[Movie 2015] Gangnam1970 /강남 1970(New Trailer p17)

[Kris Silva]

http://www.showbiz-portal.com/2015/03/review-gangnam-blues-tagalized-version.html

Review: Gangnam Blues - Tagalized Version Of Korean Superstar Lee Min Ho's First Lead Role In A Full Length Film

LEE MIN HO is a Korean superstar who zoomed to fame with TV series like “Boys Over Flowers” and “City Hunter”. He has a huge international fan base. He now appears in his first lead role in a full length feature, “Gangnam Blues”, a gangster movie which was a big blockbuster when it was shown in his native Korea last January. The movie is written and directed by Yoo Ha, who has previously scored a hit in another gangster flick, “A Dirty Carnival”.

“Gangnam Blues” is set in the 1970s in Seoul’s southern district called Gangnam. The lead characters are two friends who grew up together like brothers in an orphanage, Jong-dae (Lee Min-ho) and Yong-gi (Kim Rae-won). They try to earn a living by being scavengers selling trash. Being very poor, they agree to work with a gang to earn more. They get separated while working for a group of thugs that break up a political convention.


They later on get to work for different gangs that are both involved in land buying deals in farmlands south of the Han River. This is what would become what is now known as the renowned Gangnam district immortalized in the international hit “Oppa Gangnam Style” by Psy. The friendship of childhood friends Jong-dae and Yong-ki is tested when they find themselves entangled in the power struggle between opposing political powers and criminal organizations. Jong-dae tries to live an honest life working with a former gang leader who chooses to lead a peaceful life putting up a laundry shop, while Yong-ki has joined Seoul's most powerful criminal organization, the MDP.

As a gangster, Yong-ki is involved in a high-stakes battle over land in Gangnam that aims to put up a secret presidential election fund. As the gangs fight over the rights to various plots of land, the peaceful Jong-dae eventually had no choice but to get mixed up with all the gang wars. This leads to a series of betrayals and double cross, culminating in a bloody free for all involving all the various gang members in a muddy cemetery while it’s raining very hard. Take note that all the violent encounters up to this point involve nothing but knives, sticks, axes and shovels. In the climactic finale where the two former friends finally face each other, they finally use guns.

Lee Min-ho is thoroughly convincing as a rising gangster with a cool exterior and emotional core, making his dominant fresh-faced presence felt in every scene. He’s better looking than his compatriot, Rain. We think he’s the most good looking Korean actor today, which is why he’s got lots of fans worldwide. Kim Rae-won (who looks like Lance Raymundo) also gives a laudable performance as the guy he calls Kuya.

The movie makes use of Freddie Aguilar’s “Anak”, which is very popular in Korea and was used twice in the film. All in all, “Gangnam Blues” is a riveting action-drama that pits the usual story of friendship and betrayal against a thrilling period setting mired in violence, chaos and corruption. It’s just off to a slow start and you’d wish it’s better edited to quicken the pacing. But it is lushly filmed with stunning cinematography, giving the film an epic sweep. This is now shown in SM Cinemas in Tagalized version, the first offering of the Sine Asia Theatre collaboration with Viva Entertainment. Don’t miss it as it’s even better than that Will Smith movie currently being shown, “Focus”, which is such a disappointment.

[Kris Silva]

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Check full article here, which talks about Lee Min Ho and SineAsia red carpet premiere of GB in Manila.http://www.raindeocampo.com/2015/03/04/gangnam-blues-lee-min-ho-plays-an-accidental-gangster-in-sineasias-first-tagalized-movie/
Skipping to review...
Gangnam Blues or Gangnam 1970 is similar in theme with Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2002 film ‘Gangs of New York.’  It talks about how political ambition, greed, and lust for power became the cornerstones of what is now one of the most developed Seoul district in South Korea.  The theme of the film is based on actual historical events but the characters and story are fictional.  It is drama with a little bit of action, the characters are all easy to love especially the brothers (not by blood) Jong-Dae played by Lee Min Ho and Yong-Ki played by Kim Rae Won.

Acting was superb! All the actors are in tune with their characters.  It has a mild hardcore feel in it and a couple of ‘kilig’ (or swoon-worthy) moments for the fans of Lee Min Ho.  Unusually though, Lee doesn’t have a love interest here in this movie – no female love interest that is.  But his love is very much centered towards his adopted family (Gil-Su and Seon-Hye), brother Yong-Ki (Kim Rae Won) and a lot of Southern Seoul’s land titles.

Kim Rae Won and Han Jae-Young was equally spectacular and entertaining to watch!  Very funny and full of machismo charisma at the same time.

