脉望电影史

A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.

2012 South Korean film directed by Choo Chang-min

我的名字叫金智秀(严正花饰)，我希望能成为像霍洛维茨一样的钢琴家。不过我现在还是普通钢琴学院的老师，因为还没有什么好机会发展。偏偏这个时候还有个不知廉耻的家伙来烦我，住在隔壁送比萨的大叔总是捣乱。虽然我的年龄过了三十，但他也太过分了。我要赶紧赚了钱离开这个破地方……
奇怪的孩子尹京民(申义在饰)，这小孩感觉不一般。钢琴学院附近有个小孩总是转来转去，穿的脏稀稀的样子，一定是个无家可归的孩子，他已经在学院附近转了好多天，本来最近心情就不太好，看到这样的小孩上课都觉得不顺畅了。但是我发现了一个惊人的秘密，那个奇怪的小孩竟然对音乐非常有天赋，简直就是音乐天才。我岂不是就要成为音乐天才的老师？
现在我的梦想是成为世界级钢琴家的老师了！只要京民能成功，我的人生也会辉煌了。我为京民报了一个钢琴比赛，只要京民获得冠军，我就会被世人瞩目，因为是我培养了这位天才少年。终于到了比赛那天，但是舞台上的京民不知怎么搞的一动也不动。难道我的梦想就这么泡汤了吗？

Charged with leading demonstrations for the democratization movement, student activist Kim Gi-young (Moon Sung-keun) is a fugitive from the law. He sneaks into a mining village on the verge of being shut down, with a fake ID in hand. Feeling frustrated with the current state of activism, which centers around the intelligentsia, he gets a job as a man-of-all-work at a coal factory and meets the motley inhabitants of the mining village. Dae-sik (Yang Jin-yeong) works to support his family in place of his father, who is in prison for instigating a strike. Detective Kang (Lee Su-chan) always keeps a sharp eye on everything that goes on in the village. Then there are strike organizer Cheon Do-seong (Kang Neung-won), fellow worker Jeong (Hwang Hae), Taek's mother (Kim Kyung-ran), and Sun's mother (Jo Ju-mi). Sung-cheol (Park Joong-hoon), whose father is a local bigshot and the owner of the coal factory, lords it over the neighborhood bars and cafes. Angry at his father (Park Kyu-chae) for leaving his mother and marrying another woman, Sung-cheol vents his resentment on the cafe girls and factory workers. Meanwhile, Young-sook (Shim Hye-jin), who works as a prostitute at the local cafe, is becoming fed up with Sung-cheol's violent and demeaning treatment of her. When she meets Gi-young, who is reserved but warm, she begins to have feelings for him and stops selling sexual favors. As the impending miners' strike darkens the horizon, Gi-young and Young-sook fall in love and enjoy each other's company. Then one day, Sung-cheol receives news of his mother's death and wreaks havoc at the cafe. When Young-sook refuses to satisfy his demands, he starts to beat her up. Gi-young tries to stop him, but his intervention brings him to the attention of Detective Kang and he is hauled off to the police station. Gi-young undergoes torture at the hands of the police, but he is eventually cleared of all charges and released. When he finally comes to through Young-sook's devoted care, he tells her that he is a wanted fugitive. His identity is soon exposed and he is forced to run once more. Young-sook decides to leave the village with him, and heads to the cafefor her things. While making her last coffee delivery, Young-sook runs into Sung-cheol, who tries to stop her from leaving. She ends up killing him, and is dragged off by the police as Gi-young waits for her at the train station.

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

1998 film by Wong Jing

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.