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Mysterious drifter Tae-suk enters other peoples' lives as easily as he breaks into their unoccupied homes. Instead of stealing their riches, he repays his hosts' unknowing hospitality by fixing broken items, cleaning up, even doing their laundry. But when he sneaks into a sprawling mansion, he discovers a beautiful, lonely wife named Sun-hwa, trapped in a loveless marriage. Without saying a word, the pair begin an erotic game of cat-and-mouse, until her abusive husband returns home, unleashing a shocking burst of violence. Tae-suk defends Sun-hwa with the aid of her husband's golf club. The lovers run away together finding domestic bliss inhabiting strangers' homes. Later, when Tae-suk is framed for a murder, even prison walls can't keep them apart for good

PLEASE NOTE: EACH MOVIE IS IN A SEPERATE HOLDER BUT IN A BOX SET!
This Set Contains:
1) Capitalist Manifesto: Working Men of All Countries, Accumulate
2) Gate of Truth
3) Mad Minutes
4) Papa, Daddy, Father
5) Patriot Games
6)Popee

PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE TWO SEPERATE VOLUMES WITH TWO SEPERATE DISCS!
Volume 1 = Disc 1 Contains:
1) Spring and Delight
2) April Fools' Day in a Small Temple
3) Smoke-Flavored Life
4) Raindrop Prelude

Volume 2 - Disc 2 Contains:
1) Irreversible
2) One Fine Day
3) Chorong & Me

In Bong Joon-ho's directorial debut film, Barking Dogs Never Bite, an unemployed grad student with an expectant wife is driven to distraction by a yapping dog located somewhere in his large apartment complex. Determined to relieve his annoyance, he sets off to take extreme action against his tormentor; an action that will come
to haunt him.

One month has passed since Choi Chang-hyuk’s release from jail after being convicted for fraud. But this time around he’s got an elaborate plan cooked up. It’s the biggest bank heist in history that’ll give any thief a wet dream. The best five thieves come together to form a team. Starting with Choi, the brain behind the perfect plan; Master Kim, the godfather of swindlers, Big Mouth; a guy who can talk people into anything; Swallow, a remarkable mady-killer, and Gasoline, who has a gift for counterfeiting. But the only drawback is that none of them can trust each other.

In the 1850s, a child, Jang Seung-up is saved by the scholar Kim Byung-moon from being beaten by a group of drifters. After discovering Seung-up’s talent in art, he encourages Seung-up to pursue the life of a true artist and gives him a pen-name, Oh-won. And so Seung-up starts his life-long journey to find the true meaning of art. Through the turbulent times of the late Choson dynasty, his fame grows and he reaches impossible heights for an undereducated lower-class artist.

Born in Dongduchon, Chil-su is talented in art. While waiting for a wedding invitation from his sister in America, Chil-su quits his job painting theater signs, which is his livelihood. He becomes Mansu’s assistant. Man-su is in the army serving his military duty. He suffers under the dark shadow of his father. Chil-su gets dumped by Ji-na, a college student, and he looses all contact with his sister. Shil-su feels a little shaken, on the other hand, Man-su is unable to find stability. One night after they finished a large billboard, the two rave around the tower goofing around. However, the police are deployed…

Dae-Ho is an unproductive bank clerk who is late to work every morning and the object of his manager's frustrations. He was a fan of TV wrestling as a child, but can't get out of a headlock. He finds a local wrestling trainer and through a series of events eventually starts to train. He is slowly transformed as he begins his second job as the cheating villain wrestler known as the Foul King. He starts to stand up for himself in odd ways that are not really in his own best interest. Events get out of hand as conflicting influences come together

When a young girl is snatched away from her father by a horrifying giant monster that emerges from the River Han to wreak havoc on Seoul, her entire family sets out to locate the beast and bring their little girl back home to safety in South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's big-budget creature feature. Excellent reviews abound for this film, and this is sure to be one of the biggest selling horror titles of the summer

Living in a prostitutes’ village, Young-sik and his gang rob U.S. military warehouses of goods and sell them on the black market. His younger brother, Dong-sik comes up from Seoul to look for him. Running into his brother at a market, Young-sik takes him into the village. Dong-sik asks Young-sik to go down to their hometown where their mother awaits them, but Young-sik tells him to go ahead on his own. Young-sik meets Sonya and proposes that she go home with him, and marry him once he has made his fortune. Meanwhile Sonya seduces Dong-sik one night at a dance while Young-sik and his gang are stealing goods…

Tae-han runs a stamp shop in a small town, spending his time engraving seals. One day he learns that his wife is having an affair, and he decides to witness his wife’s infidelity with hos own eyes. Knowing that his wife’s lover is a taxi-driver, he goes to Seoul, intentionally gets in Joong-sik’s cab and asks for a long-distance drive. They encounter various situations as they travel along the highway, sometimes fighting, sometimes sharing excitement. Slowly, Tae-han suspects that his wife and Joong-sik might be really in love.

“If You Were Me 2” is an omnibus feature film planned and produced by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea following “If You Were Me” made in 2004 in which five film directors participated under the theme of human rights. “If You Were Me 2” is comprised of five short films also concerned with indifference and discrimination toward minorities or otherwise disenfranchised communities, such as North Korean refugees, the physically challenged, “informal workers”, and Chinese-Koreans.

A quiet specimen of personal storytelling at its most exciting, (Entertainment Weekly) In Between Days intimately portrays the joys and risks of first love and burgeoning adulthood with bracing and undeniable honesty. Aimie (Jiseon Kim) is a teenager recently transplanted from her native South Korea to a snowbound North American city. Disconnected from her single mother and bored at school, she struggles to find her way in a strange land of new faces, only to encounter a strange age of new feelings. Aimie s sole meaningful connection is to her best and only friend Tran (Taegu Andy Kang), a Korean boy a few steps ahead of her on the path to assimilation. But as Aimie s feelings for Tran grow in complexity and depth, her sole source of comfort and stability begins to cause her unease. On the threshold of maturity, Aimie struggles to find a place outside herself where past and future connect, and a place
within herself where love and friendship don t cancel each other out.

I Saw the Devil is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge. The embodiment of pure evil, Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. On a freezing, snowy night, his latest victim is the beautiful Juyeon, daughter of a retired police chief and pregnant fiancée of elite special agent Soo-hyun. Obsessed with revenge, Soo-hyun is determined to track down the murderer, even if doing so means becoming a monster himself. And when he finds Kyung-chul, turning him in to the authorities is the last thing on his mind, as the lines between good and evil fall away in this diabolically twisted game of cat and mouse

In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved - all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.