The only setback here was that the over-all theme didn’t really brought me back to the period that it was supposed to represent which is the 1970s.  There was not much of a connection, maybe it’s because of the costumes, production designs or editing – whatever it was, it was missing.  I would appreciate this movie more if maybe they’ve edited it differently, make it appear more ‘vintage’ looking.  The cigarette-smoking and cabaret scenes is indeed one of the things that defines this decade but it just wasn’t enough.

Over-all, it was a really good film.  And if not for the effort of SineAsia to ‘Tagalized’ the film, my review would be slightly different.  The topics and discussions in the movie will be very hard to digest if it was only given an English or Filipino subtitles.  I love it.  I wish SineAsia would also come with ‘Tagalized’ version of the recently shown three-part ‘Roruoni Kenshin’ movie.

Oh, Freddie Aguilar’s 70’s folk song “Anak” was one of the songs included in the film.

MTRCB rated this movie as R16 for violence and some sexual content.  Some very hilarious sexual content.

[Kris Silva]

http://www.clickthecity.com/movies/a/25275/movie-review-gangnam-blues-loses-something-in-translation

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Gangnam Blues is the first film to be released under the auspices of the SineAsia label, a partnership between SM and a local distributor that promises to bring tagalized versions of Asian films to theaters. It doesn’t really seem to be a prime candidate for translation, its narrative so deeply rooted in recent South Korean history that some details are probably lost in translation. The dubbing isn’t badly done at all, but the movie, with its sprawling scope and ties to very specific events in the development of Seoul, doesn’t seem to be served very well by the localization.

The film is set in 1970. Seoul has been growing rapidly, and is looking to expand. The powers-that-be have decided that the Gangnam region will be developed as an extension of the capital. Jong-dae and Yong-ki (Lee Min-ho and Kim Rae-won) are lifelong friends who have just been thrown out of the hovel they’ve been squatting in. The two are swept up in some political gang activity, and are separated in a violent encounter. Three years later, the two meet up again on opposite sides of a brewing war between two powerful forces looking to gain control of all the land earmarked for development. They decide to work together in secret to build a better future.

It’s a sprawling gangster tale that gets into surprising detail about the means by which these corrupt individuals took control of an entire region. There are a lot of moving parts to this story, with several different modus operandi laid out in depicting the acquisition of a bunch of land titles. It can actually be a little hard to follow, and the localization, which takes away some of the individuality of the performances, actually gets in the way. This is a ridiculously ambitious story, one that thrives in procedural details. While the translation seems to be decent, there’s still appears to be something lost in the long trip here.

The film’s tone is already all over the place. It is an overwrought melodrama that features strange pieces of comedy. As an example, the reason the two main characters are separated in the first place is because Yong-ki drank too much milk and had to go to the toilet. The movie will cut between the very serious business of a gang trashing a political headquarters and a shot of Yong-ki in a toilet stall, taking a dump. The film finds focus in the back half, going into full opera as it tightens the story around the tumultuous relationship between its two primaries and the inevitable tragedy that fate has in store for them.

The film benefits greatly from its look. It thrives on the period details and the grimy murk of the South Korean underworld. The film deprives the gangs here of all glamour, depicting them mostly as thugs forced to operate in the shadows, responding to the whims of the men who are truly in power. The acting all seems to be okay, though its hard to tell through the filter of the tagalization. Still, Lee Min-ho has a commanding presence, and Kim Rae-won sells his character’s ambition and growing desperation pretty well.

Gangnam Blues gets really entertaining in the back half, when the film isn’t so much about scheming anymore. The details of this plot get pretty hazy in the first half, as the film struggles to translate a multitude of plans and schemes that are tied deeply to the real history of Seoul. The film appears to be really smart, and its ambitions make for infectious cinema. But the version we’re getting is just a little tough to watch at times.

My Rating:

[Kris Silva]

http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/85966-gangnam-blues-review-lee-min-ho?utm_content=buffer462c0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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''Gangnam Blues' is hefty entertainment,' writes movie reviewer Oggs Cruz

