Kim Jee-Young

Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's (Bae Jong-Ok) mother-in-law (Kim Ji-Young) has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband (Kim Kap-Soo) is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a daughter-in-law, wife and mother. Kim In-Hee then learns that she has terminal cancer and is dying. The mother accepts her fate and sets up the most beautiful goodbye to her family. (imdb)

Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo) is the new arts teacher at the Benevolence Academy in the fictional city of Mujin, North Jeolla. He has a dark past - his wife was a high school student who committed suicide and his daughter is under the care of his mother. In-ho is hired to teach deaf and dumb students in school but he soon discovers a dark secret that lurks among the students and the faculty. (Wikipedia)

The Athens Olympics are approaching and Korea is looking for gold in every sport. Korean women in particular have done well in almost areas except for the ignored and looked down upon sport of Team Handball. And when the team is assembled, it doesn't look when the players who show up are women in their 30s ad teens with piercing. Can this oddball group overcome their personal differences and hardships and somehow come together as a team? (kmdb.or.kr)

A jailed father is paroled for a one day visit with his estranged son. (amazon)

Choi Mi-ja struggles to find hope in her wretched life. She tries to grab any chance to make a living as a radio performer, but she gets few chances to show off her talent. She wants to have a great boyfriend, but almost all the men she dates dump her - without giving a reason. Oh, she's also 32 years old. Her doomsday conclusion about her life is that there is little, if any, chance for her to live happily ever after with an extremely handsome man. (www.avistaz.com)

The film is based on the KBS documentary program, "Old Bachelors go to Uzbekistan to Marry." The story is about a couple of old farmers who are past marrying age who go to Uzbekistan to meet their good matches. Through the film, Hwang Byeong-guk, the director, discusses the real meaning of love and marriage. The bachelors' innocence and sorrow leaves an impression on the audience, most of whom are smiling broadly by the film's conclusion. (seoulselection.com)

Ju Young-ju, an beautiful ex-con artist who has been recently released on parole, is planning to attend her sister's weeding. On her way she crosses path with Choi Hee-chul, a shy and unsure young man who is on his way to see his girl friend in Seoul... (kfccinema.com)

Adada tells the story of a deaf-mute woman who lives in a small town in South Korea during the 1920s. (imdb)

In 1983 KBS launched a campaign to reunite families torn apart in the Korean War three decades earlier. In an expert dissection of the social and familial rifts in modern Korea, director Im Kwon-taek integrates footage from the campaign into the story of Hwa-yeong, who leaves her middle-class life in Busan to search for the son she lost in Gilsotteum during the war.

Ja-young is experiencing difficulties navigating the two worlds of her traditional Korean customs and those of the West. Having been scarred by inappropriate contact by an adult as a young girl; she has a hard time distinguishing between right and wrong behavior with young men. Her overbearing mother has driven Ja-young to the point where she can no longer act on her own will and this leads to trouble for her. There is a theme of men fondling and caressing women's knees in the film... (imdb)

This hard-to-find movie tells about pollution and raising awareness of it. (imdb)

AKA Black Mark of Shaolin; Two sisters, separated after the murder of their father, spend the next 15 years mastering martial arts. When the meet again, they set off to bring their father's killer to justice. (imdb)