Quantum Of Solace

Title : Quantum Of Solace
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Adaptation and Sequel
Release Date: November 14th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing
U.S. Box Office: $168,368,427
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Mathieu Amalric
Directed by: Marc Forster

Synopsis :

The film continues immediately after the events of Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. With the captured Mr. White in the luggage compartment of his car, Bond is attacked by chasing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Mitchell, is revealed as a traitor, attacking M and allowing White to escape; Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him. Following a forensic investigation into Mitchell's apartment, Bond heads to Haiti to track down and kill Mitchell's contact. Bond learns that henchman Slate was sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, Dominic Greene, the chairman of an ecological organization called Greene Planet. While observing her meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping the Bolivian general Medrano – who murdered Camille's family – overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.

Greene has Camille escorted away on Medrano's boat to "sweeten" their deal, but Bond rescues her. Bond then follows Greene to a private jet, which flies him to a performance of Tosca at Lake Constance, Austria. Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, and a gunfight ensues in a restaurant. A bodyguard of Guy Haines, an advisor to the British Prime Minister, is accidentally killed, and M has Bond's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond travels to Italy to reunite with his old ally René Mathis, whom he convinces to accompany him to La Paz. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 field operative from the British Consulate, who demands that Bond return to the UK on the next available flight. Bond disobeys and seduces her in their hotel suite.

Bond meets Camille again at a fund-raiser being held by Greene, and they leave hastily together, but are pulled over by the Bolivian police. The police order Bond to open the luggage compartment of his vehicle, revealing a bloodied Mathis. As Bond lifts Mathis out of the vehicle, the policemen open fire and fatally wound Mathis. After Bond subdues the police and deposits Mathis' body in a waste container, Bond and Camille drive to Greene's intended land acquisition and survey the area in a Douglas DC-3 plane. They are intercepted and shot down by an Aermacchi SF.260 fighter and a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter. They escape from the crippled plane by parachuting; landing in a sinkhole. While escaping the cave, Bond and Camille discover Quantum is blockading Bolivia's supply of fresh water, normally flowing in subterranean rivers, by damming it. The duo return to La Paz, where Bond meets M and learns Quantum murdered Fields by drowning her in crude oil. Believing that Bond has become a threat to both friend and foe, M orders him to disarm and end his activities in Bolivia, but he defies her and escapes.

Bond meets CIA agent Felix Leiter at a local bar, who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet at an eco-hotel in the Bolivian desert. After the meeting, Bond attacks and kills the departing Colonel of Police for betraying Mathis, and sets off a chain of explosions in the hotel when a hydrogen fuel tank is hit by an out of control vehicle. Camille kills Medrano, and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him, he leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of motor oil. Bond drives Camille to a train station, where they kiss before she departs.

Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira. Yusef is a member of Quantum who seduces high-ranking women with valuable connections, getting them to give up government assets as ransom for himself in fake kidnappings where he is supposedly held hostage. He is attempting to do the same with Canadian agent Corinne Veneau, even giving her the same kind of necklace he gave Vesper. Surprising them at Yusef's apartment, Bond tells Corinne about Vesper and advises her to alert the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. As Bond is leaving Yusef's apartment he is confronted by M, who is surprised that Bond did not kill Yusef, but rather left him alive for questioning. M reveals that Leiter has been promoted at the CIA to replace Beam, and that Greene was found in the desert, shot dead and with motor oil in his stomach. Bond doesn't volunteer any information on Greene, but tells M that she was right about Vesper. M then tells Bond that MI6 needs him and fully reinstates him as an agent. Bond walks off into the night telling M that he never left. As he leaves, he drops Vesper's necklace in the snow.

Doubt

Title : Doubt
Genres: Drama, Adaptation and Politics/Religion
Release Date: December 12th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors: Miramax Films
U.S. Box Office: $26,753,136
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond
Directed by: John Patrick Shanley

Synopsis :

Set in 1964 at a Catholic church in the Bronx, the film opens with Father Flynn (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) giving a sermon on the nature of doubt, noting that, like faith, it can be a unifying force. That evening, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the strict headmistress of the attached school, discusses the sermon with her fellow Sisters of Charity of New York nuns. She asks if anyone has observed unusual behavior to give Father Flynn cause for preaching about doubt, and instructs them to keep their eyes open for any such behavior.

Sister James (Amy Adams), a young and naive teacher, observes the closeness between Father Flynn and Donald Miller, the school's only African American student and an altar boy. One day during class, Sister James receives a call in her class asking for Donald Miller to meet Father Flynn in the rectory. When he returns, Donald is distraught and Sister James notices the smell of alcohol on his breath. Later, while her students are learning a dance, she sees Father Flynn placing a white shirt in Donald's locker. On guard for unusual behavior, Sister James reveals her suspicions to Sister Aloysius.

Under the pretext of discussing problems with the school's Christmas play, Sisters Aloysius and James confront Father Flynn with their suspicions that his relationship with Donald may be inappropriate. Several times, Father Flynn asks them to leave the matter alone as a private issue between the boy and himself but Sister Aloysius persists. The priest relents, revealing that Donald had been caught drinking altar wine. He had agreed to protect the student and allow him to remain an altar boy provided that no one else discovered his transgression. Having now been forced to reveal the truth, Father Flynn advises the nuns that he is disappointed in the way they handled this and that he will need to dismiss Donald as an altar boy.

Initially, Sister James is relieved and convinced of Father Flynn's innocence, but Sister Aloysius' belief that he has behaved inappropriately with the boy is unshakeable. Sister James later confronts Father Flynn about the shirt she saw him leaving in Donald's locker, having not revealed this detail to Sister Aloysius. They discuss his relationship with the boy and Sister James' doubts are assuaged.

Sister Aloysius sends for Donald Miller's mother to reveal her suspicions. Mrs. Miller (Viola Davis) surprises Sister Aloysius by stating that she should not pursue the matter further and that he only has to last until the end of the school year before he goes on to attend high school. Mrs. Miller believes her son to be gay. To protect him from an abusive father, she asks that the matter be dropped.

Despite having no evidence and no support from Donald's mother, Sister Aloysius demands that Father Flynn tell the truth or she will go to his superiors. Father Flynn repeats that there is no illicit relationship, but Sister Aloysius says she knows that he has a history of problems, having moved to three different parishes in five years. She mentions contacting a nun at one of Father Flynn's prior churches who corroborated her suspicions. Father Flynn is furious that she has gone outside the chain of command by contacting a nun rather than the church's priest. Sister Aloysius demands that he resign. Unable to stand up to her willingness to destroy his character, he relents.

Following his final sermon, the nuns sit together in the church garden. Sister Aloysius tells Sister James that although Father Flynn has left, he has been given a more prestigious parish with its parochial school, in effect a promotion. She goes on to reveal that she lied about speaking to a nun at Father Flynn's former church. Repeating a line from earlier in the film that "In the pursuit of wrongdoing, one steps away from God," she adds that there is also a price. Aloysius breaks down in tears and says to Sister James, "I have such doubts."

IP Man

Title : IP Man
Genres: Action, Martial Art/Foreign, Drama and Biopic
Release Date: 18 December 2008
Distributors: Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam
Directed by: Wilson Yip
Synopsis :

Ip Man is adapted from the life story of Ip Man, the grandmaster of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This film is the first important record of the master's life.

