Miracle in Cell no 7 Movie Review

Title: Miracle in Cell no 7

AKA: Number 7 Room’s Gift

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Law

Origin: Korea

Release date: January 24, 2013

Cast: Ryu Seung Ryong, Kal So Won, Park Shin Hye, Jung Jin Young, Oh Dal Soo, Park Won Sang, Kim Jung Tae and Jung Man Sik.

Lee Young Goo (Ryu Seung Ryong) is mental retarded man living with his 6 year old daughter Lee Ye Sung (Kal So Won) whom he adores and loves more than anything. They live a quite simple life until Ye Sungs father one day gets arrested for the murder and the rape of a little young girl. Marked from the get-go and unable to explain his story, Young Goo is put in jail, and is a possible candidate for the death sentence. In prison he is immediately hated by the prison ward Jang Min Hwan (Jung Jin Young), who also lost his son by a child molester, and is even beaten for asking to make a call.

After getting put in cell with five other inmates, Young Goo saves the leader of the five from a stab, and gets a wish granted - where he asks for his daughter.

The leader grants him the request, but now Young Goo and daughter Ye Sung refuse to get separated, and the date for Young Goo’s trial is getting closer and closer. Can he be saved?

Firstly I apologize for the short review, and quite boring one - I swear its better!

Okay, so I watched this not knowing anything about it, and rather than saying I was searching for it, I actually kind of stumbled on it. And I have to say, it really is one of the best movies I have watched ever. I cried so hard and for so long, I was a mess when it finished. There was not a single thing I didn’t like about this movie, seriously not a single thing. I mean the acting was superb and so was the cast, so nothing there. Also the screenplay and story were so well written and acted that I was satisfied afterwards. It’s a heartwarming and heart wrenching drama; so a definite recommendable movie!

☆☆☆☆☆ / 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

Mourning Grave Movie Review

Title: Mourning Grave
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Origin: South Korea
Release Date: 03 July 2014
Cast: Kang Ha Neul, Kim So-Eun, Kim Jung Tae, Han Hye-Rin, Park Doo Sik, Kwak Jung Wook, Joo Min Ha, Joo Da Young

A story about a high school kid, In-Soo (Kang Ha Neul) who isolated himself from everyone because of his special gift, which makes him special from everyone else. He comes from a family filled with successful exorcists, the reason behind that is that they can see ghosts, but they are not the nice ghosts. One In-soo moves to a rural area outside Seoul with his also-seeing-ghost uncle, there he befriend a special girl. Soon after abnormal activities happens at his school…


I am not a fan of horror, no, I like horror, but I can’t watch them without getting scared of everything. So I try to stay away from them. Until I accidently discovered this movie, at first I didn’t want to watch it, but the story and star-filled cast was really tempting. So here I am, a Saturday night and scarred as hell. Okay, about the movie; it was very good aka very scary! They did a good job with the ghost makeup, but also the editing, the way they made the ghost pop out of nowhere really made a big impact. The actors were good too, Kang Ha neul and Kim so-eun were so cute together, I hope they will be casted together in a drama one day. The story were also very interesting, I was really surprised at the sudden twist in the middle, didn’t see that coming at all, in my opinion that is the most important of a movie; the story. I’m going to look for more Kang Ha Neul movies now :b

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Tough As Iron Movie Review

Title: Tough As Iron
Genre: Drama, Gangster, Action, Romance
Origin: South Korea
Release date: October 2013
Cast: Yoo Ah In, Kim Hae Sook, Jung Yu Mi, Kim Jung Tae, Kim Sung Oh, Lee Si Un,

Gang Chul (Yoo Ah In) was the big shot in high school, the guy nobody would dare take on. Now he is working hard labour while running after his mother (Kim Hae Sook), trying to take care of her. She has Alzheimer's and often gets lost around in town while going around playing and getting lost in past. Gang Chul's friend Jung Soo (Lee Si Un) works with the mafia, as a dept collector. He as well tries to get by, doing any job he can. Unlike Jung Soo, Gang Chul doesnt want to have anything to do with the mafia as he believes they ruin people's life while promising them money. However his mother's state worsens and on top of that he reluctantly gets involved in a case of murder.

As the movie starts, it has that nice feeling of a great movie. The lovely mother-son relationship makes the whole sadness seem just a bit sweeter. There are a bunch of nice scenes and as a fan of Ah In aah I really did enjoy it. However.... the whole mafia story was a bit weak or not so well portrayed. The whole idea makes sense yes but in the end, it didnt feel that well made. Might just be me and my high standards when it comes to action/gangster stuff. The movie though, not bad. But not amazing either. Not the first movie I would recommend but if you are a fan of Ah In then yes go ahead and watch it. It has sweet moments, sad moment (like you really want to cry when it comes to the mother-son thing) and action as well. The friendship though I think it was a "bad" friendship I can pretty much say it is realistic as to thats what would happen most likely.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts