Saekjeuk shigong (2002)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Je-gyun Yun

Writer:

Je-gyun Yun (writer)

Release Date:

13 December 2002 (South Korea)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Frotteurism | Erotica | Hemorrhaging | Gymnastics | Anal Sex

Cast

Chang Jung Lim	...	Eun-shik Jang
Ji-won Ha	...	Eun-hyo Lee
Seong-guk Choi
Chae-yeong Yu	...	Yoo-mi Han
Min Jung	...	Sung-ok Ham
Seong-wook Choi
Jae-yeong Jin	...	Ji-won Kim
Tae-Hak Li
Dal-hwan Jo
Yi Shin
Si-hu Yun	...	Yoon-kyoung
So-won Ham	...	Hyun-hee Kim
Chang-hie Nam
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ju-bong Gi
Kyeong-ho Jeong
Jeong-eun Lim
Jun Gyu Park
Eun-Sook Sunwoo	...	Eun-hyo's Mother

Also Known As:

Sex Is Zero (International: English title)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Certification:

Japan:R-18 | Singapore:R21 | South Korea:18

Too heavy in places for a comedy that tries so hard to be base

SEX IS ZERO (2002): Raunchy comedy/drama starring pop idol Lim Chang-jung (see JAKARTA) as a hapless college schlub who falls for Miss Popularity, who conveniently happens to be dating the biggest prick on campus and is therefore blind to Lim's hopeless overtures until she gets knocked up and beaten silly by her embarrassed mother. Often feels like an idealized male-centric filmization of the director's unrequited college romance, except that here the dream girl is made to suffer unspeakable anguish before she wises up to the man who really cares about her (a made-for-the-movies conceit if ever there was one). The dramatic scenes are uncommonly powerful, but they seem almost too heavy in places for a comedy that tries so hard to be base. You may never look at bread or frying pans the same way, though. UNBELIEVABLE FACT: if you watch the making of doc on the Korean DVD, you'll learn that the scene where a secondary female character throws up on her date WAS NOT FAKED. Man, talk about suffering for your craft: the girl downs two full 1.5 Litre bottles of water, mixed with one cup instant noodle soup and voila! Real barf! Which the actor then has to enjoy while he kisser her in the same take. Probably the most f'd-up thing I've ever seen in all my years of movie watching.