Oggs Cruz

Published 3:27 PM, Mar 06, 2015
Yoo Ha’s Gangnam Blues opens with two politicians aboard a helicopter, surveying acres of farmlands, empty lots and rolling hills. Far above everybody else, they make plans to develop the land for Seoul’s expansion, oblivious to all the lives to be displaced.Jong-dae (Lee Min-ho) and Yong-gi (Kim Rae-won), orphans who adopted each other as brothers, are scavengers whose only aspiration is to have a decent place to live in. After being violently evicted from their pitiful shack, they are immediately recruited into a gang tasked to wreak havoc during a meeting that will keep the current leadership in his position.After the rumble, the two are separated. Jong-dae is adopted by the gang boss, who has then retired from crime to become a humble laundryman. Jong-dae however is led to return to the gang, swindling farmers of their land to help his boss win the race to own Gangnam. Yong-gi ends up on the other side of the fence, rising from the ranks to become the trusted hatchet man of Jong-dae’s rival gang.
A period piece
Gangnam Blues’ echoes Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002), in the way that it ironically portrays a place and everything that place stands for through its dark history. In the Scorsese film, New York is shown as various districts of immigrants who are lorded over by ruthless gangs who are in perpetual war with each other.
Yoo’s film takes a similar approach, showcasing the past of Gangnam, now a district of Seoul that is famed for its upscale homes and commercial spaces, as one that is built on a marriage of high-level corruption and violence. Gangnam Blues, set in the '70s, where South Korea, cautious and suspicious of the communist North, is in the process of expansion at whatever cost.
Yoo painstakingly recreates the period, utilizing sights and sounds, including a lovely montage backgrounded by Freddie Aguilar’s "Anak," to evoke a not-so-distant past that has been made close to unrecognizable because of the quick pace of development. The setting has been stylized to become the appropriate backdrop to the tale of two brothers who are forced to be at odds with each other by both history and fate.
The film’s cynicism is unwavering. It never allows itself to get waylaid by unnecessary romance and instead peppers itself with details of the social rot that paved the way for progress. Its characters are all conflicted, torn between what remains of their humanity and the ill deeds that they have contracted themselves to commit.Also an allegoryLee, who gained popularity for playing a lovestruck student in Boys Over Flowers, inhabits the role of frequently brooding Jong-dae with surprising consistency. Although he appears to be a little bit too easy on the eyes to be believable as a hardened gangster, his unsuspecting appearance is in good contrast to Kim’s Yong-gi, who appears to be the more devious and calculating of the brothers. (READ: IN PHOTOS: Lee Min Ho meets fans in Manila)

BROODING. Lee Min Ho changes from his lovestruck character on 'Boys Over Flowers.' 

Gangnam Bluesrelies on Lee and Kim’s chemistry to work. The story of brothers of differing ideologies being pitted against each other against their will is the heart of the film, which does seem to reflect the tense situation between the two Koreas, masked within the conventions of a socially relevant genre flick.

A vital scene in the film has the two brothers confront each other inside a movie theater, where a carefully picked sequence from war film featuring violent explosions is playing. In a brilliant masterstroke, Yoo weaves together the tragic tale of Jong-dae and Yong-gi with the story of his country, while dissecting the moral ills that are part and parcel of both ambition and progress.

Localized

Gangnam Blues has been dubbed in Tagalog to cater to local viewers. It is inevitable that a lot has been lost in translation, especially since the film is culturally specific. Fortunately, the narrative still feels coherent and a lot of the mood, which seems to be more a product of the elegant visuals, has been more or less maintained.

Gangnam Blues is hefty entertainment, with its mix of stylized violence as only the genre will require and a little bit of relevance from both a political and social perspective.

Its ending does reek with more than just a tinge of despair, with humanity losing out to unhindered desire for wealth and power. However, the road to such a dreary conclusion is rife with such vivid human drama that its downer of a conclusion is earned, if not totally required. – Rappler.com

[Kris Silva]

http://manilastandardtoday.com/2015/03/07/lee-min-ho-proves-acting-mettle-in-gangnam-blues-/
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The synpsis of the film as written by a viewer in IMDBI website, says, “In the 1970s, during the height of political corruption, Gangnam, the southern part of Seoul is starting to be transformed into a developed area. Childhood friends Jong-dae and Yong-ki struggle to get by, until their shanty homes are demolished by local thugs. Desperate for cash, they get involved in violent political clashes, and are separated during one of the skirmishes. Three years later, Jong-dae lives as an honest man with former gang leader Kil-su. Meanwhile, Yong-ki has joined Seoul’s most powerful criminal organization, the Myeongdong-pa. As a gangster, Yong-ki is entangled in a high-stakes battle over land in Gangnam, all in the name of putting together secret presidential election funds that drive up the value of the city. As the gangs fight over the rights to various plots of land, Yong-ki is captured and interrogated by a rival gang. The southern part of Stransformed into a developed area.”


