Korean movie “The Best Moment of Our Life” was premiered on Thursday (Jan 10). The movie is based on the South Korean women handball team in Athens 2004 Olympics, which they defy all odds to reach the finals to play reigning champion Danish. The Koreans lost the game eventually on penalties after extra time.
The movie focused on the team preparation before the Olympic Games. The movie is directed by Lim Soon-rye and starred Moon So-ri, Kim Jung-eun, Uhm Tae-woong, Kim Ji-young and Jo Eun-ji etc.
The movie is also known as “The Best Moment”, “The Happiest Moment of Our Life”, “The Glorious Moment of Our Life” or “Forever the Moment”. I am not sure of official title yet.
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“The Forbidden Kingdom” (功夫之王) is the first film collaboration between 2 Asian superstars - Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The martial arts fantasy movie is scheduled to premier in April 2008.
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“The Host” (Gwoemul; 괴물) is a Korean movie which broke the record of highest grossing South Korean film of all time in 2006.
Themed as a monster movie, The Host offers a lot more than horror; in fact it hardly qualified as a horror movie… as it combines comedy, dark humor, suspense, action and just a bit of horror that was enough to scare kindergarten kids.
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“Sinking of Japan” was a Japanese box office hit in summer 2006. It was a loose remake of 1973 movie “Japan Sinks”, based on the fictional novel by Sakyo Komatsu.
The 2006 movie (日本沈没; “Japan Sinks” or “Nihon Chinbotsu“) was directed by Shinji Higuchi and starred Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Kou Shibasaki and Etsushi Toyokawa etc.
Sinking of Japan Synopsis
The movie was based on fictional story that Japan was sinking into the sea due to tectonic plates’ motions. Japan had less than a year to migrate all its population, as volcano eruption, earthquakes and tsunami began to erupt the Japanese soil.
The hero and heroin of the movie were Toshi (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) and Reiko (Kou Shibasaki); who developed a special feeling for each other during the crisis. As the situation worsened for Japan, Toshi was offered an opportunity to leave the country, while Reiko who was a rescue worker decided to stay on and helped the needed.
When Toshi was pondering to leave the country (or not), scientists found out that Japan still had a chance of survival… and Toshi was the only one that could save Japan from destruction.
Despite its box office success, the movie received mixed reviews by movie critics; a sarcastic award actually named Sinking of Japan the worse movie of the year.
Personally I think it was a decent movie. I don’t really like the love story between Toshi and Reiko; I thought it was a bit boring. The CGI effects weren’t top class compared to Hollywood productions, but it’s still pretty cool.
