Title: Taking Lives (2004)
Director: D.J. Caruso
Studio: Warner Bros
Rating: Unrated
Genre: Drama

Synopsis:
A psychological thriller, Taking Lives is the story of an FBI agent who becomes involved with her key witness while tracking a prolific serial killer who assumes the lives and identities of the people he kills. She finds herself surrounded by numerous suspects and no one to trust.

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Angelina Jolie

IMO:
u watch it becos of angelina jolie... enuf said

Rating:
3 out of 5 snoopys

Title: White Valentine
Film Director(s): Yang Yun-Ho
Film Producer(s): Kim Yong-Kuk
Released: 1999 [Korea]
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: Romance

Overview:
A girl named Jung-min writes to a young man named Hyun-jun, who is serving in the army. She lies about her age and claims to be a teacher. As this young lady turns twenty, a 30-year-old man, who has eyes filled with sadness moves into her village. Every night, he sends letters through a pigeon to a deceased woman he loved dearly. He sends them high up in the sky, knowing that he will never get a reply. Then one day, like magic, he receives a letter. The letters sent through pigeons reveal someone's loneliness and sadness. And the two people meet each other by sheer chance...

Cast:
Park Sin-Yang, Jeon Ji-Hyeon, Jeon Mu-Song, Kim Se-Jun, Kim Young-Ok, Yang Dong-Keun, Kang Jin-Wu, Jang Myeong-Cheol, Park Mi-Rae


IMO:
see jeon ji hyeon in her debut movie and u know why she was chosen for my sassy girl... the story abit machiam like love letter like that but nice la the show...

Rating:
3 1/2 out of 5 snoopys

Title: Plastic Tree
Film Director(s): Lee Il-Seon
Released: 2003 [Korea]
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: Thriller

Plot:
Su is a quiet man who keeps mostly to himself. He leads a simple life with his girlfriend Won-Yong. But their uneventful life soon develops some unexpected events when Su's childhood friend moves in and begins to make advances towards Won-Yong.

Cast: Jo Eun-Suk, Kim Jeong-Hyeon, Kim In-Gweon

IMO:
a rather surprising gd film when the main cast all duno one... at first quite normal normal then once the depression sets in, watch how all 3 self destruct by themselves... gd film showcasting our society of today... everything they do is for a reason...

Rating:
3 1/2 out of 5 snoopys

Title(s) AKA: Scarecrow
Literally Translated Title: Scarecrow
Film Director(s): Norio Tsuruta
Film Producer(s): Yoichiro Onishi
Released: 2001 [Japan]
Genre: Horror
Sub-Genre: Fantasy

Overview:
A mysterious letter, the only clue left for Kaoru Yoshikawa to search for her missing brother and the reason behund his sudden disappearance. Her blind but relentless search leads her to "Kozuata-mura", a cursed and insane village where people are mesmerized by the power of the Kakashi (scarecrow). A series of strange and eerie incidents follows...

Cast: Maho Nonami, Kou Sibasaki, Grace Ip, Shunsuke Matsuoka. . .

IMO:
i thought there was a lot of hype abt it in the past, got quite a number of ppl watching it so i was quite interested to get this film... end up waste my time... theres nothing good about it, even korean horror films more scary loh... zzzzz

Rating: 1 out of 5 snoopys

I.K.U.

Starring:	Yumeko Sasaki, Miho Ariga, Ayumu Tokitou, Zachery Nataf
Director:	Shu Lea Cheang
Studio:	Eclectic DVD / UpLink
Rating:	Unrated
Genre:	Sci-Fi (Erotic)

Synopsis:

In 20xx, GENOM Corporation (GENOM Inc), a Japanese multinational corporation that handles information technology and genomes research, is struggling in the research of the orgasm coder. At last GENOM Inc succeeds in producing the newest orgasm coder replicant and becomes a worldwide leader in the field of pornography. The coders are the replicants in the digital generation that have been created making full use of the most advanced seven clone technologies developed by Dr. Tenma of GENOM Inc. The Replicants were born with a mission to collect I.K.U. (orgasm) data.

