movie club

"At the 2011 Baeksang Arts Awards, Ha Jung Woo was the presenter for the Best Actor award. He had won the award the previous year for Take Off, and was nominated again in 2011 for The Yellow Sea. Co-presenter Ha Ji Won asked him what he would do if he won again; Ha Jung Woo answered he would walk across the country with the trophy. He won – so as promised, he walked the length of Korea. Not only that, he roped in a group of actor friends including his Love Fiction co-star Kong Hyo Jin to join him on the cross-country trip and made a movie about it! Project 577 follows Ha Jung Woo, Kong Hyo Jin and company on their journey as they walk all the way from Seoul to Haenam in the southernmost part of Korea. That's 577 kilometers over 20 days on foot. Taking a page from the outdoors reality-variety shows so popular in Korea, Project 577 captures the trip with humor, hilarity and honest revelations. With tongue firmly in cheek, the film sends up the stars' images and inserts variety sketches and even commercial breaks into the offbeat journey." - Anika

I will always watch a documentary about people walking/biking a cross country trip. This was really good. I had a few people picked out who I thought wouldn't finish the trip. The twists in the last 20 min. were really good. - Anika

"Won Ryu Hwan (Kim Soo Hyun) is a highly skilled North Korean special forces agent who is sent down to South Korea to aid in a mission to reunify the two Koreas. Going deep undercover, Ryu Hwan becomes Dong Gu, the neighborhood idiot in Seoul. He spends three years in solitude, perfecting every trip and stumble. Suddenly he's joined by two other agents: his rival Lee Hae Rang (Park Ki Woong) disguised as an aspiring K-pop star, and Lee Hae Jin (Lee Hyun Woo) disguised as a high school student. When the North decides that all the undercover agents must be eliminated right away for the sake of peace, it becomes a fight for survival as the three agents are unwilling to lose the happy ordinary life that they managed to have for a short time." - Anika

I read that and was still not prepared for all the emotions. I just finished the movie and am sniffling and wiping my eyes still. Totally annoyed that DF listed this under 'comedy'. - Anika

That being said, I've seen Kim Soo Hyun in many films/TV shows and he's a verifiable action star. There's just no way around that. The kid is awesome. - Anika

"After discovering his wife dead, Ishigami Taketo (Nishijima Hidetoshi) narrowly escapes two captors. Bewildered, he runs into Kang Ji Won (Kim Hyo Jin), a Korean reporter who takes an interest in this misfortunate mystery. But when Ishigami — a Japanese man — suddenly speaks fluent Korean, he begins to uncover memories of himself as a Korean. With these newfound memories leading him to dangerous dead ends, Ishigami must trust his own intuition, even as his identity quickly unravels." - Anika