(R2B)Return to Base (2012)
Cast:
Rain -
Captain Jung Tae-yoon
Shin Se-kyung - Technical Sergeant Yoo
Se-young
Yoo Jun-sang - Major Yi Cheol-hee,
Lee Ha-na - Captain Oh Yoo-jin, Tae-yoon's
Kim Sung-su - Major Park Dae-suh,
Tae-yoon's
Lee Jong-suk - First Lieutenant Ji
Seok-hyun,
Jung Kyung-ho - Captain Jo Tae-bong
Jung Suk-won - Technical Sergeant Choi
Min-ho
Jo Sung-ha - Brigadier General Choi
Byeong-gil
Oh Dal-soo - Master Sergeant Min Dong-phil
Synopsis
Captain Jung Tae-yoon (Rain), an elite Black Eagles Air Force pilot, after
performing a cocky and dangerous air show demonstration, was transferred to
combat flying F-15K unit.
There he meets Cheol-hee (Yoo
Jun-sang), the
unit's own top gun. The two comes into conflict immediately, since Tae-hun is
free-spirited, whereas Cheol-hee plays by the rules. However when a
reconnaissance mission unexpectedly becomes an incident, the two team up to
rescue their missing comrades.
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Cast:
Rain as Raizo
Naomie Harris as Mika Coretti
Ben Miles as Ryan Maslow
Rick Yune as Takeshi
Sho Kosugi as Ozunu
Linh Dan Pham as Female Assassin
Sung Kang as Hollywood
Randall Duk Kim as Tattoo Master
Stephen Marcus as Kingpin
Lee Joon as Teenage Raizo
Eleonore Weisgerber as Mrs. Sabatin
Synopsis
Raizo (Rain) is raised
by the Ozunu Clan to become the most lethal ninja assassin in the world. As a child,
Raizo (being an orphan) was taken in by Lord Ozunu (Sho Kosugi) and is enrolled in severe brutal
training to become the next successor of their clan. The only generosity he
ever receives was from a kunoichi named
Kiriko (Kylie Goldstein), with whom he develops a romantic bond. As time goes
on, Kiriko becomes disenchanted with the Ozunu's routine and wishes to abandon
it for freedom. One rainy night, Kiriko decides to make her escape and
encourages Raizo to join her; however he decides to stay. Branded as a traitor,
Kiriko was caught and later executed in front of Raizo by her elder ninja
brother Takeshi (Rick Yune). As
a result of Kiriko's death, Raizo begins to harbor resentment and doubt towards
the Ozunu; however, this is shown to be in the past.
The scene switches
to the present where a disguised female assassin (Linh Dan Pham) attempts to kill Raizo at a
laundromat. He successfully fends off all her attacks and succeeds in killing
her, leaving her remains in the washing machine.The scene switches back to the
past where Raizo is seated in a car and is instructed by Lord Ozunu to
successfully complete his first assassination mission. Afterwards, Raizo meets
the rest of his clan atop a city skyscraper in Berlin. There he is instructed by Lord Ozunu to
execute another kunoichi traitor like Kiriko. He rebels against Lord Ozunu by
cutting his face with a kyoketsu-shoge and engages in combat
against his fellow ninja kin. Barely surviving, he falls over the edge of the
skyscraper and into a nearby pool. Raizo recovers from his ordeal and begins to
intervene and foil subsequent Ozunu assassination attempts.
Meanwhile, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has been investigating
money-linked political murders and finds out that they are possibly connected
to the Ozunu. She defies her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), and retrieves secret agency files
to find out more about the investigation. Mika meets Raizo and convinces him to
see Maslow for protection as well as to provide evidence against the Ozunu.
However, Raizo is arrested by Maslow and abducted by agents from Europol for
interrogation. Although feeling betrayed, Mika is assured by Maslow that he is
still on her side and gives her a tracking device for emergencies. The Ozunu
ninja infiltrate the Europol safehouse where Raizo is being held in an attempt
to kill him and everybody inside. Mika frees Raizo and they both manage to
escape, but Raizo suffers near-mortal wounds. Mika then takes him to a motel to
hide. Resting in the motel, Mika implants the tracking device into Raizo, as
the ninjas remain in pursuit. Unable to fend off the Ozunu, she hides outside
the motel until Special Forces arrive to help her.
