she finally realizes how much they care for each other!
* After 'letting go' The Girl finally throws the necklace the late boyfriend gave to her into a body of water, representing that
she finally released him (again, many think he drowned) and his memory!
* She goes to Europe for a year and a half since she couldn't find Gyon Woo again.
* Gyon Woo's mother actually thinks that she went to Europe to forget her late son, not Gyon Woo!
In case you haven't figured it out yet, The Girl's late boyfriend's mother (played by Yang Geum Suk) is Gyon Woo's aunt, and she tried for SEVERAL YEARS to introduce the two of them to no avail! The aunt has no idea that The Girl has been seeing her nephew, Gyon Woo, over the years since her son died.
On her first 'blind' date after her father told Gyon Woo not to see his daughter again, The Girl calls Gyon Woo; Gyon Woo
then gives this advice to the blind date (played by actor Im Ho) and then leaves...
Don't ask her to be feminine...
Don't let her drink over 3 glasses of soju...she'll beat someone.
At a café, instead of coke or juice, order a coffee...
If she hits you, act like it hurts...if it hurts, act like it doesn't.
Surprise her with a rose on the 100th day anniversary...in class.
Make sure you learn Kendo and Squash,..
Be prepared to go to jail sometimes...
Is she says she'll kill you, don't take it likely...
If her feet hurt, exchange shoes (with her)...
She likes to write (screenplays), encourage her.
Eggs: This movie is loaded with EGGS, fortunately not the kind that turn bad!
The man who The Girl throws up on in the subway in the beginning of the film is the man underneath the tree when The Girl goes to find Gyon Woo.
I love this movie! It was one of the first movies that I saw and became a huge Asian movie fan!
I love the main cast members who I had seen in other movies before this one. I came across Jun Ji Hyun in White Valentine (1999) in an English version and then saw her in Il Mare (2000), both excellent movies!
I saw Cha Tae Hyun in Sad Movie (2005) and the classic, Lover's Concerto (2002) before seeing him here. He also does an excellent job in the sad movie BABO (2008)!
They both gave excellent performances here and their chemistry was amazing!
The support cast also did an excellent job here; with a special kudos to The Girl's father (Han Jin Hee) and the hilarious performance in his scenes, and Gyun Woo's mother (Song Ok Sook), and her hilarious performance as well!
Just between us, there is going to be a remake, and we will find out that Gyun Woo and The Girl were switched at birth; the Girl has the genes of Gyun Woo's mother in her! (Just kidding!)
The music and cinematography were excellent and deserving of this movie being rated as high as it is!
After this movie came out, EVERY Korean girl wanted to be "The Girl', according to my friends in Korea. It has been copied in several countries but this one is still the best!
Many who gave this movie a bad rating did not take the time to see WHY The Girl acted the way she did!
The New Sassy Girl (2016) was attempted, but it only starred Cha Tae Hyun but not Jun Ji Hyun: need to say, it flopped!
Be the way, the UFO is from timepoint 1:15:57 to 1:16:02; blink and you will miss it!
RE-WATCH VALUE: All the time!
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“No, we are not {human). Even if we look like human, we are not treated as human.”
Ok Nyo: ”I am human..so are you!”Mother: “No, we are not. Even if we look like human, we are not treated as human.”
Why is the first 55 minutes of this movie on DramaThis, yet the last 38 minutes on MyAsianTV?
A melodramatic movie set during the Joseon Dynasty in Korea showing the inhumane treatment of the young, virgin surrogate mother Ok-nyeo (Kang Soo Yeon) by a system which values male “heirs” over female, and a culture steeped with so much “wives tales, useless pomp and circumstance, and ritual”…most of the which is useless for anything except keeping all, rich and poor, in their proper place in this, and other, society.
Most of the movie was on Ok-nyeo and her being in complete solitude between visits by the young Master, and no Internet in those days to play on while in solitude!
I loved the music, scenery, cinematography, and costumes of the period; I also appreciate the director allowing the young girl the chance to be ‘consoled’ by the young Master more often than the Matriarch and the house staff would allow.
I dislike the lack of emotion and feeling that prevailed in everyone, save for the Master and surrogate woman. It seems that 'emotion' was set aside for women during this time period; however, the young Master also seemed to have no one worrying about his emotions as well! As I have studied religion and myth for years, this is typical not only for Korea but for most cultures before the modern era.
I loved the ceremony just before the birth, where all the poor community were enjoying themselves.
Everyone, except the Master and the young surrogate, treated her surrogacy as nothing more than a business contract, allowing very little ‘humanity’ in this movie.
The director showed the attempt society has always had for emotional contact between humans of different social classes; that is why media (printed, audio and visual arts) is full of successful movies and stories of a man and a woman from different social-economic classes falling in love and successfully ‘beating the system’.
I enjoy being able to see a microcosm of traditional societies in movie form, such as this movie.
This is a service both for those wishing to be entertained and for those who want to see a slice of life in bygone eras, which isn’t that much different than a slice of life if taken from any society today!
The system of separation even extends to the ‘raising’ of of rich people's children: Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was raised by servants but not her parents (as she allowed the same for her children as well); she was cold and removed from her children as Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II and most of the other elite members of out society, those who control the rest of us!
What was revealed later in the movie is that Ok-nyeo's mother was also a surrogate until she, a female, was born accidentally.
What is sad it that much of the poor also believe that tradition and useless ritual is necessary in order for society to continue: it is, is you want to continue the separation of people as this movie shows.
I would recommend this for anyone who wishes to watch a great movie,or anyone interested in the movies of Kang Soo-youn or interested in Korean movies in general.
What is sad is that I watched this great movie on the same day actress Kang Soo-youn died in Korea…she was scheduled to film the movie “Jung_E” during the last part of this year (2022)
My kudos to this great movie and condolences for her, her family and all the friends of Korean films!
https://news.yahoo.com/veteran-actor-kang-soo-youn-175505996.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
RE-WATCH VALUE: Definitely!
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