Title: Shiri
Director: Jaekyu Kang
Main Cast: Seokkyu Han, Minsik Choi, Yunjin Kim
Genre: Action/Romance
Year: 1999
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Shiri recorded the Top Box Office in Korean Film history, breaking the Korean Box Office record of Titanic after 57 days in release. The unique combination of 51% action, 49% love helps Shiri become a movie that excites all strands of the audience's sensibility without a moment of relaxation!" The preceding paragraph was not just box-cover hype. This film delivers from start to finish. / Beginning with a hyper-condensed "montage" in which North Korean special forces trainees are put through arduous obstacle courses, rainstorms, and high pressure, tightly timed shooting tests, as well as a brutal assault on bodies tied to stakes, writer-director Kang Je-Gyu lays out in stunning shorthand all the backstory you'll need for the scary assassin, Hee (Yunjin Kim). / Ryu and Lee are special agents of O.P., the nation's top secret intelligence service. The arms smuggler Lim is shot by a sniper int he street one day after volunteering to tell them some important information. From the scene of Lim's death, Ryu instinctively suspects the involvement of Hee, the best sniper of the 8th Special Force Unit of North Korea. She has previously assassinated many government officials and hid herself fromt he unrelenting pursuit of Ryu. Now she's back after one year. / Ryu and Lee investigate the death of Lim. In the process, they learn that Hee had tried to secure into her possession the CTX, the liquid bomb newly developed by the National Defense Lab with the help of Lim. Meanwhile, Park and the elite agents of the 8th Special Force succeed in seizing the CTX while it is being transported to the corps headquarters. While everyone is trying hard to retrieve the CTX, director Ko, Ryu, and Lee are suspicious of each other, creating a delicate and suspenseful situation. While the situation eludes solution, the date set for the marriage of Ryu and Hyun (also played by Yunjin Kim) approaches quickly. But their marriage may be another sign of impending misfortune...
Title: Legend of Gingko
Director: Jaehyun Park
Main Cast: Seokhoon Kim, Kyunggu Seol, Jinsil Choi, Yunjin Kim, Misook Lee
Genre: Romance/Fantasy/Action
Year: 2000
Dan, a god of endless love; Jeok, a god of absolute love; Bi, a god of sad love; Yeon (Yunjin Kim), a god of un-possessing love; and Soo, a god of desire which deserted love. Two tribes, Mae and Hwasan are living under the mountain of god which controls the heaven and the earth. The ambition of the tribe Mae, which desires to control the heaven and the earth, leads to a battle with the tribe Hwasan and the tribe finally is cursed by the god of the mountain. Cast to a barren land, the tribe Mae is waiting for the day of reconstruction of the tribe. After some hundred years have passed, Soo, a woman chief of the tribe Mae, with her dream to govern the earth and to control the eternal lives of her tribe, becomes pregnant by Han of the tribe Hwasan. The only way for the resurrection of the tribe Mae is to offer Bi as a sacrifice to cut the lineage of the god of the mountain. Han finds out this, and he saves Bi just before he is put to death for sacrifice. He takes Bi and heads for his home town, Hwasan, He becomes an intimate friend with Dan, Jeok, and Yeon. Dan and Jeok fight to be selected as the best warrior of the tribe Hwasan and to marry Princess Yeon. A story of four lovers and their twisted fate...
Title: Iron Palm
Director: Sanghyo Yook
Main Cast: Inpyo Cha, Yunjin Kim
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2002
A man named Iron Palm arrives at an L.A. airport, holding a rice cooker. He has come to the States with the sole hope of finding his first love, Jinnie (Yunjin Kim). Five years ago, he and Jinnie had been love. But one day, she left him to go to L.A. alone. After she left, Iron trained himself in a shaolin way called "the Iron Palm" to calm his yearning for love. He put his hands into a hot rice cooker whenever he thought of Jinnie. This is the way in which he got "iron palms." Five years after Jinnie's departure, she is unable to live for even a single day without soju and now works as a bartender, dreaming to one day open a trendy soju bar in L.A. She is dating a yuppie called "Admiral," who runs his own business and is wealthy enough to make her dream come true. But all of a sudden, Iron Palm shows up and interferes with her well-planned future by insisting that she marry him. WIth everything on the verge of breakdown, with the two men fighting over her, Jinnie suggests an unusual solution: "how about seeing both of you by rotation? Iron on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and Admiral on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Sunday is off, no wonder." Who will be Jinnie's man?
Title: Yesterday
Director: Yoonsoo Jeong
Main Cast: Seungwoo Kim, Yunjin Kim, Minsoo Choi
Genre: SF/Action
Year: 2002
Seoul, 2002. Korea has seen the unification of the North and South and now the threat of human genome genetics is causing much concern as scientists involved in these experiments are being killed off one by one. Hardened cop, Seok, along with his team is sent to investigate the murders. When her father is abducted by a terrorist, police profiler Hee-su (Yunjin Kim) joins the team. They discover that a man going by the name of Goliath is behind the deaths but that his motivations are unclear as he makes no demands for ransom. As the hunt continues, Suk and Hee-su learn more about each other and their pasts, which are somehow connected to all this. Yunjin Kim plays a brilliant criminal psychologist in the Unified Asia Police Department who is well known for her superb research into psychological profiling. She is also the daughter of the kidnapped police chief and is the only witness to Goliath's crime. Heesu shares the exact same headache problems as Seok. Rather than her father's survival, she becomes obsessed with pursuing Goliath.
Title: Ardor
Director: Youngjoo Byeon
Main Cast: Yunjin Kim, Jongwon Lee
Genre: Romance
Year: 2002
Mi-heun (Yunjin Kim)'s life is shattered as a woman in red visits her home and claims herself as her husband's true love. As her family moves to a quiet town in the countryside to start a new life, Mi-heon meets a doctor int own who proposes her a simple but dangerous game. Though she tries to refuse him with all her might, she feels herself void of the power to resist and begins to fall into him with her entire body and soul. / Ardor painfully observes the disintegrating subjectivity of a once-content housewife, whose shell of a bourgeois nuclear family is smashed like an eggshell with absurd ease one night. The film, after establishing the background for Mi-heun's deterioration, moves away from the standard melodrama toward feminist grounds: its focus never strays away from Mi-heun and it dares the audience to feel her shattering headaches, experience the hellish ennui of her life with her husband, listen to the resonances and discordances Mi-heun's "inner music" produces with other women, including her mother and daughter, and taste the perky highs and petty disappointments of her love affair...
Title: Rush (Japanese Movie)
Director: Hideki Endo
Main Cast: Yunjin Kim, Show Aikawa, Toshiro Yanagiba
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2001
Crime thriler/comedy starring Yunjin Kim ("Shiri"), Sho Aikawa ("Dead or Alive" trilogy), and Toshiro Yanagiba ("Odoru Daisosasen"). Directed by Takahisa zeze, Rush is a wacky tale of a Korean woman who plans her own kidnapping to get cash from her rich father and gets mixed in a real murder. Running for her life, she meets a Japanese man who gets wrapped into her disaster and finds himself strangely attracted to this wild woman. The movie is a blend of adrenaline-pumping (and often zany) adventure and a distorted sense of time...
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