An Illegal Alien and Six Siblings Needing a Legal Guardian Come Together As One Family!
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Papa Production : Sangsang Film Investment/Distribution: Lotte Entertainment Written & Directed by : HAN Ji-seung Starring : PARK Yong-woo, KOH A-ra, SOHN Byoung-ho Website : www.papa2012.kr Release Date: January 2012 “We swear we’re a family!” An illegal alien and six siblings needing a legal guardian come together as one family! The man with the Midas touch in pop music world in Korea, the celebrity manager Chun-seop (PARK Yong-woo) goes to America to look for an eloped top star and ends up becoming an illegal alien there. Needing US citizenship, Chun-seop becomes a family with June (KHO A-ra), a girl who needs a legal guardian in order to stay together with her younger siblings. Thus begins Chun-seop’s crazy life sharing a house with six kids of all different skin colors and languages, starting with the Korean girl June, the responsible oldest with ingenious artistic gift, the second child who’s black and weighs over 100 kg, and has learned classical Korean language through the Korean drama Daejangeum, the third child who’s a cold and cynical Muslim girl with dark make- up, the fourth and fifth who are white twin brothers who dream of ruling the world as rappers, and the youngest, the Hispanic pink princess who brims over with affection for papa. As a legal guardian, Chun-seop is now responsible for babysitting, house chores and bringing home money. To make matters worse, Mr. Dough, the evil owner of the management company in Korea, is pressing Chun-seop to pay back his money. Thinking about ways to get out of the sticky situation with Mr. Dough, Chun-seop stumbles upon the opportunity to change his life and the lives of six siblings once and for all, and makes an amazing proposal to June. Pacemaker Directed by : Kim Dal-Joong Cast : Kim Myung-Min, Ahn Sung-Ki, Goh Ah-Ra, Cho Hee-Bong Genre : Human Drama Website: http://www.pacemaker2012.co.kr/ Running time : 124 minutes Release date : January 19, 2012 I'm a pacemaker Marathon is a race of 42.195km but for me, the race comes to an end after 30km A national athlete who has no hope for medal or glory Running at the lead for 30km for someone else's win That's my target and mission But just for once, I want to run for myself! The film <Pacemaker> is about a marathoner who ran all his life as the Pacemaker for other runners but rises to the challenge of completing the 42.195km race. The main character "Joo Man-Ho" is a Pacemaker who can run better than anyone up to 30km but who cannot run any longer. He never loses sight of his dream of completing the full race despite the hardships. Always in the shadows of the expected favorite, he starts to run toward his dream of completing the 42.195km race. Don’t cry for me, Sudan Genre: Human Documentary Director: Goo Soo-hwan Narration: Lee Geum-hee Production: KBS Distribution: Mountain Pictures Duration: 90” Release Date: Sep, 9, 2009 Homepage: http://www.dontcryformesudan.com/ The last gift of Father Lee Tai-suk who has devoted his life in the small village of Sudan. <Don’t cry for me, Sudan> testifies to his greatest love for all people. The pride of Southern Sudan, Brass Band of Tonj marches through their small village in February of 2010. The boys in the head carry a photo of one man. The man is smiling brightly on the photo. The village people can’t bear to believe his death and they just keep crying. They are the Dinka, known as the tallest people in the world. In the endless civil war, their life was tainted by rage, hatred, poverty and disease, and they had to fight for their lives to keep their family. The tear used to be the biggest disgrace for these valiant warriors. The Dinka who never cries whatever happens ended to burst into tears sending off this man. He is father Lee Tai-suk, who has been the priest, the doctor, the conductor and the architect for these people. Now his life, full of love, spread on the screen. Architecture 101 Genre: Romantic Melodrama Written & Directed by: Lee Yong-zoo Cast: Uhm Tae-woong (Seung-min in the present), Han Ga-in (Seo-yeun in the present), Lee Je-hoon (Seung-min in the past), Bae Su-ji (Seo-yeun in the past) Production: Myung Films Shooting: October 25th, 2011 ~ January 8th, 2012 Date of Release: March, 2012 Seung-min is an architect major in college who just turned twenty. He is smitten by Music major Seo-yeun he meets in an „Introduction to Architecture‟ class they are taking together. A team collaboration on a class assignment helps them open up to each other, but time keeps on passing without any romantic development as the awkward and rather naïve Seung-min keeps his feelings towards Seo-yeon to himself. And when a small misunderstanding occurs, it is their friendship that takes its toll. Fifteen years later, Seo-yeun suddenly appears at the doorsteps of Seung-min‟s architectural firm and asks the flustered Seung-min to design and build her a house. Seung-min takes up on the offer which turns out to be the first house to be built under his name. And as the two go through the pains of finishing Seo-yeun‟s house, they are whisked back to the past which stirs old memories and perhaps new feelings… .