A Werewolf Boy (2012) (DVD) (Thailand Version) DVD Region 3

Park Bo Young (Actor) | Song Joong Ki (Actor) | Kim Hyang Gi (Actor) | Jang Young Nam (Actor)

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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (4)

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numinair
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May 15, 2013

This customer review refers to A Werewolf Boy (DVD) (3-Disc) (First Press Limited Edition) (Korea Version)

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A girl and her song calm the beast (A) Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

Set in 1965 and shown as one big flashback, this love story centres on Suni an elderly woman living in the US who returns to her childhood Korean countryside manor due to the selling of the house, but then reminisces about her very unusual first love. As a young girl Suni (Bo Young Park) lived with her widowed mother (Young-nam Jang) and younger sister (Hyang-gi Kim) at this rural manor (looking similar to the Amityville horror house) a place where the clean country air assisted Suni’s lung illness. Due to her sickly condition Suni wrote nightly woes into her personal diary as aside to her ill health, the family were constantly harassed for money by a demanding and arrogant landlord (Yeon-seok Yoo), the boo-hiss bad boy of the film and the son of a business partner of Suni’s late father. Ever a stereotypical oppressive, the slick landlord is like one half of a Cinderella ‘bad’ sister (well ironically there's a scene hint when Suni and the wolf boy dress up in pantomime style), oppressive, violent and constantly demanding Suni to marry him.

But when Suni and her mother found a wild boy (Joong-ki Song) hiding outside their house, at first were afraid of him (as was the wild boy of them) but the kindly mother took the feral boy inside their home to feed him. After failing to get the authorities to take the boy into care, the family temporally took responsibility with Suni teaching the wild lad to read, write and study in a room her mother gives him. Disgruntled at the wild boys ferocious table manners Suni decides to train the boy’s wild eating habit of rapidly stuffing food down himself into some form of eating etiquette, also getting him washed and clothed. She also names him Chul Soo. Sensing Suni and her mother’s kindness Chul Soo becomes protective of the family and their local friends and with his immense strength even saves them from a falling steel girder onto his back, leaving little injury. But when Chul Soo is intrigued by Suni’s guitar playing and her song of troubled love, the unspeaking boy is eternally smitten, falling in love with Suni. But the boy gets mad, generally triggered when Suni is threatened by the bad boy landlord and transforms into a fully raging werewolf. The landlord hating that the wolf lad could steal Suni from him tries to get the wolf boy killed by local military authorities, who discover the lad could be an escaped result of a dangerous laboratory experiment, as the house once belonged to a military scientist.

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numinair
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May 15, 2013

This customer review refers to A Werewolf Boy (DVD) (3-Disc) (First Press Limited Edition) (Korea Version)

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A girl and her song calm the beast (B) Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

Although a young man occasionally turns into an angry monster beast, this Disney type family movie is more a ‘pure’ love sentiment tale between a wild boy and an unhappy but caring young girl, than werewolf horror. The human-animal bond ship seems to blend Marvel’s Hulk (anger unrestrained), the Korean human-fox shape-shifting fables and Lassie. I liked this sentimental tale though, but its only a very good decent movie not a great one. The latter part and conclusion are its better parts (I liked the otherworldly forest scenes when Suni and Chul Soo escape) and overall this sentimental tale adapts the movie days of ‘timeless innocence’ than anything. The captivity theme of the boy is a bit scary (if you were a free wolf-boy would you want a girl locking you in a room for you to learn how to write and compartmentalize?), but by the boy’s unbridled but gentle emotion for Suni, is in contrast to his beast nature that seems to suggest a triumph or victory over a highly imposed and conditioned mentality (bestiality), and that the boy’s object of innocence (Suni), evokes him towards his natural suppressed pure spirit from angst animal instincts (and amazing considering the feral boy’s a cold experiment). A song and Suni’s sweetness does the trick – a girl unknowingly calms the beast.

But this odd love story does tune itself a little towards a more natural world we block ourselves away from (starlight vs streetlight). It’s said that because man bit into an apple, humans befell into animal instincts, but maybe here metaphorically an animal boy can love a girl/woman simply, without any unnecessary and complicated emotions. Sometimes humans can be like animals and animals show ‘human’ affections. Ahh anyway it’s certainly an enjoyable love story. The main music theme is very good. Bo young I’ve watched and liked for ages and it was also nice to see her in this. Actress Young-nam Jang reminds me a bit of Karen Allen from ‘Raiders of the Lost Art’. This special edition is a very good collectable one (individually numbered) and certainly worth getting if you like these types of editions. The lid type box set is mainly taken by the thick storyboard script paperback and it’s very much a required taste. More for the serious film student I think. I also preferred the nice photo book. The three-disk digi-pack is a fold out type and the three disks are ALL regions (1 to 6). Of course I can only confirm this LE big-boxed edition for all regions.

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April 11, 2013

This customer review refers to A Werewolf Boy (DVD) (3-Disc) (First Press Limited Edition) (Korea Version)

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Good movie Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

I loved the movie, which is why I bought this. It comes in a nice box which is numbered, with polariods, film cut strip, a thicker photobook than the bluray photobook, and a "conti" book. I thought it was going to be a story continuation book, but really it's just a storyboard sketch book for the director/cameras to plan out how they're going to film the movie. That was a big disappointment for me and a waste of space really because who is going to read that? You can watch the movie and enjoy that more than this "book". Oh well, good product but it is a little overpriced here.

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March 27, 2013

This customer review refers to A Werewolf Boy (DVD) (3-Disc) (First Press Limited Edition) (Korea Version)

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It's wonderful! Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

I am a fan of Song Joong Ki, and this particular movie of his really brought out another side of his acting skills! I absolutely love the packaging and the additional freebies inside.

However, when I opened the DVD the 3rd disc has an itty bitty scratch at the back. Hopefully it won't affect the quality of the movie though.

I really had no regrets in purchasing this item.

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