The Recipe -(Korean Movie)

The Recipe

A beautiful love story.The story starts with a notorious criminal wishes "Doenjang"  a traditional korean fermented soybean paste ,as his last wish, before hanged.Choi Yu Jin ,a television producer who came to know about the convict's last wish was curious and started to dig deep to find the reason behind those words.

Choi Yu Jin's search for the secrete recipe takes him to many different places and meet many different people.But beneath all these search , he finds a love story of Jang Hye Jin and Him Hyun Soo.Jang Hye Jin is the one who prepared Doenjang for that criminal on the day he was arrested, to put it clear,the criminal was mesmerized by the deonjang which he was eating and did not try to escape even though he had time to do so.The story shifts to Jang Hye Jin's life, she is living with his grandmother and she learnt to cook doenjang from him mother.After her mother's death she moves around the village and find all the necessary ingredients as her mother used.

Jang Hye Jin falls in love with Him Hyun Soo.But Hyun Soo who is from Japan, left her to Japan to attend his grandfather's funeral, but this funeral drama was staged by grandfather to bring Hyun Soo back to Japan,thats the end of Hyun Soo as he dies when he tries to escape from Japan in a boat.But not knowing the fact Jan Hye Jin waits for him , She leaves the village with a crock so that when he meets Hyun Soo she can make doenjang.But she never meets him again.But he brings the 'sense of taste' to a big businessman who loves her but understands her feelings for another man and promise her to return her to him.

"The Recipe" is the second movie of the director Lee Seo-Goon and he did an excellent job-this story is the mixture of human feelings and nature and ofcourse about food also.His story narration is something unique-partly crime,partly  roadd movie,partly  romance and partly melodrama.Definitely its not like Indian masala movies, i can assure that.A quite experience!

Cinematography by Na Hui-Seok was awesome.The entire film was shot beautifully specially the village sequences and the scenes of smell.Awesome locations, it seems Korea is a very beautiful country( i never visited Korea).Music by Han Jae-Gwon was mesmerizing,too good. Lee Yo-Won as Jang Hye Jin was just apt, her silence and her look was simply stunning! She did act well in other scenes too.Ryoo Seung-Ryoon as Choi Yu Jin was nice , his expressions were funny and he did not overdo anything..

Over all  a great movie, something about this movie remains with me till now. A great visual treat!