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Foundation date 1 january 1995
The CJ E&M Film Division (CJ E&M 영화사업부문 - doing business as CJ E&M Pictures), formerly known as CJ Entertainment (Hangul: 씨제이엔터테인먼트, CJ엔터테인먼트), is a South Korean entertainment company which is involved in film production, investment, distribution and exhibition. It is the largest entertainment company in South Korea and a subsidiary of CJ Group.
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Speckles: The Tarbosaurus (2012)
, 1h30Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Lee Hyung-suk, Veronica Taylor, Christopher Daniel Barnes
80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, a young Tarbosaurus named Speckles, for his unique birthmark, lives and hunts with his older juvenile brother and sisters and his mother. Speckles is left alone when a rogue, scarfaced Tyrannosaurus named One-Eye causes a stampede to kill Speckles' family in order to usurp their territory.
The Reef 2: High Tide (2012)
, 1h20Directed by Mark Dippé
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks
Actors Drake Bell, Jamie Kennedy, Stephen Stanton, Andrew Roane Dick, Donal Logue, Busy Philipps
Trained in the skills of sea power, Pi the fish can fight a shark, sink a squid or batter any random predator that ever threatens his friends and neighbors on the reef. Unfortunately, being the only hero in town can take its toll, especially when a group of sharks declares that the end of the reef is soon at hand. Troy has a con artist dwarf shark named Ronny disguise himself to sabotage Pi's training with a talent show. So Pi and his new "henchmen" plan to build a shark trap with most importantly the metal clamp while Nerissa has a destiny to summon the Great Dragon of the Sea.
End of Animal (2011)
, 1h54Directed by Jo Sung-hee
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy
Actors Park Hae-il, Yu Seung-Mok, Kim Young-ho, Lee Min-ji, Park Se-Jong
Pendant une froide journée d'hiver, Sun-yeong, une jeune femme enceinte, effectue un long trajet en taxi vers sa ville natale où vit sa mère et où elle va accoucher. Un auto-stoppeur avec une casquette de baseball, étrange et impoli, partage le taxi avec elle et le chauffeur de taxi. Il prétend tout connaitre d'elle et du chauffeur de taxi, raconte des insanités et entame un étrange compte à rebours, suivi d’un flash, un bruit assourdissant, puis le néant… . Quand il arrive à zéro, le taxi s’arrête et ils perdent connaissance. À son réveil, Sun-yeong est seule, réalise qu’il n’y a plus d’électricité et que des grognements effrayants émanent des bois.
My Way (2011)
, 1h59Directed by Kang Je-gyu
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Sports films, Athletics films, Political films
Actors Jang Dong-gun, Joe Odagiri, Fàn Bīngbīng (范冰冰), Kim In-kwon, Do Ji-han, Lee Yeon-hee
The year is 1928 in Gyeong-seong (modern-day Seoul), Korea. Young Kim Jun-shik (Shin Sang-yeob), his father (Chun Ho-jin) and sister Eun-soo (Jo Min-ah) work on the farm of the Hasegawa family (Sano Shiro, Nakamura Kumi) in Japanese-occupied Korea. Both Jun-shik and young Hasegawa Tatsuo (Sung Yoo-bin) are interested in running; by the time they are teenagers (Do Ji-han, Kobayashi Yukichi), they have become fierce competitors. Tatsuo's grandfather (Natsuyagi Isao) is killed in a bomb attack by a Korean freedom fighter, and subsequently a Korean runner, Sohn Kee-chung (Yoon Hee-won), wins a marathon race against Japanese competitors, further inflaming Korean-Japanese tensions.
Silenced (2011)
, 2h3Directed by Hwang Dong-hyeok
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Gong Yoo, Jeong Yu-mi, Kim Hyun-soo, Jang Gwang, Baek Seung-hwan, Kim Ji-young
Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo) is the newly appointed art teacher at Benevolence Academy, a deaf school children in the fictional city of Mujin, North Jeolla Province. He has a dark past - his wife was a high school student who committed suicide and his daughter is under the care of his mother. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. In-ho does not give up, however, trying to show the kids that he cares. When the children finally open up, In-ho faces the shocking and ugly truth about the school and what the students have been enduring in secret: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children’s rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yoo-jin (Jung Yu-mi). But he and Yoo-jin soon realize the school’s principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth. In addition to using "privileges of former post" (Jeon-gwan ye-u) the accused do not hesitate to lie and bribe their way to get very light sentences.
