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Tag: South Korea

Sleep

Jason Yu
2023

Paul Risker - 16-06-2024

Korean comedy horror begins well, but ultimately provokes an indifferent response despite an intriguing premise - on VoD on August 19th [Read More...]

Call Of God (Kõne Taevast)

Kim Ki-duk
2022

Jeremy Clarke - 23-11-2022

The romantic adventure of a woman in a black and white dream state is the final film of late Kim Ki-duk, the bad boy of South Korean cinema – live from the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Decision To Leave (Heojil Kyolshim)

Park Chan-wook
2022

Jeremy Clarke - 19-10-2022

A married detective investigating the death of a climber becomes obsessed with the victim’s wife, who looks increasingly like the dead man's murderer – now on various VoD platforms. [Read More...]

Extreme Job (Geukhanjikeob)

Lee Byeong-heon
2018

Jeremy Clarke - 18-11-2019

A bungling bunch of cops take over a fast food chicken restaurant to watch a gang of criminals in the building opposite in this hilarious, South Korean genre-bender – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

The Pollen Of Flowers (Hwaboon)

Ha Gil-Jong
1972

Jeremy Clarke - 05-11-2019

A man brings his gay lover to visit the family household with disastrous consequences – dirty Korean classic shows at the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

North Korean Partisan In South Korea (Nambugun)

Chung Ji-young
1990

Jeremy Clarke - 04-11-2019

Gritty account of the Korean War based on the memoirs of a North Korean soldier shows at the 2023 London East Asia Film Festival as part of a strand showcasing director Chung Ji-Young. [Read More...]

A Day Off (Hyuil)

Lee Man-hee
1968

Jeremy Clarke - 30-10-2019

A man passes the boredom of Sunday in Seoul by spending time in the park with his lover, robbing an old schoolmate then going out drinking and womanising in bars – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

Exit

Lee Sang-geun
2019

Jeremy Clarke - 26-10-2019

A skilled climber must help his trapped family escape from a skyscraper surrounded by a rising cloud of toxic gas – from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now [Read More...]

The House Of Us (Woori-Jip)

Yoon Ge-eun
2019

Jeremy Clarke - 22-10-2019

Prepubescent girl forms a surrogate family, as she watches the relationship between her parents collapse – from the BFI London Film Festival and the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) [Read More...]

House Of Hummingbird (Beol-Sae)

Kim Bora
2018

Jeremy Clarke - 08-10-2019

A teenage girl in Seoul, Korea, 1994, comes to terms with life on a number of levels - personal, family, social, political  – from the BFI London Film Festival and the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) [Read More...]

Default (Gukgabudo-ui Nal)

Choi Kook-Hee
2018

Jeremy Clarke - 22-05-2019

Drama fictionalises the economic crisis of mid to late 1990s South Korea and the role played by banking, government and speculators – teaser screening from the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) [Read More...]

The Return

Malene Choi
2018

Jeremy Clarke - 16-11-2018

Koreans sent abroad for adoption return to South Korea to try and locate their birth parents, in profoundly moving fiction feature based on the director's own experience - from the London Korean Film Festival, on now [Read More...]

The Journals Of Musan (Musanilgi)

Park Jung-bum
2010

Jeremy Clarke - 12-11-2018

Boy from the North Country. North Korean defector living in South Korea struggles to survive in the black economy, with scant help from those around him or people at the church he attends – from the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF), on now [Read More...]

Two Doors (Doo gae-eui moon)

Kim Il-rhan, Hong Ji-you
2011

Jeremy Clarke - 05-11-2017

Is this the Korean Grenfell Tower? Threatened eviction, SWAT, lethal building fire: compelling documentary about the Yongsan tragedy in which a police raid on a group of housing protesters went horribly wrong – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]

The Remnants (Gong-Dong-Jeong-Beom)

Kim Il-rhan/ Lee Hyuk-sang
2016

Jeremy Clarke - 05-11-2017

Revisiting the Korean towering inferno: follow-up doc to Two Doors, has survivors of the Yongsan tragedy released from prison to tell their side of the story and grapple with the resulting emotional and psychological problems – from the London Korean Film Festival [Read More...]