By the time they
arrive, the ninjas have already kidnapped Raizo, bringing him before Lord Ozunu
for prosecution. During transport back to the Ozunu, Raizo uses his ninja
techniques to heal his own wounds. Europol special forces and tactical teams
led by Maslow storm the secluded Ozunu retreat (nestled in the mountains) using
the tracking device on Raizo. Raizo kills Takeshi and confronts Lord Ozunu in a
sword duel. Mika interferes to help, but is stabbed by Lord Ozunu. Enraged,
Raizo uses a 'shadow blending' technique for the first time to distract and
kill Lord Ozunu. Mika, seemingly fatally wounded, is in fact saved by a quirk
of birth: her heart is actually on theopposite side of her chest. After Europol
leaves, Raizo stays behind to tend to the ruins of the Ozunu retreat. He later
climbs the same wall Kiriko did while trying to escape in the past, and looks
out at the surrounding countryside. He then recognizes his freedom for the
first time.
Speed Racer (2008)
Cast:
Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer. Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Nicholas Elia as young Speed Racer.
Christina Ricci as Trixie, Speed's girlfriend.
Ariel Winter as young Trixie.
Matthew Fox as Racer X. Keanu Reeves turned down the role.
Rain (Bi/Jeong Ji-hoon) as Taejo Togokahn, a rookie racer.
John Goodman as Pops Racer, Speed's father.
Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer, Speed's mother.
Scott Porter as Rex Racer, Speed's older brother.
Paulie Litt as Spritle Racer, Speed's younger brother.
Kick Gurry as Sparky, Speed's mechanic and best friend.
Synopsis
Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is an 18-year-old whose life and
love has always been automobile racing. His parents Pops (John Goodman) and Mom (Susan Sarandon) run the independent Racer
Motors, in which his brother Spritle (Paulie Litt), mechanic Sparky (Kick Gurry), and girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) are also involved. As a child
Speed idolized his record-setting older brother, Rex Racer (Scott Porter), but Rex was disowned by Pops for
his decision to join a corporate racing team and was publicly defamed for
appearing to cheat in a race. He was then killed while racing in the Casa
Cristo 5000, an intense cross-country racing rally notorious for rough and foul
play. Now embarking on his own career, Speed Racer is quickly sweeping the
racing world with his skill behind the wheel of his brother's car the Mach 5 and his own Formula One car the Mach 6, but remains
primarily interested in the art of the race and the well-being of his family.
E.P. Arnold Royalton
(Roger Allam), owner of conglomerate Royalton
Industries, offers Speed an astoundingly luxurious lifestyle in exchange for
signing to race with him. Speed is tempted but declines due to his father's
distrust of power-hungry corporations. Angered, Royalton reveals that for many
years the key races have been fixed by corporate interests, including
Royalton himself, to gain profits. He threatens Speed's career and family,
making good on these threats by having his drivers force Speed into a crash
that destroys the Mach 6 and suing Racer Motors for intellectual property infringement. Speed
decides that he must do something to stop Royalton and save the Racer business,
and an opportunity to do so arises in the form of Inspector Detector (Benno Fürmann), head of a corporate crimes
division. Racer Taejo Togokahn (Rain) claims to
have evidence that could indict Royalton but will only offer it up if Speed and
the mysterious masked Racer X (Matthew Fox)
agree to race on his team in the Casa Cristo 5000. Taejo claims that a win
could substantially raise the stock price of his family's racing business,
blocking a Royalton-arranged buyout. Speed agrees but keeps his decision secret
from his family, and Inspector Detector's team makes several defensive
modifications to the Mach 5 to assist Speed in the rally.
After they drive
together and work naturally as a team, Speed begins to suspect that Racer X is
actually his brother Rex in disguise. His family discovers that he has entered
the race and agree to support him. With the help of his family and Trixie,
Speed defeats many brutal racers who have been bribed by fixer Cruncher Block (John Benfield) to stop him, and overcomes
seemingly insurmountable obstacles to win the race. However, Taejo's
arrangement is revealed to be a sham, as he was only interested in increasing
the value of his family's company so that they could profit from Royalton's
buyout. An angry Speed hits the track that he used to drive with his brother,
and confronts Racer X with his suspicion that he is Rex. Racer X removes his
mask, revealing an unfamiliar face, and tells Speed that Rex truly is dead.
Speed returns home, where Taejo's sister Horuko Togokahn (Yu Nan) gives him Taejo's automatic invitation
to the Grand Prix. The Racer family bands together and builds the new Mach 6 in
32 hours.
