Masked Prosecutor Review

Title: Masked Prosecutor

AKA: The Man in the Mask

Genre: Action, Comedy, Legal, Drama

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2015-May to 2015-Jul

Cast: Joo Sang Wook, Kim Sun Ah, Uhm Ki Joon and Park Young Gyu.

Ha Dae Chul (Joo Sang Wook) is a corrupt prosecutor willing to look through things if he is payed for it. This makes him butt heads with Yoo Min Hee (Kim Sun Ah), a detective working on cases involving criminals Dae Chul is supposed to be prosecuting. But little does she know is that Dae Chul is a masked vigilante, making criminals confess and sends them to the police station. The truth is Dae Chul used to train wrestling at Min Hee’s Uncles gym, where he learned to wrestle to impress Min Hee. Then he meets his real father who tells him about his mother and how she betrayed him and Dae Chul to live a richer life with his father’s best friend.

This makes Dae Chul seek revenge by becoming a prosecutor, but due to his honest personality can’t let criminals go, so he becomes the masked prosecutor to bring them to justice…

Of all the Korean dramas, out there I was expecting (hoping) this would be more like the Japanese types of drama, and it does have all the elements, but Koreans just take themselves way to serious for it to be a funny and moral story. I understand what they were trying to do, and since they couldn’t keep it to the ‘masked vigilante prosecutor’ they tried to add another plot in the plot, making it more of 3 plot type of drama, all in one. Of course, as all other Korean dramas they have loads of sub plots, but they kind of die off, as well as the actual cases in police and prosecutor offices. I was expecting a light drama, but somehow ended up with another wannabe light version of makjang. I dunno why Koreans love birth secrets and revenge so much…

Anyways, the cast was fun, and to be fair I had a few laughs here and there, but else this drama is not really one of my favorites – even if I must say it grew on me.

So, all in all, an okay drama that I don’t think I wouldn’t recommend.

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Fighting Spirit Movie Review

Title: Fighting Spirit
Genre: Family
Origin: Korea
Release date: 06 October 2011
Cast: Kim Joo Hyuk and Kim Sun Ah

Achieving 149 wins, pitcher Yoon Do Hoon (Kim Joo Hyuk) has become a snob and famous for scandals. His wife Oh Yoo Ran (Kim Sun Ah) threw him out of their house because of this, his son Dong Cheol (Oh Jae Moo) a pitcher at his school, has lost all respect for him, and he keeps disappointing his daughter Yoo Ri (Joon Min Seo). As he is thrown into the minor league, the B party, his ego is hurt and his scandals risen even more.
When Yoo Ran finds out that she has cancer, she tries to see if she can make Do Hoon return as the Do Hoon she remembers, but with his attitude she almost gives up. Do Hoon shortly after finds out about Yoo Rans sickness, and decides to go home, which lights the hope in Yoo Ran in finding her husband’s spirit.

OMG. I never knew this movie would be more sad than funny! OMG, it’s good, real good, and defiantly recommendable. Nice family movie with great actors and brilliant screenplay. There are only a few minuses; just that the movie seemed a little short, I don’t know. Something was missing, just can’t point my finger on it. Anyhow, it’s worth a shot, but remember to have a pack of tissues next to you, well if you are a sensitive person like me, maybe two…

☆☆☆☆/ 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥/ 4 out of 5 hearts

Scent of a Woman Review

Title: Scent of a Woman
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast period: 2011-Jul to 2011-Sep
Cast: Kim Sun Ah, Lee Dong Wook, Uhm Ki Joon and Seo Hyo Rim.

