#asian movies

Izo(2004)

MY MIGHTY PRINCESS

Running time: 2 hours

This is a 2008 romantic comedy- fantasy movie, co-starring Shin Min Ah,On Joo-wan and Yoo Gun ~ Yoo Geon. It is about a girl called Kang So-hwi, she is like no other girl; she has super human strength and the power of martial arts. Her strength and her power scares away her fellow mates and even scared the boy she liked. She got fed up of this and decided to take another path as a normal person. Her father, a martial artist himself, is afraid of losing an heiress to the family’s martial artistry, and missions So-On the other hand, the wicked Heuk-Bong brings on a war to beat the martial arts world with the ancient Fine Blade he stole before in the past, killing every swordsman one after another. So-Hwi’s father comes to a showdown with Heuk-Bong, but the battle leaves him fatally injured. On the sudden death of her father, she picks up the sword again with a wild justice of revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDxiPJ0pHgo

SEDUCING MR PERFECT 

Running time: 1 hour & 47 mins

This is a 2006 romantic comedy movie, co-starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Daniel Henney. It is about a woman called Min-june who dreams to look for that true love but it was always impossible for her. Since she always gets dumped by men. She also got dumped recently by her last boyfriend; feeling hesitated by that, she bumps into a car on the way. A handsome looking man steps out of the car and soon discovers that he is her new boss named Robin Heiden. She ends up getting relationship advices from her him, who seems like a expert in relationships. Following that advice, she treats men like how Robin treats women. Afterwards, she realised that she preferred her old behaviour instead of this behaviour, she preferred getting dumped and not playing around. On the other hand, Robin was having a heartbreak since the woman he was interested in made it obvious for him that she was not interested in him at all. He then sees Min-june and starts falling for her attitude; Robin cannot speak Korean, but only English, while Min-june can only speak fluently in Korean, but not in English. Even through all the language understanding problems, they developed a good relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jduLnwriOro

100 DAYS WITH MR ARROGANT

Running time: 1 hour & 35 mins

This is a 2004 romantic comedy movie, based on a internet fiction; co-starring Ha Ji Won (하지원) and Kim Jaewon. It is about a high school girl called Ha-yeong, who gets dumped by her boyfriend on their 100th anniversary and after that when she came out, she meets a college guy called Hyung-jin. Ha-yeong accidentally hits the tin and makes a scratch on his Lexus car. Hyung-jin who was devastated by this, angrily demands at her to give him $300 and she could not give him, since she does not have that much money and escapes, but mistakenly leaves her purse behind. Hyung-jin does not want to let her go that easily because she escaped and therefore stalked her and once again demanded her to give the money. After finding out that she is a poor student, he writes this “Enslavement Agreement” between them, saying that she will work as a slave for a 100 days for him, so she can pay the money back. Ha-yeong was having a nightmare going through the 100 days enslavement agreement; she had to wash his clothes, clean the bathroom etc. One day she gets to know by accident that the car damage was only $10, this girl was ready for revenge. But then Hyung-jin shows up at her door as the new tutor? Yes he turned up as her new tutor and took advantage of her. On the other hand, Ha-yeong suddenly began to realise that she was falling for him and she could not stop that feeling. What could happen if he leaves her life when she just started to feel butterflies for him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2srKG8ZDRc&feature=kp

THE BEAST AND THE BEAUTY

Running time: 1 hour & 42 mins

This is a 2005 romantic comedy movie, co-starring Ryoo Seung-bum, Shin Min Ah and Kang-woo Kim. It is about a man called Dong-gun, who is a voice actor and lacks self confidence in himself and has very low self esteem especially in his appearance. He meets a beautiful blind lady called Jang Hae-joo, she mistakes Dong-gun´s car for a taxi and tells him to take her to a place in Seoul. He falls for her at the first sight and thought that this is his chance to be with someone so beautiful like her, since he is so ugly and ladies would never ever come after him. He was her eyes, he would take her to places and describe how the place looks. Jang Hae-joo wondered how he looks like and asked how him to describe her how he looks like. He did not describe of how he looked like, but instead described a guy called Jun-ho whom he had went to high school with. That was the beginning of their sweet relationship, until Jang Hae-joo gets a call from the doctor saying that a donor has been found and she can soon see again. After saying about this to Dong-gun, a man with a low self esteem, how do you think he reacted? He was afraid, he did not know that this would happen all so soon and decided to undergo surgery on his appearance, lying to her saying he is at a project in Hawaii and would come back, while she is finished with the eye surgery. But then everything gets complicated, when Kang-ho the high school mate he described the appearance of instead of his, crosses path with Jang Hae-joo and falls for her. Will Jang Have-joo notice that Kang-ho is not Dong-gun or will she also randomly fall for Kang-ho too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_uHzeTxwys

