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

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👉 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

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👉 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

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👉 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

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👉 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

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👉 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

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👉 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

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👉 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

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👉 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

16/12/2021

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👉 10. JOINT SECURITY AREA (2000). Park Chan-wook’s breakout hit is a touching buddy movie hidden in a military thriller as an incident on the North-South Korea border threatens to spark a war. http://ow.ly/9IRu50HbO2x

15/12/2021

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👉 11. LADY VENGEANCE (2005). The final part of Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy further amplifies the stylised violence as a wrongly convicted woman hunts the true perpetrator. http://ow.ly/R1Fm50Hbr8o

15/12/2021

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👉 12. A BITTERSWEET LIFE (2005). A stylish revenge thriller about honour and tragedy featuring a pulsating lead performance from Lee Byung-hun. http://ow.ly/4M8e50HbqLG

14/12/2021

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👉 13. THE HOST (2006). B**g Joon-ho's monster movie is a rip-roaring horror-action-comedy mash-up that snaps its jaws at everything from US relations to inept governance. http://ow.ly/g54Z50Hajtl

14/12/2021

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👉 14. SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (2002). Habitually startling and repeatedly horrific, a laid off factory worker plots a kidnapping to fund his sister’s kidney transplant. http://ow.ly/6gvN50Haj5a

13/12/2021

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👉 17. A TAXI DRIVER (2017). A cabbie becomes the reluctant hero of the 1980s Gwangju Uprising in a heartfelt and impassioned retelling of a remarkable real-life story. http://ow.ly/lCUK50H95QB

12/12/2021

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👉 18. THE CHASER (2008). Dark, nihilistic and purposefully exasperating, a pimp races to find a missing call-girl taken in by a monstrous serial killer. http://ow.ly/sHVS50H8MzL

12/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 19. LITTLE FOREST (2018). A life affirming pocket of celluloid sunshine – a young woman leaves the city, returns to her hometown and reconnects with what truly matters. http://ow.ly/mj7P50H8Myp

11/12/2021

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👉 20. A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003). An atmospheric, psychological horror which offers a subtle and dread-building reimagining of an often-told Korean folktale. http://ow.ly/enlM50H8CVR

11/12/2021

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👉 21. SECRET SUNSHINE (2007). Lee Chang-dong produces a powerful meditation on the capricious effects of grief when a widow seeks a fresh start in her deceased husband’s birth town. http://ow.ly/Nx4h50H8CUV

10/12/2021

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👉 22. OASIS (2002). The story of an impossible romance, Lee Chang-dong creates a powerful piece of filmmaking which carves a permanent etch on your cinematic memory. http://ow.ly/cXx650H7QW6

10/12/2021

▶️ BEST KOREAN FILMS OF ALL TIME: AUDIENCE VOTE ▶️

👉 23. THE HOUSEMAID (1960). The film which changed a nation’s cinema forever, Kim Ki-young's masterpiece on morality and lust is a filmmaking tour de force of festering threat. http://ow.ly/cxS650H7QHn

09/12/2021

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👉 24. 1987: WHEN THE DAY COMES (2017). Based on true events, the death of a student protester during police interrogation triggers a country-defining uprising.

09/12/2021

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👉 25. THE WITCH: PART 1. THE SUBVERSION (2018). A tense mystery turned blood-splattered action thriller as a young girl rediscovers her powerful former self. http://ow.ly/o1RC50H6PVY

08/12/2021

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👉 26. POETRY (2010). A melancholic meditation on aging and death, Lee Chang-dong’s seminal masterpiece sees a grandmother with Alzheimer's struggle against the closing walls of her memory. http://ow.ly/UMFs50H5Xn5

08/12/2021

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👉 27. MY SASSY GIRL (2001). Much-venerated rom-com classic bubbles with its own charisma when a student becomes involved with a taxing new love interest. http://ow.ly/6mVt50H5Xc0