Spellbound (2011)
, 1h54Directed by Hwang In-ho
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Son Ye-jin, Lee Min-Ki, Yoon Ji-min, Park Chul-min, Lee Hyun-jin, Kim Hyun-sook
Jo-goo, a street magician (Lee Min-ki), notices a miserable looking girl, Yeo-ri (Son Ye-jin), in the audience during one of his performances, and she winds up being the inspiration for his “Horror magic show.” The show becomes a runaway success almost overnight and Jo-goo in turn, is now a successful stage magician with a model girlfriend. Yeo-ri works for Jo-goo, playing the specter in his show. Forward to almost a year later, the darkness inside her, something her colleagues sense, keeps her from truly connecting with them. When Jo-goo’s attempts to include Yeo-ri in a staff dinner finally succeeds, hilarious disaster ensues when she ends up blindingly drunk. Jo-goo calls Yeo-ri the next morning to sort things out, but when the phone disconnects with a weird sound, he decides to drop by her place for a visit instead. There, Jo-goo meets and engages in a game of hide-and-seek with a ghost child, which then scares the bejesus out of him later that night. As the two of them spend more time together, developing a fast friendship, Yeo-ri confesses the long story behind her gray, wan face.
Quick (2011)
, 1h55Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Lee Min-Ki, Kang Ye-won, Kim In-kwon, Yu Seung-Mok, Ko Chang-seok, Yoon Je-moon
Seoul, 2004. A group of bikers are joy-riding through the streets and while their leader the teenage Han Ki-su (Lee Min-ki) is tearfully berated by girlfriend Chun-shim (Kang Ye-won) for scorning her. The biker Kim Myung-shik (Kim In-kwon) is attracted to Chun-shim watches dolefully. Following some heavy traffic, Ki-su executes a perfect bike jump over it.
Glove (2011)
, 2h24Directed by Kang Woo-suk
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Jung Jae-young, Yoo Sun, Jo Jin-woong, Kang Shin-il, Kim Hye-seong, Lee Hyun-woo
Kim Sang-nam (Jung Jae-young), a hot-tempered professional baseball player, is sent to the countryside to coach a team of hearing-impaired players in order to avoid media coverage of his recent involvement in an assault case. At first, Sang-nam has a difficult time imagining how he can teach baseball to a group of boys who can’t hear, but as he spends time with them he starts to believe that they can play the game. Motivated, Sang-nam decides to help them prepare for the nationals. As Sang-nam trains them, he forms bonds with the players, as well as with the music teacher and baseball manager Ms. Na (Yoo Sun). But things don’t go the way Kim plans and their difficulties communicating with one another exacerbates the situation.
Hindsight (2011)
, 2h1Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Song Kang-ho, Shin Se-kyung, Chun Jung-myung, Lee Jong-hyuk, Kim Min-joon, Youn Yuh-jung
Busan, South Korea, the present day. Legendary retired gangster Yoon Doo-hun (Song Kang-ho) dreams of opening a restaurant, and enrolls in a cooking class, where he gets to know Jo Se-bin (Shin Se-kyung). Doo-hun then hears that his former boss, Man-gil, has died after being hit by a car; the gang's members need to find Man-gil's will to see whom he nominated as his successor, though most of them expect it is Doo-hun. Meanwhile, Se-bin's roommate Lee Eun-jung (Esom) has become indebted to some Haeundae moneylenders, who force Se-bin, in return, to spy on Doo-hun. After Eun-jung steals a suitcase containing cocaine from the moneylenders, Se-bin is ordered to kill Doo-hun but can't bring herself to do it. Instead, Eun-jung tries to run him over with a car and subsequently disappears. Doo-hun survives and takes over as head of his old gang, intent on discovering who killed Man-gil. Among various problems, he has to contend with Baek Kyung-min (Lee Jong-hyuk), an ambitious young member of the gang, and his continuing relationship with Se-bin, who is under pressure from assassination agency head Madame Kang (Youn Yuh-jung) to kill him.
Little Black Dress (2011)
, 1h47Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Yoon Eun-hye, Park Han-byul, Yoo In-na, Cha Ye-ryun, Jeon Soo-kyung, Lee Yong-woo
Yoo-min (Yoon Eun-hye), Hye-ji (Park Han-byul), Soo-jin (Cha Ye-ryun) and Min-hee (Yoo In-na) were the best of friends in college. While majoring in theater and film at an elite university, they were united by their passion for Seoul's clubbing scene and luxury shopping, but life isn't so easy now that they're in the real world. Clueless about what to do with her life, Yoo-min takes up a job as an assistant to a famous TV scriptwriter in order to buy an expensive black mini dress (or "little black dress"), but her work turns out to be babysitting her boss's twin boys. Rich girl Min-hee plans to study abroad but she's not going anywhere until she improves her English. Socialite Hye-ji shoots to fame after appearing in a Levi's ad, but her newfound stardom creates a rift with her friends. Aspiring actress Soo-jin is at her wit's end after failing so many auditions, and things only get worse when her father goes bankrupt.
