javascript:void(0) le petit bon bon movies: October 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

Posutoman ( Postman )


Synopsis:

A mail clerk Ryuhei lost his wife Izumi two years ago and brings up his daughter Ayumi and sun Teppei by himself. One day, Ayumi tells Ryuhei that she wants to go to boarding high school, but Ryuhei strongly opposes it. After that, relationship between Ryuhei and Ayumi starts to be strained. At second anniversary of Izumi's death, Ryuhei makes an offers to his relatives dividing Izumi's remembrance. However, Ayumi gets angry because she thinks that Ryuhei tries to forget Izumi. Izumi's mother gives Ayumi big box containing a lot of old letters Ryuhei sent to Izumi in 16 years since he was a elementary school kid...

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Sciuscià ( Shoe Shine )

IMDB Rating: 8.5

Synopsis:

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride... The boys meet Attilio, Giuse's much older brother, and his shady friend at a boat on the Tiber. In return for a commission, the boys agree to deliver black market goods to a fortune-teller. Once the woman has paid, Attilio's gang suddenly arrives. Pretending to be cops, they shake the woman down. With a payoff from Attilio, the boys are able to make the final payment and stable their horse in Trastevere over the river... The fortune-teller identifies Pasqua and Giuse. Held at an overcrowded boys' prison, they are separated. Giuse falls under the influence of an older lad in his cell, Arcangeli. During interrogation, Pasqua is tricked into betraying Giuse's brother to the police. With their trial still in the future, the two friends are driven further apart...

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killer Tattoo


Synopsis:

Set in a future Bangkok, the story picks-up after a hit-gone-wrong on "Iron Cop", the area police chief. The would-be killer "Pae", together with his equally inept collection of thugs, now become wanted men themselves as the Thai underworld bristles with the shame & dishonor of such an ignoble bungling.

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Taxi to the Dark Side

IMDB Rating: 8.0
Synopsis:

Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security

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Deux frères ( Two Brothers )



Synopsis:


Set not so long ago in a distant land, the film follows the adventures of twin tiger cubs--one shy and gentle, the other bold and fierce--who are born among the temple ruins of an exotic jungle. However, on a fateful day, the brothers are separated by fate. The bold brother is sold off to a circus, where homesickness and living in a cage rob him of his spirit. Meanwhile, the shy cub becomes the beloved companion of the governor's lonely young son, until an accident forces the family to give him away to a man who resolves to break his gentle nature and turn him into a fighter for sport. When they are fully grown the brothers find themselves reunited--but as forced enemies, pitted against each other.

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Muk Gong ( Battle of Wits )


Synopsis:

In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes, one of these being the city state of Liang. The nation of Zhao is led by the terrifying prime commander Xiang Yangzhong who orders his troops to launch an attack on Liang in a bid to conquer the small city. Leaping to the defense of the cowed people of Liang is a warrior who goes by the name of 'Ge Li' from the Mo-Tsu tribe, renowned for its defensive skills. He is their last hope as the terrors of Yangzhong's troops are unleashed. The future of Liang now hangs in the balance, with all their hopes pinned on the mysterious Mo-Tsu warrior Ge Li...

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MR 73

Synopsis:

A cop on the edge of an emotional collapse is on the trail of a violent madman in this edgy crime thriller from French writer and director Olivier Marchal. Charles Subra (Philippe Nahon) is a habitual criminal who, after serving twenty-five years in prison on a sentence for rape and murder, is up for parole. While Charles insists he's seen the error of his ways and wants to repay society for his crimes, Justine (Olivia Bonamy) isn't buying it -- Charles murdered her mother and father while she watched, and she writes him a long letter explaining in detail why she wants him to stay behind bars. Charles is granted parole anyway, but it soon becomes clear that the clever criminal fooled the prison authorities -- he still has a taste for murder and wants to kill again, starting with Justine. Louis Schneider (Daniel Auteuil) is a police detective who meets with Justine and helps protect her from the madman on the loose, but he's not the best man for the job these days -- shattered by the sudden death of his wife and child and haunted by a serious of brutal murders he's been investigating, Louis's psyche is in tatters and he's only marginally more stable than the criminal he's trying to catch. Director and screenwriter Olivier Marchal was inspired to make MR 73 by his own experiences as a police officer in the early Eighties; the title is police slang for the Manurhin 73, a standard handgun for French beat cops in the Seventies and Eighties.


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Ace In The Hole

IMDB Rating: 8.3
Synopsis:

Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in a mine. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Cherry Tomato (방울토마토)

Synopsis:

Park Gu makes a living for himself and his granddaughter Da-seong by collecting recyclable paper on the street. Their situation becomes worse when his son is released from prison and steals Park's savings, and his bicycle-drawn cart ― his only tool for making money ― is destroyed by construction workers.
Park visits the house of the construction company's head, where he ends up trying to steal meat for his hungry granddaughter. But the meat, which was for the owner's dog, had been poisoned by the housekeeper, who doesn't like her boss.

