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Korean Box Office: September 9-11

11th September 2011

Last week, I had not posted the box office totals.  As I said in my last post, I was very busy with the start of school.. but as I had written it all out by hand in the notebook I keep I probably could have taken some time to post it..   Anyway, I do have this weeks ready for you. With lots of new movies for the holiday that started September 11 and will run through the 13, there were lots of new movies. In fact, 6 out of the top ten films are new to theaters. 

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The film Arrow: The Ultimate Weapon fared very well depsite the onslaught of new movies and the fact that it has now been in theaters for a full month. It fell just one place behind the number one movie this week, the comedy Marrying the Mafia 4.  Hindsight  (the official English name of the move whose Korean title is Blue Salt)dropped like a stone and fell five places. In fact, I would normally expect it to fall out of the box office all together next week except for the fact that only 4 new films are opening this coming week and surprisingly, the ‘best’ of them seems to be Shark Night… I guess it is a chance to catch up on some of the older films I have not seen yet. 

Happy Chuseok!

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New DVD Releases: Sept. 11-17

11th September 2011

I slacked off a little with blogging this past week. With the start of the new semester, preparations for the Chuseok holiday, and a new project I am working on for the Study Abroad Programs– I had to design an English brochure– I really had no time.  But I will get all caught up tomorrow and the next day as there are no classes until Wednesday.

Two Korean films are coming to DVD this week. Head and Enlightenment Film.

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HEAD– Directed by Jo Woon, starring Park Ye-jin, Baek Yoon-shik and Ryu Deok-hwan. Number of discs: 1/ Subtitles: Korean & English/ Rating: ages 19+/ Format: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen/ Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1/ Running Time: 100 minutes/ Suggested Retail Price: 21,900 KRW/ Available: September 15.

ENLIGHTENMENT FILM– Directed by Park Dong-hoon, starring Jeong Seung-gil, Kim Ji-in, Oh Woo-jeong.  Number of discs: 1/ Subtitles: Korean & English/ Rating: ages 15+/ Format: 16:9 anamorphic widescreen/ Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0/ Running Time: Total 143min including a 23 minute short film entitled War Film/ Region Code: All region/ Suggested Retail Price: 22,000 KRW/ Available: September 16.

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DVD Releases: Sept. 4-10

4th September 2011

Well, the new semester started this week which was why my posting went down from nearly daily to just once last week.  But once I get into the flow of the classes, I will be back to posting more.  This week there are several dramas and three Korean films being released onto DVD this week. I will deal just with the films:

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MOBY DICK: Directed by Park In-je, starring Hwang Jeong-min and Kim Min-hee.  Number of discs: 2/ Subtitles: English and Korean/ Rating: ages 15+/ Format: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen/ Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1/ Running time: 112 min + 63 minutes of extras on disc 2/ Suggest retail price: 23,100 KRW/ Available from September 7.

IN LOVE IN THE WAR: Directed by Park Geon-yong, starring Kim Ju-hyeok, Yoo Hae-jin. Number of discs: 1/ Subtitles: Korean and English/ Rating: ages 12+/ Format: 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen/ Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1/ Running Time: 135 min/ Suggested retail price: 25,300 KRW/ Availabe from September 7.

MAMA: Directed by Choi Ik-hwan, starring Uhm Jeong-hwa, Im Hae-sook.  Number of discs: 2/ Subtitles: Korean and English/ Rating: ages 12+/ Format: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen/ Audio: Dolby Ditigal 5.1/ Running time: 110 minuntes+ 68 minutes of extras on disc 2/ Suggested Retail Price: 25,300 KRW/ Available from September 8.

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