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Korean Hidden Gems

by AamirKhanHossain • Created 3 years ago • Modified 3 years ago
skipped most common flick's that most people knows.
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  • Nae maeumui punggeum (1999)

    1. Nae maeumui punggeum

    19991h 56m
    7.2 (1.2K)
    A lovestruck mountain village teen juggles family responsibilities and an impossible crush on her new teacher, who appears to have eyes for someone else.
    DirectorYoung-jae LeeStarsLee Byung-hunLee Dae-yeonJeon Do-yeon
  • Esom in Microhabitat (2017)

    2. Microhabitat

    20171h 46mNot Rated
    7.4 (3.4K)
    Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.
    DirectorJeon Go-WoonStarsEsomAhn Jae-hongJae-Hyun Choi
  • Beolsae (2018)

    3. Beolsae

    20182h 18mTous publics82Metascore
    7.4 (4.2K)
    Seoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.
    DirectorKim Bo-raStarsPark Ji-huKim Sae-byeokJeong In-gi
  • Choi Min-sik, Ha Jung-woo, and Cho Jin-woong in Nameless gangster (2012)

    4. Nameless gangster

    20122h 14mTous publics
    7.0 (7.7K)
    On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
    DirectorYoon Jong-binStarsChoi Min-sikHa Jung-wooCho Jin-woong
  • Breathless (2008)

    5. Breathless

    20082h 10m12
    7.5 (5.7K)
    A bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.
    DirectorYang Ik-joonStarsKim KkobbiHwan LeeYang Ik-joon
  • Maljukgeori janhoksa (2004)

    6. Maljukgeori janhoksa

    20041h 56m
    7.4 (2.9K)
    By "Fist of Fury", Kim Hyun-Soo (Sang-Woo Kwone) addicted to Bruce Lee. Year 1978. Hyun-Soo moved to KangNam, Seoul. Hyun-Soo transferred to JungMoon High, Maljuk Street, Kangnam, Seoul. He goes schooling by No.78 Bus. First day a senior male took Hyun-Soo's collar and made Hyun-Soo being punished inside JungMoon playground because of forgetting collar Hyun-Soo made friends with Kim Woo-Sik (Bruce Lee fan) and Hamburger. Hamburger always bring adult magazines to school and was always being found by the school soldiers. Hyun-Soo father had his own TaeKwonDo Dojo - his wish is to see Hyun-Soo being the top 5 in his JungMoon High class, and got himself promoted to University. One day inside #78 bus, Hamburger and Hyun-Soo met Kang Eun-Ju (EunYang Female High), a female Bruce Lee fan who looks like "Olivia Hussey", whose music favorites are Agaetha (ABBA) and Celsia Chan, Hyun-Soo began to fall in love with Eun-Ju. Hyun-Soo and Woo-Sik became rivals of Cha Jung-Hoon (Triad Head, JungMoon High) when Jung-Hoon took Eun-Ju's schoolbag inside #78 Bus, and Woo-Sik settled everything. Woo-Sik tried flirting Eun-Ju but she refused him because she loves Hyun-Soo. On a Rainy day, Hyun-Soo talked with Eun-Ju in #78 Bus, knew that Eun-Ju keep listening to a midnight radio program, and she had even wrote postcards to that program but it didn't speak out her postcard messages. Hyun-Soo lent Eun-Ju his black Umbrella and ran to home. Eun-Ju ask Woo-Sik to return the umbrella to Hyun-Soo, Hyun-Soo wrote postcard to the radio program and it spoke the message at 2am when Eun-Ju was in #78 bus. Hyun-Soo invited Eun-Ju to listen to his guitar playing. Eun-Ju asked Hyun-Soo to return Woo-Sik's pen. She even wrote her reply to the radio program. Woo-Sik and Hyun-Soo were being punished inside a wardrobe, with the soldier telling them how many Viet Congs he had ever killed in Vietnam War by himself without any comrades to help. Hyun-Soo went to library and heard Eun-Ju's postcard message in the radio program which both Eun-Ju and Hyun-Soo always listened to. Eun-Ju regret asking Woo-Sik to return umbrella and she promised Hyun-Soo that she won't ever disappoint him anymore. Then, Hamburger became Jung-Hoon's gang member. Woo-Sik tore Hamburger's adult photos, Jung-Hoon challenged Woo-Sik to roof battle. Finally Woo-Sik was defeated and was carried by Hyun-Soo. Woo-Sik even left JungMoon High without contacting Hyun-Soo anymore. Eun-Ju was being rumored to leave with Woo-Sik but later Hamburger found that she had not left with Woo-Sik, but was being suspended one year for bad results. One day, Hyun-Soo met Jung-Hoon's gang. they threatened to remove Hyun-Soo's eyeballs from his eyes. Hyun-Soo decided to train himself for any further struggle with Jung-Hoon's gang. On the day of Hyun-Soo's battle, a classmate threw his milk to Jung-Hoon. Jung-Hoon's gang ran into Hyun-Soo's class and ask who did that. Hamburger tried pacifying Jung-Hoon but failed. Hyun-Soo stood up and challenged Jung-Hoon at roof. Hyun-Soo used his double-stick to hit Jung-Hoon when they went upstairs. Finally, in great resistance, Hyun-Soo won the battle and went downstairs. Soldiers stopped Hyun-Soo, but he escaped, destroyed 2 windows and spoke, "F**k all schools in Korea!" Hyun-Soo father talked to Jung-Hoon's mother but she blame Hyun-Soo for destroying her son's face. Hyun-Soo said sorry to father, father asked Hyun-Soo if Bruce Lee had ever studied into University. Hyun-Soo smiled, father knew no. Hyun-Soo studied in G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) and met Hamburger when Hamburger sold his adult magazines to classmates for 2 bucks. Hamburger told Hyun-Soo that Eun-Ju also studied this GED center. Hyun-Soo waited Eun-Ju but failed, got up to #78 Bus. Hyun-Soo missed Eun-Ju until females said "Bye-bye, Eun-Ju!" Hyun-Soo turned his head and saw Eun-Ju alone. Eun-Ju said that Korea weather is colder than before, Hyun-Soo said yes. Eun-Ju got off in HanNam station. Hamburger ask Hyun-Soo to watch Jackie Chan movie, "Drunken Master" and even said Bruce Lee is already outdated. Hyun-Soo kicked to revenge for Bruce Lee outside the cinema door.
    DirectorHa YooStarsKwon Sang-wooLee Jung-JinHan Ga-in
  • Juyuso seubgyuksageun (1999)

