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Bogota: City of the Lost (2024)

Mak — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:46:16 +0000

In the 1990s, 19-year-old Guk Hee moves to Bogotá with his family, wishing for a better life only to end up living from hand to mouth. Beginning at the bottom of the ladder, he goes through hell and high water and now dominates the black market of Bogotá.

(Source: HanCinema)

~~ Release dates: Oct 3, 2024 (Festival) || Dec 31, 2024 (Cinema)

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4 Kings 2 (2023)

Mak — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:50:35 +0000

After a drug dealer schemes against them in secret, two student gangs ignite a bitter feud that triggers a chain of violent consequences.

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Young Babylon

Mak — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:24:26 +0000

Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiao Lu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town’s saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him.

As Lu Xiao Lu finds his way, a startling portrait of an economically expanding China comes into view; the propaganda of a common goal gives way to a bottom-line system that he sees as indifferent to individual happiness. But thanks to the relationships he develops, Lu Xiao Lu decides to fight for the life he wants.

(Source: Goodreads)

~~ Adapted from the novel "Young Babylon" (少年巴比伦) by Lu Nei (路内).

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Analog Squad Season 1

Mak — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:21:30 +0000

In 1999, before people left a digital trail, a fake family is born. In an effort to make his dying father proud, Pong recruits a makeshift family. His ex-girlfriend Lily will play the role of his wife and mother to their two fake children played by pager company employee Kek and video rental shop owner Bung.

(Source: MyDramaList)

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The Old Dreams

Mak — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:36:42 +0000

About a group of friends who were born in the early 90s, and later focuses on their career in the automobile industry. When Chen Yi duo was nine, a young boy named Bi Lai fu suddenly appeared in her home for a short stay. The two initially did get along, competing on everything at home and in school. At the same time, Lai Fu befriends a group of loyal friends, but their playful and chaotic nature worries the adults. With the upcoming high school examinations, the youths each pursue their onward journey. Lai Fu and Yi Duo also faces the problem of work, love and life. As the year 1998 arrives, the automobile industry also undergoes a rapid development and change. The old bicycles are no longer in trend, and continue to see a decline in business and sales. In order to preserve their generation’s memory, Lai Fu decided to rent an assembly workshop, and think of new ways to innovate and revive the product. He gathers again with his former friends, working together on the business idea. They use new ideas and concepts, making the “old” bicycles “young” (in trend) again. (Source: DramaWiki)

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