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Foundation date 1 january 2002
Showbox (hangeul : 쇼박스) ou Showbox Mediaplex Co., Inc. (hangeul : 쇼박스 ㈜미디어플렉스), filiale du Orion Group, est une société de Production et distribution cinématographique sud-coréenne, créée en 2002.
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The Scent (2012)
, 1h57Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Park Hee-soon, Park Si-yeon, Joo Sang-wook, Lee Kwang-soo, Kim Jung-tae, Cha Soo-yeon
For the past two years, while on suspension for adultery with a police chief's wife, detective Kang Seon-woo (Park Hee-soon), has been running a private-eye agency specializing in adultery cases. He's also being sued for divorce by his wife, Hye-young (Cha Soo-yeon). A couple of days before resuming his old job, Seon-u accepts a case from a woman, Kim Soo-jin (Yoon Jae), who wears a particularly alluring perfume. She says her husband, casino billionaire Nam Yeong-gil (Jo Won-hee), is conducting an affair with another woman at a love hotel in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, outside Seoul. Seon-woo checks into an adjoining room in the unmanned hotel and is met there by Soo-jin. Instead of immediately surprising the lovers, Soo-jin invites Seon-woo to a drink and seduces him. Seon-woo wakes up next to her dead body, and in the next room finds the husband also dead. The woman there says her name is also Kim Soo-jin (Park Si-yeon) and the dead man is her husband. Along with his idiot assistant, ex-con Gi-poong (Lee Kwang-soo), Seon-woo cleans the crime scenes and buries the bodies, realizing he's been framed for the double murder. Resuming his job at Jonggu Police Station, Seon-woo investigates the case along with two colleagues: the stubbornly procedural Seo (Kim Jung-tae), who dislikes him, and the easy-going Han Gil-ro (Joo Sang-wook), who admires him. Seon-woo has noticed that Soo-jin wears the same perfume as her dead namesake, and she admits she wanted a divorce from her husband, who used to beat her. Seon-woo questions the dead Soo-jin's boyfriend, gym trainer Lee Jin-guk (Kim Yun-seong), but the trail leads nowhere. As the terrier-like Seo comes up with more evidence that could eventually implicate Seon-woo in the murders, Seon-woo finds himself falling hard for Soo-jin and on a deadline to solve the mystery.
The Thieves (2012)
, 2h10Directed by Choi Dong-hoon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Jang Hyuk, Lee Jung-jae, Soo Ae, Kim Yoon-seok, Kim Hye-soo, Simon Yam
Posing as mother and daughter, two professional thieves — middle-aged Chewing Gum (Kim Hae-sook) and young cat burglar Yenicall (Jun Ji-hyun) — rob the wealthy owner of Leesung Gallery (Shin Ha-kyun) of a rare artifact he bought from notorious Chinese fence Wei Hong (Ki Gook-seo). The theft is organized by team leader Popie (Lee Jung-jae), helped by his associate Zampano (Kim Soo-hyun). The next day they are visited by a police detective (Ju Jin-mo) who is hot on Popie's trail. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Chinese veteran thief Chen (Simon Yam), along with Jonny (Derek Tsang) and Korean-Chinese Andrew (Oh Dal-su), are robbing a jewelry shop. Afterwards, they are joined by Julie (Angelica Lee), the daughter of a professional safecracker.
Confession of Murder (2012)
, 1h59Directed by Jeong Byeong-gil
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jung Jae-young, Park Si-hoo, Kim Young-ae, Choi Won-young, Jo Eun-ji, Jang Gwang
Choi Hyeong-goo (Jung Jae-young) is a detective who was in charge of hunting down a serial killer who claimed the lives of 10 women from 1986 to 1990, and whom Choi suspects is responsible for the kidnapping and possible murder of another. He managed to hunt down the killer, but lost him after a fierce fight that left Choi nearly dead and permanently scarred. Before the killer vanished however, Choi managed to shoot him in the shoulder.
