3 Movies Starring Woo-seong Kam

Spider Forest

Spider Forest

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-03

Languages:

Korean

Countries:

South Korea

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1735 Reviews)

Director:

Il-gon Song

Fullplot:

A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods.

R-Point

R-Point

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-08-13

Languages:

English, Korean, French, Vietnamese

Countries:

South Korea

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (4140 Reviews)

Director:

Su-chang Kong

Fullplot:

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead. The high-command assigns the veteran and decorated Lieutenant Choi Tae-in to lead a squad with eight other soldiers and rescue the missing soldiers from the R-Point. When they arrive in the location, they have a shooting and defeat a Vietnamese woman with a machine gun in a trench. Later, they find a tombstone telling that one hundred years ago, Chinese killed Vietnamese, dropped them in a lake and built a temple over the place, being a sacred location to the Vietnamese. While chasing the missing soldiers, weird things happen with the rescue team.

The King and the Clown

The King and the Clown

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-12-29

Languages:

Korean

Countries:

South Korea

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3521 Reviews)

Director:

Joon-ik Lee

Cast:

Writer:

Seok-Hwan Choi

Tae-woong Kim (play)

Fullplot:

Soul mate minstrels Jang-sang and Gong-gil eke out a living in 14th century Korea through bawdy stories presented in a tightrope act; however, sexual interests of the rich over Gong-gil's androgynous looks impair their basic desire to entertain once too often. A line is crossed, an authority figure dies, and the pair must flee to Seoul. They soon take up with a trio of fellow minstrels and, lead by Jang-sang, present riskier shows that prove more lucrative; but, a scathing exhibition satirizing the king and his concubine puts them under arrest with a set date for execution. Forced to present themselves to the king for final judgment, they surprisingly wind up becoming his court performers, but the tyrannical king, though sensitive and intelligent, is also excessive and psychologically scarred, with the minstrel shows putting him uncomfortably in touch with buried issues over his dead mother (long ago forced to commit suicide by the court). This makes him dangerously unstable. The alarmed nobles, wanting the minstrels gone, find support from the king's mistress after the king's infatuation turns from her to Gong-gil. Longevity definitely isn't what it once was, and Jang-sang feels they all ought to high-tail it while they can, but Gong-gil, though unwaveringly allegiant, feels differently.

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