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Link: sensasian
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The Taste of Fish (築地魚河岸三代目)


Synopsis:

Shuntaro Akagi (Takao Osawa) has a successful career at a trading company and has been in a steady relationship with his girlfriend Asuka (Lena Tanaka) for some time now. He believes things will work out with her and he is finally ready to settle down. However things get complicated when he ends up helping a successful fish trading business run by Asuka's father. The Tsukiji Fish Market is the largest supplier of fish in the world with it's own set of rules and strict tradition that goes back generations. Shuntaro, although competent at his own job, has never been involved in anything quite like this where he's forced to let his business savviness take a backseat to his sense of taste.

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Link: film.com, Nipponcinema
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「おろち」Orochi 予告編

Synopsis:

Orochi is a tale of two sisters: Kazusa (Yoshino Kimura), the older, perfect sister, and Lisa (Noriko Nakagoshi), her supposed inferior. Following a car accident, Lisa is saved by a girl named Orochi (Mitsuki Tanimura), who then mysteriously falls asleep for several decades. When Orochi awakens, she's being taken to a mansion where the two women live. Lisa is now caring for the ill Kazusa. What strange secret binds the sisters to each other, and Orochi to both of them?

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Link: IMDB, Nipponcinema
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Hyazgar ( Desert Dream )

IMDB Rating: 7.7

Synopsis:

With all the villagers including his own family leaving their remote town for better places, Hungai (Bat-Ulzii) is stubbornly left on his own, with only alcohol for company. That is until North Korean refugee Soon Hee (Seo Jung) and her son Chang Ho (Shin Dong Ho) show up. Though they do not speak the same language, they come to support and rely on each other as the three of them eke out a living in the lonely hinterlands. Hungai gradually develops a strong friendship - and maybe more - with Soon Hee. Fragile dreams stand strong against desert winds in Desert Dream (a.k.a. Hyazgar) from acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu (Grain in the Ear), who was nominated for Best Director at the 2nd Asian Film Awards. A joint production from South Korea, France, and Mongolia, Desert Dream is set in a barren town at the border between China and Mongolia. Korean actress Seo Jung (The Isle), child actor Shin Dong Ho (To Sir With Love), and Mongolian actor Bat-Ulzii quietly spin a tale of unlikely love and universal dreams at the edge of nature and society. Screened in competition at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, the film uses long shots to capture the sweepingly beautiful landscape, and humanistic storytelling to realistically depict life on the border of hope and anguish.

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Bai fa mo nu zhuan ( The Bride with White Hair )



Synopsis:

The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful Lien, a killer for the evil cult who is equally unsatisfied with her situation, but their love angers both the Wu-Tang clan and the evil cult.

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Byôsoku 5 Senchimêtoru ( 5 Centimeters Per Second )

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A tale of two people, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on. They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them grows ever larger. However, Takaki remembers the times they have shared together, but as life continues to unfold for him, he wonders if he would be given the chance to meet Akari again as the tale embarks on Takaki's realization of the world and people around him.

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Unstable Fables Tortise Vs Hare


Synopsis:

Fifteen years after their famous race, the tortoise and the hare are at it again, bringing their unwilling kids along for the ride on a wild and hilarious adventure race. This time around, they learn a whole new lesson - that some things are more important than competition.

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Tanin no kao ( The Face of Another )



Synopsis:

This follow-up to Abe and Teshigahara's Sunna no Onna (1965) is even more surrealistic, thanks to the intrusion of science fiction elements. Tatsuya Nakadai (X) is horribly burned it a laboratory accident and seeks the help of Dr. K___, who designs a new face for him out of a realistic mask. Is the mask controlling him, or did he create the personality of the mask? He randomly remembers scenes from a film he saw in which Bibari Maeda was a horribly scarred woman (Hiroshima), shunned by most people, who commits incest with her brother and throws herself into the sea.

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Link: IMDB
Watch: Toru - Waltz, from the movie "The face of Another"



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Miracle of Giving Fool



Synopsis:

Ji-ho is a promising pianist, studying and playing abroad for years. But one night she had a stage fright and never recovers. In despair, Ji-ho comes home and meets her old classmate Sung-ryong.Once a very bright boy, Sung-ryong had an accident and now he is in late 20s with the mind of a six year old. He is very forgetful, but he has never forgotten his first love Ji-ho. Other half of Sung-ryong’s dumb mind is occupied with his only family – younger sister Jee-in. To take care of her, Sung-ryong sells toasts in front of Jee-in’s school. But Jee-in is embarrassed of her idiotic brother and ignores him.And Sang-soo is Sung-ryong’s old friend who understands Sung-ryong’s innocent mind. But he inevitably falls to the world of gangsters. Ji-ho is still in her slump, Jee-in falls sick and Sang-soo gets involved in a bloody dispute. But all of their agonies are miraculously saved by Sung-ryong in a way nobody has forseen.