The trendy sex style in 20xx is "Assist Sex", in which people gain sexual pleasure using tools or attain orgasm virtually. People prefer it rather than physical friction. Realizing this, GENOM Inc collected orgasm data from those who have primitive sexual abilities to build up a huge database fro "I.K.U.", and have succeeded in making a fortune.

The newest replicant of XXX Generation, Reiko, is set out for orgasm data hunting as the same as other replicants. Stimulated by her "Sex Drive" and engraved "XXX Tattoo" used for data collecting on her right arm, Reiko starts coiling around GENOM employee Dissy impatiently in the elevator of GENOM Inc. But Dissy knew her future because he himself had sent out many replicants.

Reiko's XXX tattooed right arm that was engraved with ultra ray is biotechnologically made of both electronic devices and artificial flesh. When a "Biomatic Drive" in Reiko's body is filled with coded orgasm data, it will be downloaded by the Shot-Gun-Shaped Dildo Retriever. After the download, Reiko will finish her mission and retire. Reiko was created as a female full of sexual curiosity and unrestrained. Roaming in "Sex-Space", Reiko looks like she is living in a free world. But in fact she is under observation by many cameras that GENOM Inc has set everywhere around her. In other words, she is just a sex machine of GENOM Inc.





Reiko collects various kinds of orgasm data through sexual affairs. She fucks with guests as a dance girl of the Harmony Club, and with young couple who are pretending to elope... Even sometimes she is addicted to have 3P sex with a drag dealer and a hustler who are in the middole of a car chase, or with a homeless man who is living in a cardboard box inside the 3D Dreamscape that sex dolls guide.

Reiko is not able to feel orgasm alone. Her right arm freely transforms digitally from a horn of the unicorn to a penis only when her partner attains orgasm. Plugging "it" into the partner's private parts, Reiko encodes orgasm data. The orgasm data are scanned by the ultra ray of Reiko's XXX tattoo, and it is showing up as patterns of coded mosaic.

"MASH" is a retired orgasm coder of the X Generation, and now is working in a strip club. She always rides on a Super Motorbike. Although she has resigned, MASH helps Reiko in pinch as if she still follows GENOM Inc .

"Tokyo Rose" is a diva of the underground club "Pink", but in fact she is a virus encoder of BIO LINK Corporation which is a business rival of GENOM Inc. Her mission is to seduce the orgasm coders of GENOM Inc in order to infect a virus called "Tokyo Rose". Once the orgasm coder is infected with the virus, the system would be downed and the orgasm data would be stolen. Later Reiko is trapped by Aja, and her coder system is downed by the Tokyo Rose virus.

When Reiko is down, MASH on her Super Motorbike comes to help her. MASH teaches her masturbation. To restore her system, she has to indulge in sexual pleasure by herself. And the reset button that Dr. Tenma secretly installed is on the navel. Thus Reiko restarts her system before GENOM Inc throws her away. The orgasm that she attained by herself became the energy needed for the reset. Dr. Tenma was a salaried worker of GENOM Inc, and has secretly installed the reset button in the event of his creatures being scrapped. To set his replicants free someday.

Reiko resets herself, but the orgasm data in the Biomatic Disk is empty because it has been stolen by Tokyo Rose. To accomplish her mission she has to keep fucking. Reiko meets Akira in a tube hotel. He calls himself a hustler (hooker), and actually his sexual desire is rare for a man of the present day. Reiko and Akira start having sex in a Japanese restaurant. Akira has never attained orgasm because of his profession, but that night he orgasms by Reiko's sexual techniques because she is greedy for it. Akira gives a lot of his orgasms data to Reiko that night, and helps to fill Reiko's Biomatic Disk.