Speed enters the
Grand Prix against great odds: Royalton has placed a bounty on his head that
the other drivers are eager to collect, and he is pitted against legendary Hall
of Fame driver Jack "Cannonball" Taylor (Ralph Herforth). Speed
overcomes a slow start to catch up with Taylor, who uses a cheating device
called a spearhook to latch the Mach 6 to his own car. Speed uses his jump
jacks to expose the device to video cameras and cause Taylor to crash. Speed
wins the race, having successfully exposed Royalton's crimes. Racer X, who is
watching, reveals through aflashback montage that
he is indeed Rex, having faked his death and undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance
as part of his plan to save his family and the sport of racing. He chooses not
to reveal his identity to his family, declaring that he must live with his
decision. The Racer family celebrates Speed's victory as Speed and Trixie kiss,
and Royalton is sent to jail.
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Cast:
Rain as Park Il-soon
Im Soo-jung as Cha Young-goon
Choi Hee-jin as Dr. Choi Seul-gi
Lee Yong-nyeo as Young-goon's mother
Yoo Ho-jeong as Il-soon's mother
Kim Byeong-ok as Judge
Synopsis
The film takes place
mostly in a mental institution filled
with an eclectic menagerie of patients. Young-goon, a young woman working in a
factory constructing radios and who believes herself to be a cyborg, is
institutionalised after cutting her wrist and
connecting it with a power cord to a wall outlet in an attempt to
"recharge" herself, an act that is interpreted as a suicide attempt. Her delusion is characterised
by refusing to eat (she instead licks batteries and attempts to administer
electric shocks to herself), conversing almost solely with machines and
electrical appliances and obsessively listening to her transistor radio at night for instruction
on how to become a better cyborg. Her apathetic mother is interviewed by the
institute's head doctor, to determine the roots of Young-goon's psychosis;
despite claiming ignorances of her daughter's delusion (it is later learnt she
knew but was too busy to make her seek help), she reveals that Young-goon's
mentally ill grandmother had previously been institutionalised for delusions of
being a mouse, a trauma that sparks Young-goon's own lapses from reality. As a
result, she frequently fantasizes of finding her grandmother and seeking
revenge on the "men in white" who took her away.
Il-soon, a young
male patient hospitalized for anti-social behaviour and kleptomania (stemming from schizophrenia) becomes fascinated with
Young-goon; he is described as having "no sympathy" for his fellow
man, believes he can "steal" other people's souls/attributes, and
frequently wears handmade rabbit masks. He fears that he will eventually "shrink
into a dot" and is seen compulsively brushing his teeth when nervous or
upset. His habit of covertly taking the traits of his fellow inmates makes him
the frequent target of scorn: however, is shown willingly accepting and
returning certain traits to their owners after he has had his fill of them.
When Young-goon
persuades Il-soon to take away her "sympathy" in order for her to be
able to kill the men in white, she has a hallucination of going on a rampage,
slaughtering the doctors and orderlies of the hospital. When she is given shock
treatment owing to her refusal to eat, she believes that she has been
recharged. In reality, her physical condition begins to deteriorate rapidly,
and the doctors begin force-feeding her to keep her alive. Il-soon, now wracked
with sympathy for Young-goon, hatches an elaborate plan to get Young-goon to
eat, convincing her that he can install a food-to-electrical-energy conversion
unit (a "rice-megatron", as he calls it) in her back. After eating
her first meal at the hospital, and confiding her secrets to the head doctor,
Young-goon ponders the meaning of a recurring dream in which her grandmother
explains to her the purpose of her existence. Interpreting the lip-read message
as that she is in fact a "nuke bomb" that requires a bolt of lightning
to detonate, she goes out into a horrendous storm with Il-soon, intending to
use her radio's antenna as a lightning rod.
In the middle of the
storm, the wind blows away the tent they are using, prompting both of them to
scramble about covering the food they had brought with them. Young-goon tries
to cover up the opened wine bottle they had brought with them as well, but is
unable to find the cork. Hearing her cry out about the wine, Il-soon hastily
grabs it from her and covers it with his index finger. Unknown to Young-goon,
Il-soon had in fact placed the missing cork on top of the makeshift lightning
rod they had constructed, thereby ensuring that they will never get hit by
lightning. It reveals that Il-soon never intended for Young-goon to die despite
seemingly helping to carry out Young-goon's wishes of 'detonating' and bringing
about the 'world's end'. His 'helping out' was in fact his way of protecting
Young-goon like the way he installed the 'rice megatron' to induce her to eat.
The movie ends with the sunrise, both of them still alive and well, making love
under a rainbow.
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