Woman is the Future of Man

This Korean film centers around two friends who each had his own relationship with the same woman years before.  They meet up after not having seen each other in awhile, and awkwardly decide to look her up.  Then they awkwardly fumble through the rest of the movie.

It's good.  All the characters seem kind of clueless, except the woman mentioned above, who seems to have become kind of numb after all the crap she's been through.

But if you like relationship dramas or guys hanging out remembering old times although they kind of don't like each other anymore, this is definitely one to consider.

Availability: DVD and Streaming
Released: 2004
Added to my queue: 2/11/2008
Reason added to my queue: I was obviously on an Asian rampage.

The Red SHoes

I really liked this movie.  If you're looking for a decent Korean horror movie, this might be the one for you.

That said, the shoes are fuschia.  Which wouldn't be that big a deal, except people wear them with red clothes and red lipstick, so it sort of sticks out that they're not red in the slightest.

The premise of the movie is kind of a riff on the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name - it centers on a pair of shoes with which people become obsessed, to horrifying ends.  The main character is a woman leaves her cheating husband, taking her small daughter to an apartment.  Then things get crazay!  Just kidding.  Only not really.

Anyway, I don't want to spoil it for you - but it's good!

Availability: DVD only
Released: 2005
Added to queue: 2/11/2008
Reason added to queue: Added with all those other Asian horror movies, which had been getting on my nerves, but this one was good.

Three...Extremes II

I really liked the first one, so I figured the second would be good.  And it was decent.

It's three vignettes, each directed by a different Asian director:

• In "Memories", a woman keeps trying to get home.  Based on experience with other movies, you will ultimately begin to wonder whether she's actually alive or a ghost.
• In "The Wheel", a Thai village is haunted by creepy ceremonial puppets.
• In "Going Home", which I found to be the most interesting and worth watching, a man is held captive while his neighbor prepares for the resurrection of his dead wife.

 Far and away the most disturbing of the vignettes is in Part I, though.  The first one on the the first disc is seriously disturbing.

Watch it, don't watch it.

Availability: DVD only
Released: 2002
Added to my queue: 2/11/2008
Reason: This is when I added all the Asian horror movies to my queue, so I assume I was on some kind of tear.

The Power of Kangwon Province

I apologize in advance for this review, I'm pretty sure it's going to suck.

This is the blurb about this movie on Netflix:

"After a painful breakup with her married professor, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again."

I watched the movie.  I gave it the vast majority of my attention.  Now, it was in Korean, so that is one area where I may have missed something.  I did see Jisook go on holiday.  I even saw her go back to visit a dude she met on holiday.  Then, I saw her former lover go to the same place she had gone.  But I missed any eerie  twists of fate and if I saw a tragedy, it didn't move me much.

So I mean.  Skip it.  Or watch it and let me know what I missed.