Finally when Reiko's Biomatic Disk is filled, Dissy appears to pull out her orgasm data and scrap. Going down in the elevator Dissy downloads Reiko's data with the Shot-Gun-Shaped Dildo Retriever. The fuck of the fuck. Thus the mosaic data of various kinds of orgasm data falls into the hands of GENOM Inc. The collected XXX data is encoded into I.K.U. database. GENOM Inc then produces the I.K.U. Chip that is to be plugged into the Net Glass Phone to access to the XXX database on the net. And the I.K.U. Chip is sold in the vending machines next to condoms.

coded into I.K.U. database. GENOM Inc then produces the I.K.U. Chip that is to be plugged into the Net Glass Phone to access to the XXX database on the net. And the I.K.U. Chip is sold in the vending machines next to condoms.

taken from: http://www.dvdasian.com/cgi-bin/dvdasian/13537.html

IMO: what can i say, i was intrigued by the poster... :X

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 snoopys

OGU: A Hillarious Mourning

Starring:	Kang Bu-Ja, Lee Jae-Eun, Kim Gyeong-Ick
Director:	Lee Yun-Taek
Studio:	KD Media
Rating:	15 Up
Genre:	Comedy

Synopsis:

Angels of death arrive in the mortal world with a mission to escort an old lady to her final resting place. They are off to find the old lady Hwang, in the guise of human beings, dogs and flies. One of them appears in the dream of Hwang as her late husband and gives a sign of her upcoming death. After the dream, the old lady Hwang asks a shaman to perform KUT, the ritual services, so that her spirit can be sent to heaven after her death.. KUT has been banned in the village for years, since a daughter of the shaman got pregnant without marrying and was kicked out by villagers. Now the daughter, Mi-yeon, manages her life running a small bar in town living with her fatherless son, but returns to the village in years when the lady persuades the shaman into performing KUT. The shamanistic rite is in full blast and the villagers gather to watch and enjoy themselves. In the midst of it, all the hidden truth is revealed; Mi-yeon was raped and pregnant by some of the villagers, who expelled her charging her unmarried pregnancy; Yong-taek, the old lady's son killed himself by feeling guilty of not protecting his lover Mi-yeon. Through the KUT, however, their old grief, hatred and resentment are washed away. After the ritual, old lady dies peacefully. The angel, who returned to this world in the guise of Yong-taek under orders of King Ogu(i.e. King of heaven), feels compassion for Mi-yeon and wonders if he really was Yong-taek in his mortal life. Slowly he finds himself wanting to stay in the earthly world of human beings.

taken from: http://www.dvdasian.com/cgi-bin/dvdasian/17021.html

IMO: would anyone celebrate when they are about to die? apparently yes

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 snoopys

1-Ichi (2003) (V)
Directed by: Masato Tanno

Writing credits:
Sakichi Satô
Hideo Yamamoto (comic)

Genre: Action / Thriller (more)

Based on the original manga, 1-ICHI is a prequel to Takashi Miike's ICHI THE KILLER and a film on its own. Nao Omori reprise the role of Ichi, who we follow during his high school years. Mr. Dai (played by TEACH... best known as Mario from CITY OF LOST SOULS) is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his face. Mr. Dai thinks that Ichi is laughing at him but in fact he enjoys watching the violence that goes through the fights. Everyone is bullying, taunting and making fun of Ichi... even little kids from his karate class. Yet Ichi refuses to let go of his anger and fight others. Just when Mr. Dai is about to get Ichi, a new transfer student (Kôji Chihara) starts to make his own laws... by beating up everyone and breaking their bones! In a fight with the new student, Mr. Dai ends up on the ground, beaten and broked up from almost everywhere. It seems like this new guy wants to fight Ichi because supposedly he is the only one that could give him some challenge (remiscent of Kakihara from ICHI THE KILLER).

taken from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382508/

IMO:
ichi the killer rocks, but guys should watch this movie first cos it explains alot of things... like y ichi uses his legs instead of hands to kill, y he keeps smiling after he has this sort of blood frenzy thing in him... if u never watch this movie, u never know he gets sexually aroused by watching or doing violence...

Rating:
3.5 out of 5 snoopys