Voice Of A Murder

Year : 2007
Runtime : 122 Min.
Genre : Thriller, Suspense, Crime
Director : Park Jin-Pyo
Movie Stars : Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Nam-ju, Kang Dong-won
Country: South Korea
Language : Korean

A wonderful Korean thriller to add to you collection. The film's plot revolves around the true story of a 10 year old kidnapped in 1991.  I don't want to spoil the movie but, obviously, he was not found alive.  The film never shows the child after he is kidnapped so we can conclude he was killed shortly after. Additionally, what kidnapper/ killer will feed and take care of a boy for 44 days?  Most children kidnapped are dead within 48 hours.  This is what makes this story so terribly sad is that the killer just played a game with them with no hope of the parents winning their son back. He got 200 thousand dollars, and in the 90s that was a lot more money than it is today. Why couldn't he just let the boy go and take the money to some nice island and live like a king. He won't have deserved it.

The killer was never found and as of 2007 the statue of limitations have expired. The killer put this family though hell and back and is still walking among us... maybe, hopefully some other bastard played a game with him  if you know what I mean.

Bedevilled

Year: 2010
Runtime: 115 mins 
Genre : Horror, Drama,Crime
Director: Jang Cheol-Su
Movie Stars : Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang
Country: South Korean
Language : Korean

Hangul:  김복남 살인사건의 전말 / 김복남 살인 사건의 전말
Romanization: Kim Bok-nam Salinsageonui Jeonmal
Translation: The Whole Story of Kim Bok-nam's Murder Case

The fist half starts off kind of slow but it soon picks up pace and you are tossed into a world of a bedeviled young woman and the cruel people that torment her.

Black House (검은집)

Year : 2007
Runtime : 104 Min.
Genre : Horror, Suspense, Thriller
Director : Shin Tae-ra
Movie Stars : Hwang Jung-min, Yu Sun, Shin-il Kang
Country: South Korea
Language : Korean

I'm taking a break from the Tollywood movies and heading back to Korea, The King of movies. You know you love Korean movies too... or you just never seen one.  This was pretty good. I didn't love it but it's a good horror and suspense movie about a meek insurance agent that bits off more than he can handle when he begins having suspensions about the alleged suicide of a young boy .  The ending is quite a twist.

Korean: Geomeun jip

The Host (Gwoemul)

Year : 2006
Runtime : 119 Min.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Horror, Monster-Movie
Director : Bong Joon-ho
Movie Stars :  Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hee-bong, Park Hae-il
Bae Doona, Ko Ah-seong
Country: South Korea
Language : Korean
Watch Online: PutLocker
Quality: Medium- Good
Subtitles: English

Wow, what an extraordinary tale of an family bonded together after a terrible instant that changed their lives forever. This films blends elements of horror, human nature, comedy, and family drama together so well that it's hard to believe it's all from the same movie. This is by far the best monster movie to date. Koreans sure know how to take something as cheesy as mega monster film and turn it into a mega hit.

The story begins in 2000 when an American and Korean assistant dump dangerous chemicals down the drain and into the Han river creating a enormous creature that looks like a huge fish with legs and extra mouths. There is a bit of anti Americanism in South Korea, being that the Americans created this mega problem (side- note: the main American scientist is crossed eye and looks like a retard).

Events take a turn for the worst (well, more worse) when the giant monster takes Nam-Joo and the whole town is quarantined. The girls family believes she is dead till Gang-Du, the father, receives a call from Nam-Joo. Unable to convince the police and military that Nam is still alive the family take it into their own hands and escape quarantine and begin their search for Nam-Joo. Though the journey there is tragedy, comedy, and hope.

I give a hand to Nam- Joo's character. She was able to survive many days without food and decent amounts of water and never lose hope. Aside from putting her life in danger to save a little boy that she had no relation with till this tragic event. All in all, I appreciate Nam's strong character though-out the whole film.

The ending is quite different from the rest of the film. A lot of people did not like it because it was so slow and uninteresting unlike the rest of the film. I disagree. I think it was a nice quit wrap up to an action-packed tale.

Plot
A young girl is taken by a human-made monster and forced to survive as her family searches for her in quarantined South Korea. 

Mother (Madeo)

Year : 2009
Runtime : 126 Min.
Genre : Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Director : Bong Joon-ho
Movie Stars :  Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin
Country: South Korea
Language : Korean
Watch Online: StageVu
Quality: Good-Great
Subtitles: English

Another great film for the super hit director Bong Joon-Ho. It explores the intense relationship between a single mother and her son as she attempts to solve a murder and prove her son innocence. The film did not blow my mind or anything but it was any interesting watch and I would recommend this to anyone.

The film opens up to a woman, the mother, dancing and waving her hands in the air in a care free manner. That made me say okay and wonder what I've gotten myself into this time, but the film quickly set in motion the murder. Yoon Do-joon's mother treats him as her baby and prize as she watches over her shy and somewhat mentally disabled son who hangs with Jin-Tae, a local 'bad seed'. Do- Joon is quiet and calm but reacts violently when called 'retard'. Wondering drunkenly in the dead of night he walks across Yoon Je-Moon, a high school girl with a secret. He calls out to her aimlessly till she turns a corner and tosses a rock at him. Do-Joon wonders away to his house. Later he is arrested by the police after Moon's body is discovered on the top of a roof. I was utterly annoyed by the 80s style police methods that were used on Do-Joon. It was quite clear that Do-Joon is not the brightest crayon in the box. Any educated person could have guessed that he was mental disabled so his confession and lack of memory should have been disregardful. I'm not saying that he should have been treated like an angel but the everyday criminal was a bit harsh.

After being charged with the crime Do-Joon is sent to jail. The mother, who remains nameless, is sure that her son is innocent and sets out to find the real murderer and free her son. In various attempts to get her son to remember the events of that faithful night The Mother finds herself in a world that she simply can't handle and forced to the breaking point of their mother-son relationship.

Plot
A mother must free her son and discover the real murderer after her mental disabled son is sent to jail.