#늑대소년

[khaoray]

2023 WATCHLIST

⤷ A Werewolf Boy (2012)

[thewarmestplacetohide]

<3 your blog! trying to watch more international films and i know there's some classics from Asia. do you have any recs for Asian horror

thank you!!

here are my favorite Asian horror films (note: a lot of these contain triggering content, so please do research beforehand if that's an issue):

Japan

ゴジラ/Godzilla (1954; creature feature, science fiction): US nuclear testing off the coast of Japan creates a giant lizard creature that rampages through Tokyo

藪の中の黒猫/Kuroneko (1968; ghosts): a woman and her daughter-in-law come back as vengeful spirits after they're murdered by samurai

ハウス/House (1977; horror comedy, ghosts): a group of schoolgirls visit a haunted mansion

天使のたまご/Angel's Egg (1985; dark fantasy, surrealist, animated): in a ruined world, a young girl cares for a giant egg

吸血鬼(バンパイア)ハンターD/Vampire Hunter D (1985; vampires, animated): when a woman is betrothed to a vampire, she hires a vampire hunter in an attempt to escape

アキラ/Akira (1988; science fiction, animated): 31 years after a nuke was dropped on Tokyo, a young man tries to save his friend from government experiments

鉄男/Testuo: The Iron Man (1989; techno horror, body horror): a man finds his flesh is cursed to turn to iron

パーフェクトブルー/Perfect Blue (1997; psychological horror, animated): a pop star is driven mad by a stalker

リング/Ring (1998; techno horror, ghosts): a videotape curses anyone who watches it to die in seven days

オーディション/Audition (1999; psychological thriller): a widower auditioning women to be his new wife makes a deadly choice

バトル・ロワイアル/Battle Royale (2000; science fiction, psychological thriller): a group of students are put on an island and told to slaughter each other

回路/Pulse (2001; techno horror, ghosts): a group of young people in Tokyo discover a website that claims to show you ghosts

殺し屋１/Ichi the Killer (2001; psychological thriller, slasher): a sadomasochistic Yakuza enforcer goes on a rampage

仄暗い水の底から/Dark Water (2002; ghosts): a divorced mother and her young daughter move into a haunted apartment building

ノロイ/Noroi: The Curse (2005; occult, found footage): a paranormal investigator tries to tie together a series of supernatural events

シン・ゴジラ/Shin Godzilla (2016; creature feature, science fiction): a giant lizard kaiju attacks Tokyo

カメラを止めるな!/One Cut of the Dead (2017; horror comedy, zombies): people making a cheap zombie flick find themselves in the middle of a real zombie outbreak

South Korea

올드보이/Oldboy (2003; psychological thriller): after being imprisoned in a room for fifteen years, a man hunts down the ones responsible

괴물/The Host (2006; creature feature, science fiction): a monster made when American chemicals were spilled into the Han River emerges to attack a community

박쥐/Thirst (2009; vampires): a Catholic priest is turned into a vampire by a blood transfusion

악마를 보았다/I Saw the Devil (2010; psychological thriller): a man goes on a brutal revenge mission after the murder of his wife

늑대소년/A Werewolf Boy (2012; werewolves, dark fantasy): a girl moves to a country home, where she befriends a strange, feral boy

부산행/Train to Busan (2016; zombies): a zombie plague breaks out on a train

서울역/Seoul Station (2016; zombies, animated): a zombie plague breaks out at a train station; companion film to Train to Busan

아가씨/The Handmaiden (2016; psychological thriller): a woman hired to be a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress plans to defraud her

곤지암/Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018; ghosts, found footage): a group of influencers livestream themselves exploring a supposedly haunted institution

#살아있다/#Alive (2020; zombies): a young man is trapped in his apartment during a zombie outbreak

Hong Kong

殭屍先生/Mr. Vampire (1985; horror comedy, vampires): a Taoist priest must fight jiangshi that descend upon a village