    7. Juyuso seubgyuksageun

    19991h 53mTous publics
    6.9 (4.7K)
    Four disaffected youths rob a gas station but find their plans complicated and sidetracked before the night is through.
    DirectorSang-Jin KimStarsLee Sung-jaeYu Oh-seongKang Seong-jin
  • Failan (2001)

    8. Failan

    20011h 55m12
    7.5 (6.4K)
    A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.
    DirectorHae-sung SongStarsChoi Min-sikCecilia CheungSon Byung-ho
  • Haebaragi (2006)

    9. Haebaragi

    20061h 57mNot Rated
    7.2 (2.6K)
    Released from prison, Taesik goes to live with an adopted mother. He takes a job and tries to live a quiet life with his new family. His efforts are threatened when a politician seeks to knock the family restaurant down to build a mall.
    DirectorSeok-beom KangStarsKim Byeong-OkJi Dae-hanPark Eun-hye
  • Friend (2001)

    10. Friend

    20011h 53m
    7.2 (5.5K)
    Four childhood friends go their separate ways, two go off to college while the others become rival gangsters.
    DirectorKwak Kyung-taekStarsYu Oh-seongJang Dong-gunSeo Tae-hwa
  • Bareuge salja (2007)

    11. Bareuge salja

    20071h 42m
    7.3 (2.3K)
    Things get out of control when Doman, an eager and saintly traffic cop, is asked the play the role of the bank robber in a robbery intervention police training program.
    DirectorHee-chan RaStarsJeong Jae-yeongSon Byung-hoLee Young-eun
  • Syoo-peo-maen-i-sseo-deon sa-na-i (2008)

