Korean

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‘We can’t easily tell night from day during the summers here,” observes one character early on in Hong Sang-soo’s Paris-set Night and Day—a nearly throwaway line that circumscribes the sense of physical and spiritual dislocation felt by the film’s protagonist. Like most of the director’s leading men, Kim Sung-nam (Kim Yeong-ho) is a hangdog, self-absorbed, soju-guzzling Hong alter ego—a fortyish Korean artist who flees to the City of Lights after an episode of recreational drug use leads him to believe he is under police investigation. There, he rents a room in a crowded boarding house and resolves to lay low until he can safely return home to his wife, Sung-in (Hwang Su-jeong), or else find a way to bring her to France. But resolutions aside, it isn’t long before Sung-nam finds himself navigating Hong’s trademark gauntlet of awkward seductions, casual betrayals, and ghosts of girlfriends past.Read More »

Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their household without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with various merchants in the village…

Mulberry is a 1986 South Korean erotic drama film directed by Lee Doo-yong. Based on the eponymous classic story by Na Do-hyang, the film became known for its erotic subject matter, made possible by the government’s gradual relaxation of censorship and control over the film industry during the 1980s.Read More »

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A compilation of episodes from the lives of several of the amateur actors’ (who are ‘bad teens’ and the homeless of Seoul) own experiences, this film sheds light on the dark side of Korean society. Feeling alienated and persecuted, they wonder about and come into conflict with the ‘good people’ who persist in trying to reform them. They have their own reason for remaining as they are and resist attempts to reform them: they cannot change simply because they are bad.Read More »

A pressured accountant, his war veteran brother and their dysfunctional family struggle with integrating into post-War Korean society.Read More »

A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.Read More »

A young actor explores the surroundings, waits for the right light to emerge and watches the horizon from the coast.Read More »

A documentary on five young wannabe stuntmen working in the South Korean film industry.

a great diary style biographical doc on the korean stuntmen industry directed by and starring the guy who went on to direct The Villainess. (he started out as a filmbuff wanting to become a stuntman)Read More »

Two petty thieves wind up as errand boys for a prostitute they were hired to kidnap. However, having them around proves to be bad for business and she is kicked out of the brothel by her den mother. They take to the streets and must get by the best they can…Read More »

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Escaping from the sanatorium for the insane, a man who calls himself Jesus goes to Seoul. He is indulged in the illusion that he should save Seoul from the judgement of fire by finding a woman. He looks for an angel but nobody cares about him, and only a child selling the chewing gum follows him whose wish is to have mother. Finally, he finds a beautiful woman and gains her love through incessant persuasion. Seoul becomes a blessed land and, though Jesus is dragged to the hospital again, the woman becomes the child’s mother, and thus, Jesus promise for the child comes true.Read More »