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Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Cast: Jung-Jae Lee, Gianna Jun

Direction: Lee Hyun-seung

Music: The plot is a little too intriguing to notice. Although the background score is sufficiently beautiful.

Reasons to watch: BEAUTIFUL locations, Unthinkable situations, and the most breathtaking House-by-the-beach you have ever seen.

Reasons not to: Subtitles

Storyline: Il Mare is a beautiful house by the sea. When Eun-joo moves out of this house, she writes a card and a letter for the next occupant of the house. But the mailbox delivers the letter 2 years before time. To Sung-hyun, who is the first one to move into Il Mare. Their correspondence across time continues. She warns him about the flu that came 2 years ago. He takes her to a restaurant where she drinks a bottle of wine that he left for her two years ago. They want to meet, but they cannot. Because Eun-joo has already lived those two years without meeting Sung-hyun. Sung-hyun wants to build a house for Eun-joo. He is an architect. But in Sung-hyun’s time, Eun-joo is to get married to somebody else. And in Eun-joo’s time…

Climax Handling: The climax is unimaginable. After all these other things that are unimaginable. You might disagree with the ending or sorts, but it is far too real and on the ground.

Points: Watch out for a scene at the station when Sung-hyun is about to return a music player to Eun-joo across two years. Nothing better. The subtleity of this film beats every other thing you have ever heard about time travel.

Rating: 9/10

Comment: You have to. You just can’t not watch it.

Cast: Jun Ji-hyun, Cha Tae-hyun

Reasons to Watch: Very east-asian-ly Funny!, Great Plot, Right amounts of romance at the right time.

Reasons not to: You have to read through subtitles

Director: Kwak Jae-yong

Music: Pleasingly sufficient. Shin Seung Hun, others.

Storyline: A college student, Gyeon-woo, encounters an extremely strange super-drunk woman and her responsibility automatically falls on this guy’s shoulders. The girl turns out to be magnetically frank and charmingly care-a-damn. Gyeon-woo falls for her, and their dating pattern is a web, right through transport trouble, dodging classes, and staying away from marriage proposals. Their romance, with all its oddities is extremely funny, but soon they realize it is going to lead nowhere. They decide to break off. They decide to meet when they had sorted out things in their lives.

Climax Handling: Do they meet? um.. climax, right? they don’t meet. But what happens when they don’t meet is amazingly funny and super at the same time! Watch out for this part!

Points: Very funny metro sequences! East asian humor rocks!!!

Overall Rating: 7.5/10

Comment: Watch it as a light movie after work/study. It’s a freshner