Sex comedies, romances to heat up theaters

By Lee Hyo-won

This year’s box office was unusually crowded with hard-boiled thrillers and action films, with bubbly 3D animation providing some comic relief. While the temperature may be dropping theaters are expected to heat up with a lineup of sex comedies and racy melodramas, and even an R-rated film festival exclusively for women.

Sex & comedy

In 2002, the hapless wonders of gratuitous physical farce exposing a lot of skin took moviegoers by storm, and ``Sex Is Zero’’ became a smash hit that outperformed Hollywood imports like ``Titanic’’ three to one.

The sex comedy genre in Korean cinema has a history that barely spans a decade, with the Im Chang-jung-powered slapstick