Korean Movies for the heart...

Ive been so emo lately coz things cant seem to go the way i want them to be... for example, my trip do Damai (i want the beach!!!! =( ) needs to be canceled coz my stupid degree registration falls from today till 21st February, whereas my trip supposed to be from today till this Friday. And also a friend told me we cant fucking choose our classes for degree, which is so making me pissed right now coz i cant be in the same class like what we planned to do. Shit... so the only way i can wish that we will be in the same class is if we register together, you know, hand in the forms together and then pray for the best. And things are not helping as well, seemingly our results are only out tomorrow, and this makes a lot of my friends so stressed out, that they cannot sleep and wouldnt want to get their butts online in fear they might surf the blackboard for their results... you know la, anxiousness and nervousness kills. Bah!!!

So ive decided to divert my attention towards Korean movies, since many people say that these movies can cure or mend a broken heart, or boredom, or maybe make worst what we feel inside. LOL. So i head over to CrunchyRoll.com, a place where i always watch movies online to see anything worth checking out. Andy recommended "A Millionaire's First Love", so i need to check it out.


This movie is an excellent tear jerking movie which i think, those who loves crying can watch. Needless to say, i did cry my tears out coz it was sooooo touching... and also romantic and also it makes you angry at the same time. You know, it gets your emotions running high and such. Starred by Hyun Bin (also acted in My Name is Kim Sam Soon which i think is so hot and handsome and whoa!!! at the same time ^^ ) and Lee Yeon Hee (i have never seen here before but she is really really cute and demure), this story is about a rich spoilt brat (and an orphan too) who owns everything you can ever wished for. However, upon turning 18, an age where he is legal of his wealthy inheritance, he is being sent off to a remote school where he needs to graduate if not he will lose his entire wealth. This means he needed to work hard for his inheritance. Thus, he stays at a countryside, where everything is slow paced and home made, and being denied of all his credit cards and money, he seems to start from scratch again. With his bad boy attitude, at first, he seemed to escape from everything, till a girl stood up at him and then, love blossoms. As they get closer to one another, they learn many things in life which may change their lives forever. Many truths untold, many long gone memories relived and then... tear jerking moments set in. Awww... i wouldnt go on about the movie forever but i have been watching it like everyday to see whether it will get me to stop crying, but it never cease to work. Haha, maybe im just too soft. So, i would recommend this movie to anyone who loves those teenage love movies with sad sad endings... And mind me, i said SAD ENDINGS!!! =S


Second movie i watched to keep my busy is "Virgin Snow". A mixed production between South Korea and Japan, this movie is a must watched for those people who thinks true love and coincidence and luck in love do not exist simultaneously. Let me steal the plot from Wikipedia,

"Min is a Korean boy who moves to Japan following his professor father. One day at a local shrine, he meets a beautiful Japanese girl with innocent eyes. Her name is Nanae, and she is an aspiring painter. Min falls for her at first sight, and soon learns that Nanae attends the same school to which Min has just transferred. They become friends, and despite the culture and language barriers it is an intense friendship. When his grandmother suddenly falls ill, Min hastily returns to Korea but can’t get in touch with Nanae beforehand. After his grandmother regains her health, he hurries back to Japan to reunite with Nanae, but she is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?"

Starred by Lee Jun Ki (a super super hot Korean guy, who is also a model by profession) and Miyazaki Aoi (or however you spell her name, she is the cute cute Hachi from NANA)... this show can inspire people who thinks that all hope is lost when they give up on their love one, that there will actually meet up someday, by crook or by nature... coz once you are fated to be together, event the stormiest weather cannot tear your feelings apart. It also projects how faithful and loyal someone in love can be. And also not to mention the fact that it emphasizes that women remember all those small small details about a relationship better than a guy. =_= This is seen when the girl waited at a certain every year where it all started to see whether the guy remembered about her. But after 3 long years, or was it 2? LOL... the guy finally remembered. Wheeeee... there goes my tears... lol... and one more thing... LANGUAGE ISNT A BARRIER WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE!!! ^^


"200 Pounds Beauty"? What can i say? Definitely a classic love comedy that i can rewatch many many times without feeling bored. ^^ Credits to Wikipedia, im gonna steal their plot coz im so lazy to rewrite what i think of the movie... maybe later... :

"Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung) is an overweight phone sex employee and a secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. Instead of being famous for her own amazing vocal talent, Han-na hides behind Ammy's performance stage and sings during Ammy's concerts, and records all of Ammy's songs. One day, Ammy ungratefully humiliates her in front of the music company's director Sang-jun (Ju Jin-mo) during his birthday party, knowing full well that Han-na has a crush on him. While crying in the bathroom, Han-na overhears Sang-jun telling Ammy that even though they are just using Han-na for her voice, they must be kind to her so she will not walk out on them. Heartbroken, Han-na attempts suicide but is interrupted by a phone call from one of her phone sex regulars who happens to be a top cosmetic surgeon. She decides to get a head-to-toe makeover instead. The surgeon at first refuses to operate on Han-na, but Han-na blackmails that she will tell the surgeon's wife about his calls. Then, Han-na makes a moving speech that she does not want to undergo surgery merely to be beautiful, but for the sake of love and as a boost in confidence, and the surgeon is deeply moved. Han-na puts herself in seclusion for a year as she recovers from the changes.

