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2006
Ssunday Seoul
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Movie : Ssunday Seoul / 썬데이 서울
Release Date: February 09, 2006
Country : South Korea
Director: Park Seong-Hun
Starring: Bong Tae-Gyu, Lee Cheong-A, So-yeon Kim, Go Eun-A, Yi Yong
Runtime : 98 Minutes
Editor Rating : 6.0
Users Rating: 6 
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Plot Synopsis : Ssunday Seoul consists of three short stories. “The Werewolf” tells the tale of Do Yeon, a hapless geek that is constantly harassed by his classmates. Never having much luck with the girls, a new student, Ji Yeon, walks into his class and sits in front of Do Yeon. He immediately goes head over heals for her and fantasizes about her constantly. To make matters worse, under a full moon, Do Yeon suddenly experiences werewolf like symptoms. When he confronts his parents about this occurrence, they confess that they are werewolves and warns him about the difficulties he will experience as a werewolf. They also tell him that one day he will find a mate, someone similar to himself and he will just know it when he sees her. Could it be Ji Yeon?
“The Visitor” tells the tale of a man stranded on a roadside with his broken down car. He walks over to a nearby house and asks if he could use their telephone. A quiet girl let’s him in, while the man watches on t.v. a news story about serial murders in that area. It just happens that the man with the broken down car is the serial killer, but the quiet girl and her family has some surprises of their own.
“The Young Adventurer” is the final story of Ssunday Seoul. Tae-pung seeks to one day avenge the death of his father. In the meantime he finds himself at a gas station with a strange girl that fills his motorcycle up with kerosene. After a comedy of errors, he winds up at the girls home, a temple that is a training ground for the marital arts. Her father happens to be the master and he agrees to train Tae-Pung, so that he can successfully avenge the death of his father. Once Tae-Pung sets out to find the person that killed his father, a strange twist occurs concerning the identity of that person. A final battle of the ages occurs between two kung-fu masters.
Movie Review : Director Sung-Hun Park has stated that he was partially inspired to make “Ssunday Seoul” from a tabloid magazine with the same name, that was popular in the 70s. That tabloid magazine was famous for its odd stories, gossip, and raunchy photos. Watching this film, you can’t help but to think that these three stories were fantasies that the director dreamed about as a kid; the “Teen Wolf” inspired Werewolf story, a spooky horror piece that pits ghosts against a serial killer, and a martial arts fantasy/comedy. Although the various styles (Sci-Fi, Horror, Martial Arts) seem disparate at first, they all share the same childlike escapist fantasies that everyone has held at one point or another. My favorite of the three would be “The Werewolf,” which had enough laughs and action elements to be compelling throughout its runtime. “The Visitor” was far darker and for whatever reasons, I just didn’t find it as interesting. “The Young Adventurer” had its moments of funny scenes as well. The martial arts element that came into play, wasn’t bad per se, but I felt that some of the scenes were rehashed from Shaolin Soccer or Arahan, which dampened my enthusiasm quite a bit. An odd cameo of sorts occurred when the main character in “The Young Adventurer” pulled out a picture of his deceased father. I am pretty sure the photo was of Tony Leung (Chunking Express, 2046, Infernal Affairs). Why he was pictured there I’m not really sure, maybe he was in a martial arts film that I missed. Anyways, Ssunday Seoul is a fairly engaging film that combines three short stories with three different genres of cinema, but all intertwined by the underlying theme of childhood fantasies brought to life on the big screen.
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Cast:
Tae-gyu Bong – Do-yeon
Cheong-a Lee – Yeong-ChaEun-ah Ko – Ji-Yeon
So-yeon Kim – Tae-pyung
Sang Mi Chu
So-nyeo Jeong
Jae-hyeong Jeon
Su-mi Kim
Hyeon-woo Lee
Ye-jin Lim
Seong-bin Park
Yi Yong
Sang-hyun Yun
Seol-ah Yu
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