jab's collection (mostly Korean Films) | Update 03-28 pg. 28

by **jab** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:33 am

Showing off my collection. (Click on any image to see a larger version)
Let me know if you want any information about or pictures of certain editions.

Overview:
Western Films __________________ Asian Films _____________ Korean Films

Metropolis LE

Details:

Cinéma d'auteur:

The Killing (not pictured) | Paths of Glory (not pictured)
Arsenal (not pictured) | The American Soldier | Herzog Kinski Collection

Rest of the West:

Gojko Mitic Book

Asian LEs & WKW:

House of Flying Daggers LE
Six Days

Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam & Thailand:

Asian Short Film and Video Competition award winners of International Women's Film Festival In Seoul 1997~2007 | Korean Short Film Collection (not pictured) | Three… Extremes

Korean Soundtracks:

Once Upon a Time in High School (not pictured) | April Snow (not pictured) | My Wife is a Gangster (not pictured)

Korean Films, sorted by release date starting in the lower left corner: (an alphabetical list of all Korean Films I own can be found here)
1960-1994 ________________________________________________________ 1995

The Surrogate Woman 1 Disc | The Foy with Nine Tails HK
1996 ___________________________________ 1997

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998

The Power of Kangwon Province | If the Sun Rises in the West HK
1999

White Valentine HK
2000 ->

<- 2000

2001 ->

<- 2001

2002 ->

Oollala Sisters
<- 2002 ->

<- 2002 __________________________________________ 2003->

Run to You HK | Garden of Heaven HK
<- 2003 ->

<- 2003

2004 ->

<- 2004 ->

My Brother SE
<- 2004

2005 ->

Jenny, Juno HK
<- 2005 ->

Little Brother HK | Welcome to Dongmakgol SE | Marrying the Mafia II: Enemy in Law Single Disc | Windmill Palm Grove HK | The Showdown DE
<- 2005

A Boy who went to Heaven
2006 ->

<- 2006 ->

<- 2006

2007 ->

<- 2007 ____________________________________ 2008

New additions:
Windmill Palm Grove LE
Art of Fighting LE
The Twins
Garden of Heaven
Our Sweet Days of Youth
Nambugun
The Hand of Fate
camel(s)
Two Cops 2 & 3 Boxset
If the Sun Rises in the West
Turtle Hero SE
Bedroom and Courtroom
Traces of Love LE
Little Brother LE
The Crescent Moon
Channel 69
The Surrogate Woman SE
Oh! Happy Day
Oollala Sisters SE
Soo
Welcome to Dongmakgol LE
Apartment SE
The War of Flower LE
The Cut
Rainbow Eyes
Le Grand Chef LE
Hwang Jin-yi
Knee to Knee
Mr. Gam's Victory
Marrying the Mafia II: Enemy in Law SE
Three Kims
Whispering Corridors
Star Runner
A Day
200 Pounds Beauty LE
Jenny, Juno
A Boy who went to Heaven SE
White Valentine
La vie en rose
Portrait of the Days of Youth
Eoudong
Yong-Ja's Heydays
A Petty Middle Manager
Run to You
Princess Aurora LE
The Foy with Nine Tails
Mister Mama
Bye June
Sunny
The Showdown
Hong Sang-soo Collection
My Brother LE
Dachimawa Lee LE
A Man who was Superman
Milky Way Liberation Front

by **jab** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:34 am

I started that thread a little over 3 month ago, so I guess it's time to take stock. (Is that even a proper term to use, meaning to evaluate the situation/changes?)
Since then I got 42 new feature films (+ a few shorts), have replaced a further 12 and have seen about 50 Korean films, that were new to me, 2 of them on the big screen. Not the fastest pace I've had, but I've been a bit busier and it provided a good flow of new stuff. I have made good on my plan to reduce the non-korean films to one shelf, and I think it's much better now, even though there still are some films/editions I don't care too much about. As I previously said, I somehow like the idea, that whenever I am getting something new, I'll have to let something else go. Let's see how that works out.

