Mun So-ri Movies
- 2006
South Korean writer-director Tae-Yong Kim's Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) constitutes a bittersweet drama of broken and dysfunctional suburban relationships. Kim divides his narrative into three sections. In the first, horticulturist and restaurateur Mira's (Moon So-ri) gentle and ordered life gets turned inside out with a bevy of houseguests who pop in and plop down indefinitely, from her strident, chain-smoking sister-in-law Mu-shin (Goh Doo-shim), to her ex-con brother Hyungchul (Uhm Tae-woong). In the second, Sunkyung's (Kong Hyo-jin) failure to come to terms with her partially estranged mother's terminal illness brings her to the point of expatriation - a plan thwarted by her half brother. And in the third, these first two stories suddenly intersect with great volatility. Kim Hae-ok and Bong Tae-kyu co-star; Sung Ki-young co-authored the script with the director. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mun So-ri, Go Du-shim, (more)
- 2006
The relationship between a promiscuous textiles professor and an aspiring comic book artist slowly comes into focus in director Lee Ha's scintillating black comedy. Park Seok-gyu (Ji Jin-hee) has arrived at a small rural college to teach illustration. Most of the time it wouldn't take textiles professor Jo Eun-suk (Mun So-ri) more than a day or two to lure such a handsome new teacher into her bed, but there's a strange tension between Park and Jo that soon gets the rumor mill at the college working overtime. As Jo weighs her options with a flashy television producer who wants the sultry teacher to accompany him on an upcoming trip to Japan, it's soon revealed that Jo and Park were once the best of friends, and that the sexually liberated teacher's freewheeling ways once led to tragedy for one of Park's closest friends. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mun So-ri, Ji Jin-heui, (more)
- 2003
South Korean filmmaker Im Sang-Su directs the dark comedy drama Baramnan Gajok (A Good Lawyer's Wife). The story involves dancer Eun Ho-jeong (Mun So-Ri), wife of the unfaithful Yeong-jak (Hwang Jeong-min) and mother to a seven-year-old son. She meets a teenage boy and named Shin Ji-un (Bong Tae-gyu) and the two share an intimate friendship despite their age difference. When Ji-un's father discovers their relationship, he threatens to tell her husband. Meanwhile, her father-in-law (Kim In-mum) dies and her mother-in-law (Yun Yeo-jeong) quickly starts up another relationship. A Good Lawyer's Wife was screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mun So-ri, Hwang Jeong-min, (more)
- 1999
Screenwriter turned director Lee Chang-dong, who scripted the acclaimed A Single Spark, creates this tale of personal evolution and national history. Told backwards, the film opens in the spring of 1999 where a family outing is spoiled by a raggedy old man, Yeong-ho, who threatens to throw himself in front of a train. Rewind to three days earlier, Yeong-ho is seen buying a gun to off himself. Recently ruined by bad stock deals, terrorized by loan sharks, and dumped by his adulterous wife, Yeong-ho is a typical victim of the Asian financial meltdown. He pays his dying ex-girlfriend a visit in the hospital and, though she is unconscious, he gives her the same peppermint candy that she used to send him. Rewind further to the summer of 1994, Yeong-ho hires a detective to tail his philandering wife, though he is involved with a pretty office assistant. Rewind to 1987, which reveals Heong-ho as a thuggish policeman known for dispensing horrific amounts of brutality. This film was a critical favorite at the 1999 Pusan Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sul Kyoung-Ku, Mun So-ri, (more)
