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I had my vaccine booster shot on Wednesday and I was so happy because my arm hurt, but apart from that I felt fine on Thursday. I even managed to do my Chocolate Box sign-up then. But yesterday and today was much worse. I’m tired all the time and all I want to do is either sleep or watch something with Kim Nam Gil.
Because my infatuation with Kim Nam Gil continues. He will never steal the 1st place in my heart from my beloved Nam Goong Min, but for now he is firmly in the 2nd place on the list of my favorite Korean actors. :D
And he’s a good singer, too. I spent Wednesday at work listening to his songs on Youtube.
I have no idea what the title of this song is but I like it. And here’s another one from the same concert.
Here are two more songs: one and two.
And here is Kim Nam Gil signing Fighter – the theme song from The Fiery Priest
I also watched two more of his movies.
The Closet
It’s a horror with creepy ghost children and a few jump scares so I had to fast-forward a little bit. But it’s a good movie, very well acted and I enjoyed it a lot. Kim Nam Gil is great as an exorcist, who helps a grieving father look for his missing daughter. And his character provides a few very welcomed humorous scenes in this serious horror movie.
Spoilers with content warning behind the cut.
Creepy ghost children became creepy ghost children because they were abused by their parents. There are only a few scenes about this and they are not explicit, but it’s still hard to watch.
But the main character isn’t abusive towards his daughter before she goes missing. He lost his wife in a traffic accident and it’s clear that he doesn’t know how to deal with his grief and his daughter’s grief, so he throws himself into his work and he starts neglecting his daughter a bit.
No Regret
It is considered a seminal film in South Korean gay cinema. It was made in 2006 and it is the first South Korean feature to be written and directed by an openly gay Korean filmmaker.
The movie is available for free on Youtube here, but you have to be logged in and have your age confirmed to watch it, because there are a few very explicit sex scenes in it (or you can download it like I did :)). Which was really quite shocking to me considering it was made in 2006 in South Korea. Another shocking thing was that it had a happy, or at least a hopeful ending for the main couple.
The quality of that Youtube vid is rather poor, but the movie is good and I liked it a lot. It’s also available to buy or rent through Amazon Prime if you’re in the United States, in much better quality I imagine.
If you want to know more about the plot here is a very positive spoilery review with a lot of nice pics from the movie.
I also started Live Up to Your Name, a drama about a doctor from the Joseon Dynasty who travels in time to modern day Seoul, with Kim Nam Gil as the main lead. It’s available here on Netflix. Or rather I re-started it, since I watched the first three episodes maybe half a year ago and then dropped it when something else caught my attention. Now I’m up to episode 8 and I love it.
Because my infatuation with Kim Nam Gil continues. He will never steal the 1st place in my heart from my beloved Nam Goong Min, but for now he is firmly in the 2nd place on the list of my favorite Korean actors. :D
And he’s a good singer, too. I spent Wednesday at work listening to his songs on Youtube.
I have no idea what the title of this song is but I like it. And here’s another one from the same concert.
Here are two more songs: one and two.
And here is Kim Nam Gil signing Fighter – the theme song from The Fiery Priest
I also watched two more of his movies.
The Closet
It’s a horror with creepy ghost children and a few jump scares so I had to fast-forward a little bit. But it’s a good movie, very well acted and I enjoyed it a lot. Kim Nam Gil is great as an exorcist, who helps a grieving father look for his missing daughter. And his character provides a few very welcomed humorous scenes in this serious horror movie.
Spoilers with content warning behind the cut.
Creepy ghost children became creepy ghost children because they were abused by their parents. There are only a few scenes about this and they are not explicit, but it’s still hard to watch.
But the main character isn’t abusive towards his daughter before she goes missing. He lost his wife in a traffic accident and it’s clear that he doesn’t know how to deal with his grief and his daughter’s grief, so he throws himself into his work and he starts neglecting his daughter a bit.
No Regret
It is considered a seminal film in South Korean gay cinema. It was made in 2006 and it is the first South Korean feature to be written and directed by an openly gay Korean filmmaker.
The movie is available for free on Youtube here, but you have to be logged in and have your age confirmed to watch it, because there are a few very explicit sex scenes in it (or you can download it like I did :)). Which was really quite shocking to me considering it was made in 2006 in South Korea. Another shocking thing was that it had a happy, or at least a hopeful ending for the main couple.
The quality of that Youtube vid is rather poor, but the movie is good and I liked it a lot. It’s also available to buy or rent through Amazon Prime if you’re in the United States, in much better quality I imagine.
If you want to know more about the plot here is a very positive spoilery review with a lot of nice pics from the movie.
I also started Live Up to Your Name, a drama about a doctor from the Joseon Dynasty who travels in time to modern day Seoul, with Kim Nam Gil as the main lead. It’s available here on Netflix. Or rather I re-started it, since I watched the first three episodes maybe half a year ago and then dropped it when something else caught my attention. Now I’m up to episode 8 and I love it.
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I remember Live Up to Your Name got a lot of buzz when it first aired -- I keep meaning to give it a try. Glad to know you're enjoying it! :-)
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Well, if you have to spend your time watching Kdramas, you have to! :D
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OMG, No Regret! I saw this years ago and it's stayed with me ever since. I couldn't believe that there were any sex scenes in it at all, much less how frankly presented they were. And the ending was a big surprise. I'm so glad the movie is around for more people to see. For a while, it was one of those things where I wondered if I really saw it, lol, because no one seemed to know what I was talking about.
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