Love On-Air (2012)
, 2hGenres Drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Lee Min-jung, Lee Jung-jin, Lee Kwang-soo, Kim Hae-sook, Seo Young, Kim Jung-tae
Shin Jin-ah (Lee Min-jung), a onetime lead singer of popular girl group Purple, works as the DJ of the radio show "Wonderful Radio" on SBS station Power FM while also trying to restart her career as a solo singer-composer under her goofy manager Cha Dae-geun (Lee Kwang-soo). However, the ratings have been dropping, so when the show's producer leaves to have a baby, station manager Im (Kim Byung-ok) assigns the ambitious Lee Jae-hyeok (Lee Jung-jin) to her job with a brief to bring in some fresh ideas. Jae-hyeok is appalled by Jin-ah's casual, diva-ish work attitude and the two don't hit it off. When he challenges her to come up with a new segment for the show, she finally gets an idea from her restaurateur mother (Kim Hae-sook) in which members of the public come into the studio and sing a song to their loved ones. She calls the segment "The Song I Sing to You". The initial broadcast, involving a serving soldier, goes disastrously, but subsequent attempts, involving a brattish schoolgirl (Jo Jung-eun) and a taxi driver (Jung Man-shik), are a big success. Jin-ah and Jae-hyeok start to bond. However, In-seok (Kim Jung-tae), the manager of TV drama actress Yoon Mi-ra (Seo Young) and a major supplier of talent to the radio station, is plotting to bring Jin-ah down and replace her with Mi-ra, who still hates Jin-ah for leaving Purple at the height of its fame and causing the group's break-up.
Always (2011)
, 1h46Directed by Song Il-gon
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors So Ji-sub, Han Hyo-joo, Jo Sung-ha, Park Chul-min, Goo Seung-hyun, Kang Shin-il
Cheol-min, a man with a dark, mysterious past, gets hired at a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-hwa walks into the booth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point.
Champ (2011)
, 2h13Genres Drama
Themes Sports films
Actors Cha Tae-hyun, Park Ha-sun, Yu Oh-seong, Park Won-sang, Kim Sang-ho, Kim Kwang-kyu
Two damaged souls race together for the race of their lifetime. Horse jockey Seung-ho loses his wife in a fatal car accident. The accident also leaves him practically blind. No longer able to work, he leads an aimless life with his little daughter. Things take turn for the worse when he loses all his savings after trying to cheat at the horse track and flees to a remote ranch in Jeju Island. There he meets a violent and limping horse named Woo-bak and he trains the horse for racing. Against all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finish first in the preliminaries but when Seung-ho's blindness is discovered by the officials, they're disqualified from the finals. Woo-bak rejects all other jockeys and waits for Seung-ho to come back. The limping horse and his blind jockey bet everything to race one last time.
The Front Line (2011)
, 2h13Directed by Jang Hoon
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, Lee Je-hoon, Ko Chang-seok, Ryu Seung-soo, Kim Ok-vin
Early in the Korean War in 1950 as the North is rolling through South Korea, South Korean privates Eun-pyo and Soo-hyeok are captured during a battle and brought to North Korean captain Jung-yoon. Jung-yoon declaims to the prisoners that the war will be over in a week and that he knows exactly why they are fighting this devastating war, brother against brother. Afterwards he lets the prisoners go free, so that they can help reconstruct the nation after the war.
The Client (2011)
, 2h3Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ha Jeong-woo, Jang Hyuk, Park Hee-soon, Sung Dong-il, Yoo Da-in, Kim Sung-ryung
On his wedding anniversary, Han Chul-min (Jang Hyuk) drives into his apartment complex parking lot and sees a large crowd gathered by the entryway into his apartment. He enters holding a bouquet of flowers for his wife, instead he finds police officers scattered about collecting evidence. In his bedroom there is a large pool of blood dripping onto the floor from the bed, and his wife is nowhere to be seen. Han is then handcuffed, arrested and taken into police custody for her murder.
, 1h55Origin Coree du sud
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Actors Kim Myung-min, Han Ji-min, Lee Jae-yong, Jung In-gi, Kim Tae-hoon, Oh Dal-soo
In 1793, 17 years after Jeongjo became the King of Joseon, a series of murders occurs. King Jeongjo believes the murders may belong to a conspiracy by government officials to cover up tributary payments. King Jeongjo then gives Detective K (Kim Myung-min) a secret order to find out who is behind the killings.