    12. Syoo-peo-maen-i-sseo-deon sa-na-i

    20081h 42m
    7.2 (2.3K)
    A snobbish producer makes a documentary about the extraordinary behavior of her neighbor who believes himself to be Superman.
    DirectorYoon-Chul JungStarsHwang Jung-minJun Ji-hyunKang Ae-sim
  • Kwa-sok-seu-kaen-deul (2008)

    13. Kwa-sok-seu-kaen-deul

    20081h 48m
    7.2 (4.5K)
    A radio DJ/entertainer in his 30s suddenly learns he may be a grandfather, thanks to a young girl who has a baby son and claims to be his daughter.
    DirectorKang Hyoung-chulStarsCha Tae-hyunPark Bo-youngIl-Kwon Ahn
  • Rough cut (2008)

    14. Rough cut

    20081h 53mNot Rated
    7.0 (3.1K)
    A gangster who wants to be an actor; an actor more gangster than anything. Here their paths and lives begin to cross.
    DirectorHun JangStarsSo Ji-seobKang Ji-hwanKo Chang-seok
  • Sunny (2011)

    15. Sunny

    20112h 4mPG-13
    7.7 (6.9K)
    Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.
    DirectorKang Hyoung-chulStarsYoo Ho-jeongShim Eun-kyungJin Hee-kyung
  • Eorin shinbu (2004)

    16. Eorin shinbu

    20041h 55mNot Rated
    7.0 (6.2K)
    A teenage girl tries to continue her normal social and school life, after her grandfather forces her into an arranged marriage with a man in his twenties.
    DirectorHo-joon KimStarsKim Rae-wonMoon Geun-youngAhn Sun-young
  • Pahrangjueuibo (2005)

    17. Pahrangjueuibo

    20051h 37mNot Rated
    7.1 (2.8K)
    Beautiful student Su-Eun prevents her fellow student Su-Ho to drown in the ocean. Su-Ho however, does not know who saved him, until Su-Eun tells him after a while. The love between them starts to grow, seemingly infinite. But then something terrible happens.
    DirectorYun-su ChongStarsCha Tae-hyunSong Hye-kyoSong Chang-ui
  • Ha Ji-Won and Cha Tae-hyun in Babo (2008)

    18. Babo

    20081h 39m
    7.3 (1.6K)
    A mentally challenged man trying to keep his mother's only wish alive at any cost while trying to reconcile with his first and only real crush.
    DirectorJeong-kwon KimStarsCha Tae-hyunHa Ji-WonJo Ah-ra
  • Dirty carnival (2006)

    19. Dirty carnival

    20062h 20mNot Rated
    7.3 (9.5K)
    A small time thug collecting debts for the local triad is torn between his criminal aspirations and his devotion to family.
    DirectorHa YooStarsZo In-sungChun Ho-jinMin Nam-koong
  • Moon So-ri and Sul Kyung-gu in Oasis (2002)

    20. Oasis

    20022h 13mTous publics79Metascore
    7.8 (11K)
    An irresponsible and childish ex-con befriends a girl with cerebral palsy and develops a progressively stronger bond with her.
    DirectorLee Chang-dongStarsSul Kyung-guMoon So-riAhn Nae-sang
  • Fighter in the wind (2004)

    21. Fighter in the wind

    20042hTous publics
    6.9 (4.3K)
    It is a Korean boy who went to Japan and started to learn Karate from his brother.
    DirectorYun-ho YangStarsYang Dong-geunAya HirayamaMasaya Katô
  • Domabaem (2006)

    22. Domabaem

    20061h 57m
    6.8 (924)
    A boy falls for a mysterious girl who keeps disappearing.
    DirectorJi-eun KangStarsCho Seung-wooKang Hye-jeongJu-yeon Byeon
  • Geunyeoreul midji maseyo (2004)

    23. Geunyeoreul midji maseyo

    20041h 55m
    7.0 (2K)
    While a man is out of town, a con-woman claims to be his fiancée and moves in with his family.
    DirectorHyeong-jun BaeStarsKim Ha-neulGang Dong-wonSong Jae-ho

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