It is a Sunday in late winter. Church bells ring as Huh-wook sets off to meet his sweetheart Jee-yun. Read More »
Tag Archives: South Korea
A Muse AKA Eungyo (2012) Ji-woo Jung, Park Hae-il, Mu-Yeol Kim, Kim Go-eun
Lee Jeok-yo is a 70ish year old man who is a respected poet. Read More »
Like You Know It All AKA Jal al-ji-do mot-ha-myeon-seo (2009) Sang-soo Hong, Tae-woo Kim, Ji-won Uhm, Hyun-jung Go
Invited to serve on the jury at a film festival, Director Ku does not care about his supposed-to-dos. Read More »
Pruning the Grapevine AKA Podo-namulul be-a-ra (2006) Byung-hun Min, Seo-won Jang, Joo-bong Key, Ho-yeong Lee
Soo-hyeon, a student at Catholic Theological Seminary, decides to pull himself together Read More »
Human, Space, Time and Human AKA Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan (2018) Kim Ki-duk, Mina Fujii, Keun-Suk Jang, Sung-Ki Ahn
People from all sorts of backgrounds set sail on a warship. Read More »
Alice: Boy from Wonderland (2015) Eunhee Huh, Jong-hyeon Hong, So-Min Jung, Yeon-joo Jung
Hye-Joong (Jung So-Min) can’t remember anything before the age of 4. Every night she experiences terrible nightmares. Read More »
Holiday in Seoul AKA Seoului hyuil (1956) Yong-min Lee, Neung-kyeol No, Mi-hie Yang, Seong-suk Lim
A couple decide to spend a holiday in Seoul. The wife is an obstetrician and the husband a newspaper reporter. Read More »
Paradise Murdered AKA Geuk-rak-do sal-in-sa-geon (2007) Han-min Kim, Hae-il Park, Sol-mi Park, Ji-ru Sung
Off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, an island of 17 inhabitants exists. Read More »
Bongja (2000) Cheol-su Park, Kap-sook Seo, Yi-yeong Shim, Il-woo Kim
Bong-ja is perfectly happy in her monotonous life of making Read More »
Scenery AKA Pung-gyeong (2013) Lu Zhang
The film asks fourteen foreigners who had left their hometown and came to Korea Read More »
A Midsummer’s Fantasia AKA Han yeo-reum-ui pan-ta-ji-a (2014) Kun-jae Jang, Sae-byeok Kim, Hyeong-gook Im, Ryo Iwase
Split into two parts, shot in black and white, the opening chapter First Love Read More »
11 A.M. AKA Yeolhansi (2013) Hyun-seok Kim, Jae-yeong Jeong, Kim Ok-bin, Daniel Choi
In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea laboratory have finally succeed Read More »
A Copy of My Mind (2015) Joko Anwar, Tara Basro, Chicco Jerikho, Maera Panigoro
A young woman who works at a cheap beauty salon in Jakarta meets Read More »
Maggie AKA Megi (2018) Ok-seop Yi, Joo-Young Lee, Kyo-hwan Koo, Moon So-ri
A risqué X-ray causes a scandal in a hospital in Seoul. Read More »
The Outlaw AKA Mubeopja (2010) Cheol-han Kim, Woo-seong Kam, Shin-yeong Jang, Seung-min Lee
Detective Jung-soo faces the victims of brutal murders who were killed Read More »