I Saw the Devil (2010)
, 2h21Directed by Kim Jee-woon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Chun Ho-jin, Kim Yoon-seo, Yoon Seung-ah, Nam Bo-ra
School-bus driver Kyung-chul happens upon Joo-yun one snowy night and offers to help fix her flat tire. Kyung-chul kills her and scatters her body parts. When a boy discovers one of Joo-yun's ears, the police are called in under the command of Section Chief Oh and Squad Chief Jang, the latter of whom is the father of Joo-yun. Soo-hyun, a secret service agent of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and Joo-yun's fiancé, vows to track down and take vengeance on Joo-yun's murderer.
The Yellow Sea (2010)
, 2h21Directed by Na Hong-jin
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Ha Jeong-woo, Kim Yoon-seok, Jo Sung-ha, Kwak Do-won, Lee Hee-joon, Jung Man-sik
In northeastern Chinese city of Yanji in Yanbian Prefecture, Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean, or Joseonjok, toils away as a taxi driver. When not working, he is often found at gambling halls. Gu-nam is now in serious debt. His wife left to work in South Korea and promised to send money back. He has yet to hear from her and is tormented by nightmares of her having an extra-marital affair. To make matters worse, Gu-nam is fired from his job and debt collectors take most of his severance pay.
A Barefoot Dream (2010)
, 2h1Directed by Kim Tae-gyun
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Park Hee-soon, Ko Chang-seok, Kim Seo-hyung, Im Won-hee, Jo Jin-woong
Kim Won-kang (Park Hee-soon) is a former soccer prospect whose life did not turn out quite as he had hoped. He heads to East Timor, where he thinks there will be plenty of opportunities for him. One day, he sees a group of street kids playing ball with bare feet. Thinking he can score by selling soccer shoes, he opens a sports equipment store, but realizes none of the kids can afford those fancy shoes or jerseys. Again, despaired, he is about to close up the store. Then, he decides to teach the kids how to play ball. Penniless and still without shoes, they decide to compete at the International Youth Soccer Championship in Japan.
Bestseller (2010)
, 1h57Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Uhm Jung-hwa, Ryoo Seung-ryong, Lee Sung-min
Baek Hee-soo has been a bestselling author for the past 20 years. But her reputation gets destroyed overnight when she is accused of plagiarizing a competition entry she'd previously judged. Battling depression and writer's block in the two years since, Hee-soo accepts the suggestion of her longtime publisher friend to stay at a remote country home in a small, rural town with her daughter Yeon-hee, where she'll be able to write in peace. Then Yeon-hee tells her mother that a mysterious, invisible woman in the house has been telling her stories, and Hee-soo turns those fascinating stories into a new book. It becomes an instant bestseller, but Hee-soo's regained fame doesn't last long as she becomes embroiled in another plagiarism scandal, with rumors swirling that the contents of her book are from a novel that had been published 10 years ago. To prove her innocence, Hee-soo sets out to uncover the truth and find who her daughter was talking to.
More Than Blue (2009)
, 1h45Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about cancer
Actors Kwon Sang-woo, Lee Bo-young, Lee Beom-soo, Nam Gyu-ri, Jung Joon-ho, Lee Seung-Cheol
K and Cream first meet each other in high school & both are orphans; K was abandoned by his mother after his father died of cancer who nevertheless left him a sizable sum of money, while Cream lost her entire family in a traffic accident. The two become soulmates and come to share a home, though K watches Cream switch from boyfriend to boyfriend as he keeps his own feelings for her to himself. Knowing that Cream's biggest fear is to be left alone, K keeps the fact that he has terminal cancer a secret, and instead he urges her to marry a kind and healthy man. When Cream announces that she is in love with affluent doctor Joo-hwan, K is left heartbroken, but is satisfied that she has met her ideal partner.
Running Turtle (2009)
, 1h57Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Jung Kyung-ho, Kim Yoon-seok, Kyeon Mi-ri, Choi Kwon, Sunwoo Sun, Shin Jung-geun
Jo Pil-seong is an idle detective who spends his time scratching off lottery tickets in his office, while his wife and children work in a manwha shop. Pil-seong secretly takes his wife's emergency money of ₩300,000 and tells his friend to bet it on a bull name Gomi in a bullfight. Gomi is declared as a winner, and Pil-seong's friends celebrate their victory later that night as they wait for him to arrive.