- New Films
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- NEW YEAR BLUES
- Following a quiet run, Korean films returned to theaters over the recent Lunar New Year holidays and leading the charge was the new romantic ensemble drama NEW YEAR BLUES. From melo-dramatic specialist HOGN Ji-young, who previously made Will You Be There? (2015) and the earli-er ensemble romance Mar...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 23, 2021
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- Three Sisters
- Three very different sisters find themselves living vastly different lives in Seoul, but a family event brings them all together. Hee-sook (KIM Sun-young) is struggling to make ends meet. She works hard, supports her angsty teenage daughter and winds up joining a pseudo-religious group. She has also...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 02, 2021
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- HEART
- HEART, the third feature film by rising indie darling JEONG Ga-young, is being re-released on New Year’s Eve, following its initial release at the end of February this year, just as the pandemic started to trample on the exhibition sector. JEONG debuted to acclaim domestically with Bitch on the Beac...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 29, 2020
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- Josée
- In the suburbs of Seoul, Young-seok (NAM Joo-hyuk), a senior college student, suddenly sees a young woman (HAN Ji-min) falling from her wheelchair in the street and helps her up. After bringing her home, she cooks him a simple meal and introduces herself as Josée, a name that, as he will later find ...
- by Fabien Schneider / Dec 07, 2020
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- Best Friend
- In the politically oppressive 1980s, a police officer named Dae-kwon (JUNG Woo), known for his dogged determination to catch ‘commies’, is assigned to head a surveillance unit next door to the politician Eui-sik (OH Dal-su), who has just returned from a three-year exile in America and is now under h...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 01, 2020
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- MORE THAN FAMILY
- While tutoring a student, Satsun (JUNGSoo-jung) unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She keeps the news to herself for a full five months before finally coming clean and telling her parents about it. Her stepfather Taehyo expresses great disappointment in her and this causes their relationship to grow eve...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 24, 2020
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- The Cursed Lesson
- Hyo-jung (LEE Chae-young) is an online fashion model who is growing anxious of being replaced by a younger generation of fit models. After looking into various surgical procedures and treatments that could help her maintain her edge, she finds out from her old high school classmate Ga-young about a ...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 17, 2020
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- THE DAY I DIED: UNCLOSED CASE
- On a dark, stormy night, a teenage girl (ROH Jeong-eui) disappears on an island, leaving a last will and a pair of shoes on the edge of a cliff behind. Detective Kim Hyun-soo (KIM Hye-soo) is returning to work following an extended hiatus but before she officially starts back, she is assigned by her...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 09, 2020
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- Collectors
- Kang Dong-goo (LEE Je-hoon) is a cocky young grave robber. One day, he receives a tantalizing offer of a score from art curator/valuator Yoon (SHIN Hye-sun) after word gets out that an invaluable treasure may be buried in an ancient royal tomb in the heart of Seoul. Dong-hoo forms the ‘collectors’ w...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 02, 2020
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- SAMJIN COMPANY ENGLISH CLASS
- Three young women work for a large company in the mid-1990s, but despite their ambition and desire to move up in the company they have never been given more than insignificant chores, partly because they were only able to attain high school diplomas. One day, a memo is spread around the company anno...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 27, 2020