A Dirty Carnival

Over the past month, I've been watching a lot of Korean cinema. The movies have been really entertaining, and have also helped me learn the language (maybe). There's a great website called www.mysoju.com that has streaming Korean films with English subtitles. It's definitely worth checking out. Anyway, I just finished watching one called "A Dirty Carnival." It was so good that I decided to officially endorse it on my blog. It's a gritty Korean gangster/film-noir flick with a great plot and awesome action sequences. Many of you know that I'm a sucker for mob movies, but this one was especially cool because there were no guns! Most of the "hits" and fighting were done with Sashimi knives, baseball bats and spiked clubs! I'm used to mob movies where someone gets whacked with a revolver or gunned down by machine guns, but this was more like "Braveheart", with rival gangs engaging in hand to hand combat on the streets of some shabby Korean city.

I don't want to give away the plot, so head to www.mysoju.com and watch it yourself. You might even be able to rent it at the TLA.