Good Windy Days
Three young men come of age in 1980s Seoul.
Genres
Overview
Three friends, Duk-bae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
113 min
Release Date
1980-11-27
Status
Released
Original Language
Korean
Vote Count
8
Vote Average
6.4
Ahn Sung-ki
Duk-bae
Lee Yeong-ho
Chun-sik
Kim Seong-chan
Kil-nam
Kim Hee-ra
Mr. Jo
Im Ye-jin
Chun-sun
Kim Bo-yeon
Yu
Choi Bool-am
Kim
6.9
The Bow
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2005-05-12 | ko
7.2
Secret Sunshine
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
2007-05-23 | ko
6.2
Another Promise
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2014-02-06 | ko
6.8
Barking Dogs Never Bite
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
2000-02-19 | ko
8.1
A Taxi Driver
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2017-08-02 | ko
8.1
1987: When the Day Comes
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4.5
The People in White
After many years in an insane asylum a man returns to find that the village of his birth is gone and a massive, mysteriously empty factory has sprung up in its place.
1995-12-06 | ko
6.2
Declaration of Fools
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1984-03-01 | ko
4.5
Dragon Wars: D-War
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2007-08-01 | ko
8.0
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
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2004-02-05 | ko
6.4
Shiri
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
1999-02-13 | ko
8.1
Memories of Murder
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
2003-04-25 | ko
7.0
The Host
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
2006-07-27 | ko
7.8
Joint Security Area
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
2000-09-09 | ko
7.8
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
2003-09-19 | ko
7.0
M*A*S*H
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
1970-02-18 | en
7.0
Hot Young Bloods
A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980s.
2014-01-22 | ko
6.2
A Day Off
One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.
1968-11-29 | ko
5.6
Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait
A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.
2007-07-25 | ko
6.7
The President's Last Bang
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2005-02-03 | ko