LOVELY RIVALS

Running time: 1 hour & 49 mins

This is a 2004 comedy movie, co-starring Yeom Jeong ah (염정아), Lee Se-young and Lee Ji-hoon. The movie is about a teacher called Ms. Yeo Mi-ok who does not go easy on her students; she is very strict. When a new student called Go Mi-nam arrives to class late, she gives her the punishment of washing the school toilet. In the toilet, she beats up the girls and tells them to wash the toilet. Go Mi-nam was not easy either like the other students, she was more of a tomboy. At home, Go Mi-nam is always lonely since her mum has to run the shop to earn money. One day at the school, a new single male teacher arrives with looks to die for and Go Mi-nam fell for him immediately and so did her class teacher. They both try different methods for the new teacher to get interested in them. Who wins the new good-looking teacher? Ms. Yeo Mi-ok or Go Mi-nam? Or will he just reject them both? 
Quickly click the link below to start watching to find out!

–> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdAx-_ftVI

WINDSTRUCK

This is a 2004 romantic melodrama movie, co-starring Jun Ji Hyun (全智賢) and Jang Hyuk (장혁). The film features a woman who is a police officer named Yeo Kyung-jin, she caught a glimpse of a guy who stole a woman´s purse and was following him even though she was off-duty. As she was following there was another guy who was following him aswell named Go Myung-woo; he is a physics teacher at a girls school. Afterwards when the thief disappeared, Go Myung-woo who was following after the their´s lead, found the stolen purse in a corner. Yeo Kyung-jin sees him and mistakes him for the their and arrests him. She was given the job of to work together with Go Myung-woo in a dangerous district, that day they fought with a group of underage students, they got stuck in a drug cartel shootout and they could not do anything, but to sleep together that night with their handcuffs on. From that night, they became closer and they exchanged phone number and they would talk, even when she is in a middle of a dangerous chase. Their happiness did not last long when Yeo Kyung-jin was on the phone with Go Myung-woo one day in the middle of chasing a dangerous criminal, he ran to see her shoot the criminal, but then it did not shoot him, it shot Go Myung-woo who was behind the criminal. What will happen after when he is dead, will she long for him even more or would she move on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMM-bCsAHUg

Crazy first love/ First love rally 

This is a 2003 romantic comedy movie, co-starring Cha Tae-hyun and Son Ye-jin. The movie is about a boy named Son Tae-il and a girl named Ju Il-Mae, they grew up together since they were babies. Ju Il-Mae´s mother passed away when she was born and it was Son Tae-il´s mother who would feed milk to her. As they grew up together, Son Tae-il fell in love with Ju Il-Mae and also showed her that he was interested in her. But she never had any feelings for him and always reject him. Young-dal (father of Ju Il Mae) and Son Tae-il came up with a proposal for Son Tae-il to marry his daughter and said that if he could raise his ranks up to 3000 nationwide from his current status of 300 000, he would allow Son Tae-il to marry his daughter. Son Tae-il a very genius kid- an IQ of 148 could always make it on the top, but unfortunately since he was always following Ju Il-Mae, he does not ever study. He accepts the proposal and 2 years later he did pull up his to 3000 nationwide and got into Law School of Seoul National University. However not knowing that Young-dal was fooling him, he studies till the point where he got a nosebleed. But on the other hand, Ju Il Mae just wanted to have fun in her college time and date boys. From that point on, Son Tae-il started his new job as a bodyguard and threatened all the guys away from coming near her. Ju Il Mae noticed what was happening and got angry at first, but asked him afterwards to kiss him but he rejected her. She does not realise that he is doing all this for her and gets sad. Finally after several nosebleeds while studying, he passed his first level judicial exam and had a congratulatory part afterwards, there Ju Il Mae said she loved another man and not Son Tae-il. He got shocked, he could not believe what was happening, after all he did to gain her at last, why did she say that?

Finding Mr Destiny

This is a 2010 romantic comedy movie, adapted by playwright-turned-director Jang Yoo-jeong of her hit 2006 musical; co-starring Im Soo-jung and Gong Yoo. A woman named Ji woong traveled to India once and met her first true love there named Kim Jong-ok. She could not forget him and always had memories of him tattooed in her heart. One day, she found out about a company called “Finding Your First True Love”, which obviously does as the company name says. Ji woong went and told them to track Kim Jong-ok; the guy who runs the company is called Han Gi-joon. He started the company, which literally was his job by wanting to succeed, he did not want to mess anything up. When Ji woong came by the eager to track her first true love, Han Gi-joon had the feeling to give all his effort to find him. Both of them travel together to find that one Kim Jong-ok out of all the 1,108 Kim Jong-ok´s in Korea. But as both of them travelled, Han Gi-joon started to get interested in her. Will Ji woong start to have the same feelings for Han Gi-joon as he do or will Han Gi-joon stop having feelings for her in order to find her first true love since her heart belongs to Kim Jong-ok already?

http://vimeo.com/76929969

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