To date, director Im Kwon-taek has been at the helm of an astonishing 101 films,
in a career spanning six decades, and he is considered a godfather of New Korean
Cinema. Since the 1970s, his films have garnered critical accl…Read More...
South Korean director Park Ki-hyeong may be considered a relative novice to the
industry in view of his somewhat non-prolific output (with only four films
released in the last fourteen years). Last year saw a re-relea…Read More...
There’s a case to be made for Seoul as the archetypal noir city of the new
millennium – the contemporary equivalent of Chandler’s Los Angeles or
Prohibition-era Chicago. A sprawling, neon-soaked boom town at…Read More...
Somi – The Taekwon-do Woman was screened as part of Derby QUAD’s Satori
Screen programme, a monthly evening showcasing East Asian cinema, on Friday 7th
December 2012. Recently re-rediscovered, after spending over a…Read More...
South Korea’s Kim Ki-duk is probably best known for the poetic, contemplative
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter And Spring (2003) and the interesting 2004 drama
3-Iron. After 2008’s Dream, Kim took two years out in self-i…Read More...
The Yellow Sea was screened as part of Derby QUAD’s Satori Screen
programme, a monthly evening showcasing East Asian cinema, on Friday 16th
November, 2012. After garnering the attention of cinematic thr…Read More...
It’s become one of South Korea’s biggest box office smashes, and this week,
first-time director Kim Jeong-hoon’s Petty Romance comes to the UK on DVD,
starring Lee Sun-gyun and Choi Kang-hee, who had previously ap…Read More...
After a seven year hiatus, director Kang Je-gyu returns to the war-time subject
of his last film, the successful drama Taeguki (Brotherhood), swapping that
film’s Korean War setting for World War II. My Way is a bold…Read More...
With a budget of US$8 million, Kim Sung-su’s historical epic was Korea’s
biggest blockbuster upon its release, the peninsula’s critically and
commercially acclaimed answer to Gladiator or Kingdom Of Heave…Read More...
Memento Mori was screened at The London Korean Film Festival, which was staged
between 4th and 24th November 2011. Memento Mori is the second film in the
Whispering Corridors series and represents the big-screen dire…Read More...
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