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Criterion collection volume 1054
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
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A zeitgeist-defining sensation that distilled a global reckoning over class inequality into a tour de force of pop-cinema subversion, this is Bong Joon Ho's genre-scrambling black-comic thriller. Two families in Seoul, one barely scraping by in a dank semi-basement in a low-lying neighborhood, the other living in luxury in a modern architectural marvel overlooking the city, find themselves on a collision course that will lay bare the dark contradictions...
22) Seoul Station
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
The animated prequel to the box office record-breaker Train to Busan, and the latest from director Yeon Sang-ho, SEOUL STATION follows a man sleeping in a train station who becomes a catalyst for the pandemonium in downtown Seoul: a zombie apocalypse. The rapidly-spreading infection propels an authentic family drama, drawing mordant parallels to real-world social horrors.
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Korean
Description
During a state visit to Japan the Korean president gets involved in a heated debate with the Japanese prime minister over the origins of kimchi, with the latter boldly claiming that kimchi was originally from Japan, thus an original Japanese dish. This does not please the Korean president, so he vows to market the dish to the world as the originator. Upon his return to Korea, he announces a national "Kimchi Contest" to reaffirm its position as a Korean...
24) Introduction
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
Youngho goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
After years of living abroad in America, former actress Sangok is back in Seoul, staying with her sister. Over the course of a day, it becomes clear that there are many things she’s not revealing, and this may be to do with her decision to meet with a film director to discuss her return to acting.
28) Scandal Makers
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
Mid 30's Nam Hyun-Soo is a popular radio DJ and entertainer. When he was younger, he was even more popular as a teen idol. One day, his apartment doorbell rings and a young lady named Hwang Jung-Nam appears and a young boy appear on his doorstep. The young lady tells Hyun-Soo that he is her father and he is also a grandfather to her son Ki-Dong. Hyun-Soo not believing any of this, attempts to close the door, but when Jung-Nam threatens to go to the...
29) Walk Up
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Korean
Description
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung) already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor and an artist’s studio at the...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Korean
Description
Eun-hee is a curious 14-year-old growing up in a country on the brink of enormous change. Ignored and dejected by her family, Eun-hee finds her escape roaming her neighborhood with her best friend, experiencing all that life has to offer.
31) Fukuoka
Publisher
Crescendo House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good pals in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As time passes and Jea-moon approaches middle age, the memory of his college life becomes ever more refreshed, and begins to haunt him more and more frequently. At this moment, a strange girl, So-dam, not only intrudes into his quiet second-hand bookstore, but also...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
The first ever feature-length film from South Korea to gain theatrical distribution in the USA, WHY HAS BODHI-DHARMA LEFT FOR THE EAST? has received acclaim from critics and audiences around the world for decades. A film of remarkable power and beauty, the story follows a trio of monks in a remote mountain monastery as they grapple with the mystery of enlightenment. The oldest among them, a storied Zen master, wishes to make the ceremony of his upcoming...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Korean
Description
Four years after South Korea’s decimation in TRAIN TO BUSAN, a former soldier returns to the peninsula on a secret mission. When his team encounters survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best—or worst—of human nature prevails.
34) Broker
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Korean
Description
Two brokers sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple.
35) Always
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Korean
Description
A parking lot attendant with a violent past finds hope in the love of the blind girl that walks into his booth one day.
36) Our Sunhi
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
A young woman returning to her old school to visit her professor also runs into her old boyfriend and her senior, each of whom has a past with her
37) Time
Publisher
Lifesize Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Korean
Description
Korean auteur Kim Ki Duk returns to form with this award winning Hitchcockian thriller. After two years together, Seh-hee thinks Ji-woo no longer finds her attractive and disappears. Reappearing six months later with a new name and surgically altered face, she competes against her own memory, wooing her lover to move past his heartbreak.. When she eventually confesses her deception, their rediscovered romance is forced to walk a tightrope of tragedy....
38) Horror Stories
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Korean
Description
Horror anthologies might be everywhere these days, but the Korean entry HORROR STORIES raises the bar with four terrifying stories (and a nail-biting wraparound tale), each one chilling enough to be its own feature. If you thought this was going to be a tame collection of teen-friendly “ghost girl” stories – think again. Horror Stories goes right for the jugular with non-stop splatter, intense shocks and riveting suspense. A high school girl...
39) Moebius
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Korean
Description
The husband. The wife. Their son. The atmosphere at home is ice cold - the husband distracted by an affair with a young woman. The wife sick of her husband's debauchery, and the teenage son indifferent to them both. Overwhelmed with hatred, the wife attempts to remove from the husband the organ driving his desires; thwarted, she instead takes out the violent act on the son and then disappears into the night. At the hospital, the husband is distraught...
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