Poongsan has the unenviable – and death-defying – job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. Read More »
Tag Archives: Korean
Spider Forest AKA Geomi sup (2004) Il-gon Song, Woo-seong Kam, Jung Suh, Kyung-hun Kang
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. Read More »
Springtime AKA Ggotpineun bomi omyeon (2004) Jang-ha Ryu, Min-sik Choi, Ho-jung Kim, Shin-yeong Jang
A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town. Read More »
A Hard Day AKA Kkeut-kka-ji-gan-da (2014) Seong-hun Kim, Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Detective Go Geon-soo is having a hard day Read More »
Feathers in the Wind AKA Git (2004) Il-gon Song, Hyeong-seong Jang, Yong-cheol Kim, So-yeon Lee
Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island Read More »
Barking Dogs Never Bite AKA Flandersui gae (2000) Bong Joon Ho, Doona Bae, Sung-Jae Lee, Ho-jung Kim
The disconnections of urban life. Yun-ju is diffident, almost without affect; his wife is pregnant Read More »
The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale AKA Daeho (2015) Hoon-jung Park, Min-sik Choi, Man-sik Jeong, Hong-pa Kim
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese Read More »
The Woman of Fire ’82 AKA Hwanyeo ’82 (1982) Ki-young Kim, Mu-song Jeon, Yeong-hie Na, Ji-mee Kim
This is a remake of the classic “The Housemaid” (aka Hayo). This time it takes place on a chicken farm run by the wife. Read More »
Man in Love (2014) Dong-wook Han, Jeong-min Hwang, Hye-jin Han, Il-woo Nam
Tae-Il (Hwang Jung-Min) lives a fast life as low level thug. He then learns that he has a terminal illness and not much time left to live. Read More »
Mon-seu-teo AKA Monster (2014) In-ho Hwang, Min-ki Lee, Go-eun Kim, Seo-Hyeon Ahn
Bok-Soon (KIM Go-Eun) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Read More »
Yellow Hair 2 (2001) Yu-min Kim, Ri-su Ha, Lee Shin
The events that precede and follow, for each of those present in turn Read More »
Yellow Hair (1999) Yu-min Kim, Jae-un Lee, Ki-yeon Kim, Hyeong-chul Kim
Sang-hui has run away to Seoul from her quiet country life. She feels no regrets as she becomes nightclub hopper. Read More »
A Coachman (1961) Dae-jin Kang, Seung-ho Kim, Yeong-gyun Shin, Jeong-sun Hwang
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. Read More »
The President’s Barber (2004) Chan-sang Lim, Kang-ho Song, So-ri Moon, Jae-eung Lee
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee Read More »
The Foul King (2000) Jee-woon Kim, Sang-Myeon Park, Kang-ho Song, Ho-kyung Go
Dae-Ho is an unproductive bank clerk who is late to work every morning and the object of his manager’s frustrations. Read More »