South Korea

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A French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.Read More »

Jay is a writer, her boyfriend Geonwoo is a teacher, everything is going well until an unexpected pregnancy throws them off track.Read More »

The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.Read More »

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One rainy day, a car mechanic Cheol (Shin Seong-il) coincidentally meets Young-hee (Moon Hee) who is a housemaid at the French ambassador’s house. Cheol was a man with great passion for success and introduces himself as the son of a rich businessman and acts as if the luxury sedan belongs to him. Attracted to Cheol, Young-hee introduces herself as the daughter of the French ambassador. They make a promise to date only on rainy days when Young-hee could wear an expensive French raincoat and hide her true identity. However, as the romantic dates on rainy days continue, they fall more deeply in love. At the same time, Young-hee is conscious-stricken by her lies. Finally, she decides to confess everything to Cheol. However, Cheol could not hide his anger and disappointment as his passion and expectation for social success and advancement crumbles into dust.Read More »

A 2010 South Korean crime action thriller film directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Ha Jung-woo and Kim Yoon-seok in the lead roles. This film marks the reunion of the director and the lead actors who also first collaborated for the 2008 film The Chaser.

The film revolves around a cab driver who agrees to carry out a hit on a professor in exchange for getting his debts paid. He soon becomes a fugitive after the hit goes wrong, and is chased by both the police and the gangster who assigned him the task.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.Read More »

During the Vietnamese war a Korean military base receives a distress transmission from one of their units stationed at a strategically important location known as R-point. The grim message relays that the unit is under attack, soldiers are dying and assistance is desperately needed, but the base members just listen in shock and horror. This is because the unit in question went missing at R-point no less than six months ago and the one person who survived the ordeal was left horribly burned and screaming deliriously that his squadron was slaughtered by an unknown enemy, not the Viet Cong. If the soldier is telling the truth, then who is sending these distress signals?Read More »

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.Read More »

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The final completed film by Kim, one of the foremost directors of South Korea’s golden age, this gender-flipped take on Patricia Highsmith’s novel Strangers on a Train sees two women (one of them, Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung) make a deal to bump off one another’s spouses, who are guilty of neglect and infidelity.Read More »

A solitary woman re-evaluates her isolated existence after her neighbor dies alone in his apartment.Read More »