Because the collection was growing disproportionately with Films released in 2008 and before 1995 I had to re-order it and actually split the lot to store the pre-2000 films in a different shelf. I should now be able to sort new arrivals, without having to stack them up. So far I've not been proven wrong about believing that most/almost all of these films will never be released on Blu-Ray in Korea, and with the launch of the first big commercial IPTV broadcasters and VOD still on the rise, I have not read/heard anything that made me think otherwise. The one thing I didn't manage to do, was provide you guys with regular pictures.
So what's in store for 2009? Well, I don't do New Years Resolutions, but I do want to go to the cinema more often than I did in 2008. I really missed that sometimes and the only thing that kept me was being a lazy anti-social bum. :lol:

(Well that, and the swindling number of films shown with original sound and the rising ticket costs.)
I'll get to see 2 new Korean Independent films in January ("Written" and "Daytime Drinking") and I hope to get some tickets for the Berlinale (February) this year - and who knows what will happen in the summer. I'm hoping for a few smaller film festivals to return!
When it comes to my collection: I'm still missing ~375 films/dvds + ~50DVDs of independet films and want to replace ~95DVDs with more collactable versions, so there's still a lot to do. :lol:

For the first time I have actually made a list of the DVDs I most want to get, but it seems like I don't reach the right people and it will be more a list for myself. Nevertheless it will be interesting how many I can actually get/find during this year. I just hope that not too many stores dissappear like DVDfromKorea. The ways to get DVDs from Korea are rather limited at the moment, so prices are often unnecessarily high, which mostly means that I won't get them.
I also have hopes for some new DVD releases, like 하녀 [The Housemaid] (that one has been in the work for a looong time), 여름이 가기 전에 [Before the Summer Passes Away], 나의 친구, 그의 아내 [My Friend & His Wife], Cut! (Short by Royston Tan)... etc. It will be interesting to see if there are many good DVDs released this year (a proper DVD of Ashes of Time (not the redux version) is probably too much to hope for) or if major studios, criterion, moc & co will concentrate on releasing their classics on Blu-Ray. I'm also curios how the attempt to market Blu-Rays in China will work out.
When it comes to new films, I'm not that well informed (something I want to change asap) but rumour has it 박쥐 [Thirst] is slatet for an April release, so we might get a DVD later this year. (And I'm fairly certain it will show up on a lot of festivals) 잘 알지도 못하면서 [You Don’t Even Know] & 파리의 어떤 한 여자 [A Woman in Paris] hopefully get their funding straight and will be shot sometime this year as well. For most other Korean Films I have more of a "let's-wait-and-see" attitude.
WKW might finally start shooting 一代宗師葉問 [Grandmaster IP Man], I really hope the success of Donnie Yen's "Ip Man" doesn't stop that project! The restoration of Metropolis could be finished late this year, so I'm hoping for a theatrical release. With Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds", Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" (and maybe "Brothers Bloom") there might even be some worthy Hollywood Entertainment. Oh, I'll probably watch "Che" when it's released here.
But more than anything else I'm looking forward to what is one of the reasons I love cinema: being deeply moved by something totally unexpected!

Here are some quick pics to show how it looks like right now:

I'll probably update the first post with some more detailed pictures in a few days/weeks.

by **jab** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:21 pm

I've made some mistakes in the post above: I forgot to include the last update while counting: I actually got 42 new films in that time frame, not 39; and after some questions from Morty and revisiting my lists I changed the number of Korean feature films released on DVD that I don't have from ~450 to ~375 which is probably a better estimate. (I can currently name 363 and I think I know a little bit about what has been released, and what hasn't.)
This actually means, that in all likeliness I am already over half way there. :shock:

I actually wouldn't have guessed that.

Btw: here's the reason I still haven't opened the "Marathon" LE, even though I really want to see the content and listen to the OST:

Yes, there's a sticker on the shrinkwrap and if that sticker doesn't mean it's actually numbered I don't know what else. Very few places (actually HKFlix is the only one I could find) even mention that this set is numbered. (didn't know that before I got it) And all pictures I had seen (Here in the Forum, at genesis' blog, madmad etc.) have been from opened sets and did not show the number-sticker.
The high number should also show that the often copied note "Limited to 3,000 quantity only " put forward by asiandb is probably wrong. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I received this one today:

Bloody Beach: German DVD with double-sided cover:

One of those films that have been released in Korea on VCD, but not on DVD. (And I'm no fan of VCDs :rolleyes:) I actually wanted to get the HK DVD, because it offers english subtitles, but then again this german release is at least in anamorphic widescreen and has a making-of/behind the scenes feature.

by **Giggles** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:06 pm

Like those covers! :borat:

Gotta find out more about the movie...
BTW, very nice shelves, jab! :notworthy:

by **jab** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:21 am

Thanks Anton! (I'll reply to your PM sometime this weekend.)

Giggles wrote:Like those covers! Gotta find out more about the movie...

