Korean Movie Night at Home Comedy Edition: Laughing Into 2021!
January 15 – February 14, 2021
Body and life-swap comedies to have you living, and learning, through someone else’s shoes
Korean Movie Night New York, one of the most beloved film series hosted by the Korean Cultural Center New York returns in online form! With the huge success and continued demand for online films after our successful Korean Movie Night At Home Parts I and II, we’re excited to present a special Comedy series to help start the year with some much needed laughter!
As we support the efforts of social distancing the Korean Movie Night at Home online platform brings audiences a cinematic experience of 3 Korean comedy hits that feature body and life-swap situations that literally give you a glimpse of what it’s like to be in someone else’s shoes. The films range in genre from romance to thrillers, but always provide some heartfelt lessons along the way and are always full of twists and laughs.
In this unique revamp of Korean Movie Night, we’ve partnered with JBG Pictures to provide FREE access to these films online. Since its inception in 2010, Korean Movie Night New York presented free film screenings that introduced the full spectrum of contemporary and classic Korean cinema to New York audiences, including popular blockbusters, independent films, documentaries, animation, and more.
[Film List] (Click the posters to watch)
* All films are in Korean with English subtitles
* These ratings are by the Korea Media Rating Board
The Dude in Me
(내안의 그놈)
Director: Kang Hyo-jin
Cast: Jin Young, Park Sung-woong, Ra Mi-ran, Lee Soo-min, Lee Joon-hyuk
Running Time: 122 min
Genre: Comedy
Release Year: 2019
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Pan-soo, a successful businessman in his 40s, is hit on the ground by a person falling from a building. Waking up, he finds himself in another body. Now Pan-soo has to be Dong-hyun, a high school student who gets bullied frequently. He finds out Dong-hyun tried to help a girl, Hyun-jung, and fell off the building. When he meets her mother, Mi-sun, he immediately knows that Hyun-jeong is his daughter. To get close to Hyun-jung, Pan-soo takes hard physical training with her.
Because I Love You
(사랑하기 때문에)
Director: Joo Jihong
Cast: Cha Tae-hyun, Kim Yoo-jung, Seo Hyun-Jin, Lim Ju-hwan, Kim Yoon-hye, Jang Do-yeon, Sung Dong-il, Oh Na-ra
Running Time: 110 min
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Release Year: 2016
Rating: Film intended for audiences 12 and over (12세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
When songwriter Jin Yi-hyung regains his consciousness after the car accident he had on his way to propose to the girl he loves, he finds that his soul is trapped in a body of a high school girl. As his soul moves through bodies of different people who have no connection to one another, he realizes that all the owners of the bodies he enters are clueless about love. Yi-hyung now must work as a messenger of love and help them find true love.
Luck-Key
(럭키)
Director: Lee Gae-byok
Cast: Yoo Hae-jin, Lee Joon, Jo Yoon-hee, Yim Ji-yoen, Jo Han-cheol
Running Time: 120min
Genre: Comedy/Action/Crime
Release Year: 2016
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Hyung-wook, an infamous assassin known for his perfection, he slips on soap at a public sauna and passes out. Jae-sung, a not famous unknown actor who’s hit rock bottom, witnesses the accident and switches his locker key with Hyung-wook’s. Jae-sung opens the locker to find the key to a fancy car which leads him to a luxurious condo along with the full wealth and secrets of a successful hit man. On the other hand, Hyung-wook wakes up with amnesia. And the only clue he has for his identity are the outstanding payment bills. With the help of a paramedic, he finds his (actually Jae-sung’s) place discovering that he’s a totally broke nameless actor. While Hyung-wook struggles to remember, he tries to ‘continue’ his life as an actor. And by irony of fate, with the help of real-life action moves that his body is used to, he soon becomes the new action hero on TV. And with the continuous shooting of the action sequences, his memory starts to return.
This launch is presented as a part of the “Korean Cultural Center New York Online” initiative, a comprehensive online platform that brings together world-class performances and diverse cultural contents from the KCCNY and from various branches of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The initiative will provide an opportunity for the community both local and global to access Korean films and cultural contents is on view www.koreanculture.org.