In the 1930s, Foshan thrives as the hub of Chinese wushu, with various sects actively recruiting disciples. They often compete against each other to prove their strengths. While Ip Man is an accomplished martial artist, he is unassuming and keeps a low-profile, and doesn't run any martial arts school, nor accept students. He only stays at home, quietly sparring with his compatriots in friendly competitions, swapping pointers with each other.

One day, Ip Man (Donnie Yen) is challenged by Master Liao (Chen Zhi Hui), who just set up a wushu school, in a closed match. The brother of Ip's teahouse owner friend, Sha Da Yuan(Wong You-Nam), who witnessed the entire fight while trying to retrieve his kite from a tree on the side of Ip Man's house, tells everyone about Master Liao losing.

Seeing it as a public humiliation, Master Liao gets into disputes with Sha, and forces the local officer Inspector Li Zhao to arrive. He mocks them by stating that in their era, duels are meant to be fought with guns, but Ip Man proves him wrong by forcing the cylinder of his gun out with a single finger and manages to tame things down.

Henchmen of Jin Shan Zhao (Fan Siu-Wong) are going around challenging various wushu schools in Foshan. The teahouse owner and Martial Arts Zealot Lin (Xing Yu) informs Ip Man, who was however, unable to go out and aid the masters because he respected his wife, Wing Cheng (Lynn Hung), who dislikes her husband fighting. Eventually, Jin Shan Zhao finds Ip's residence and challenged him. Ip dispenses him with ease using four Wing Chun Forms: fist, footwork, blade and cudgel. Afterwards, the people of Foshan revered him greatly.

Following Japanese invasion in 1937, everyone's life is adversely affected. Ip's property is confiscated and his family is forced to live in a decrepit house. Being one with strong pride, Ip refuses charity from his wealthy friend Zhou Qing Quan (Simon Yam), owner of a cotton mill, opting instead to work as a coolie at a coal mine to sustain his family, which turns out to be the workplace for several former Wushu diciples and masters. At the mine, he reunites with Lin, who tells him that his brother Sha is missing.

Later, General Miura (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), together with his troops, arrives. As a fanatical practitioner in martial arts himself, he sets up an arena for the former Wushu fighters to fight against Japanese judo practitioners, offering rice as a reward. However, to another high-ranking Japanese officer Sato's (Shibuya Tenma) mind, they cannot afford to lose, they must preserve Japanese superiority and dignity. Li Zhao has become an interpretor for the Japanese.

Eagerly taking up the challenge, Lin makes use of the opportunity to demean the Japanese (loosing a small metal box at the same time, which he told Ip Man to find). Miura decided to fight himself, and demanded three of the Chinese to fight him, including Lin. The two other men declared defeat, but Lin continued fighting and was brutally beaten to death.

The following day, Ip Man notices Lin's absence, and decides to fight in the arena for rice. He witnesses the death of former Master Liao when officer Sato shoots him, due to the fact that he took the rice even after losing to three of the fighters. Li also tells Ip Man that his friend Lin is dead. Enraged, Ip Man demanded to be faced by 10 fighters, which he dispatches swiftly, much to the interest of General Miura.

Later, it is revealed that Jin Shan Zhao and his men are hijacking trucks and stealing their goods, and Sha has joined their ranks. They bully Zhou Qing Quan into giving them money, but since his goods could not be sold, they give him a short time to gain funds. Zhou's son quickly calls for Ip Man, and Zhou asks for Ip Man to teach them Wushu to protect themselves. Thanks to his teachings, the workers in the factory become fluent at Wushu.

At the coal mine, Miura notices that Ip Man has not turned up again, and calls for the troops to search for Ip Man. Sato and several other soldiers are sent to Ip Man's home, but Ip Man takes the entire squad down after Sato harasses her wife, Wing Chen. Li helps Ip Man's family relocate to a smaller house.

Jin Shan Zhao's men return to the Cotton mill, but thanks to Ip Man's teachings, the cotton workers were able to defend themselves from Jin's men. Ip Man arrives to assist them, and later single handedly defeats Jin Shan Zhao's men and Sha, muting Jin's right ear in the process. Before Sha could flee, Ip Man stops him and tells him that his brother is dead. He also gives him the Lin's metal box, which Ip Man found in the coal mine. Sha opens the box, and discovers that it contains the kite he retrieved from the tree on the day he witnessed Ip Man fighting with Master Liao, causing him to break into tears.

The Japanese troops search for Ip Man, and in the process, they raided the cotton factory. Ip Man himself turns up to protect them and arrests him, telling Li and Zhou Qing Quan to take his family out of Foshan. General Miura tells him that he plans to duel with him, and asks for him to teach the Japanese Wushu. Ip Man refuses, saying that he cannot fight after all the atocrities that the Japanese Army commited. Officer Kato threatened to Ip Man that if he wins the duel, he will shoot him dead, but Ip Man explains further that Wushu is based on Confucian Ideas, and he cannot teach the Japanese because they have abused their military power.

Meanwhile, Zhou Qing Quan takes Ip Man's family out of Foshan, but Wing Cheng cries in despair, fearing that this will be Ip Man's last match, causing Zhou Qing Quan to bring Ip Man's family back to Foshan to witness the match.

During Ip Man's match against General Miura, Ip Man beats up General Miura severely, winning the match, but he is shot by Officer Kato. The crowd is provoked, and they break past the Japanese guards to come to the wounded Ip Man's aid. Kato is killed when Li wrestles Kato over the gun. At the end of the film, it is revealed that Ip Man and his family fled to Hong Kong after the incident, and he set up a new Martial Arts school that teaches the art of Wing Chun (A Master who teach Bruce Lee).

City Of Ember

Title : City Of Ember
Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Release Date: October 10th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: Fox Walden
U.S. Box Office: $7,871,693
Starring: Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Tim Robbins, Martin Landa
Directed by: Gil Kenan

Synopsis :

The movie introduction explains that the City of Ember is a fully-contained city built underground to house a human community for 200 years as a shelter from an unspecified disaster. Having long since passed the 200-year mark, Ember's food supplies are becoming depleted and blackouts are increasingly frequent and longer-lasting, as the hydroelectric generator that powers the city has deteriorated. Much of the knowledge and technology from the city's near-mythic Builders and earlier generations has been lost.

Two 12-year-olds, Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway), who live in the City of Ember are graduating from school. They begin their assigned jobs with Lina as one of the messengers who deliver communications around the city following the collapse of the telephone system. Doon is a technician in the Pipeworks of the hydroelectric generator. Lina witnesses the city's decay as she relays messages, and Doon learns that the Pipeworks are held together with increasing amounts of patchwork. Nobody knows in detail how any of the city's systems work. After a major malfunction of the generator during the city's annual celebration, Lina and Doon conclude that Ember is in danger of imminent collapse. With the city's adult population either largely ignorant of their plight or cowed by the corrupt Mayor Cole (Bill Murray), Lina and Doon search for the clues left by the Builders showing the citizens of Ember how to save themselves.