Lee Yeon Jae (Kim Sun Ah) has a lousy job where her boss keeps harassing her and everyone takes her for granted, mainly by giving her all the work. 10 years she has had the job, but hasn’t complained, since she needs the job and by saving money, bits by bits, in hopes that one day she can get married, move into a house with a yard and have children. Her father died of cancer when she was young, so she is left with mother, which also a reason for her not is being able to actually start dating someone. Her life is turned upside down, when she goes to the hospital and meets her elementary school classmate Chae Eun Suk (Uhm Ki Joon), who at first ignores her, because she kept reminding him of his past. He finds out that she is terminally ill, and that she roughly has 6 months to live. Scared and angered she leaves the hospital, refusing to get treatment, as she is reminded of her father’s days with cancer, and as she arrives at the office only to be angered even more, when an incident that had occurred earlier with a missing ring, whom she had been accused of stealing by a powerful woman Im Se Kyung (Seo Hyo Rim), gets heated up in the office. She decides to quit her job, and take a vacation, using the money she had saved over the years.
In Okinawa, Japan, she by accident meets Kang Ji Wook (Lee Dong Wook), the general manager of the same company, and whom she has had a crush on for a very long time. The two spend a lot of time together, only to be ruined by Ji Wooks fiancé, who is no other than Se Kyung.
When Yeon Jae returns to Korea, she decides to make a list, of the thing she wants to do before she dies, but as it turns out she has already set things around her in motion, not to mention a man’s heart and a woman’s jealousy.

One of the year’s best Korean, no out of all, drama. I, like many others, watch drama because of Idols or actors that are beyond popular (Jang Geun Suk, Hyun Bin etc). When I saw this drama I didn’t really think of it, didn’t really read the plot, nor did I recognize the cast. While watching Running Man (Korean varity show) a guest named Kim Sun Ah was starring and they talked about her new drama. I really liked her in My Name is Kim Sam Soon/My Lovely Kim Sam Soon, so I hurried and read the plot, and had to download it! While watching, and this has only happened once while watching MARS, I couldn’t stop, heck I prioritized the drama over my sleep! It was even a school day :P
It’s a bit of a grown up drama, like My Lovely Kim Sam Soon and Can You Hear My Heart, but that doesn’t make it any less of a drama. I totally recommend this to those who like heartfelt and mature dramas.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts

Jenji's verdict
Really really nice drama, I really liked this, new kind of plot. It was fresh because I hadnt watched anything like this. And it's one of those dramas where you are just crying, and it's those problems you cant do anything about! So its like, you're helpless and you can only cry .. really tough. But then again, it's so cool, I dont really have words, it was really amazing to think about the "situation", and actually imagine, what it would be like. Really interesting drama, and as Bunji often told me, very grown-up. But I have to warn you, there's a lot of crying. But definitely recommend it.The actors too are fine, my first time watching Kim Sun Ah, and Lee Dong Wook as well I think, and it was really fine. 

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

My Lovely Kim Sam Soon Review

Title: My Lovely Kim Sam Soon
AKA: My Name is Kim Sam-Soon
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast period: 2005-Jun to 2005-Jul
Cast:Kim Sun Ah, Hyun Bin, Jung Ryu Won and Daniel Henney.

Kim Sam Soon (Kim Sun Ah) is having the worst week in her life, so to say;
She finds her boyfriend, cheating on her on Christmas Eve, not alone that; he even breaks up with her, making her feel that it is her fault. While running into a bathroom, crying out her eyes, she is interrupted by a knock on the bathroom door. Frustrated she yells back and bleeps the door open, but is surprised to see a man in front of her. Hyun Jin Hun (Hyun Bin) is, on the outside, a cold and arrogant owner of a restaurant, but is quite the opposite on the inside. He informs her that she is in a male bathroom and she runs out of the hotel in embarrassment.
As Sam Soon is looking for a job, she has a cooking degree, once again stumbles upon Jin Hyun, of course not without embarrassing herself, they bump heads and he by accident tastes her homemade cake. By pure coincident he needs a baker for his restaurant, and who better than job-less but talented Kim Sam Soon?

For an old and outdated drama, this is definitely a classic. Yes, the camera man should be shot, but I think that was popular in the early year of 2000, or the late 90s. Anyhow, the dialogues, scenes and not to mention the love story are brilliant, and I’m surprised to say that after the first 8 episodes I was clueless about what was going to happen. It had a lot of my favourite things; contract-relationship, one-guy-two-girls-dilemma and deeply-hurt-guy. And I was happy to see that the supporting actor didn’t fall in love with the lead actress, lol, even I fell in love with her, even though he IS chubby and old.
Hyun Bin I love, my favourite actor, Kim Sun Ah I don’t know, but even her screeching voice was fun! All in all a Kdrama Classic…

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 of 5 hearts