餃子/Dumplings (2004; psychological thriller): a woman obsessed with staying young eats dumplings stuffed with strange meat

維多利亞壹號/Dream Home (2010; slasher): a woman goes on a killing spree to get her dream apartment

India

Bhoot/Ghost (2003; ghosts): a Mumbai businessman and his wife move into a haunted flat

Ek Thi Daayan/Once There was a Witch (2013; supernatural horror): a magician seeks protection from a witch who has haunted him since childhood

Tumbbad (2018; dark fantasy, occult): a father and son seek treasure in a castle inhabited by an evil god

Bulbbul (2020; dark fantasy): the village of a child bride, now grown, is attacked by a chudail

Indonesia

Pengabdi Setan/Satan's Slaves (2017; occult): a woman returns from the dead to haunt her children (this is a remake of a film from the 80s, which i have not yet seen)

Sebelum Iblis Menjemput/May the Devil Take You (2018; occult): a woman and her step-family visit her sick father's old home in search of what ails him

Iran

دختری در شب تنها به خانه می‌رود/A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014; vampires): a vampire targets a small Iranian town, attacking men who mistreat women (technically an American production)

زیر سایه/Under the Shadow (2016; occult): during the War of the Cities, a woman and her young daughter are haunted by djinns

Thailand

ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ/Shutter (2004; ghosts): a man begins capturing strange figures in his camera

Turkey

Baskin (2015; occult, dark fantasy, surrealist): a group of police officers discover a gateway to hell

Taiwan

哭悲/The Sadness (2021; bio horror): a virus spreads through Taipei, compelling all who are infected to commit the worst crimes they can imagine

[sympathyforlady]

[doitinanotherlanguage]

July 2023: 1960s

(You can read more about the Reading Through the Decades reading challenge on my post introducing the challenge. Basically, it’s a year-long reading challenge where we read books - and explore other media - from the 1900s to the 2020s, decade-by-decade.)

My Recommendations for July

🎬 Hidden Figures (2016), dir. Theodore Melfi 🎬 A Single Man (2009), dir. Tom Ford 🎬 The Shape of Water (2017), dir. Guillermo del Toro 📖 The Bell Jar (1963), Sylvia Plath 🎬 Dirty Dancing (1987), dir. Emile Ardolino 🎬 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), dir. Guy Ritchie 📖 Brokeback Mountain (1997), Annie Proulx 🎬 늑대소년 (2012; A Werewolf Boy), dir. Jo Sung-hee 🎬 Last Night in Soho (2021), dir. Edgar Wright 📖 Babel-17 (1966), Samuel R. Delany 🎬 The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), dir. Aaron Sorkin

[kimtaku]

[일본예능] 하마다 가요제 늑대소년 카와구치 하루나 명곡

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더보이즈의 성공 조합👍 늑대소년+수트(🐺+🤵=💝) | THE BOYZ_REVEAL | 수트댄스 | Suit Dance 🕴️‍♂️

[where-starsland]

A Werewolf Boy (2012)

늑대소년 A Werewolf Boy (2012) written and directed by Jo Sunghee

[love-me-a-lotta-whump]

늑대소년 - Werewolf Boy - Whumplist - 🇰🇷

Whumpee: 김철수 (Kim Cheol Soo) played by 송준기 (Song Joon Gi)

Synopsis: One day a mother and her oldest daughter find a hungry boy hiding away. They feed him and house him... but is he dangerous?

Genre: Werewolf, Supernatural, Fantasy, Found Family

Watch On: Dramacool, KissAsian

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW!!!

