the original 2000 internet released short film version
Synopsis:
Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo, two country girls who have come to Seoul with big dreams. They are thrilled just to see the wondrous Seoul landscape, but a group of thugs, including Shanghai PARK, appears before them. Just as they face a terrible fate, a man by the name of Dachimawa LEE appears like a comet. He suavely fights off the thugs and rescues Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo. The two girls become infatuated with his manly image, and Hwa-nyeo and Dachimawa LEE fall in love. Meanwhile, the head of the thugs, the Nameless Man of the East, hears that his underlings have been harshly beaten and decides to make Dachimawa LEE pay. Finally, there is a battle between Dachimawa LEE and the gang of the Nameless Man of the East. [KIM Young-jin, translated by Colin A. Mouat]
General Information:
IMDb link............: http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0359128
KMDb link..........: http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=08054
Main Cast..........: Lim Won-hee [임원희] (‘This is Law’, ‘Funny Movie’, ‘Le Grand Chef’)
.............................: Ahn Gil-gang [안길강] (‘Taegukgi’, ‘Running Wild’, ‘The City of Violence’)
.............................: Ryoo Seung-beom [류승범] (‘Manner Zero’, ‘Arahan’, ‘Beast and Beauty’, ‘Bloody Tie’)
Director...............: Ryoo Seung-wan [류승완] (‘Die Bad’, ‘No Blood No Tear’s, ‘Crying Fist’, ‘The City of Violence’, ‘Dachimawa Lee’)
Genre..................: Comedy, Action
Runtime..............: 34:55 Min.
Also known as...: Dajjimawa Ri, 다찌마와 이
Country...............: South Korea
Language...........: Korean
Subtitles..............: None
Source.................: R3 Retail DVD bonus feauture
File Format..........: AVI
Codec..................: DivX 4
Bit Rate................: 2810 kb/s
Resolution...........: 720x352
AR.........................: ~2.05:1
Frame rate...........: 29.9 fps
Audio Codec.......: AC-3
Audio Bitrate.......: 192 kb/s
Full specifications:
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Screenshots:
Uploader comments:
Since this was a major internet-released film in Korea (it supposedly had over 1 Million views within weeks of its release), I just thought it had to be on here, even though members will lament the lack of subtitles. (afaik there have never been any subs for this short)
There’s some information on this title available, for non-Korean-speakers I’d recommend ‘Ryoo Seung-wan’ by Kim Young-jin as part of KOFIC’s Korean Film Directors Series (especially the interview part) available in bookstores and via yesasia as a starting point. (That’s where I took the synopsis from.)
I know that IMDb (currently) lists that title as released in 1998, but that’s plain wrong. It was shot after ‘Die Bad’ in the Summer of 2000 and released online in 12/2000 - 01/2001.
Ripped, cropped (from letterbox to anamorphic widescreen) and re-encoded it myself with k9c.
The quality isn’t the best, but neither is the source’s, which seems to be taken from the VHS release. The original release website is long down and current available versions I could find are of inferior quality.
Personally, I enjoyed watching this more than the 2008 feature film version, even though due to my limited knowledge of the language (due to laziness) and 70’s Korean action films (due to availability issues) I most likely missed many of the references and jokes.