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How to Use Guys with Secret Tips
This hyperkinetic Korean comedy for the #MeToo era follows Bo-na, a dorky girl lacking social skills, self-confidence or any shred of fashion sense. That is until she discovers a secret video manual called 'How to Use Men'...
Comedy 2013 115 mins
Director: Wonsuk Lee
Overview
Want to know how to use men to your own advantage? With just a few simple steps, you, too, can learn How to Use Guys with Secret Tips. The directorial debut of Lee Won Suk is a hilarious anti-romantic comedy starring Lee Si Young as a young woman who acquires a set of self-help tapes that teaches her to use the misogynistic attitudes of the men she works with to her own advantage
Oh Jung Se goes all-out, co-starring as an arrogant soap opera star who unwittingly becomes the heroine’s victim. Lee’s creative directing style and twisted sense of humour has tickled audiences around the world, from the Udine Far East Film Festival (where it won the top prize) to the Shanghai International Film Festival.
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