Mayor Cole, understanding the gravity of the city's situation, has been stockpiling food in a secret bunker to guarantee his own survival. He suspects that Lina, a descendant of an earlier mayor who died in office, and Doon may be in possession of lost secrets about Ember and orders them arrested. The pair escape and begin their egress from the city with instructions left by the Builders. They discover a means of evacuation from the city and receive unexpected assistance from Doon's elderly mentor Sul (Martin Landau). Meanwhille, Mayor Cole goes to his bunker and is eaten by a huge, mutated mole. Initially they despair at the enveloping darkness described in Ember's folklore when they emerge from their journey, but when the sun rises they discover that light has returned to the skies and the planet has recovered. They also see the lights of Ember deep below the surface and realize they had lived in an underground city. Lina and Doon drop a message tied to a rock through a crevasse down to Ember telling the other citizens how to leave the city, where it is found by Loris Harrow, Doon's father and one of the few adults cognizant of the city's plight.

My Mother The Mermaid

Title : My Mother The Mermaid

Also known as: Ineo gongju

Release Date: 2004

Genre: Fantasy, Chronicle

Starring : Jeon Do Yeon, Park Hae il, Ko Du Shim, Kim Bu Seon


Synopsis :

By chance, she falls into a mysterious world Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.

She meets her 20-year old mother The person who appears before Na-young is her 20-year old mother, Yeon-soon, who looks just like Na-young. The world that Na-young falls into is the time and place her mother lived in 30 years ago. Yeon-soon thinks of her future daughter, Na-young, as her friend and treats her very nice. Na-young is shocked over her mother's pure and innocent appearance, which is totally different from what her mother will be years later. Na-young so happens to live there with her mother, Yeon-soon, and soon after she discovers that her mother has an unrequited love for a young postman. The postman, who rides a bicycle with his glittering eyes, is none other than her father Jin-kook

After falling into this mysterious world, Na-young gets tangled up in the middle of the love that unfolds between her mother and father.

My Darling FBI

Title : My Darling FBI

Also known as: Her Little Secret / Swit! Geun-nyeo-e-gen Bi-mil-i-e-yo

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Starring : Kim Gyoo Ri, Ricky Kim


Synopsis :

Mimi falls in love with Albert while working for the Korean embassy in the United States. But Albert disappears on the day he is supposed to propose to her. In fact, he is an FBI agent and has to conceal that fact. Mimi returns to her hometown when her visa expires. Albert follows her to Korea but Mimi and her neighbors are not happy with his belated apology.

Truck

Title : Truck

Also known as: Deureok

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Thriller

Starring : Yoo Hae Jin, Jin Goo, Lee Joon Ha, Kim Joon Bae


Synopsis :

Chul-min (Yoo Hae-jin) is a simple truck driver transporting liquor, vegetables and other necessities.

When his daughter is diagnosed with a congenital heart disease, he scrambles to borrow money from his friends to pay for for the operation but cannot raise the necessary amount. He follows a friend to a gambling house to raise the outstanding money, but luck deserts him and he loses everything. In a further bout of bad luck, he enters the wrong room in the gambling den only to witness a gang boss stabbing several victims to death in a murderous rage. After his friend begs for Chul-min's life, the gang boss sends him to a faraway province to dispose of the corpses.

Carrying the dead bodies in his truck, Chul-min listens to the radio for company on the nerve-racking journey. The news program is about extraordinary serial killer Young-ho (Ku Jin) who is under police escort to a mental asylum. As Chul-min passes a country lane, he spots a car that has fallen into the ditch. Inside, he finds the bodies of several murdered policemen. After some hesitation, he leaves to complete his duty to bury the corpses. However, a policeman unexpectedly flags his truck down and orders him to drive him to the exact province that he is heading to. As Chul-min unravels the real identity of his passenger, his nightmare really begins...

Ride Away

Title : Ride Away

Also known as: Dallyeora Jajeonkeo

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Romance, Drama

Starring : Han Hyo Joo, Lee Yeong Hoon, Kim Eun Soo, Song Kwang Won


Synopsis :

Ha-jung (Hyo-ju Han), a first-year college student, is interested in a boy namedSu-ook (Young-hoon Lee) who works at a secondhand bookstore near her school. In order to see Su-wook, Ha-jung visits the shop to buy and sell books; over time, her lifestyle becomes focused on Su-wook. She learns that he rides around on his bicycle, and this leads her to learn to ride one. They begin to express their feelings for each other, but neither of them are aware of each other's painful secrets from the past.

Who's That Knocking at My Door?

Title : Who's That Knocking at My Door?

Also known as: Ju-su-ji-e-seon geon-jim chi-ta

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Thriller, Horror

Starring:
* Ji-kyu Lim - Je-hwi Min
* Sang-woo Pyo (표상우) - Pyo
* So-si Yun - Jang-hee Nam
* Ji-yeon Lim (1984) - Ro-mi
* Sung-ha Cho - Byeong-cheol Choi
* Jae-yong Lee

Synopsis :

There are five lonely souls: Je-hwi, who hides himself from the world. Jang-hui, who is obsessed with certificates of qualification; Byeong-cheol, who believes that he has a fatal disease; and the lovers, Pyo and Romi. One day, a woman who committed suicide suddenly appears before them.

You Are My Destiny

• Judul : Neoneun Nae Unmyeong

• Judul Alias : You Are My Destiny / You Are My Life

• Genre: Romance, family

• Episodes: 178 (10 DVD)

• Broadcast network: KBS1

• Tahun : 2008-May-05 to 2009-Jan-09

• Pemain : Im Yoon Ah (Jang Sae Byuk), Lee Ji Hoon (Kim Tae Poong),
  
• Lee Pil Mo (Kim Tae Young), Gong Hyun Joo (Kim Soo Bin),
  
• Park Jae Jung (Kang Ho Se), Lee Seol Ah (Kang Yu Ri),
  
• Kim Jung Nan (Ban So Young), Choi Won Young (Nam Gyeong Woo)
  

Synopsis :

Jang Sae Byuk adalah seorang gadis yang sedang mencari arti kehidupan setelah dia menerima sebuah donor mata dari dokter yang merawatnya waktu dia kecelakaan. Dokter itu bernama Kim Na Young,mati dalam sebuah kecelakaan dalam perjalanannya kembali dari Afrika. Sae Byuk menjadi dekat dengan keluarga Na Young setelah bertemu dengan mereka. Keluarga Kim Na Young perlahan menerimanya sebagai bagian dari keluarga tersebut.

Kang Ho Se dan Kim Tae Poong (Saudara kembar Na Young), saling tidak menyukai sejak mereka masih kecil. Tae Poong sangat membenci Ho Se karena keluarga Ho Se kaya dan juga karena ayahnya Tae Poong adalah sopir ayah Ho Se, dan ibunya Tae Poong adalah pembantu.

General Hospital 2

• Judul : Jonghap Byeongwon 2

• Judul Alias : General Hospital 2

• Genre: Medical, drama

• Episodes: 17 (4 DVD)

• Broadcast network: MBC

• Tahun : 2008-Nov-19 to 2009-Jan-15

• Pemain : Lee Jae Ryong (Kim Do Hoon), Cha Tae Hyun (Choi Jin Sang),
  
• Kim Jung Eun (Jung Ha Yoon), Ryu Seung Soo (Jo Yong Han)
  

Synopsis :

Jung Ha Yoon adalah seorang murid yang berhasil melewati ujian. Akan tetapi, dia tidak menyelesaikan seperti yang dia inginkan sebagai seorang dokter specialist. Dia bekerja di sebuah hospital untuk mencari pengalaman dan di sana dia bertemu dengan para dokter yang bekerja di rumah sakit tersebut.

