HOT YOUNG BLOODS-K-Movie

Alternative names: Hangul: 피끓는 청춘; RR: Pikkeulneun Cheongchun; lit. "Blood Boiling Youth"

Synopsis & Review: It's a story about four high school students . The trials and tribulations of their school life. Set in rural South Korea of 1980's decade It basically revolves around these students's love, friendship and rivalries. lee Jong-Suk starring as Joong Gil is the so called school Casanova, but in my opinion he is the king of cheesiness. I understand that the movie is set in past time but still it's hard to imagine girls falling for his greasy-charms, By the end of the movie I had to admit  he was charming in his own goofy & cowardly cat ways. Park Bo-Young starring as Young Sook is a bad-ass gang leader. Due to her tough exterior and supreme fighting skills she had taken charge of multiple smaller gangs in no time .After forming an alliance with Gwang-Sik, played by kim young-kwang, the leader of rival school's gang young sook becomes the reigning queen. The weakest character in my eyes of the movie is So-Hee (Lee so-young), who is a transfer student and is like a fresh breath for the male students. 

            Young sook who is a softy at heart craves for the attention of her first love Joong gil, who on the other hand does not miss a single chance of shoving his philandering conquests into her face. Over all the movie is a decent watch. with nicely fleshed main leads and some really funny side characters it is bound to tickle your ribs at least a few times.

  

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The movie begins with Joong girl taking a girl back on his bicycle most probably from their rendezvous and is seen by young sook and some of her gang members in a countryside field. Both of them are not happy to see each other while Joong gil is more frightened with the way his childhood friend aka Young sook is getting scarier with age, she is upset seeing him with another girl. After he leaves She fights off another gang and their leader together with her gang. I am little confused about how and why only students are traveling in the train coach but they are. Inside what seems like a train storage room Joong gil’s friend whom I have decided to call monkey 1 & 2  is getting slapped by a girl then Joong gil tries to teach him some really, stupid in my eyes but, cool in their's trick with his hand in order to get physically closer to girl.

After losing a game of rock/paper and scissor, monkey 1 has to take up the punishment of walking from end to end in the train coach with an eggplant placed inside his trouser (front area).

                            (oh my poor innocent eyes what crime thou have committed...hehe)

They get punished by their home room teacher Mr.lee at the school for their foolish stunt in the train which is seen by Young Sook . In the first class [both guys and girls have different classrooms] a lecture about sex education is being given and one can clearly see the difference between the guys's and girls's reaction throughout the lecture especially after seeing the diagram of opposite gender’s genital organs. After flaunting his moves, Joong Sil manages to score a date with the smartest girl of the class.On the date he uses some of the world’s worst pick up lines on the girl. one of them being she has the most white elbow that he has ever seen. [To my utter horror the girl actually fells for it ...I really doubt the smartness of this girl]

On his way out from the Chinese restaurant, where he usually takes all his dates, he encounters Young sook and Gwang shik (leader of rival gang),who are there with their minions. After young sook leaves, Gwang shik gives him a few slaps. later on when young sook asks Gwang shik why does he mistreat Joong gil he tells her how Joong gil had dumped his sister after dating her for few months. due to which his sister ran away from home. Young sook quips that his sister went away to Seoul (capital of  south korea) in order to look for a job.

Young sook goes back to her home which is a bar cum restaurant run by her family and gives them a hand in waitering the tables and cleaning up [she only has females in her family and may be that's the reason why she has a rough & tough personality] There a middle aged man keeps drinking even after when everybody else has left. Her mother has to ask. him to leave forcibly.Next morning at Joong gil's home, the same man who is actually Joong Gil's father, is seen accepting a tribute of fruits from his female neighbor,  he has helped her in irrigating her farms. He gives her some greasy looks before she leaves. (I guess the greasy-cheesiness runs in the family.)Inside his room, Joong gills getting ready for school while dancing idiotically in his shirt only sans trousers.

  

When he overhears a postman delivering a parcel, he rushes out while struggling with his half on pants. he claims the parcel saying its for him from his uncle in Brazil. At school Buzz is on about a new transfer student who apparently is the most beautiful girl of the village. When Young sook catches Joong sil checking out the new girl she summons him to "his" Chinese restaurant after school. There she asks him till when does he want to play around And since he has dated almost every girl in the school why has he still not made any moves on her. She orders him to meet her at his hideout for a date.A tearlessly Crying Joong gil gets consoled by Monkey no.1.

  Later at night Young sook gets all dolled up for her date (at least she tries...though the end result is not that pretty) but instead of Joong gil it's Monkey 1 who comes to meet her at the hideout giving  a half-ass lame excuse on Joong gil's behalf. He tries to charm her using the same "cool" hand trick,taught by Joong gil earlier in the movie, and ends up getting beaten black & blue by young sook. As if that was not enough, he does the blunder of asking her why can't he be the one & thus she hit him hard enough to bleed from head.

With bandaged head and bruised face monkey 1 is sitting solemnly in the class. Joong gil asks him to gather information about the new girl but their conversation is interrupted by Mr. LEE, their homeroom teacher, who calls out joong gil's name. He scolds Joong gil for scoring a zero in exams in front of the whole class. Joong gil retaliates with a freshly cooked up story in his mind about how he has promised his late grandfather to never learn Japanese language since his grandfather was a soldier in the war against Japan and thus had grudges against Japan. Hearing this Mr. Lee gives him a good thrashing, asking him if his grandfather was anti-american as Joong gil scored zero in English.

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Monkey 1 applies a healing ointment on the bruised thigh of Joong gil while monkey 2 provides him the data about the new girl. Turns out she used to live in Hongseong,their village only but had moved away to Seoul few years back. Now her entire family had relocated to Hongseong because of the fragile health condition of So hee (new girl). She has some sort of lung problems.