My Love, Eun Dong Review

Title: My Love, Eun Dong
AKA: Beloved Eun Dong
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Period: May-2015 to Jul-2015
Cast: Joo Jin Mo, Kim Sa Rang, Lee Ja In, Jr, Baek Sung Hyun, Yoon So Hee, Kim Tae Hoon, Kim Yoo Ri

This drama is about a man who has it all, yet is unable to possess the love of a woman he is unable to forget, whom he has been loving for the past 20 years. In 1995, Park Hyun Soo (Junior) is an energetic 17-year-old boy when he meets 13-year-old Ji Eun Dong (Lee Ja In), an orphan who still has a positive outlook on life. Hyun Soo’s heart is awakened by Eun Dong but she suddenly disappears before he could really get to know her. In 2005, Hyun Soo now goes by the stage name Ji Eun Ho (Baek Sung Hyun) and aspires to become an actor. When he bumps into Eun Dong (Yoon So Hee) again after 10 years, the two fall deeply in love. But again without warning, Eun Dong disappears without a trace. In 2015, Eun Ho (Joo Jin Mo) is now a top actor who has the fame and wealth he has always wanted. But what he doesn’t have is the love of his life to share his success with. So Eun Ho decides to write an autobiography that details his love for Eun Dong over the past 20 years in the hopes of locating her. He hires a ghostwriter, Seo Jung Eun (Kim Sa Rang), to help him write the book. After he dictates his stories of Eun Dong, he sends them to Jung Eun to transcribe and incorporate into his book. But why do these stories sound vaguely familiar to Jung Eun?

I fell for this drama from the first episode, the story was different and backstory was well thought out. The way the whole drama was executed, was beautiful. I feel like every single detail was carefully thought through and put in the correct sequence. Of course while you watch it, you get impatient and want to know how all this would end for the couple, but now that I’m done with the drama I somehow understand that the whole process was for me (and you) to understand that deep feeling and desperation to accept the ending. It was hard for me to accept the ending, but I actually used a day to think it through and my conclusion is that it was realistic and faithful for the whole drama.
 Ah, one more thing I want to highlight, in lots of drama when the future is linked with the past, you get an enormously amount of flashbacks, and this one is no exception. However the flashbacks are always a new scene or from another perspective so you never get the feeling of a repeated scene all over the drama. So… Perfect I want to cry. The cast were all so emotional and were the perfect fit for the characters, they really made a storm of feelings. While we are at it, I can’t get Kim Sarangs elegance out of my head, she really is naturally beautiful, and as a girl I do feel slightly jealous :b
Overall this drama definitely is one of the best of 2015, it wasn’t even on my list to watch but I ended up marathon it for 2 days.

☆☆☆☆☆ / 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

The Man From Nowhere Movie Review

Title: The Man From Nowhere
AKA: This Man / Ahjussi
Genre: Action, Drama
Origin: Korea
Release date: 04 August 2010
Cast: Won Bin, Kim Sae Ron, Kim Tae Hoon, Kim Hee Won and Kim Seong Oh..

This story is about a man who had lost everything in his life and lives just every day at a time.
Cha Tae Shik (Won Bin) a former cop owns a pawnshop in a rough neighborhood. Everyday a little girl Soo Mi (Kim Sae Ron), visits him, because she doesn’t like to be home with her junkie mother, who works at night as a stripper and would do anything for money. The two find a mutual understanding: she is the person helping him to stay sane and he treats her as a human being not as garbage.
When her mother gets involved with stolen drugs, Soo Mi and her mother are grabbed by gangsters, who start knocking at Tae Shiks door. At first he thinks it’s a robbery, but shortly after he realizes that they have Soo Mi.
The gangsters run away after finding out that he is ‘a crazy dude’ who beats the shit our of a huge guy they had brought as a bodyguard, but this only makes Tae Shik run after them. This starts the war between a man who has nothing to lose and the underground Korean mob organization.

I stumbled across this movie by accident to be honest, but I remember that it was extremely popular some time back: fans going crazy when Won Bin and Kim Sae Ron came together to the award thingi. Big deal. The main reason for me to watch this was because of the fuss made around Won Bin. Apparently he was a big shot, but I never saw anything of his works, so I had to watch something. The fact that it was one of his most popular ones was not intentional :P And honestly, I get it. He is fine. Loads of mucsles, talent actor, and one good looking fella, A+++!
The movie is not that bad at all. I have to admit, very well executed and amazing cast. Lol, but seriously the one shocking me the most was Kim Seong Oh, the younger brother. My first time watching him was in Secret Garden as this goofy secretary, then suddenly serial killer guy in SIGN followed by a sicko in The Man From Nowhere. I have fallen.. For him..
Okay, back to the movie. Its good, somehow recommendable, I just am not a fan of gangster movies, and the reason it’s not a 5 star, it’s just that this guy played by Won Bin is actually willing to do crazy things for this little girl, but we just don’t get that much ‘connecting’ with them, well not enough considering he declares war against an entire mob family / organization.

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Jenji's verdict
First of all, this movie is for those who love blood splattering with great exaggeration! Its one of those real, guy movies?. I mean I like gangster fight movies but then again, Im not a fan of body parts being taken out of bodies and put in a truck, nor eyes being taken out of people and played with. The movie itself is not bad, at all, and the actors, wow, about the younger brother, the secretary from Secret Garden, I was trying to convince myself that it isnt the same guy because dayyummmm,, what a difference, he's a really great actor, and Won Bin, wow, I had no idea,, this guy, I dont think Ive ever watched any of his movies before and I didnt realise it was him at first. But Im impressed, really. Its a really sick movie, hahah, not necessarily bad-sick, but just sick people who do sick things like use kids for drug dealing. But then again it seems a bit like its just a movie for its sickness and not for the focus on child workers for drug.. which I wasnt a fan of.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts