All for Love (2005)

All for Love (2005)

Release Date: 7 October 2005 (South Korea)
Quality: DVDRip
Language: Korean
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Kyu-Dong Min
Company: Doosaboo Films
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Jeong-hwa Eom, Ji-won Ha, Jeong-min Hwang, Kyeong-ho Jeong, Ho-jin Jeon, Yi-da Jeon, Hie-bong Jo
Genre: Drama | Romance
Watch: Trailer
Size: 701MB

Plot: From sexy singles on the lookout for love to a struggling married couple trying to keep it all together - and just everything in-between - All For Love depicts a week in the life of a dozen or so Korean citizens dealing with serious matters of the heart. Director Min Kyu-Dong, co-helmer of the popular horror hit Memento Mori, presents the audience with a number of beleaguered characters thrust into challenging situations, and interweaves it all in what amounts to a gigantic K-Drama super sampler.

In no particular order, All for Love's multi-story narrative goes something like this: Chang-Hu (Yim Chang-Jung) finds himself on the verge of poverty, as he struggles to make ends meet while keeping his financial difficulties a secret from his dutiful, cheery wife Seon-Ae (Seo Yung-Hi). Chang Hu is being hassled by Sung Won (Kim Su-Ro), an embittered ex-basketball player-turned-debt collector, who is surprised to learn that he's got a six-year-old daughter (the adorable Kim Yu-Jung), who just so happens to be suffering from a life-threatening medical condition. While in the hospital, she's often visited by her "boyfriend," a young boy who turns out to be the son of a sassy divorcee named Yu-Jung (Uhm Jung-Hwa, from Singles). While appearing on a television show, the ballsy doctor finds herself butting heads with Detective Nah (Hwang Jung-Min, from You Are My Sunshine), a tough-talking, Rambo-loving cop whose experience with the ladies is practically nil. Of course, the bickering twosome soon find they may like each other more than they think.

But that's only half the cast. Yu-Jung's ex-husband is shown to be an uptight music industry big shot named Jo (Chun Ho-Jin), who has to confront his gay past head-on when he hires a male housekeeper (Kim Tae-Hyun). The film's other two stories include one about nun-in-training Su Gyeong (Yoon Jin Seo) who falls for a fading pop star named Jeong Hun (Jung Kyung-Ho), and another tale about an elderly theater owner (Ju Hyun) who takes a shine to the vivacious, but aging actress (Oh Mi-Hi), who runs a coffee shop located on his property. (LoveHKFilm)