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Foundation date 1 september 2003
Lotte Entertainment (Hangul: 롯데 엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean film production and distribution company. Established in the Republic of Korea, the company has distributed films throughout South Korea since their founding in September 2003. It is a subsidiary company of Lotte Group.
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Horror Stories 2 (2013)
, 1h35Directed by Min Gyoo-dong
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Lee Se-young, Park Sung-woong, Sung Joon, Lee Soo-hyuk, Baek Jin-hee, Kim Seul-gie
The Terror Live (2013)
, 1h38Directed by Kim Byeong-u
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about writers, La fin du monde, Films about journalists, Films about terrorism, Disaster films
Actors Ha Jeong-woo, Lee Geung-young, Lee David, Kim Dae-myung
Yoon Young-hwa (Ha Jung-woo) was once a top news anchor, but gets demoted due to an unsavory incident. Pulled from primetime TV news and recently divorced, he is now the jaded and bitter host of a current affairs radio program. One day during his morning show, Yoon receives a peculiar phone call threatening to blow up the Mapo Bridge, a major bridge that crosses the Han River and connects Mapo District and Yeouido, Seoul's main business and investment banking district; it is also just outside Yoon's studio building. At first, Yoon takes it as a joke or prank call and tells the terrorist to proceed. He watches in shock as the caller follows through on the threat and detonates explosives that cause Mapo Bridge to collapse, killing innocent people and trapping others.
Top Star (2013)
, 1h54Directed by Park Joong-hoon
Genres Drama
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, So Yi-hyun, Kim Min-joon, Kim Su-ro, Lee Joon-hyuk, Lee Yeong-hoon이영훈
Tae-sik is the talent manager of top celebrity Won-joon, but he has long wanted to be an actor. He unexpectedly gets his chance when Won-joon becomes involved in a hit and run accident and Tae-sik takes the fall instead by claiming he was the driver. In exchange, Won-joon promises to give Tae-sik a small role in his next film. But Tae-sik's acting career soon takes off after he gets out of jail, and his success and stardom starts to threaten and eclipse Won-joon's. Tae-sik's popularity finally overtakes Won-joon's, but his pure passion for acting turns into greed and ego. As he loses touch with his roots, he neglects the relationships he formed on the way up. Now, in order to maintain his fame, Tae-sik will stop at nothing to stay on top.
Hope (2013)
, 2h2Directed by Boris Lojkine, Lee Joon-ik
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia
Actors Sol Kyung-gu, Uhm Ji-won, Lee Re, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Sang-ho, Ra Mi-ran
On her way to school, a young girl named So-won (which literally means "wish" or "hope" in Korean) gets sexually assaulted by a drunk older male stranger. As a result, she suffers multiple internal injuries and has to undergo a major surgery, but her emotional wounds are equally difficult to heal. Their happy family shattered, her parents Dong-hoon and Mi-hee go through feelings of pain and rage. From the trauma of that day, So-won refuses to see or talk to her father, so Dong-hoon hides beneath the costume of his daughter's favorite cartoon character and becomes a "guardian angel" at her side. Thanks to the love of those around her, So-won's condition gradually improves. At the sight of So-won slowly finding stability and laughter, her family also begins to change and enters a new phase in their lives, trying to find hope in the midst of their sorrow and despair.
Friend: The Great Legacy (2013)
, 2h4Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Yu Oh-seong, Joo Jin-mo, Kim Woo-bin, Jang Young-nam, Gi Ju-bong
Friend: The Great Legacy begins 17 years after where the previous film left off. Lee Joon-seok, who claimed responsibility for ordering his friend Dong-soo's murder (despite having nothing to do with it), has spent a lot of time behind bars and now he is released to a world that is as unfamiliar to him as the criminal organization he used to lead. With his subordinate Eun-ki now practically parading as the boss, Joon-seok, a leader by nature, secretly embarks on a mission to subvert his current position. He invites Choi Sung-hoon, whom he'd met in prison, and Sung-hoon's gang to join in his plan. Sung-hoon is the twenty-something son of one of Joon-seok's female friends in high school who now works as a bar hostess, and he had been serving a one-year sentence for beating his mother's abusive boyfriend. Having developed a respect for the charismatic Joon-seok in prison, Sung-hoon willingly takes his side. But when he discovers the truth behind his background, this creates great tension between the two. Interspersed are scenes of Joon-seok's own father, Lee Chul-joo as a gangster who founded the criminal organization in 1963 Busan.