20:03 - hiding, scared, hungry

22:00 - cut on his nose, scared, quickly lashing out

24:33 - looked after, asleep

30:16 - protective

37:26 - feeling guilty, puppy eyes

38:01 - asleep

40:45 - using himself as a werewolf shield, support beam fell on his back, concern for him

21:28 - red back, small scar

58:47 - protective, angry, turning, fought

1:01:45 - protective, manhandled briefly

1:03:35 - arrested, scared, manhandled

1:03:47 - in a cell, struggling in the handcuffs, scared

1:05:50 - locked in a room, curled up in a corner

1:15:30 - manhandled, restrained (collar), locked in a room with a collar and chains

1:18:59 - upset, chained up behind bars

1:19:27 - locked in a room with a collar and chains, scared, struggling to get through a door to her, obeyed an order to wait, threatened

1:24:20 - asleep, hugged

1:29:45 - upset, chained up behind bars, sad

1:31:24 - locked in a room with a collar and chains, curled up in a corner, scared

1:35:29 - at gunpoint, concern for him, shot at, protective, shot at, angry

1:40:46 - wound reveal (GSW), treated, yelled at, cut cheek

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[rye-views]

늑대소년 (2012) dir. 조성희. A Werewolf Boy (2012) dir. Jo Sung-hee. 7.3/10

About a werewolf boy who gets attached to a loving family.

Why is she being dumb and going to where the noise came from in the middle of the night?

I hate that arrogant, misogynistic, rich boy. Someone punch his weak ass.

LOL at this need for head petting bc same. Love skinship and physical intimacy being a universal language.

Amazing how everyone just expected that Cheol Su can understand Korean.

Cheol Su is so pure for being so obedient.

I’m dying at the hanbok and makeup scene.

Love their attachment issues.

Loyalty is the best.

[refreshdaemon]

A Werewolf Boy hits fantasy romance wish-fulfillment tropes hard, but pushes its antagonist to such cartoonish villainy and gives up on story logic so much that it devolves into nonsense.

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A Werewolf Boy (Korean, 2012)

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I never thought I’d be head over heels for a werewolf romance movie, but DAMN, the Korean entertainment industry is no fucking joke.

Anyways, watch A Werewolf Boy if you want to cry!

[psalm40speakstome]

"The synopsis was more tragic." So I'm assuming in the original synopsis he died or they never meet again? Because my brain is struggling to find. Ways it could have been more tragic? Also that last thing the director says....my heart "That's Chul Soo."

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220212 @OfficialMonstaX Twitter Update

늑대소년 민혁의 여행기... #민혁

werewolf boy Minhyuk's travel story....

translation by monstax-info

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220212 MH TWITTER UPDATE

"늑대소년 민혁의 여행기..."

[bodashiri]

Space Sweepers (2020)

█  Space Sweepers (2020 Korean Movie)

Official English Title : Space Sweepers

Korean Title : 승리호

Director : Jo Sung-hee 조성희 (A Werewolf Boy 늑대소년, Phantom Detective 명탐정 홍길동)

Cast : Song Joong-Ki 송중기, Kim Tae-Ri 김태리, Yoo Hae-Jin 유해진, Jin Seon-Kyu 진선규

Genre : Science Fiction

Release date : 2020

Synopsis : In 2029, space is full of dangerous waste such as satellites. A Space junker 'Victory' looking for valuable garbage in the orbit of satellite finds a humanoid robot 'Dorothy' known as a mass destruction weapon, and jumps into a dangerous transaction.

Probably the first science fiction movie in the history of Korean cinema, with the highest budget of $20.8 million. 

South Korea's Dexter Studios (Along with the Gods 신과 함께, Ashfall 백두산) takes charge of its VFX which incorporates motion captures in robotics for the first time in Korea. Though its design seems to be strongly inspired by Hollywood (especially Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy), it's not bad for a first try. I think it's a welcome change for Korean cinema which needs more diversity in genre.

Actor Song Joong-ki 송중기 was filming this while the Arthdal Chronicles was on TV/Netflix last year. The actor and the director worked for A Werewolf boy 늑대소년 (2012 Korean movie) together. It also means the return of Actress Kim Tae-Ri 김태리 after Mr. Sunshine 미스터 션샤인 (2018 tvN/Netflix drama).

Teaser Trailer