Friday, April 13, 2007

Project Make Over (korean movie)






Two thumbs up for this movie...
It's a wonderful magical comedy that will amazes you
Here's the synopsis:

Director:
Kim Chang Rae
Runtime: 112 min
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean

At thirty and age coming on her, Jung-joo despises how her life has turned up. Degraded into doing simple chores for a designer, she believes that the turning point of her life was failing in becoming the girlfriend of then school poster-boy Ha-ni. What’s more, Ha-ni has now become a top star, and that irritates Jung-joo more than anything. When a chance to go back to the past for a week is given to her, she meets her younger self, and is determined to change the course of life that has eluded her for so long. But such a task seems much harder than it had first appeared to be, and she becomes more desperate than ever.
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Project Make Over Part 1
Project Make Over Part 2
Project Make Over Part 3
Project Make Over Part 4
Project Make Over Part 5

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Prince Hours




PLOT

The palace discovers the existence of a royal grandson living among commoners. In turns out that he have absolutely no clue about his identity. After he graduated from high school, he works as a delivery boy. He didn’t know until the palace invited him to come and he suddenly became a member of the imperial family in one night. Upon his entrance in the palace, he began his training. He will be groomed to become emperor. The inspiration for this plot came from the true story of the Joseon dynasty where a commoner became the emperor.

CAST

Se7en ~ Lee Hoo
His blood flows in a Royal family, but Lee Hoo doesn't know it. Not knowing that he's a prince, he works at a Chinese Restaurant as a delivery boy...delivering food in the palace. He looks at everything in a positive aspect and is an optimist by nature. Though he's in poverty (poor), he lives every day freely...but one day, something happens and it's the start of his life as a royal.

Heo Yi Jae ~ Yang Soon-Ae
Everyone in the neighborhood knows Soon-Ae as an impracticable girl. She thinks preciously of her fraternal twin. But one day, she finds out that Lee Hoo is the boy that she grew up with as a child, and they start their life's together in the palace.

Kang Doo ~ Lee Joon
To become a prince, he recieved training as a mastery elite. He's a great candidate. Lee Hoo's appearance makes Lee Joon get farther away from becoming a prince. He's a perfectionist.

Park Shin Hye ~ Shin Sae-Ryung
Honor and power, Sae-Ryung grew up in a wealthy family. She has never lost first place/spot at school (meaning she's very smart)...she has skills and the looks of becoming prince's wife. She always had the ambition of becoming a royal princess. However, the prince that she has always imagined of is completely different when she see's Lee Hoo's sudden appearance. A change comes to her way.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Closed Note


Erika Sawajari

Yuko Takeuchi



Yusuke Iseya





Title:
クローズド・ノート
English: "Closed Note"
(Kurozudo noto)

Release: September 29, 2007 (nationwide cinema release)
Production Company: Toho

Cast:
Sawajiri Erika
Yusuke Iseya (Casshern, Memories of Matsuko, Honey & Clover, ...)
Yuko Takeuchi (The Ring (Ringu), Be with You, Spring Snow, ...)

Director:
Isao Yukisada ("Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World", ...)


Content (Credits to Shiroguma for translation):
Kae is a hard-working ordinary university student girl. Although her friendships are favourable, her work leaves her somewhat insatisfied, however, she spends every day working hard at it. One day, she finds in the corner of her own closet, a notebook, which the previous tenant had apparently forgot and abandoned. Out of curiosity, Kae takes the notebook. As the "Closed Note" which was unopened...
... at the time spills its contents, her ordinary life starts changing at a massive scale.

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