Yoo Ji-Tae Movies
- 2008
A simple, elegant gesture between a man and a woman threatens to invite embarrassing consequences in director Ryoo Jang-ha's whimsical Korean-language seriocomedy Hello, Schoolgirl!. Although low-tiered civil servant Kim Yeon-woo (Yoo Ji-tae) just recently turned thirty, he retains an innocence and a naivete that set him apart from other men his age. Fully displeased with bachelorhood, Kim spends innumerable hours on dead-end blind dates, combing local candidates for a suitable wife. Then he meets Han Soo-Young (Lee Yeon-hee), a neighbor who lives downstairs. She's upbeat, quirky, charming and beautiful; she's also still in high school, and thus over ten years younger than Kim. Kim takes an ill-advised step when he runs into Han one morning - she's making her way back home after reaching school and realizing that she forgot her mandatory necktie. As an innocent courtesy, Kim offers to save Han time and trouble by lending her his own tie; that marks the first step in a relationship that spells overwhelming trouble for both. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yoo Ji-Tae, Lee Yeon-hee, (more)
South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook directed this violent and offbeat story of punishment and vengeance. Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is a husband and father whose reputation for womanizing is well known. One day, for reasons he doesn't understand, Oh Dae-su finds himself locked up in a prison cell, with no idea of what his crime was or whom his jailers may be. With a small television as his only link to the outside world and a daily ration of fried dumplings as his only sustenance, Oh Dae-su struggles to keep his mind and body intact, but when he learns through a news report that his wife has been killed, he begins a long and difficult project of digging an escape tunnel with a pair of chopsticks. Before he can finish -- and after 15 years behind bars -- Oh Dae-su is released, with as little explanation as when he was locked up, and he's soon given a wad of money and a cellular phone by a bum on the street. Emotionally stunted but physically strong after 15 years in jail, Oh Dae-su struggles to unravel the secret of who is responsible for locking him up, what happened to his wife and daughter, and how to best get revenge against his captors. Oldeuboi was screened in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and won the coveted Grand Prix. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Choi Min-Sik, Gang Hye-jeong, (more)
The cyborgs created to serve mankind have revolted, and now the military man sent on a mission to save mankind find himself torn between his duty and his love for the cyborg that serves him in the sophomore feature from Korean filmmaker Byung-chun Min. The year is 2080, and after a devastating war nearly wipes out the human race, artificial intelligence is used to create a race of powerful cyborgs. Designed to experience human emotions and created to serve only one master from the day they are born to the day their die, the cyborgs faithfully carry out their duties until a rising rebellion finds humanity's children taking their fate into their own hands. When military squad leaders R (Yoo Ji-tae) and Noma (Yoon Chan) are assigned the task of quelling the rebellion before the violence spirals out of control, R has trouble carrying out his duties as a result of his deep-rooted feelings for his own cyborg Ria (Seo Rin). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yoo Ji-Tae, Yun Chan, (more)
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