True Love 18

• Judul : 18 Sui De Yue Ding

• Judul Alias : True Love 18, The Deal is 18 Years Old

• Genre: Drama

• Episodes: 20 (6 DVD)

• Broadcast network: GTV

• Tahun : 2002

• Pemain : Shi Yi Nan (He Fan), Ariel Lin (Xia Xiao Tong),
  
• Zhang Yu Chen (Song Xin Chen)

Synopsis :

He Fan adalah ahli minuman keras. Dia seorang yang berpenampilan tampan, menarik dengan keahliannya yang kreatif sebagai bartender. Dia tidak hanya menjadi pusat perhatian, tapi juga menjadi target sebuah sekolah SMU. Untuk mencapai impiannya mempunyai bar sendiri, He Fan mau menerima bantuan keuangan dari Kepala Sekolah. Dia juga setuju untuk bergabung dengan sekolah itu dan menjadi guru di sana.

He Fan di sambut oleh para guru di sekolah itu dengan dingin dan di jauhi karena mereka merasa cemburu dan iri. Tapi, untuk datang dan pergi dengan sendirinya tidak berjalan dengan baik, He Fan berselisih dengan murid - murid pada hari pertamanya. Khususnya dengan seorang murid perempuan di kelasnya yang bernama Xiao Tong. Mereka bukan hanya bertengkar sekali saja, tapi mereka berdua masing - masing mempunyai kesan yang buruk terhadap satu sama yang lainnya. Akan tetapi seiring berjalannya waktu dari hari ke hari, Xiao Tong mulai merasa perasaannya pada gurunya bukanlah murni hormatnya pada sang guru, akan tetapi dia mulai merasa suka padanya. Dan dari situlah perasaan itu mulai terbina antara seorang pria dan wanita. Ini membuat He Fan tidak yakin dengan apa yang telah di lakukannya. Akan tetapi dia juga tidak bisa begitu saja meninggalkan Xiao Tong dan tidak perduli padanya.

Di kelas Xiao Tong mempunyai sahabat bernama Liang Zi dan Zi Ji. Mereka bertiga tidak mau membicarakan tentang hubungan Xiao Tong dan He Fan, dan juga Zi Ji mempunyai sebuah rahasia pada Xiao Tong. Akan tetapi dia tidak pernah berani mengungkapkannya padanya. Dan Zi Ji menjadi orang yang pemalu, dia akan menuliskan surat kaleng yang menyatakan cintanya pada Xiao Tong. Satu surat setiap hari, Zi Ji seperti orang yang sedang kasmaran berat, tidak berhenti dan tidak berubah. Dalam usahanya supaya murid - murid lainnya tidak tahu, Zi Ji selalu berusaha tiba paling dulu di sekolah, sehingga dia bisa memasukkan surat cintanya ke dalam meja Xiao Tong.

Liang Zi adalah sahabat Zi Ji dan Xiao Tong. Dan juga seorang gadis yang modis dan suka bersenang - senang. Biasanya, Liang Zi sangat suka berfoto dengan Xiao Tong dalam box foto sticker. Dia tidak akan kehilangan model dari bermacam - macam foto sticker. Setiap kali bersama dengan Xiao Tong, akan selalu menyempatkan berfoto dalam sticker box foto, dan Zi Ji akan selalu mengambilnya satu sebagai kenang - kenangan. Buku catatannya hampir penuh dengan foto - foto tersebut. Liang Zi yang tidak mengetahui bahwa Zi Ji menyukai Xiao Tong, menjadi salah paham, dan mengira Zi Ji suka padanya.

Mimpi He Fan adalah mempunyai sebuah bar sendiri. Sebagai guru dia harus berinteraksi dengan murid - murid, He Fan membiarkan Xiao Tong, Liang Zi dan Zi Ji datang ke bar dan membantunya. Orang lain yang akan membantunya juga adalah Song Xin Chen. Song Xin Chen dan He Fan sudah kenal sejak lama. Dan hal ini membuat Xiao Tong sangat sedih. Hasilnya He Fan, Xin Chen dan Xiao Tong terlibat dalam cinta segitiga yang tidak mudah di selesaikan. Dan Zi Ji selalu berada di sisi Xiao Tong dengan tidak mengeluh dan menyesal. Hal ini juga membuat Liang Zi sangat sakit hati. Seorang adalah habat, dan yang satunya adalah orang yang menghancurkan hatinya. Mereka bertiga juga terlibat dalam cinta segitiga ( Xiao Tong, Zi Ji, dan Liang Zi). Mantan pacar Xin Chen yang bernama Meng Xiang, setelah mengalami suatu penganiayaan dia bersembunyi di sekolah ini sebagai seorang guru psikologi. Ketika Xin Chen bertemu dengan Meng Xiang, jadi timbul masalah baru... cinta segitiga lagi... antara Meng Xiang, Xin Chen dan He Fan....

Xing fu de jue ze / I Do

• Judul : Xing Fu De Jue Ze

• Judul Inggris : I Do?

• Genre: Romance

• Episodes: 20(4 DVD)

• Broadcast network: TTV / TVBS

• Tahun : 2008

• Opening theme song: Shu Yu by Fish Leong

• Ending theme song: PK by Fish Leong and Gary Cao

• Pemain :Lan Cheng Long (Li Hao Ze), Liu Xin Yo (Summer Xia),
  
• David Chen (Joan Tan), Margaret Lin (Jian Mei Li)

Synopsis :

Suatu pernyataan " Tidak dapat hidup tanpanya, tidak dapat hidup dengannya" sebenarnya menggambarkan pasangan muda yang hidup dalam usia pernikahan yang baru. Mereka menyelesaikan semuanya bersama - sama dengan semangat yang besar. Walaupun cinta mereka tidak cukup untuk menyelamatkan hubungan mereka dari stress menghadapi keadaan hidup bersama dan sabotase dari mantan pacarnya. Jadi mereka memutuskan untuk bercerai. Akan tetapi, penceraian hanya membuat mereka lebih kacau. Ketika keluarga mereka dan teman - teman mereka ikut camput, pasangan tersebut memutuskan untuk rujuk kembali.

Woody Sambo

• Judul : Wu Di Shan Bao Mei

• Judul Alias : Woody Sambo / I Love Shan Bao Mei

• Genre: Romance, comedy

• Episodes: 19 (4 DVD)
  

• Broadcast network: TTV / SETTV

• Tahun : 2008

• Opening theme song: Qing Hua Kai /Love Flowers Bloom by Nicholas Teo

• Ending theme song: L.O.V.E by Amber Kuo and Wong Yat Fei, L.O.V.E by Amber Kuo

• Pemain : Nicholas Teo (Sun Wu Di), Amber Kuo (Hu Shan Bao),
  
• Roy Qiu (Zhang Wei Qing), Hong Xiao Ling (Ji Zu An),
  
• Wong Yat Fei (Hu Guang)

Synopsis :

Ketika Sun Wu Di masih kecil, ayahnya di culik. Setelah kejadian tersebut, Wu Di tumbuh besar dengan tidak percaya pada orang - orang di sekitarnya, meskipun orang tersebut bekerja dan dekat dengannya. Wu Di adalah seorang yang berkepribadian narsis di mana dia memandang rendah orang lain dan merasa dirinya yang paling sempurna. Dia mempunyai seorang pacar yang sempurna bernama Zu An, seorang yang mandiri dan pandai. Dia tidak kuatir pada pacarnya itu. Dia selalu mengandalkan dirinya sendiri. Sampai pada suatu hari dia bertemu seorang gadis bernama Hu Shan Bao yang merubahnya.

