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In alphabetical order... Favorite 10 International (i.e., non-U.S.) films Comrades, Almost a Love Story Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Fish Called Wanda, A Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Hero Ikiru Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels Mystery of Rampo, The Moment to Remember, A Tale of Two...

Since this is an "International Film" forum, I'm gonna cheat. I'll post my top-10 "International" films AND my top-10 U.S. films. It's like cheating! but not really. Stay tuned...

A Girl at My Door (2014) Doo-na Bae stars as a police chief recently transferred to a dying seaside village. It seems she had some sort of scandal during her Seoul employment and her supervisors want her to lay low for a while and let things blow over. She does have some problems, not the...

Love Clinic (2015) Korean rom-com that pits a studly gynecologist who specializes in giving women in their 40s plastic surgery to tighten up their girly parts, against a female urologist who specializes in giving Korean men surgery to augment their TAP. These two get off on the wrong foot with...

Yeah, my wife is one of 4 girls. All named "Yung" or a permutation. For example, her younger sister is "Yung sun" or "Young-sun" or even "Youngson" or "Youngsun" depending on the whim of the moment. 4 girls, with 3-4 permutations each, it's not easy to keep up. Plus, my wife recently...

If I'm reading your links correct, I'm not sure if YANG Eun-sun equates to YANG Eun-yong (Westernization of Korean names can be a bit tricky and arbitrary), but even if not, it's a good prompt to introduce folks to another UTR film. Kudos for that. I'll add Viewfinder to my list of movies to...

Follow-up on the actress credits. I asked my wife to read through the credits for anything like "pregnant girl." She said there was a "pregnant girl" credit for an actress YANG Eun-sun or something like that. That would seem to be the girl at the beginning (the credit was like third from the...

My Brilliant Life (2014) Korean drama focused on a young boy with progeria, a very rare aging disease. He's 16, but his body is that of an 80-year-old. His parents had him as an unwed teenage couple, and in many respects the boy is more mature than the parents. I guess you'd have to have a...

Ha, yes. There was also that scene where hero was handcuffed in the police interrogation room, and the next scene he is walking free. Later, we just see a bunch of laid-out cops in the room, in the corridor, in the entrance area... You know your hero is a bad-ass when the audience just...

Office (2015) Boy howdy did this film piss me off. Seriously, I was angry after having watched it. Not angry in the same sense as after watching say, Audition, or Bad Guy, but just mad at how poorly the story was told, when the initial plot and setting had so much promise. If I invest my...

The Man from Nowhere (2010) Quiet pawnshop manager gets reluctantly caught up in the middle of Korean/Chinese gangster groups who are dealing heroin, exploiting children, and harvesting organs. Good thing he's ex Special Forces. Pretty good movie. I really liked the protagonist, even though...

I agree. I almost commented on the run time in my post. I think the movie is better for it. You are kept on your toes--no time to mull things over and start playing hypothetical "what about...?" games with the plot. Like, you might start to think "wait a minute, how did he get back to his...