If you are interesting in the movies, you must hear about the movie, "The Godfather". Although this movie is released in 1972, pretty old, many of Americans remember this movie as a masterpiece. This movie has a well-weaved plot and scenary. We can think that this is a just one of a gangster movie, however, many of audiences refuse it. 
He is star of Hong Kong. He act Hong Kong noir movie like ‘A better tomorrow’. ‘Farewell My Concubine’(It is movie name) made he world-famous star. And he was famous for singer. He released several record, and held lots of concert. He was an idol of people.
The thing that is very interesting in this movie are not only the special effects and cool martial arts but also, the plot and the background of it. The movie shows us the world that is simulated by the machines. Everything is fake and there is not a thing that we can actually call real. The famous lines in the movie "What is real?" (by Morpheus), and "There is no spoon." (by a boy in Oracle's house) give us hints to understand the main aspect of this movie. 
One of the characteristics of his movie is that he shows funny NGs(No Good - scenes that are not in accordance to the script) film parts at the end of the movie. There are a lot of stunt scenes in his movie so he also gets injured a lot of times. He got numerous times of surgeries. It is his passion that makes people like him. Not only taking the funny roles, he always tries to show the audience his mental acting which I found it very nice. The fact that he is also a singer who has many music albums released shows that he is an all round player, a Jack of all trades ans master of all
To find out the reason why people watch thriller movies, we have to find why people get frightened. Each person has a feeling of uneasiness and tense inside, and when it comes out to your body and your mind, person begains to feel scare.
Introducing the plot briefly, Kye-Sik (a main character) who is a gangster boss enrolled at a high school, because he felt the education is necessary to successfully survive in the competitive gangster society. There, he meets the corrupt teachers and rotten Korean education system; so he decides to fight against the corrupt school executives. However, Kye-Sik comes to know that the fight will not be easy when he finds the executives are tightly connected to the local gangs who are much stronger than Kye-Sik’s gangs. As you may see, this movie shows the typical story of most Jo-Pok movies show. 
Many Koreans doesn't enjoy korean thriller. Why they do that? I think the main reason of that is there is no exciting reversal in korean thriller movie. For success of thriller movie, it need to reversal which the audience never expected. The masterpiece of Hollywood thriller, usual suspect and memento are the movie which shows that characteristic. But, I didn't find yet the great reversal thriller of finding murder. In the other subject, however, there is more unusual reversal SF thriller in korea. 'Save the green planet' is that. 
I think that this is one of the best popular movie in the Korea. This movie is also called "Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo", and "Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War " is the international name of the movie. It is taking the Brotherhood between two brother, who had to be departed by the Korean War.
In Korea, there are few action thriller using graphic effect. Action thriller using graphic effect pointed like Godzilla and King kong of Hollywood. However, because most Korean movies are low-budget than Hollywood movie, Korean action thrillers need a lot of capital are poor and immature at CG effect for Hollywood movie. But, recently one very creative action thriller movie comes in Korea. The movie name is 'The Host'. This movie succeed to attract audiences by giving more reality than Hollywood movie. 
e upstairs room. Several year passed, this house finds a new owner, but the curse of rage survives there and destroys those who come into contact with it. Welfare worker Rika Nishina is called in to investigate after complaints were reported that an elderly, bed-ridden woman named Tokunaga is left alone in the home. As Rika approaches the home, she feels a strange and eerie atmosphere surrounding the home, but continues on with her job. She soon finds the old lady, sitting alone and talking to "someone." The social worker taking care of the elderly mother is soon immersed in this curse and the hauntings that persist.
The movie "Silmido" is famous for various things. It was the first one throughout the Korean movie history, to drew 10 million audiences. Therefore this movie is kind of a monumental movie. (Not to mention the two top famous actors, Ahn Seong-gi and Sol Kyung-gu.) It's about a special Unit whose goal was to assasinate Kim Il-sung, the former ruler of North Korea. It is based on a true story -An army troop known as an armed Communist Squad, committed mutual suicides in the bus for Seoul. The story in the movie is pretty much edited and quite different with the facts, but still it aroused public attention toward this historical tragedy.