Well, afaik it's just a standard cheap teen-slasher film. (But I haven't seen it, yet.) Here's the trailer:

English subs are afaik only on the HK DVD & VCD. (Only German subs on this DVD.)

I generally don't like horror films, especially Slasher/Gore types, but judging from your collection I think you do

I'm not sure whether you read twitch, but whenever I read their coverage of Mum & Dad, I thought you might like it. If you haven't heard of that one yet, you can see the trailers here, an exclusive clip here or read their review. The official website is here and they said they'd release it simultaneously in theatres, DVD and download - so you should be able to get it.

Giggles wrote:BTW, very nice shelves, jab!

Yeah, I like them, but they're just cheapos from IKEA :oops:

BTW: My on-order list is slowly growing again, and I've just read, that there will be some KD-Media re-releases/bargains at the end of January, some of which I don't have yet ... :norty:

by **dave_85uk** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:57 am

Can't make topics so don't know where to put this. Anyone know if My Sassy Girl, Windstruck, etc... is coming out on blue ray?

by **jab** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:52 am

dave_85uk wrote:Can't make topics so don't know where to put this. Anyone know if My Sassy Girl, Windstruck, etc... is coming out on blue ray?

Are you sure you can't start topics? (Only in the Trading Section you need 100 posts to make a topic.) If it's really a problem you should PM a mod.

Anyway, here's not the really the right place to ask, but I'll try to answer your questions: I've not heard any news that there are Blu-Ray Discs in planning for these two films. I don't think there will be a Korean BD release anytime soon (I could well be wrong, though), but if they sort out the international rights, I'm sure somebody in Europe/America will release these two films on BD.
So far only 3 Korean films have been released on Blu-Ray in Korea: The Host, Welcome to Dongmakgol and Taegukgi. (I'm not counting D-War) There are many more on BD from other countries, though. You should check asianblurayguide! They are doing a good job. (SneakerPimp is also on this forum) If I read something new about Korean BD releases I'll let them know. (They were quite quick adding stuff, last time I did so.) :thumbsup:

by **Giggles** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:20 pm

jab wrote:
Giggles wrote:BTW, very nice shelves, jab!

Yeah, I like them, but they're just cheapos from IKEA

Actually I was referring to their content! :borat:

by **sleepyhead** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:24 pm

hey jab, what's that Metropolis box you got there? it looks really intresting

by **jab** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:19 am

Giggles wrote:
jab wrote:
Giggles wrote:BTW, very nice shelves, jab!

Yeah, I like them, but they're just cheapos from IKEA

Actually I was referring to their content!

I like their content even more :borat:

sleepyhead wrote:hey jab, what's that Metropolis box you got there? it looks really intresting

Check info & pics here (last third of page 7) - it's a nice set!

I actually meant to do some updates and add the links to the first page, but for once it would be fair to say that I've been busy and not just lazy.

by **jab** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:42 pm

I received this one yesterday - the box is much bigger than I expected.

Oseam: Korean LE with DVD+OST-CD; Numbered Senitype, Poster, 8 Postcards, Puzzle

by **jab** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:46 pm

Love Me Once Again 2002: Korean DVD

I was actually hoping to get the edition with a slipcase, but I'm looking for the Box Set with all 6 films anyway. Even though it was very cheap a few years ago, I can't find it anywhere.

(At least not for a decent price.)

by **jab** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:48 pm

Love Her: Korean DVD

Not sure if this re-release is any different from the first print.

by **jab** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:51 pm

A Bold Family: Korean DVD - 2Disc Special Edition with slipcase and 8-page booklet

by **jab** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:07 am

Apart from the 3 DVDs above, today I have also received my DVD from didos giveaway. :oohyeah:

Don't know how to thank you, Mike! :notworthy:

Jules and Jim: US 2Disc SE with tons of extras and a 44-page booklet

My only Criterion Collection DVD! I was always afraid that if I bought one of these I wouldn't stop until I wouldn't get a loan any more, because they have remastered so many films I like. :lol:

(And if that's not enough the simple fact that they number their releases (this one is #182) would've driven me insane, because my collectors instinct would've probably taken over ...)
Luckily (for my bank account) my collection and habits have changed a little over the last couple of month, therefore this will stay my only Criterion. At least for now.
Here it is once again in all it's glory:

jab's collection (mostly Korean Films) | Update 03-28 pg. 28

1st post from January 3rd 2009

Update 01-04

Bloody Beach

Blue ray

Re: Blue ray

Oseam

Love Me Once Again 2002

A Bold Family

Jules and Jim

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