Bleak Night (2011)
, 1h56Directed by Yoon Sung-hyun
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about suicide, Films about school violence
Actors Lee Je-hoon, Seo Jun-young, Jo Sung-ha, Park Jung-Min, Park Jung-min, Lee Cho-hee
Still mystified by his son's death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track down his two best friends, classmates Hee-joon (Park Jung-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun-young), to try to find an explanation. Through Ki-tae's classmate Jae-ho, the father meets Hee-joon, who says he cannot help as he moved schools "weeks before what happened to Ki-tae." Afterwards, Hee-joon berates Jae-ho for giving his phone number to Ki-tae's father but Jae-ho tells him that Ki-tae "went crazy" after he moved away. Hee-joon manages to trace Dong-yoon and urges him to contact Ki-tae's father and provide some answers. In parallel, flashbacks to the time gradually reveal what really happened, starting with Ki-tae's needling and bullying of Hee-joon and the latter's response.
Punch (2011)
, 1h50Directed by Lee Han
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Yoo Ah-in, Kim Yoon-seok, Park Hyo-joo, Ahn Gil-kang, Kim Young-jae, Kim Sang-ho
Eighteen-year-old Do Wan-deuk (Yoo Ah-in) lives with his hunchback father Gak-seol (Park Su-yeong) and stuttering uncle Min-gu (Kim Young-jae), former cabaret clowns now having to work in open-air markets after the closure of the nightclub they used for many years. Wan-deuk never knew his mother, who walked out 17 years ago, and has become a young brawler. His unconventional high school teacher, Lee Dong-ju (Kim Yoon-seok), who treats all his students with equal harshness, lives on the rooftop next door and is always on Wan-deuk's back. Both are perpetually insulted by a grouchy neighbor (Kim Sang-ho), who lives with his younger sister Lee Ho-jeong (Park Hyo-joo), a writer of "existential martial arts novels" under the pen-name Moonbow. When Gak-seol and Min-ju start going on the road looking for work, Gak-seol asks Dong-ju to keep an eye on his son, and the two become closer. Dong-ju tells Wan-deuk his mother, Lee Suk-gi (Jasmine B. Lee) is actually a Filipina and working in a restaurant in Seongnam, a satellite city south of Seoul. Thanks to Dong-ju, mother and son finally meet for the first time. Meanwhile, Jeong Yun-ha (Kang Byul), the brightest pupil in class, has taken a liking to Wan-deuk after splitting with her boyfriend Hyeok-ju (Kim Dong-yeong). When Wan-deuk takes up kickboxing to funnel his aggression, Yun-ha helps him. But just when Wan-deuk has come to rely on Dong-ju's tutorship, the latter is arrested by the police for helping illegal immigrant workers.
Sunny (2011)
, 2h4Directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Jin Hee-kyung, Go Soo-hee, Kang So-ra, Yoo Ho-jeong, Lee Geung-young, Ha Seung-ri
Im Na-mi (Yoo Ho-jeong), a wealthy housewife and mother, does her daily routine. While things look perfect on the outside (wonderful home, generous husband, beautiful daughter), she is depressed about her life. When she washes her face, she sees wrinkles on her skin. When she asks her husband to visit her mother at the hospital, he replies by giving her money to buy luxury bags, and her daughter expresses similar indifference and annoyance. In the mornings, Na-mi eats breakfast alone while father and daughter head to work and school, respectively. She looks outside and notices a group of high school girls who are walking and laughing.
71: Into the Fire (2010)
, 1h57Directed by Lee Jae-han
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Cha Seung-won, T.O.P, Kwon Sang-woo, Kim Seung-woo, Kim Hye-seong, Park Jin-hee
The film is based on a true story of a group of 71 undertrained and underarmed, outgunned student-soldiers of South Korea during the Korean War, who were mostly killed on August 11, 1950, during the Battle of P'ohang-dong. For 11 hours, they defended the local P'ohang girls' middle school, a strategic point for safeguarding the struggling Nakdong River perimeter, from an attack by overwhelming North Korean forces, specifically the feared 766th Unit.
Fair Love (2010)
, 1h57Directed by Shin Yeon-shick
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Lee Ha-na, Yoo In-na
Hyung-man (Ahn Sung-ki) is a man in his 50s who leads a lonely, ordered life. He runs a small camera repair shop, and his mastery of this intricate skill draws customers from across the city. He also has a talent for photography, though for him it's more of a hobby than a vocation. He's still single, in fact he has never even dated a woman before. If the world were more fair he would be materially secure, but years earlier one of his best friends, Ki-hyuk, took his life savings and ran off. Since then, his life has never been the same.