When Easterly Showers Fall on the Sunny West

• Judul : When Easterly Showers Fall on the Sunny West

• Judul Alias : The Turbulence of East and West

• Genre: Period drama, romance

• Episodes: 30 (6 DVD)

• Broadcast network: TVB

• Broadcast period: 2008

• Opening theme song: Love at the Edge of the Sky by Liza Wang

• Ending theme song: I am the Only One that can Cry with You by Charmaine Sheh and Joe Ma

• Pemain : Liza Wang, Joe Ma, Charmaine Sheh, Kiki Sheung, Raymond Wong,
  
• Selena Li, Edwin Siu, Evergreen Mak

Synopsis :

Berasal dari keluarga yang berlatar belakang rendah hati, Poon Muk Hing bekerja sebagai seorang supir. Identitas sebenarnya adalah sebagai anak tertua menjadi bersinar ketika dia menyelamatkan tuan muda Poon Cheuk Wah dalam sebuah kecelakaan. Chong Fung Yee menantu tertua dalam keluarga, mempunyai suatu rahasia bahwa ketika dia menikah dan masuk ke dalam keluarga ini, dia sedang hamil. Identitas Hing ketahuan, dan dia merubah namanya menjadi Poon Cheuk Hing. Ibu dan anak terkungkung dalam hubungan yang rumit.

Yip Heung Ching datang dari keluarga yang berpengaruh di Xiguan. Dia berjualan bubur dalam sebuah perahu untuk menghidupi dirinya dan kakaknya setelah keluarga mereka jatuh bangkrut. Ching dan Wah mencoba untuk berkencan akan tetapi Yee melakukan segala cara untuk memisahkan mereka. Akhirnya Ching membuka sebuah kedai teh dengan bantuan dan dukungan Hing. Dan itu membuat cinta bersemi di antara Ching dan Hing. Keluarga Poon mengalami banyak kesulitan. Yee dan Wah tidak dapat menangani itu semua. Hing berusaha mencari kesempatan untuk mengembalikan kejayaan keluarga Poon. Demi kebaikan keluarga Poon, dia rela mengorbankan hubungannya dengan keluarga, cintanya seperti mencintai sahabatnya. Dengan melakukan itu, dia juga terlibat dalam sebuah perang perebutan kekuasaan berdarah yang tiada akhirnya.

Romance in the Rain

• Judul : Qing Shen Shen Yu Meng Meng

• Judul Alias : Romance in the Rain

• Genre: Romance, Drama

• Episodes: 48 (9 DVD)

• Broadcast network: CCTV / onTV

• Tahun : 2001

• Opening theme song: Qing Shen Shen Yu Meng Meng by Vicki Zhao

• Ending theme song: Hao Xiang, Hao Xiang by Leo Ku

• Pemain : Vicki Zhao (Lu Yi Ping), Leo Ku (He Shu Huan), Ruby Lin (Lu Ru Ping), Alec Su (Du Fei)

Synopsis :

Kisah ini di mulai pada awal tahun 1900 di propinsi Dong Bei. Pada saat yang sama Ha Er Bin, Lu Zhen Hua adalah seorang jendral besar, dan di kenal masyarakat sebagai si pemberani Hei Pao Zi. Fu Wen Pei adalah seorang gadis biasa yang berasal dari keluarga intelektual. Pada suatu hari di jalanan, dia mengalami kecelakaan jatuh menimpa Lu Zhen Hua. Pertemuan yang singkat itu berubah menjadi perjanjian seumur hidup ketika Lu Zhen Hua dengan cepat menginginkannya sabgai istrinya yang ke-8 dan penikahannya akan di langsungkan keesokan harinya. Satu tahun sudah berlalu dan Lu Zhen Hua bertemu dengan gadis lain, yang satu ini bernama Wang Xue Qin. Dan dia segera menjadi istri ke-9 Lu Zhen Hua dan merupakan istrinya yang terakhir....

Bertahun - tahun sudah berlalu, Lu Zhen Hua sekarang adalah seorang pria yang hidup dalam bayangan masa lalunya. Dia dan seluruh keluarganya meninggalkan Dong Bei dan pindah ke Shanghai, dan yang tersisa hanya istri ke-8 dan ke-9 nya dengan anak - anak mereka. Lu Er Hao, Lu Ru ping, Lu Meng Ping dan Lu Er Jie sudah bersama Xue Qin, dan Lu Yi Ping bersama dengan Wen Pei.

Suatu hari He Shu Huan dan Du Fei, dua orang reporter mengejar Ru Ping. Ru Ping membantu mereka dan akhirnya mengetahui bahwa mereka adalah teman kakaknya Lu Er Hao. Shu Huan sudah bisa melihat bahwa pertemuan yang singkat itu telah membuat Lu Ru Ping jatuh cinta padanya.

6 Bulan kemudian, pada suatu malam yang sedang hujan, itu adalah pertama kalinya Lu Yi Ping pergi dan mengambil uang bulanannya dari ayahnya. Karena 5 tahun yang lalu, setelah keluarga tersebut sampai di Shanghai, Wen Pei dan Yi Ping di usir keluar dari kediaman Lu Zhen Hua. Mereka kemudian hidup dalam kemiskinan dengan sedikit tunjangan $20 per bulan. Malam itu, Yi Ping sangat frustrasi dan ingin meminta tambahan uang karena dia dan ibunya tidak dapat hidup dengan $20 saja. Setelah perdebatan yang sengit, Lu Zhen Hua yang terbiasa dengan kekerasan menggunakan cambuk untuk mencambuk Yi Ping dan ketika itu seluruh keluarga melihat kejadian tersebut. Dengan tekad kuat Yi Ping menyatakan bahwa dia bukanlah lagi bagian dari keluarga tersebut dan akan menuntut balas pada mereka semua. Pada malam yang sama Yi Ping bertubrukan dengan Shu Huan, tapi mendorongnya karena dia tahu bahwa Shu Huan adalah teman dari Ru Ping. Dia tidak tahu telah meninggalkan rasa penasaran pada hati Shu Huan.

Kisah ini menceritakan bagaimana Yi Ping mencoba membalas dendam untuk penderitaan ibunya dan dirinya, ketika mencoba menemukan arti dari cinta dan pengampunan dalam dunianya yang tidak dapat di gambarkan. Kisah cinta antara Yi Ping dan Shu Huan tumbuh, di bawah banyak tekanan dan kesulitan. Sebuah kisah dedikasi Shu Huan yang secara sabar mengajarkan cinta dan memaafkan pada Yi Ping.

