Korean Screen

12/10/2022

BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022

20TH CENTURY GIRL (2022). Director: Bang Woo-ri. Netflix’s latest is a nostalgic throwback to Korean rom-coms of yesteryear, as high school girls in 1999 pursues their crushes. FULL REVIEW: https://www.koreanscreen.com/reviews/20th-century-girl

08/10/2022

BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022

NEXT SOHEE (2022). July Jung returns eight years after her debut masterpiece ‘A Girl at My Door’, as a high schooler struggles under the insufferable workplace pressure of her first corporate job. FULL REVIEW: https://www.koreanscreen.com/reviews/next-sohee

06/10/2022

BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022

A LETTER FROM KYOTO (2022). Director: Kim Min-ju. A fractured family find a common purpose as three sisters unearth their mother’s Japanese heritage. FULL REVIEW: https://www.koreanscreen.com/reviews/a-letter-from-kyoto

10/01/2022

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▶️ ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU (2021). Set in Somalia, but rifting on themes of Korean unification, rival North and South diplomats find themselves trapped as civil war rages. By Grace Han. FULL REVIEW: https://www.koreanscreen.com/reviews/escape-from-mogadishu

ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU (2021) Ryoo Seung-wan Set in Somalia, but rifting on themes of Korean unification, rival North and South diplomats find themselves trapped as civil war rages

04/01/2022

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▶️ 250 Best Korean Films of All Time: Audience Vote ▶️

👉 The finest Korean cinema, as picked by you! READ THE FULL LIST HERE: http://ow.ly/go1S50HmG4v

21/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 1. MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003). B**g Joon-ho's rural crime mystery focuses on the obsession of the detectives and their fear of failure as they hunt an elusive serial killer. https://www.koreanscreen.com/reviews/memories-of-murder

21/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 2. OLDBOY (2003). This twisted revenge tale is a masterpiece of stylized action and a visceral stomach-churn of ultra-violence as a man is mysteriously placed in a private prison for 15 years. http://ow.ly/nIjC50HgeNS

20/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 3. PARASITE (2019). The unemployed Kim family infiltrate the glamorous Park household in B**g Joon-ho’s dark satire on class and wealth. http://ow.ly/V4nb50Hfb5C

20/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 4. THE HANDMAIDEN (2016). Smart, sexy, stylish and surprising, Park Chan-wook heads back to the time of Japanese occupation to deliver this masterpiece on a con-job gone awry. http://ow.ly/McAC50HfaVp

19/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 5. BURNING (2018). Lee Chang-dong adds thriller elements to his staple of slow-burn character studies, producing something visually stunning and profoundly impactful. http://ow.ly/8tpe50He6un

18/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 6. I SAW THE DEVIL (2010). Jaw-droppingly violent, revenge is best served repeatedly in this unflinching tale of an intelligence agent’s relentless pursuit of a sadistic serial killer. http://ow.ly/rbNX50He6mL

17/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 7. TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016). Rapid-hunt zombies terrorise desperate train passengers in an action-horror mash-up filled with social commentary. http://ow.ly/miRc50HcUaY

17/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 8. MOTHER (2009). A murder mystery complicated by the monomaniacal love of a tenacious mother in B**g Joon-ho's stunning thriller. http://ow.ly/5GeT50HcU2u

16/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 9. THE WAILING (2016). Staggering and sublime supernatural horror charts superstition and evil after a stranger arrives in a remote village as a mysterious sickness spreads. https://www.koreanscreen.com/reviews/the-wailing