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Link: asiabdb
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Mechenosets ( Sword Bearer )


Synopsis:

Sasha walks through his life, leaving a bloody trace behind him. He is chased after. But evil be to the pursuer who will manage to draw up with him. The older he grows, the more he becomes a rectification tool of injustice. The more appalling is a crime, the more dreadful is his punishment. Shocking and unfathomable events slash the tissue of present-day reality.

Gradually Sasha becomes too dangerous to live among people, and one day the entire world revolts against him. He possesses a supernatural power, enabling him to destroy everything on his way. SHE makes her sudden appearance on his way. Ignorant of his supernatural powers, she falls in love with him. Can the hero save her – and his - love that is so much fragile in a hostile world?

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保持通话 Connected

Another Louis Khoo movie in this year....Hong Kong version of Cellular.


Synopsis

Bob’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, he’s trapped in a job that goes against his usual easy-going helpful nature and he’s under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister’s threat to move to China with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue.

It’s a stranger called Grace who claims a mysterious kidnapper is keeping her against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. Is it just a prank? The detective he tried reporting the call to seem to think so but Bob’s instincts tell him that he may just be the only thing standing between them and a painful death. But does he have the mettle to rise above his own self-centered concerns and risk everything – including his own son – for two people he has never met and who may not even exist?

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

The Coffin (โลงต่อตาย)



Synopsis:

Millions believe that lying down in a coffin is a part of the death-before-dying ritual to prolong one’s life by playing dead.
Chris (Ananda Everingham), an architect who is extremely claustrophobic but with hope to lengthen Mamiko’s (Aki Shibuya), his girlfriend’s life, Chris decides to overcome his fear by being in the coffin. Zoe (Karen Mok), a nutritionist, takes care of her health religiously. However, only 2 weeks before marrying her fiancé (Andrew Lin), Zoe finds out that she’s in the final stage of lung cancer. Zoe then runs away to Thailand and discovers the coffin ceremony and decides to participate in order to save her own life.
After the two participated in the coffin ritual, the spine-chilling story follows. Chris and Zoe are confronted by a series of paranormal and terrifying incidents. Both might have to sacrifice their lives to unfold the truth.

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Yat kor ho ba ba ( Run Papa Run )


Synopsis:

Gang leader Lee (Louis Koo) has been on the wrong side of the law since childhood and always at loggerheads with his authoritative mum (Nora Miao), who tried time and again to guide him on the right track. While her words fall on deaf ears, Lee himself falls for an innocent lawyer named Mabel (Rene Liu), but when Mabel gets pregnant, Lee flees while she moves into his apartment without warning.

Lee can't help but venerate his girlfriend's dedication and when their baby Hei Yi is born, it changes Lee's life forever, transforming him from a fearsome crime boss to a loving father. His secret is finally exposed to Mabel when Hei Yi (Liu Yi Han) reaches adolescence. Hei Yi urges her father to go straight. But Lee has just been handpicked to be the next kingpin of the underworld and he must make a choice between the brotherhood and his family.

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Link: LoveHKFilm
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Li mi de cai xiang ( The Equation of Love and Death )

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When a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. A drug trafficking crime is unveiled, and through the twist and turns of the investigation, their stories unravel, and a bizarre connection is gradually discovered between them. THE EQUATION OF LOVE AND DEATH weaves together three different love stories, examining the different emotional struggles people go through in dealing with pain and lost, and how letting go might just be the hardest thing to do.

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Link: IMDB, Zhou Xun
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tsukigami ( The Haunted Samurai )

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Low-ranking samurai Hikoshiro Bessho (Tsumabuki Satoshi) is hardworking, educated, and skilled in swordfighting, but as a second son, he gets nothing. He marries into another samurai family, but jealous relatives conspire to have him kicked out of the household. With nowhere to turn, he can only board with his less-than-pleased brother and sister-in-law. Already down in the pits, Hikoshiro encounters a former classmate who has since risen in the ranks, having found success after praying at a certain shrine. A drunken Hikoshiro decides to try his luck at a run-down shrine, and ends up attracting the attentions of the Gods of Poverty (Nishida Toshiyuki), Pestilence (Akai Hidekazu), and Death (Morisako Ei).

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See Prang ( Phobia )

Synopsis:

1. Loneliness (by Youngyoot Tongkontund)

Loneliness can cause a young girl to do stupid things, like a working girl in Loneliness.
She’s lonely, unemployed and heartbroken. At this point, she’s on edge when receiving an unknown text message asking for her friendship. She starts communicating with the
anonymous sender. Will she be regretting after finding out who he is?