Bedtime Stories

Title : Bedtime Stories
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids/Family and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Release Date: December 25th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
U.S. Box Office: $97,180,000
Starring: Courtney Cox Arquette, Keri Russell, Teresa Palmer, Guy Pearce, Lucy Lawless

Synopsis :

Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman who is promised as a child by his father Marty (Jonathan Pryce) to be the owner of the family hotel after it is bought by chain Nottingham Hotels. 25 years later, Mr. Nottingham plans to build a new hotel and appoints another man to become the owner. Skeeter's sister (Courtney Cox) asks him to watch her kids because where she works: a school is being closed and she is looking for a job in AZ. The first night, Skeeter tells a bedtime story taking place in medieval times, with some additions from her kids and it comes true. Mr. Nottingham gives Skeeter a shot at the manager when he says his new hotel theme was taken by Hard Rock Hotel and on his way home it rains gumballs, all from the story. The next night, at the hotel, he tells another story set in the Old West, and when he waits for it to come true, a man steals his wallet, he saves Mr. Nottingham's daughter, Violet (Teresa Palmer), from the paparazzi and gets kicked by a dwarf. The the next night, out on a campfire, he tells them about a Greek stunt man, and he ends up falling for his sister's friend and fellow colleague Jill (Keri Russell) and it rains, with Abe Lincoln being a penny. The last night, he tells them about a space fight, and the next night, he wins the gig of manager, learns that the closing school is where the new Nottingham Hotel is, and gets fired for extinguishing the cake. With help from his conscience, he gets the hotel moved to Santa Monica, and then with Jill is able to end the demolition, saving the school and his nephew and niece. He marries Jill and founds a hotel named after his late father, with his competition being the hotel handyguys, Mr. Nottingham gets over his germophobia and becomes the school nurse, and his sister gets her job back.

Marley & Me

Title : Marley & Me
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Adaptation and Biopic
Release Date: December 25th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
U.S. Box Office: $123,710,171
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Haley Bennett
Directed by: David Frankel

Synopsis :

Soon after their wedding, John and Jenny escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in southern Florida, where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump.

When John senses Jenny is contemplating motherhood, his friend and co-worker Sebastian Tunney suggests the couple adopt a dog to see if they're ready to raise a family. From a litter of newborn yellow labrador retrievers they select Marley (named after reggae singer Bob Marley), who immediately proves to be incorrigible. They bring him to Ms. Kornblut, who firmly believes any dog can be trained, but after he tries to have sex with her believing her to be a poodle she expels them from her class. Afterwards Jenny suggests they have Marley neutered due to the previous incident, but on the way Marley jumps out the window and ends up walking on the sidewalk with his front paws and his back legs being held in the car by John.

Editor Arnie Klein offers John a twice-weekly column in which he can discuss the fun and foibles of everyday living. At first stumped for material, John realizes the misadventures of Marley might be the perfect topic for his first piece. Arnie agrees, and John settles into his new position.

Marley continues to wreak havoc on the household, providing John with a wealth of material for his column, which becomes a hit with readers and helps increase the newspaper's circulation. Jenny becomes pregnant, but loses the baby early in her first trimester. She and John travel to Ireland for a belated honeymoon, leaving the rambunctious dog in the care of a young woman who finds him impossible to control, especially during the frequent thunderstorms that plague the area. Soon after returning from their vacation, Jenny discovers she is pregnant again, and this time she delivers a healthy boy, Patrick. When she has a second son, Connor, she opts to give up her job and become a stay-at-home mom, and the couple decides to move to a larger house in the safer neighborhood of Boca Raton, where Marley delights in swimming in the backyard pool.

John and Jenny welcome a daughter, Colleen, to their family. Although she denies she is experiencing postpartum depression, Jenny exhibits all the symptoms, including a growing impatience with Marley and John, who asks Sebastian to care for the dog when Jenny insists they give him away. She quickly comes to realize he has become an indispensable part of the family and agrees he can stay.

John celebrates his 40th birthday. Increasingly disenchanted with his job, he decides to accept a position as a reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer with Jenny's blessing, and the family moves to a farm in rural Pennsylvania. Life is idyllic until the aging Marley begins to show signs of slowing down. When it becomes clear surgery will not help his debilitating condition, the family must prepare themselves for life without their beloved pet.

The Unborn

Title : The Unborn
Genres: Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Release Date: January 9th, 2009 (wide)
Distributors: Rogue Pictures
U.S. Box Office: $19,810,585
Starring: Gary Oldman, Odette Yustman, Cam Gigandet, Jane Alexander, Meagan Good

Synopsis :

The Unborn is a supernatural thriller that draws upon the legend of a dybbuk, a malevolent spirit that refuses to leave the human world and inhabits the body of a person. Protagonist Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) is plagued by merciless dreams, visions of strange looking dogs, and an evil child with bright blue eyes. After being hit with a mirror by her neighbor's son, Casey's eyes begin to change color (see Tetragametic chimerism and Heterochromia) and she learns she had a twin brother who died in the womb. Casey begins to suspect that the spirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin, being possessed by a dybbuk, wanting to be born so it can transfer to the world of the living. Casey meets a woman named Sofi, who is revealed to be her grandmother. Sofi explains that she had a twin brother who was killed in Nazi experiments in Auschwitz when they were both just children. The boy was brought back to life by a dybbuk who intended to use his body as a portal into the world of the living. Sofi killed her twin to stop the dybbuk, and now it haunts her family for revenge. Sofi refers Casey to Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove the dybbuk. The exorcism is performed, but things go awry as the dybbuk tries to stop Rabbi Sendak from completing the ritual. Many people are wounded and others are killed. Casey's boyfriend is severely wounded and later dies with Casey by his side. Casey mourns him and she soon finds out that she is pregnant with twins.

Bride Wars

Title : Bride Wars
Genres: Comedy
Release Date: January 9th, 2009 (wide)
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
U.S. Box Office: $21,058,173
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg
Directed by: Gary Winick

Synopsis :

Liv and Emma are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not. When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates--they're now to be married on the same date!--Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.

Yes Man

Title : Yes Man
Genres: Comedy, Adaptation
Release Date: December 19th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
U.S. Box Office: $89,411,000
Starring: Jim Carrey, Rhys Darby, Bradley Cooper, Zooey Deschanel, Sasha Alexander
Directed by: Peyton Reed

Synopsis :

Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) is a divorced middle-aged man in Los Angeles who spends his days working as a junior loan approval officer in a bank, supervised by his immature manager Norman (Rhys Darby). Routinely declining social engagements so as to avoid meeting his ex-wife Stephanie (Molly Sims) with her new boyfriend, he has grown used to spending his evenings watching DVDs alone in his apartment while ignoring his friends' phone calls. But after he disappoints his best friend Pete by forgetting about his engagement party, his friend Nick (John Michael Higgins) persuades him that he needs to start living again. Nick takes Carl to a motivational seminar called "Yes!" where Carl is publicly accosted by inspirational guru Terrence Bundley (Terence Stamp). Browbeaten into making a covenant with himself, Carl promises to stop being a "No Man" and to answer "Yes!" to every opportunity, request, or invitation that presents itself thereafter.

After the seminar, a homeless man asks Carl for a ride to Elysian Park. Although Carl's instinct is to say no, Nick intervenes, reminding Carl that the proper answer is yes. During the drive, the homeless man asks to borrow Carl's cell phone (Carl again agrees) and wears out the battery making calls. When they reach their destination, the man asks for the cash in Carl's wallet (which Carl reluctantly gives), but then Carl discovers that his car has run out of fuel. With his phone battery dead, he hikes to a gas station several miles away, where he meets Allison (Zooey Deschanel). She takes pity on him and gives him a hair-raising scooter ride back to his car. Emboldened by her spontaneity and by a newfound sense of possibility, Carl impulsively kisses Allison, and believes that his life has changed for the better.

