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

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