Lee Min-ho stars in South Korea's mostpopular film to date. It has been dubbed toFilipino for fans to understand the storyeasily and is now screening in SM Cinemasdesignated to show Asian Tagalized movies

In whatever film genre, “action must exist to support the drama.” That’s how Ha Yoo explains the action sequences in what is supposed to be a dramatic narrative of how Gangnam came to be. And this is illustrated in the biggest fight scene in the film, between the group of Jong-dae and that of Yon-gi.That sequence could be the highlight of the nearly two-hour Korean film dubbed in Tagalog, which makes it easier for the audience to understand the history of the Gangnam district in Seoul. But it is Lee Min Ho and his performance that caught much of our attention for the duration of the film.While we know that the actor has been featured in several series including Boys Over Flowers,  Lee  shows he is no mere matinee idol but a serious actor as well. In several scenes, we were surprised to see him showing deep emotions, particularly at that point when he found out the the gang leader Kang had finally owned him as his own son. Torn between his filial affection for Yong-gi and paternal loyalty to Kang, Jong-dae (Lee) is hard put to make a decision on how to deal with his adoptive brother. It is that kind of emotion that not many actors can illustrate properly on screen, but Lee maintained an acting range that is both admirable and communicative without going over the top.His finale scene is something difficult to ignore. Oh no, I don’t want to spoil your excitement. Go watch the film at SM Megamall and other SM Cinemas nationwide that have been designated to show Tagalized Asian films. 

[adlyn13]

@pixie0622‌

:-h hi

I still can't get over the ending of GB at all I knew KJD would die because sadly a gangsters life is prison or death. But the way he died it's so sad, all he wanted at least to me was a home he found it with his boss and sister and if got involved in this gangster world was for the dignity of his boss.His boss was betrayed so KJD wasn't going to just sit there and also I feel that he wanted to give them a better life as a way of saying thanks for taking him in. but then the boss dies, BJK betrays him and then they both die. I feel that BJK died more brutally visually speaking but he died fast but KJD died slowly augh the pain

[Kris Silva]

Thaks for sharing @adlyn13 . So where's @pixie0622 ? I thought you two will be sharing more insights on the film. At this point, I have given up on seeing this on the big screen, so I won't mind reading more of your views.

Spolier alert --- fan made video containing GB BTS and LMH interview after the GB shoot.

[adlyn13]

@Kris Silva

How come ?? Are they not showing GB in your area??

Yeah I haven't discussed much because a lot of the film confused me because both KJD and BJK are in rival gangs who work under certain political leaders and the political part is hella confusing so I have to watch it one more time to give a better review, it will be on DramaFever premium soon so I just might watch it there or wait til it comes out on dvd

[pixie0622]

Hola @adlyn13  ><  I wondered why I didn't see your tag here and I realized that you tagged me twice that day so I missed this.  I haven't been visiting this thread so I'm just too happy to be back. 

I agree that GB deserves a rewatch.  Too bad that I wasn't able to go back to CGV before it finished its run.  But yeah, I will definitely buy DF Premium to watch GB again.  

Yep his end was tragic indeed.  But it had to happen.  He betrayed the Congressman (?) thus he was a marked man from then on.  Ironically, I feel that his death gave Sun Hye a chance at life since she would be marked too had he stayed with her.  So I guess, in the end, he made the ultimate sacrifice for her, his only family left

I like the review from Rappler which is why I posted it in the LMH thread.  Mainly because it was the first time that someone made a historical inference to the ideological differences between the South and the North.  All I knew was that the movie would tackle the early history of Gangnam and how it became the city that it is now from the farmland that it was.  Thus it's interesting that someone makes the analogy between the tale of two brothers with the tale between the two Koreas.  So which one is the South and which is North between KJD and BYG?   Jong-Dae wanted LAND because it represented stability and a future with his family.  Yong-Gi wanted MONEY because to him it represented POWER and GOOD LIFE.  And they both pursued their dreams in equally immoral ways,  using the innocent and weak to get what they want.  

I love that scene when he found out that he was adopted after all.  Because all the time, although he loved his "Master", he had always addressed him as Leader Kang. For someone who grew up not knowing who his parents were, not having experienced being part of a family, not even having a warm home to call his own, he could not embrace the idea of being part of a family even if he was treated as such by both Kang and Sun Hye. It's like it's something that he never thought nor imagined to ever happen to him.  Thus when he rebelled against Leader Kang, he did it as a subordinate would and not as a son sinning against his father.  Which is why I think it him so hard when he saw that Leader Kang registered him in his family registry.  He IS his son, all this time!  He WAS his father, all that time!  And the guilt he felt for having his father make the sacrifice for him, his only son!  This is what drove him to do what he had to do, and that is to avenge his father's death.  Even if it's to kill the only other family he knew, his soul brother. And man, was LMH brilliant in that scene!  So much control, no over the top emoting yet one could feel his despair, anger, guilt, remorse 

  

[Kris Silva]

Thanks @pixie0622 . Reading your post makes me more excited to see the film.