After this positive start, Carl continues saying "yes." After he wins a promotion at the bank for agreeing to work on a Saturday, he goes out to celebrate with his friends, gets very drunk, impetuously kisses a girl, and becomes involved in a comic fistfight with her boyfriend (he luckily escapes injury). But when he agrees to erect some shelving for his elderly neighbor Tillie (Fionnula Flanagan), and she proposes to reward him sexually, Carl is horrified. He declines and attempts to leave her apartment—but he gets his shirt stuck in the door, falls down the stairs after freeing himself, and almost gets mauled by a guard dog. Terrified that he has broken the "Yes!" covenant, Carl returns to his neighbor's apartment, where he allows her to perform oral sex on him.

After this brush with his old "No Man" self, Carl now commits himself to taking absolutely every opportunity that comes his way—he begins flying lessons, attends Korean language classes, learns to play the guitar, and even says yes when he receives spam from a Persian dating website. As before, saying yes works to Carl's advantage. When he accepts concert tickets from a promoter whom he has previously ignored, he sees a band whose lead singer turns out to be Allison. Although the band is dreadful and the audience tiny, Carl is again charmed by Allison's spontaneity and idiosyncrasy. She invites him to the unconventional class that she teaches in the park in the mornings, which combines photography with jogging, and the two begin dating.

At work, Carl has been approving every loan application that crosses his desk, but this seemingly reckless approach to lending wins him a promotion to executive after it opens new territory for the bank in the area of microcredit. He even agrees to attend one of Norman's costume parties, where everyone comes dressed as Harry Potter characters (Carl and Allison dress as Harry Potter and Hermione Granger). Carl's newfound talents also prove fruitful when it comes to saving a man (Luis Guzman) from committing suicide: as the man stands on a ledge outside a tall building, Carl picks up a guitar and plays Third Eye Blind's song "Jumper" to persuade the man to return inside.

As their relationship blossoms, Carl and Allison meet at the airport for a spontaneous weekend away. Having decided to take the first plane out of town, they end up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they explore the Frank H. Woods Telephone Museum, attend a college football game, and go skeet shooting. As they shelter from the rain in a barn before their departure, Allison asks Carl to move in with her. He hesitates, but says yes anyway. But while checking in for the return flight, Carl is detained by FBI agents, who have profiled him as potential terrorist because he has taken flying lessons, studied Korean, approved a loan to start a fertilizer company, been married for six months three years previously, and bought plane tickets at the last minute.

Carl calls his best friend Pete, a lawyer, who travels to Nebraska to explain that Carl is not a terrorist—his odd potpourri of habits, lessons, and decisions stem from his commitment to saying yes to everything. At this point, Allison finds out about Carl's motivational covenant, and begins to doubt whether his commitment to her was ever sincere. She also finds out about Carl's marriage and divorce, which he had not mentioned to her previously. Deciding that she can no longer trust a man who is obliged to say yes to everything, regardless of his true feelings, Allison leaves Carl at the airport. Carl repeatedly tries to contact her, but to no avail.

In a vain effort to speak with Allison, Carl attends another of her band's concerts, where she indirectly tells him to jump off a bridge. In response, Carl signs up to do a bungee jump. While dangling from the bridge after the jump, he receives a phone call from the bank's vice president, saying that he must fire his old boss Norman. He tries to keep a positive mindset—he goes through with the bridal shower he has agreed to organize for Pete's fiancée, and even setting Norman up with Soo-Mi (Vivian Bang), a Korean wedding planner whom he met when planning the shower.

While he is broken up with Allison, Carl gets a tearful phone call from his ex-wife Stephanie, whose boyfriend has walked out on her. Carl goes to Stephanie's apartment to comfort her, but she kisses him passionately and asks whether they can get back together. After Carl emphatically says no, his luck takes a turn for the worse: The elevator in which he tries to leave Stephanie's building almost snaps free of its cable, a black cat crosses his path, and his car gets clamped and towed. He has a momentary hallucination in which the tow-truck operator metamorphoses into himself, and starts to chant "No Man, No Man, No Man."

In desperation, Carl decides to track down Terrence Bundley so that he can be released from the "Yes!" covenant. After lying in wait for Bundley in the backseat of his convertible, Carl emerges after the car pulls off, and tries to plead with the guru. However, Bundley is so shocked that he drives through an intersection without stopping, and collides with an oncoming vehicle. Carl awakes some hours later in the hospital, only for an irate Bundley to tell him that there really wasn't any covenant, and that he wasn't supposed to take saying yes so literally. The point of the covenant was only to open Carl's mind to other possibilities, not to take away his ability to say no when he needed to. Freed from this restraint, Carl borrows a Ducati motorcycle from a male nurse who bought it with one of Carl's loans. He rides the motorcycle to Allison's morning class, wearing nothing but a hospital gown. He apologizes, admits that he does not want to move in with her just yet, but tells her that he genuinely loves and wants her—and has been with her not just because he is compelled to say yes. The couple kiss passionately while the amateur photographers capture the moment.

At the end of the movie, Carl and Allison make a rather large donation of clothes to a local homeless shelter. Cutting to the scene of the Yes! seminar, Bundley is surprised when he walks on stage to several hundred naked audience members. It is implied that the participants have said Yes! to donating their clothes to charity.

In a scene during the credits Carl and Allison try on a new body skating outfit designed by a man he had previously denied a loan early in the film. They zip down a large hill at high speeds laughing all the way.

Romantic Island

Title : Romantic Island

Also known as: Romaentik Aillaendeu

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Starring: Lee Seon-gyun, Lee Su-kyeong, Lee Min-gi, Eugene, Lee Mun-shik, Lee Il-hwa

Synopsis :

A poor but vivacious lady, Soo-Jin (Su-kyeong Lee) takes a vacation to an exotic island for the first time, totally free from work and her family. A rich but cold-hearted gentleman, Jae-Hyuk (Seon-gyun Lee), secretly visits the island for his estranged fathers funeral. Jae-Hyuk bumps into Soo-Jin at a hotel and attracted by her lively spirit, Jae-Hyuk asks her to be his tour guide during his stay on the island.

A famous idol star, Ga-Young (Eugene), is stressed out from her hard schedules and takes an impulsive vacation. A hopeless clerk, Jung-Hwan (Min-gi Lee), gets a free ticket to the island from his friend. Spoiled, Ga-Young sees Jung-Hwan standing alone at the airport and asks him to carry her bag and to take her to the hotel. Mr. nice guy, Jung-Hwan cant turn her down and he becomes her companion to the island.

A father and husband, Joong-Sik and his wife, Yoon-Suk, take their very first trip abroad to the island. In the romantic island, Joong-Sik tries to make his wife the perfect vacation, presenting an unforgettable memory with him for the last time.

Lost and Found

Title : Lost and Found

Also known as: Dalkeumhan Keojitmal / Sweet Lies

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Starring: Park Jin Hee, Jo Han Seon, Lee Ki Woo, Kim Dong Wuk

Synopsis :

TV writer Ji-ho (Jin-hie Park) has been secretly in love with Min-woo (Ki-woo Lee) for the last 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find that she has just gotten fired for low viewer ratings. On her way home her purse then gets snatched and Ji-ho pursues the thief. Then suddenly, when things seem that they can't go any worse, Ji-ho gets hit by a car.

