All in all, this “My Sassy Girl” will make you laugh and will make you cry. It’s that beautiful of a movie!
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TITLE: My Sassy Girl: Director’s Cut
Starring: Jeon Ji-hyun, Chae Tae-Hyun
Directed by Kwak Jae-Yong
DURATION: 137 Minutes
COMPANY: Starmax (Region 3)
The story of a naive young college student and his bizarre girlfriend. A smash hit from the summer of 2001, this film features megastar Jeon Ji-hyun and her wacky, violent, somewhat out-of-control behavior.
DVD EXTRAS:
- two-disc set) Director’s Cut (14 min. longer than theatrical release) / Trailers / Cast & Crew info / Image Gallery / Music Videos (2) / Interviews / Previews / Bloopers / Deleted Scenes / ‘Making-of’ video essay / Production Notes / audio commentary by director and Cha Tae-hyun (special features are not subtitled)
- KNOWN DVD SECRET(S):
From the Korean Film Discussion Board: To get into the secret menu, insert ‘disc 2’ first. Then go to ‘Must See’ and choose ‘first round (chonbanchon)’ from ‘Making Menu’. You will see the first 9 items there. Move your underlined indicator either to 6th or 7th item, click right-arrow button. Then you will see ‘Time Capsule’ icon displayed between Cha and Jeon change to blue color. Clicking will turn ‘Time Capsule’ into the yellow, and you will be entered to the hidden menu at last. And here is one more hidden feature there. Go to ‘CAST & STAFF’, choose ‘Director/Kwan Jaeyong’. The name of his previous movie is typed in red color. Click that, you can see music video of the movie. This is easter egg inside of easter egg. There is also another easter egg under PRODUCTION NOTE… click on the food in the middle of the table, next to the soju bottles… it’s just a short video of them messing around…
For so long, this Korean movie has been receiving rave reviews from nearly everyone who has seen it and commented about it.
After just finishing the movie several minutes ago, I can probably comment that this has to be in my current list of my top 5 Asian romantic comedy movies within the last five years.
The movie is based on the real life Internet postings of Ho-Sik Kim about his relationship with his girlfriend and was later made to a book and shortly to a movie.
The movie focuses on Kyun-Woo. A college student that is looking for the right girl but during a ride in the subway encounters a drunk, rude and outspoken girl who would change his life.
All he really wants is to help her through her problems because he can feel the sorrow in her.
The movie focuses on these two characters surprisingly with no other characters. The comedy is split into three parts. The first half focuses on how the two meet. The second half focuses on the two and their friendship and how they are growing closer within their friendship and the third half, well…that would be revealing too much.
As for the DVD, the Korean Director’s Cut is the way to go! With all the special features and DVD easter eggs, it makes sense to buy the Korean version than anything else. If there is one problem that you may have read in the reviews of this DVD is the use of a script for the subtitles. Thus if a person is angry:
Kyun-Woo: (Angry)
So, there are descriptions for emotions or actions which was later revealed on the Korean Film Message Forum because of Koreans who are studying the English language. Despite the subtitles having these descriptions, this is not a reason to not buy the DVD. If anything, the DVD is worth getting.
As for the Director’s Cut version, there is several minutes tacked on to the “screenplay” segments and for some, the director’s cut maybe too long but again, this doesn’t distract the viewer from the actual enjoyment of this storyline.
The special features are great and there are quite a bit of them and also hidden easter eggs. Unfortunately, they are not subtitled but who knows, maybe there will be a US release like “SHIRI” and those segments maybe subtitled next time.
All in all, this movie will make you laugh and make you cry. It’s that beautiful of a movie. Both characters fit their characters perfectly and this movie easily deserves one of the highest rating on nt2099 Asian DVD reviews.
THE MOVIE: A+
THE DVD EXTRAS: A
THE DVD OVERALL: A