Part of the 2015 season: It Only Happens in the Movies?
Jinx!!!
Director Naoto Kumazawa
Cast Hyomin, Kurumi Shimizu, Kento Yamazaki, Motoki Ochiai, Airi Matsuyama
2013, 122 min, English subtitles
ジンクス!!!
Korean exchange student in Japan Ji-ho plays matchmaker for her two lukewarm Japanese friends, teaching them all about love and letting loose a number of Korean-style love ‘jinxs’ on them. Encouraging a rather clumsy romance to blossom, Ji-ho helps her introverted Japanese friend Kaede (Kurumi Shimizu) to use Korean-style romance tactics to attract Yusuke (Kento Yamazaki), the boy Kaede has loved ever since high school.
Featuring superstar K-pop group T-ARA idol Hyomin as its charming lead character, this romantic comedy delightfully explores romancing in different cultures through many enchanting, tear-jerking and heart-warming moments. Jinx!!! also brings together many fun familiar romantic scenes from cinema, with Ji-ho forcing the would be couple to show their love by re-enacting scenes from films such as Love Actually and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Showing at: ICA, London; QUAD, Derby; mac birmingham, Birmingham; QFT, Belfast; Broadway Cinema, Nottingham; Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria.
Distributor: T-JOY
Screening dates
- Dundee Contemporary Arts Tuesday 15 July, 21:00
Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Thursday 15 February, 16:20
- Midlands Arts Centre Wednesday 15 February, 20:00
- QUAD Wednesday 15 February, 20:35
- Brewery Arts Cinema Thursday 15 March, 20:00
- Queen's Film Theatre Monday 15 February, 14:00
- Broadway Monday 15 March, 20:00