When she comes back from the hospital, Han-na is incredibly beautiful and slender. No one, not even her best friend, Chung-min, recognizes her. With Chung-min's help, she creates a new identity for herself; she is now a Korean-American from California named Jenny. After auditioning to be Ammy's secret vocalist again, she earns her own recording contract instead from Sang-jun, claiming that she is "all-natural". In the meantime, Ammy, oblivious just like everyone else of Han-na's new identity, desperately tries to find Han-na so that she can record her own postponed album (since she cannot sing the songs herself) by spending time with Hanna's father who is in a hospital with some mental problems, possibly Alzheimer's. Through spending time with Han-na's father, she eventually realizes that this new Jenny is actually Han-na in disguise. Meanwhile, romance begins to blossom between "Jenny" and Sang-Jun. During a date one night, as sparks fly, Jenny supposedly stripped for Sang-Jun in the character of a nurse [not shown on camera, of course] After Jenny has fallen asleep, he realizes that the tattoo Jenny had on her hip was a sign he had seen before. He remembers that when Han-na still existed and he had not met "Jenny" yet, Han-na had drawn the exact same signs on a sheet of music. Then he adds all of the signs up and realizes as well that "Jenny" is actually Kang Han-na but he keeps this information to himself.

"Jenny's" debut single 'Maria' becomes a hit and the recording company holds a party to celebrate its release. On the day of a party however, Ammy brings "Jenny's" father, in an attempt to blow Han-na's cover. Han-na's father tries to return Han-na's Barbie doll to her, which has always been Han-na's favourite childhood gift from him. Startled by the sudden appearance of her father and not knowing how to react in front of all the people, including Sang-jun, Han-na denies knowing her father and calls him a fan instead when Sang-jun asks her if the old man is her guest. As her father keeps on insisting on giving the doll to Han-na, Sang-jun drags him away from Jenny and accidentally knocks him down onto the floor. Desperate to keep her true identity a secret, Han-na made no move to help her father. It was Chung-min who finally helps him up and leads him away from the party.

After the party, Sang-jun and 'Jenny' were the only ones left in the room. Sang-jun reveals to 'Jenny' that he knows her true identity but is now cold and distant. He seems to be unable to forgive her for lying to him but says that he will still work to promote 'Jenny' and carry on with her concert scheduled the next day. Han-na breaks down at this point, heartbroken and unable to pretend to be someone else anymore. Han-na tells him that it is incredibly frustrating and painful not being able to be just be herself but have to live a lie, especially in front of him. The surgery that took a whole year to recover from was not nearly as painful as realising that she still could not be close to Sang-jun.

The day of "Jenny's" first concert, Jenny breaks down from the pressure of losing her friend and father and reveals to the public that Jenny is a "fake," and that she is not "all-natural", as she had claimed, but is "plastic". However, nobody seems to believe her. She proceeds tearfully to tell the large crowd her story: how she has abandoned everything that is dear to her - her best friend and father - to get to where she is. She also tells the crowd about how along the way to fame and fortune she has also lost her own identity and that she now no longer knows who she is. Just then, the screens behind her on the stage started to show a clip of the old, obese Han-na, singing angelically. Han-na turns around and sees her old image and tells the crowd that the image is the real her. The crowd, moved by her sincere confession, responds by chanting "It's okay," and Han-na rekindles her relationships with her father and best friend. She drops the stage name "Jenny" and re-releases a CD with her own name, Hanna, and becomes a highly successful music artist, gaining many anti-fans as well as loyal fans along the way. Sang-jun realizes the very thing about Han-na that had always drawn her to him - Han-na's innocence."

Buh... so long... but anyways... this movie got me laughing my lungs out. Omg... 200 pounds is just like 90 kgs? But then, they loved over exaggerating in movies. How come so many doctors and paramedics could not lift her up into the stretcher? LOL... thats like soooo unrealistic... and then, can plastic surgery actually make you lose half of your weight? OMG... from a big ass buffalo to a slim size zero model-like body, zzz... HOW THE HELL DID THEY CUT HER BONE SIZE? Such utter crap!!! But then, its funny watching the whole transformation of the Han-na in the movie. I love those parts where she can get away with everything... and also can cause havoc with her beauty... lol, sad to say that guys will actually fall for those little tricks. Neh... and the moral of the story was right... FAT GIRLS THAT WEIGHS 200 POUNDS ARE A TURN OFF!!! im so sad la... makes me feel so so sorry for all those obese girls out there... sometimes... we cant help eating... our body needs food all the time. Sigh, boys, give those fat girls a break okay? Maybe their heart is purer and better than those slim bitches around town. Give them a chance to fall in love, wont you people do that? I was once a fat girl weighing 68 kgs (that was my maximum weight last time), and people hardly feel attracted to me at all, except that i was just effing cute coz my cheeks were damn chubby, you cannot resist pinching. Either than that, we have no attraction whatsoever even though we are fairly good looking and smart. Guys wouldnt see our brains or beauty, they just like the body. Sighs... evil reality eh? Okay, cut the crap... just get your hands on these movies...

They are worth every minute spent on. LOL... ^^

And get ready lots of tissue, coz there are bound to be tear jerking moments where some of my guy friends couldnt resist but shed some tears too. GAN DONG LE!!! =S *sniff sniff*

Im gonna hunt for more Korean movies to watch... any recommendations? =D