I cried over this movie. Well, in fact a lot of the audience did. It is a sad, tragic story. It shows how 31 of the innocent men died. There were a lot of documentary movies made right after the "Silmido" has been released. Those documentaries let me know that some were even kidnapped to be trained, and many of them were dead during the training. (In the movie, the recruits are all criminals who were sentenced to death-this is just a set up.) If you want to have a glance on the tragic part of Korean history, you'd better watch this movie.
Since early time, there are lots of Hollywood movies about big swindle. The movie like Italian Job or Ocean's Eleven is typical work of that. But, Korean thriller is weak especially that kind of thriller. Although there were a few movie about swindle, they were very shabby and poor for Hollywood thrillers which are very spectacular and splendid. For that reason, even Koreans turn their back on the Korean thriller and they have enjoyed the Hollywood movie.
I think this trend is deeply related to corrupt Korean society. In this society, it is common to meet news articles about corrupt government officials, politicians, and even teachers who are looking for bribes and perks. In order to get what they want, these people willingly abuse their social power. Although this society may seem to provide equal chance of opportunity to its people, it is so evidently hierarchical that people from low social status are suffering from social disadvantages.
Next time, I'm going to tell you about the movie, "Ju-on" and it's also one of Japaness famous triller movies. See you next time!
I know it's not a movie but a TV series. But I'm a big fan of the X-Files, so I always wanted to mention it. I'm going to explain the last episode of 9th season. It means it’s the last story of the X-Files. Let me tell you the summary.
Mulder, who hides himself from killers, tries to steal secret information. But one of super solders who are made by government finds him. They fight violently, and finally Mulder makes the super solder fall down. After that, he has a military trial. Many witnesses give evidence that Mulder kill the super solder, but actually it’s impossible to kill him because super solders are not supposed to die. People who are on Mulder’s side try to explain what the conspiracy of government and aliens is; however nobody listens. Even though Scully, who worked with Mulder for 9 years, finds out the dead body is not the solder’s, the judgment is the death penalty. Finally, people who believe Mulder’s theory make Mulder escape.
I bought the DVD of 9th season in the USA, so I could see the ending. The truth is in 2012 final alien invasion will begin, and this world will be end. Even though it didn’t show the result, but it showed that Mulder and Scully wouldn’t give up. It’s great because it didn’t explain everything! It remained the X-Files.
Do you like thriller movies? Although the kinds of thriller are very variety from action to horror, most people come across their mind Hollywood mystery thriller like memento when they first heard the word. And then, we try to come across our mind that thriller in Korea, we find there are few Korean thriller movies which we can hit easily. But, absolutely, there are great thriller movies in Korea. Just the characteristics of Korean thriller different from Hollywood. The following is the characteristic of Korean thriller I think.
First, korean thrillers are low-budget film than hollywood thrillers. While most Hollywood thrillers are high-budget and spectacular, most korean thrillers are producted in small set place and aren't spectacular. Next, korean thriller is unusual. Because Korean thrillers has uncommon subject and reversal unlike most Hollywood thriller which deal with the mystery about murder. Finally, korean thrillers tent to depend on famous director(e.g. Park chan wook) and actor(e.g. Song gang ho, Choi min sik and so on). we can see that fact by searching the box-office in Korean. As the movies which the famous director produce or famous actor appear are usually success.
However, we should not forget the possible negative effects from predominant Jo-Pok movies in Korean society. First of all, most Jo-Pok movies tend to infuse a misconception into people. In other words, by embellishing and glorifying gangs’ life, these movies may mislead people to think that gangs are just our friendly neighbors and in some extreme cases, our heroes. When it comes down to juveniles, the problem gets even worse. This is because young boys are usually affected much more seriously than adults, because they are in the formative period of characteristics.
