I Can Speak 8th Sep 10:30am
2017, 119 minutes, U15+, In Korean with English Subtitles
Director: KIM Hyun-seok, Cast: NA Moon-hee, LEE Je-hoon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Distributor: Lotte Entertainment, Little Big Pictures
"If you forget, you lose, so I can speak"
Nah Ok-bun, also nicknamed as “Goblin Granny”, is an elderly woman infamous for constantly filing
civil complaints at her local office. One day, Ok-bun meets Park Min-jae, a recently transferred junior
civil service officer, and tensions arise when Min-jae seems to only care about what he is assigned to do
rather than her complaints. However, things begin to change when Ok-bun sees Min-jae speaking in
fluent English and asks him to give her English lessons. Along the way, an unlikely friendship forms
between them as they spend more time together, with Min-jae later learning the reason why Ok-bun is
so determined to learn English.
Familyhood 8th Sep 13:30pm
2016, 120 minutes, U15+, In Korean with English Subtitles
Director: KIM Tae-gon, Cast: KIM Hye-soo, MA Dong-seok, KIM Hyun-soo, KIM Yong-gun, SEO Hyun-jin, KWAK Si-yang
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Distributor: Showbox, Mediaplex
Why, despite working so hard, do I have no one on my side? I'm going to create my own support. I want to become a mom!
Go Joo-yeon, a self-centered star actress who always gets what she wants, finds her career going downhill now that she is in her 40s. Discovering that her young boyfriend was taking advantage of her fame and cheating on her, Joo-yeon decides that she wants a baby, someone definite in her life that would not leave her. However, Joo-yeon takes another hard blow of not being able to conceive, having reached menopause. She comes across Kim Dan-ji, a pregnant teenager at the hospital, and offers to adopt Dan-ji’s baby no matter what the cost, and to support her until she delivers. This captivating tale showcases how strangers have to work and live together under different circumstances, navigating through difficulties and finding an unlikely family-like friendship along the way.
Secretly Greatly 8th Sep 16:15pm
2013, 123 minutes, U15+, In Korean with English Subtitles
Director: JANG Cheol-soo, Cast: KIM Soo-hyun, PARK Ki-woong, LEE Hyun-woo
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Distributor: Showbox, Mediaplex
Being born in an ordinary country, in an ordinary home, living an ordinary life, and then dying...
Won Ryu-hwan, a North Korean agent trained by the North Korean elite special forces since young, was sent to South Korea as a spy. Ryu-hwan takes up the identity of Bang Dong-gu, a goofy and mentally challenged young man while two other spies, Lee Hae-rang and Ri Hae-jin take up the personas of a young wannabe rock star and a high school student respectively. As time went on without receiving any orders from North Korea, they got used to their lives in the small town and slowly became attached to the people living there as well. However, their peace was disturbed abruptly when they were ordered to take each other’s lives, or risk death at the hands of an elite hit team.
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time 8th Sep 19:00am
2012, 133 minutes, MA15+, In Korean with English Subtitles
Director: YOON Jong-bin, Cast: CHOI Min-sik, HA Jung-woo
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Distributor: Showbox
We've got to live in style, don't we? Do you know who I am?
The Republic of Korea from the era that declared war on crime.
In l982, Choi Ik-hyun works as a customs officer at the Busan Port, where he and his colleagues accept bribes and smuggle goods. About to lose his job, Ik-hyun discovers a huge amount of drugs by chance, and meets up with gangster Choi Hyung-bae to sell the drugs to the Japanese yakuza. Discovering that he and Hyung-bae are part of the same Choi family clan from Gyeongju, Ik-hyun quits his job and becomes a full-time businessman. Ik-hyun and Hyung-bae establish a partnership and rise to the top in the Busan underworld. But when the government declares war against organised crime in 1990, difficulties arise when Ik-hyun finds himself having to choose where his loyalties lie in order to survive.