The Best 4 of Korean Twist Ending Movies

Twist ending movies generally assumed as a movies with a shocking and unpredictable ending that makes the audience having a flash back through the previous scenes to find a related connection to the ending.

The most famous movies with twisted ending probably given to M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. If you ever watch this movie, then I bet you know exactly what a twist ending movie is.

However, twist ending movies from US or Europe is usual, so this time I'd like to give some recommended twist ending movies from Korean.

Not like most movies with twist ending which came from suspense, thriller, crime or horror genre, the list i'll give you including romance, drama and comedy genre too. So, check out!

4. My Sassy Girl (2001)

IMDb Rating : 8.2

Director : Jae-young Kwak

Cast : Tae-hyun Cha, Gianna Jun

Genre : Comedy, drama, romance

My Sassy Girl was an extremely success movie, not only in Korea but also throughout another countries such as Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and even in South East Asia countries. This success even draw attention to another movie maker from Hollywood and Japan to remake this movie. In Hollywood this movie remade into a same title starring Elisa Cuthbert (The Girl Next Door) and Jesse Bradford (Bring It On).

This Movie tells story about a young college and hopeless romantic man named Gyoen-Woo (Tae-hyun Cha) and an unnamed girl (Gianna Jun) who likes to bully, with Gyoen-Woo as her primary bully subject. They met in a weird condition where the unnamed girl was drunk and throw up right into a head of a random man in train. Just before she passed out, she called Gyoen-Woo as her "lover" so Gyoen-Woo had no choice but to take responsibility of the passed out unnamed girl since all people in train thought that he is her lover.

Just to be more interesting, this movie is based on a real story posted in internet by a man named Ho-Sik Kim and the story itself has been published in a book before it is filmed.

Overall, My Sassy Girl is a rare kind of a twist ending movie that makes us stuck into its reverse chronology that somehow fulfilled with comedy and of course into their unforgettable ending.

3. Hello Ghost (2010)

IMDb Rating: 7.8
Director : Young-Tak Kim

Cast : Tae-hyun Cha

Genre : Comedy, drama

Just like My Sassy Girl, Hello Ghost also cast Tae-hyun Cha as Sang-Man, the protagonist who is described as  a lonely and has-nobody-in-this-world man. And on one day, He can not take anymore lonely feeling so he decided to commit suicide. Unfortunately for Sang-Man's willing, he always failed to. 

One day, he tried to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge. However, he failed and taken to hospital after. Strange things happened after he wakes up from fainting, he could see ghosts! yes, ghost with s! 4 ghosts with all different weird personalities to be exact. The old perverted man, the smoker man, the weepy woman and a greedy little boy. Not enough by just seeing them, Sang-Man also being followed by them all the time.

Intended to make all the four ghosts leave him alone, Sang-Man approves reluctantly anything the four ghosts want.

Hello Ghost's story line keep the audience thinking 'what is the point?' while laughing. Keep watch this movie until the end so you can find the shocking truth.

2. No Mercy (2010)

IMDb Rating : 7.3

Director : Hyeong-Joon Kim

Cast : Kyung-Gu Sol, Seung-Beom Ryu, Hye-Jin Han

Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller

Even this film is less known than the other 3 in this list, No Mercy should not be underestimated. It present a beautiful manipulative game between Kang Min-Ho (Kyung-Gu Sol) a member of scientific investigation and Lee Seung-Ho (Seung-Beom Ryu) the homicide suspect, in a silver plate. Eat them all and find the surprise at the last bite.

The scene opened as 2 random people find a mutilated and naked body of a female by the lakeside. It doesn't take a long time for the Min Seo-Yong (Hye-Jin Han) , the Korean police to find the suspect. The suspect even admit that he really did the homicide and mutilated the body.

Not like any other movie with main purpose of story line to arrest the murderer, No Mercy gave us another story about how Kang Min-Ho, the scientific investigator desperately attempt to release the murderer. Even after he knew that he is not lying and is the real murderer.

1. OldBoy (2003)

IMDb Rating : 8.4

Director : Chan-Wook Park

Cast : Min Sik-Choi, Ji Tae-Yu

Genre : Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Oldboy (Oldeuboi in Korean Title) is the second movie of Chan-Wook Park's Revenge Trilogy collection (the other two is Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and  Sympathy for Lady Vengeance). I must say that this is one of the best movie I've ever watched in my life. It is listed at number 69 out of 250 Top IMDb movies.

Just like My Sassy Girl, Oldboy also remade into a Hollywood Movie with same title starring Josh Brolin (Labor Day) and Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla - 2014). Unfortunately for the remake version, it doesn't as good as the original movie.

This adaptation from a Japanese Manga authored by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya tell story about an adult male named Oh Dae-Su (Min Sik-Choi) who is kidnapped and locked in a motel-look-alike room by unknown person. He spent 15 years in the room without knowing by whom and why he is kidnapped. Until one day after those years spent, he being crammed into a briefcase and released. Just like that. 

He tried to find the captor to find the answer of his question. "Why am I kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years?". Later, when he met the captor, Woo-Jin Lee (Ji Tae-Yu), instead of answer Oh Dae-Su question, Woo-Jin Lee said,

"Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong question"

This movie successfully set a very high standard of a twist ending movie.

Written By : Syarifah Dhira - I do not own any of the posters, pictures and videos in this blog post