On the Korean Blogathon

Here’s the banner with a link which should explain everything. It’s one of those group blog things and has been successfully done with Japanese films (the list of postings is inspiring! This post about the DVD label that released “Ai no Mukidashi” is especially lovely).

Since I love these kinds of projects, what should I blog about? Well, doing my favorite thing, which is making lists, would probably be too easy. Plus, I have not seen all that many Korean films, even though it’s possibly my favorite – how ridiculous is a top 10 out of ~20 films?

Speaking of which, the easily-made ranking is exactly as follows, and includes almost every Korean film I have seen. Since I kept adding things to the list during the day, it might not be complete – but almost. Incidentally, numbers 1 to 5 are most likely part of my all time favorite movies, which is something that definitely cannot be said about the tally of Japanese or Chinese movies I have seen. Thus it is not exaggerated to say that I have a strong weakness (lol) for Korean films, and that was even before I started liking movies at all. But what can I really contribute which I would think is meaningful at all? I don’t want to do a review (I do that all the time) nor a list (for aforementinoned reasons), but I don’t think I have the capability of doing a film analysis post which would live up to my own expectations. Most likely I will come up with some meta-essay or so. Look forward to it(?)

1. JSA
2. Welcome to Dongmakgol
3. Take care of my cat
4. Old Boy
5. Silmido
6. The Host
7. I’m a Cyborg but that’s OK
8. My Dear Enemy
9. Lady Vengeance
10. The Housemaid (the old one)
11. Thirst
12. Bin-Jip
13. Barking dogs never bite
14. A tale of two sisters
15. Members of the Funeral
13. Aachi & Ssipak
16. Treeless Mountain
17. The King and the Clown
18. Wonderful Days
18. South of the Border
19. Arumdabda
20. My Sassy Girl
21. Shiri
22. The Good Lawyer’s Wife
23. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Up to date version:

1. JSA
2. Welcome to Dongmakgol
3. Old Boy
4. Take care of my cat
5. Silmido
6. The Host
7. I’m a Cyborg but that’s OK
8. My Dear Enemy
9. Memories of Murder
10. Mother
11. Lady Vengeance
12. The Housemaid (1960)
13. Thirst
14. Bin-Jip
15. Barking dogs never bite
16. A tale of two sisters
17. Members of the Funeral
18. The Housemaid (2010)
19. Aachi & Ssipak
20. Treeless Mountain
21. The King and the Clown
22. The Chaser
23. Wonderful Days
24. South of the Border
25. Arumdabda
26. My Sassy Girl
27. Shiri
28. The Good Lawyer’s Wife
29. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Films I want to see
– Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
– Double Agent
– Saranghanda, Saranghaji Anneunda
– Untold Scandal
– A Bittersweet Life
– Secret Sunshine
– The Isle
– Taegukgi
– My beautiful girl Mari
– Women on the Beach