But the chain of unfortunate events suddenly turns out to be a God-sent present. The man who hit her with the car turns out to be the very man she's been in love with all these years, Min-woo. She then pretends to have amnesia ...

A Frozen Flower

Title : A Frozen Flower

Also known as: Ssanghwajeom / Two Flowers Shop

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Historical Drama

Starring: Joo In Seong, Joo Jin Mo, Song Ji Hyo

Synopsis :

Synopsis In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by the Yuan Dynasty, the ambitious King of the Goryeo Dynasty organizes Kunryongwe. Hong Lim, the commander of Kunryongwe, captivates the King of Goryeo, and the Queen keeps her eyes on the relationship between Hong Lim and the King with a reluctant view. Meanwhile, the bilateral relation between Goryeo and the Yuan gets worse as Yuan demands to install the cousin of the King in the Crown Prince of Goryeo with ascribing it to no son the King has. The King refuses it resolutely, so the high-ranking officials of Goryeo, who are in submission to Yuan, are discontented with the king. One day, the King gives Hong Lim a covert yet unobjectionable order to sleep with the Queen instead of himself to protect the independence of Goryeo from the Yuan by making a son, the successor to Goryeo throne.

Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr

Healing Souls

• Judul : Healing Souls

• Genre: Drama

• Episodes: 34 (6 DVD)

• Pemain : Francis Ng, Jessica Hsuan

Synopsis :

Healing Souls menceritakan seputar kehidupan personal dan profesi dari para dokter, mahasiswa praktek dan staf lainnya dalam sebuah rumah sakit. Mereka adalah Qin Huo seorang dokter ahli bedah, Wen You seorang dokter dengan kemampuan pengobatan tradisional china, mereka berdua masih muda dan sangat berbakat dengan kepribadian yang bertolak belakang, yang membuat mereka bekerja sama dengan agak kaku. Sang direktur rumah sakit bernama Guan Bo, sedang mengidap suatu penyakit dan berharap dapat melahirkan dokter - dokter yang handal dalam karirnya. Melalui banyak tantangan dan kejadian yang tak terduga, Huo dan You akhrinya belajar untuk saling menghargai perbedaan sebagai dasar kesuksesan dalam bekerja sama.

Kungfu Master Wong Fei Hung

• Judul :  Kungfu Master Wong Fei Hung 
• Judul Alias :  Ren Zhe Huang Fei Hong
• Genre: Silat
• Episodes: (4 DVD)
• Pemain : Dicky Cheung, Eric Tsang, Annie Man

Synopsis :
Serial ini menceritakan masa muda Huang Fei Hong yang akal sampai menjadi seorang pria sejati. Di 5 episode pertama akan menceritakan kehidupan Huang Fei Hong di kampung halamannya di Guangzhou - China. Dia dan sahabatnya yang bernama Lin Shi Long, belajar, bermain dan melakukan kenakalan - kenakalan bersama. 
Huang Fei Hong juga terlibat perkelahian dengan murid lainnya di sekolahnya, terutama dengan anak seorang ahli kungfu yang pengecut. Nantinya, Huang Fei Hong bersahabat dengannya.

Taichi Prodigy

• Judul : Shao Nian Zhang San Feng

• Judul Alias : Taiji Prodigy / Young Zhang San Feng

• Genre: Silat

• Episodes: 40 (8 DVD)

• Broadcast network: ETTV

• Tahun : 2002

• Pemain : Dicky Cheung (Zhang Jun Bao/Zhang San Feng), Alec Su (Yi Tian Xing),
  
• Li Bing Bing (Qin Si Rong), Li Xiao Lu (Ming Dao Hong)
  

Synopsis :

Keluarga Zhang mengirim putranya yang baru lahir bernama Zhang Jun Bao ke kuil Budha. Seiring berjalannya waktu Bao tumbuh besar menjadi seorang jago kung fu pada usia 18 tahun. Masalah timbul ketika pemberontakan yang di lakukan oleh sang perdana menteri, Bao bergabung dengan Yi Tian Xing untuk menyelamatkan Jenderal Yue Fei dari pemberontak.

Secret Of The Heart

• Judul : Secret Of The Heart

• Genre : Drama

• Episode : 62 (10 DVD)

• Broadcast : TVB

• Tahun : 1998

• Pemain : Gallen Lo (Vincent), Sunny Chan (Ka Hung), Nick Cheung (Kevin),
  
• Felix Wong (Michael/ Xu Sheng), Ada Choi (Diana), Amy Kwok (Ka Ming),
  
• Kathy Chow (Ka Wei), Jessica Hester Hsuan (Kelly)
  

Synopsis :

Serial ini mengisahkan bagaimana dua bersaudara, dari ibu yang sama tapi beda ayah, tumbuh besar dalam lingkungan yang berbeda dan mempunyai karakter yang berbeda pula. Segalanya berubah secara drastis ketika mereka menyadari identitas mereka yang sebenarnya setelah suatu hal terjadi.

Kevin Kam tumbuh besar dalam lingkungan yang kaya dan serba berkecukupan dengan bisnis penerbangan ayahnya (Paul Chun), yang sebenarnya merupakan ayah Ka Hung, 20 tahun lalu dia memperkosa istri temannya. Akan tetapi sebenarnya Ka Hung adalah anak Paul yang asli tapi hidup bersama ibunya dan tanpa mengetahui kejadian yang sebenarnya. Di lain tempat, Kevin hidup dengan Paul. Kedua kakak beradik ini tumbuh besar dengan perbedaan sifat yang sangat mencolok karena perbedaan lingkungan dan gaya hidup. Kevin sangat percaya diri dan kompeten, Ka Hung berhati baik dan dapat di percaya, akan tetapi terkadang dia merasa rendah diri.

Ka Hung berteman dengan Vincent, seorang yang keras tapi penjudi yang baik hati, dia nantinya menjadi pacar Ka Ming. Boss nya Ka Ming bernama Michael juga menaruh hati pada Ka Ming. Michael dan Paul mempunyai hubungan sebagai kakak - adik. Cinta segitiga terjadi antara Ka Ming, Vincent dan Michael. Ka Wei adalah adik Ka Ming, dia jatuh cinta pada Michael. Michael akhirnya menyadari dirinya sangat mencintai Ka Ming bukan adiknya Ka Wei. Bagaimanapun juga ketika Ka Wei hamil dan mengandung anaknya, dia harus bertanggung jawab sebagai ayah dari anak yang di kandung Ka Wei.

Pada saat yang sama, dua bersaudara Kevin dan Ka Hung jatuh cinta pada gadis yang sama yaitu Diana. Diana seorang gadis yang matrealistis. Tentu saja Diana lebih memilih yang orang kaya yaitu Kevin. Mereka akhirnya bubar setelah perubahan Kevin yang drastis setelah mengetahui bahwa Paul bukanlah ayah kandungnya. Ka Hung dan Diana masing - masing menemukan pasangannya, akan tetapi takdir menentukan lain, pasangan mereka meninggal dunia dan benih - benih cinta mulai tumbuh di antara mereka berdua. Ka Hung pada waktu itu tanpa alasan yang jelas tiba - tiba ingin memiliki Diana kembali. Diana sebenarnya merasa segan untuk kembali pada Ka Hung, hanya untuk memata - matainya sebagai bukti untuk menyelamatkan Ka Hung.