Queen of The Night (2013)
, 1h53Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Kim Min-jung, Chun Jung-myung, Han Jung-soo, Kim Ki-bang, Yoo In-young, Han Bo-reum
Young-soo is a nerdy, timid man without any interest in women until he meets Hee-joo in a sandwich store one day. They get married and at first, the couple settles into a happy marriage. But when by chance, Young-soo discovers something surprising about Hee-joo, he begins to doubt his seemingly perfect wife and does some digging into her past.
Steal My Heart (2013)
, 1h55Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Kim Ah-joong, Joo Won, Nam Yeon-woo, Joo Jin-mo, Kim Hee-won, Park Chul-min
Lee Ho-tae is a police profiler who has a 100 percent success rate in tracking down suspects. One day while he's on a stakeout, the criminal attempts to flee and gets run over in a hit and run accident. When Ho-tae follows the driver to make an arrest, he finds himself face to face with Yoon Jin-sook, the first girl he ever loved. Their relationship had ended ten years ago. Taken aback, Ho-tae stalls his fellow officers by locking up Jin-sook in his own home, but as old feelings resurface, he finds out more shocking truths about his ex-girlfriend, like the fact that she's a notorious thief who's long been on the most wanted list for stealing priceless artworks and gems across Seoul. Together, they try to come up with a solution to keep Jin-sook out of prison while the rest of the police force search for her.
Horror Stories (2012)
, 1h48Directed by Min Gyoo-dong
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Kim Ji-won, Yoo Yeon-seok, Nam Bo-ra, Choi Yoon-young, Jung Eun-chae, Bae Soo-bin
Un lycéen est kidnappé par un tueur et a sa vie en jeu. Pour survivre, elle lui raconte les histoires les plus effrayantes qu'elle connaisse; commençant par "Ne répondez pas à la porte", une histoire de choses étranges qui se passe dans une maison avec un frère et une soeur qui attendent leur mère, "Endless Flight" dans lequel un agent de bord et un tueur en série est laissé seul un avion en l'air, "Secret Recipe" une version cruelle 2012 d'un conte dans lequel deux demi-soeurs se battent pour épouser un homme cannibale riche, et "Ambulance sur la zone de la mort" dans lequel les survivants dans une ville remplie d'un zombie mortel le virus se suspecte d'être infecté en roulant ensemble dans une ambulance
Code Name: Jackal (2012)
, 1h47Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Song Ji-hyo, Kim Jae-joong, Oh Dal-soo, Han Sang-jin, Kim Sung-ryung, Kim Yong-gun
Clumsy and off-the-wall hit man Bong Min-jung (Song Ji-hyo) is hired to kill top Hallyu star Choi Hyun (Kim Jaejoong). She ambushes him at Paradise Hotel in Seong-ju where the cops are on a stakeout for serial killer "Jackal". However Min-jung realizes that Hyun is her favorite star, and Hyun finds out that her client is his ex-girlfriend. Then Angela arrives and meets Hyun, her boy toy, she is unintentionally stabbed to death by Min-jung. Curious chemistry develops between the two, and he decides to help her.
The Neighbors (2012)
, 1h50Genres Thriller
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Kim Yoon-jin, Kim Sae-ron, Chun Ho-jin, Jang Young-nam, Kim Sung-kyun, Ma Dong-seok
What would you do if you found out someone living in your building is a serial killer? A man, whose identity is known, kills his own neighbors ― including a middle-school girl ― living in his building, and continues to stay there even after committing the grisly murders.
Mai Ratima (2012)
, 2h6Directed by Yu Ji-tae
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bae Soo-bin, Go Se-won, So Yoo-jin, Park Soo-jin, Park Ji-soo, Oh Dal-soo
To support her sister and Alzheimer's-afflicted mother back in Thailand, Mai Ratima (Park Ji-soo) enters into an arranged marriage with mentally challenged Sang-pil (Lee Jun-hyuk). Stuck in the drab seaside town of Pohang, she endures the daily harangues of her mother-in-law and sexual harassment by her brother-in-law Sang-rim (Kim Kyung).