Unfortunately @adlyn13 , there no news on GB screening here in New York area. I will just have to wait for the DVD or for online viewing.

[Kris Silva]

Gangnam 1970 in the News

Warning...  lots of spoilers !!

There was a kiss? 

:-O

SBS 

 

KBS2

[Guest anuyoes]

'Gangnam Blues' released uncut version, Lee Min-ho's taking off shirt scene and Kim Rae-won's sensational bed scene and more

The uncut version of movie, 'Gangnam Blues' has been released through IPTV.

'Gangnam Blues' said on March 19th, "We are releasing the uncut version through VOD service, which contains the scenes viewers could not see in theaters unfortunately".

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Source http://sports.hankooki.com/lpage/entv/201503/sp20150319165330136680.htm

[PeerNorway]

Someone posted on Pinterest.com a .gif of Mr. Lee Min-ho's topless scene - but I am unsure if this is from the uncut or the first "cut" version...

[irilight]

@anuyoes, thank you for the article about the uncut version. I saw same article on Hancinema, and went to Google Play in search of it, but could not find it... yet.... I hope if anyone sees it they can post the links for us.

@Kris Silva, thank you for all the movie reviews...

Here is another one.

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강남 1970 리뷰

#GangnamBlues #Gangnam1970 #LeeMinLee #KimRaeWon #SeolHyun #LeeYeonDoo #KimJiSu #Kmovie

Now Streaming on various sites such as gooddrama.net

IntroductionWatching Korean movies feel like time travelling in a way because they remind me so much of movies I saw from the mid 80s to early 90s.   In a lot of ways, “Gangnam Blues” (2015) takes the Quentin Tarantino approach of heavily cribbing from the past movies of his youth. The difference between “Gangnam Blues” (2015)  andQuentin Tarantino is that Quentin Tarantino has his own style overall. “Gangnam Blues” (2015) on the other hand does not.
Whether this is a serious sin for a movie is debatable. Is just being a decent scrapbook of other better movies from 30 years ago something to turn your nose away from? My answer to this question is somewhat yes..? While it is not so much of an issue for making a decent film, I do think that you cannot make a great film with this approach.

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[Guest anuyoes]

Dramafever has this on their "coming soon" section, it's a good news even if DF isn't available in your country because once DF releases subbed video, the ripped subtitle can be easily found on subscene.

But please remind that watching legally, albeit hard, will support the movie as well as the actors. Therefore, watching illegally is the last resort if there's no other way to watch it.

[PeerNorway]

@irilight, here are the two Google Play link I found:

https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Gangnam_1970?id=38FTBSNjLoY (shorter running time: 135 minutes)

https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=cTSydD5ZxqE (longer running time: 141 minutes)

[irilight]

@PeerNorway, thank you very much... Unfortunately, these are without subs....

 I watched part of what is being offered on GD as Gangnam Blues (1970). It feel as if someone managed to get their hands on an early unedited version of the film. They continued their injustice to it with horrible subs. They did no justice to the film, the production team, the stars. Quite the opposite, they probably did a lot of damage by distributing this earlier unedited version. It is so bad.  I would much rather wait for the legal version that is to come on Drama Fever. I have no doubt it will be a thousand times better than this.

[PeerNorway]

@irilight, sorry I didn't know that. I hope they will release "Gangnam 1970" on Blu-ray and DVD sometime soon with proper English subtitles. Best not to ruin the experience by looking at an improper subbed one... 
By the way, as you probably know this is one is the last of the "street series" trilogy movies by Director Yoo Ha (유하). I would highly recommend the two others he made “Once Upon a Time in High School” (2004) and “A Dirty Carnival” (2006).

[irilight]

@PeerNorway, I agree...
They do the film and it's production team no justice by this version that is circling around....

I have both of these movies by Yoo Ha on my to watch list.
The only movie of his that I have seen, (and was quite impressed) was Howling.

Still hoping that the movie will come to my area in theaters. If not, I will watch on Drama Fever when they bring it to us in April.

[Kris Silva]

PeerNorway said: @irilight, sorry I didn't know that. I hope they will release "Gangnam 1970" on Blu-ray and DVD sometime soon with proper English subtitles. Best not to ruin the experience by looking at an improper subbed one... 
By the way, as you probably know this is one is the last of the "street series" trilogy movies by Director Yoo Ha (유하). I would highly recommend the two others he made “Once Upon a Time in High School” (2004) and “A Dirty Carnival” (2006).