The cellist and teacher Mi-Ju Hong is invited by her colleague and friend Sun-Ae to assume the position of professor Read More »
Tag Archives: South Korea
Diary of June AKA Yu-wol-ui il-gi (2005) Kyung-Soo Im, Ki-beom Jang, Oh Jeong-Se, Yun Ju-sang
Two teenagers joining the same class in a high school die on the same day. Read More »
Jakarta (2000) Cho Sin Jung, Sang Jung Kim, Da Hun Yun, Chang Jung Lim
Twisty comic heist movie about three teams of thieves who independently plan to rob the same bank on the same day Read More »
Genealogy AKA Jokbo (1979) Kwon-taek Im, Seon-tae Ju, Myeong-jung Ha, Hye-suk Han
In Japanese occupied Korea, a morally conflicted Japanese officer is sent to the house Read More »
Inside Men: The Original AKA Nae-bu-ja-deul (2015) Min-ho Woo, Byung-hun Lee, Seung-woo Cho, Yun-shik Baek
Lee Kang-hee is an editorialist of a influential newspaper in South Korea. Read More »
Painted Fire AKA Chihwaseon (2002) Kwon-taek Im, Choi Min-sik, Sung-Ki Ahn, Ho-jeong Yu
The struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897 Read More »
Paju (2009) Chan-ok Park, Wook Choi, Yeri Han, Man-sik Jeong
Paju, is the name of a place everyone has heard of but don’t really know. Read More »
M (2007) Myung-se Lee, Dong-won Gang, Yeon-hee Lee, Hyo-Jin Kong
A young writer can’t write a word for his next novel, he also doesn’t feel right with his fiancée Read More »
Beasts of Prey AKA Yukshik dongmul (1985) Ki-young Kim, Seong-gyeom Kim
Kim Dong-sik works at a securities firm. When his wife’s business grows and his position at home gets blurred Read More »
The Flight of the Bee AKA Parvaz-e zanbur (1998) Byung-hun Min, Jamshed Usmonov, Muhammadjon Shodi, Mastura Ortik, Taghoymurod Rozik
In a small village in Tajikistan, a wealthy bully erects an outhouse at the edge of his property Read More »
Green Chair AKA Noksaek uija (2005) Cheol-su Park, Jung Suh, Ji-ho Shim, Yun-hong Oh
Kim Mun-hee is a 32-year-old divorced woman. She eventually engages in an affair with 19-year-old Seo-hyun Read More »
A Brand New Life AKA Yeo-haeng-ja (2009) Ounie Lecomte, Sae-ron Kim, Do Yeon Park, Ah-sung Ko
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return Read More »
Loft AKA Rofuto (2005) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Miki Nakatani, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Reiko, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet isolated house to finish up her new novel. Read More »
Night Journey AKA Yahaeng (1977) Soo-yong Kim, Jeong-hie Yu, Sung-il Shin, Il-woong Lee
Lee Hyun-ju (played by Yoon Jung-hee) is secretly living with bank co-worker, Mr. Park (played by Shin Seong-il) Read More »
Crocodile AKA Ag-o (1996) Ki-duk Kim, Jae-Hyun Cho, Jae-Hong Ahn, Jeon Mu-song
Violent thug Crocodile lives under a bridge by the Han River in Seoul together with a peddling boy and a homeless old man. Read More »