Architecture 101 (2012)
, 1h58Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Uhm Tae-woong, Han Ga-in, Lee Je-hoon, Bae Suzy (裴秀智), Yoo Yeon-seok, Jo Jung-suk
Seoul, the present day. Out of the blue, architect Lee Seung-min (Uhm Tae-woong) is approached by Yang Seo-yeon (Han Ga-in), whom he knew at college some 17 years previously, to design a new house for her on the site of her 30-year-old family home on Jeju island. Seung-min reluctantly agrees but can't come up with a design that pleases her. In the end, they decide to renovate and expand the existing house, and he and Seo-yeon spend a considerable amount of time together down in Jeju, to the growing annoyance of his fiancee Eun-chae (Go Joon-hee), with whom he is soon to be married and move to the US. As Seo-yeon cares for her dying father (Lee Seung-ho) and Seung-min learns more about what became of Seo-yeon in the intervening years, he recalls their initial meeting at college in the early 1990s.
The Concubine (2012)
, 2h2Directed by Kim Dae-seung
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Cho Yeo-jeong, Kim Dong-wook, Kim Min-joon, Jo Eun-ji, Lee Geung-young, Ahn Suk-hwan
Set during the early Joseon Dynasty, the film begins with the queen mother and former concubine (Park Ji-young) in a precarious position of having no blood ties to the childless king (Jung Chan). She schemes to replace him on the throne with his stepbrother and her submissive young son Sung-won (Kim Dong-wook). Indifferent to his mother’s plans, the timid prince falls in love at first sight with Hwa-yeon (Jo Yeo-jeong), an aristocrat’s daughter, who has already found love with Kwon-yoo (Kim Min-joon), a low-born commoner. When her father (Ahn Suk-hwan) decides to send her to the royal palace as a concubine, the two lovers try to elope but are caught after their first night together. She only gives in to parental demands in a quid pro quo for his life. Five years later, Hwa-yeon has become the queen after producing a male heir. This infuriates the queen mother and breaks the hearts of both Prince Sung-won and Kwon-yoo, who later joins the royal palace as a eunuch for the queen mother's brother and nemesis. The king is eventually poisoned to death by the queen mother, who is desperate to be in power. She sits her son, Prince Sung-won, on the throne as a puppet king, giving the ruthless matriarch firm control over the royal court. Hwa-yeon is moved to a closely watched humble residence, with the queen mother planning to assassinate Hwa-yeon and her son to secure her position in the palace. Upon finding out she and her son are in danger, Hwa-yeon gradually becomes monstrously ambitious, using everyone around her, including her castrated former lover Kwon-yoo and now-King Sung-won ― as tools for her own survival.
Eungyo (2012)
, 2h9Directed by Jeong Ji-woo
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Park Hae-il, Kim Mu-yeol, Kim Go-eun, Jung Man-sik
Lee Jeok-yo (Park Hae-il) is a highly respected national poet in his 70s. His thirtysomething assistant Seo Ji-woo (Kim Mu-yeol) has recently published his first book, described as a genre novel with psychological insight, and it has shot to the top of the bestseller lists. Only later will it be clear how great his debt is to the poet laureate. On finding a young high school girl, Eun-gyo (Kim Go-eun), asleep on a chair on his porch, Jeok-yo is instantly enamored and rather than chastising her for breaking into his property, he subsequently agrees to give her a part-time job cleaning his home. As Jeok-yo spends more time in Eun-gyo's company, long-lost feelings are awakened within him, and her exuberance, lust for life, sense of fun and genuine warmth towards him quickly strip the years away in his mind: he increasingly sees himself as the young man he used to be—his love and need for her growing not only because he finds her incredibly beautiful but also as a direct result of how she makes him feel. Deeply smitten, Jeok-yo begins to write a short story about his imagined sexual relationship with the effervescent young woman. However, as the two get ever closer, Ji-woo finds it impossible to hold back from vocalizing his opposition to what he deems to be an inappropriate and wholly repugnant relationship and, on finding Jeok-yo's manuscript, his abhorrence (and jealousy of both Jeok-yo and Eun-gyo's relationship and the beauty of Jeok-yo's writing) boils over and he decides to steal the short story to publish under his own name.
The Spies (2012)
, 1h55Directed by Woo Min-ho
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Heist films
Actors Kim Myung-min, Yeom Jeong-a, Byun Hee-bong, Jung Gyu-woon, Yoo Hae-jin, Jung Man-sik
Section chief Kim (Kim Myung-min) was dispatched to South Korea 22 years ago to spy for the North Korean government. But spying is not his job anymore, or at least, it’s not what he does in daily life. Now, Kim makes a living by selling fake Viagra pills smuggled from China and returns home every night to his wife and two loving children.