2. Deadly Charm (by Paween Purijidpanya)

Imagine a childish payback like write a joke about your friend’s parents on the blackboard. Then imagine a payback of vocational schoolboys who curse people they hate on a deadly charm. Let’s see how excruciating these curses will bring to the table.

3. The Middle Man (by Banjong Pisanthanakun)

A group of teenagers is camping in the wood. They think it’ll be fun to tell a scary story
while mocking what a character will act in the horror movies. Unfortunately, the mystic ghosts they encounter are those that go against the grain of traditional rules in horror films.

4. Last Fright (by Parkpoom Wongpoom)

This chapter presents the mixture of phobia. It’s an inappropriate flight for anyone with
claustrophobia, nyctophobia, fear of noise, fear of air pressure, and fear of corpses.
All terror is waiting for one unlucky air hostesses who will face this alone.

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Kang Chul-jung: Gonggongui jeog 1-1 ( Public Enemy Returns )

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The third sequel to Public Enemy series....Hope it is better than the second movie as in this third installment the main character's job and history is directly the same as the first movie.

Synopsis:

KANG Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years, but he leads a financially insecure life. Meanwhile, the men he’s put behind bars in the past are now doing much better for themselves, which drives Chul-jung to regret choosing to be a cop. On the other side of the spectrum is Jae-young, the wealthy honcho of a large network of businesses including finance, butchery, construction, and entertainment, as well as a number of clubs. He trains young boys to work for him while at critical times forcing them to take the fall on his behalf by falsely confessing to the crimes he committed. KANG Chul-jung feels an incredible anger towards Jae-young, who is quick to turn young boys into criminals for his own selfish gains. Chul-jung vows to get him.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

C'era una volta il West ( Once Upon a Time in the West )

IMDB Rating: 8.8

Synopsis:

Story of a young woman, Mrs. McBain, who moves from New Orleans to frontier Utah, on the very edge of the American West. She arrives to find her new husband and family slaughtered, but by who? The prime suspect, coffee-lover Cheyenne, befriends her and offers to go after the real killer, assassin gang leader Frank, in her honor. He is accompanied by Harmonica on his quest to get even. Get-rich-quick subplots and intricate character histories intertwine with such artistic flair that this could in fact be the movie-to-end-all-movies.

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Unforgiven

IMDB Rating: 8.3
Synopsis:

The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.

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Per un pugno di dollari ( A Fistful of Dollars )

IMDB Rating: 8.0
Synopsis:

A drifter gunman arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel at the border of United States of America, and befriends the owner of the local bar Silvanito. The stranger discovers that the town is dominated by two gangster lords: John Baxter and the cruel Ramón Rojo. When the stranger kills four men of the Baxter's gang, he is hired by Ramón's brother Esteban Rojo to join their gang. However, the stranger decides to work for both sides, playing one side off against the other.

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Per qualche dollaro in più ( For a Few Dollars More )

IMDB Rating: 8.3


Synopsis:

The notorious bandit El Indio breaks out of jail and returns to his gang, and a big reward is offered for him dead or alive. Two bounty-hunters, Colonel Douglas Mortimer and the Man with no name, set out separately to get Indio. After facing each other down, they agree to work together, but Mortimer has a particular reason for wanting Indio dead. It has something to do with his musical watch... in a spine-chilling moment near the end, the watch-spring runs out, its music stops, and then its twin chimes in.

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Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il ( The Good, The Bad and The Ugly )

IMDB Rating: 9.0

After watching the The Good, The Bad and The Weird and watching how cool they are I can't stop thinking of the original masterpieces made by Sergio Leone and other western awesome western movies. Thus, I decide I'll post my all time favorite western movies...starting with this entry.

Synopsis:

The Good is Blondie, a wandering gunman with a strong personal sense of honor. The Bad is Angel Eyes, a sadistic hitman who always hits his mark. The Ugly is Tuco, a Mexican bandit who's always only looking out for himself. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, they search for a fortune in gold buried in a graveyard. Each knows only a portion of the gold's exact location, so for the moment they're dependent on each other. However, none are particularly inclined to share...

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Link: IMDB
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom ( The Good, the Bad and the Weird )

IMDB Rating: 8.2

Synopsis:

With the Korean Peninsula under Japanese rule in 1930s, many Koreans flock to Manchuria for refuge. Some become bandits, some train robbers and yet others bounty hunters. While the Weird, a notorious train robber, is stealing from a Japanese train crossing the Manchurian plains, he discovers a treasure map. But the map is also sought after by the Bad, a merciless gang leader. Coincidentally, the Good, a bounty hunter, is on the train, and he is after the Bad. The three engage in a spectacular chase with the Japanese Army, the Korean independence fighters, and the Chinese bandits all looking to get their hands on the prized map.

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Entre Les Murs ( The Class )

IMDB Rating: 7.8

Synopsis:

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeapordize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods...

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