Hanji is the name for Korea’s traditional paper, made from the bark of dak, a tree that grows in some mountainous areas of Korea. It is also the international...
Jung Yumi (God of the Workplace, I Need Romance 2012) is having quite the busy year in film and TV, and it looks like she'll be going right from romancing Yoo...
Sopyonje is a masterwork of Korean cinema and a pinnacle to director Im Kwon-taek's career that he has yet to match again. It also marks Im's fascination with traditional Korean...
Director Im Kwon-taek's Chunhyang is a notable film for many reasons. Principally, it is perhaps the most formalistically adventurous works from the director, nearing his hundredth film. It is also...
Continuing with his exploration of Korean history and culture, director Im Kwon-taek's ninety-fifth film, Festival, adapts the writing of Lee Chung-joon and takes a look at family relationships through the...
Although North and South Korea eventually ended up divided mostly along ideological lines, after Korea was freed from Japanese control at the end of the Second World War, leftists and...
Disaster films have been around since at least the 1970s and, although Korea doesn't have a huge history of disaster films, it seems like ever since the Korean film industry...
A long time ago, when I was a film student in college, we had a series of frequently changing classes that were considered "national cinema" classes and as aspiring film...
Some directors have made careers on the backs of making certain kinds of movies and Choi Dong-hoon is one such director. In many ways, his filmography kind of resembles that...
Movie Review: Hanji
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Hanji is the name for Korea’s traditional paper, made from the bark of dak, a tree that grows in some mountainous areas of Korea. It is also the international...
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Jung Yumi courted for big screen romance with Yoochun
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Jung Yumi (God of the Workplace, I Need Romance 2012) is having quite the busy year in film and TV, and it looks like she'll be going right from romancing Yoo...
Tags: Jung Yumi, Micky Yoochun
Movie Review: Beyond the Years
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Sopyonje is a masterwork of Korean cinema and a pinnacle to director Im Kwon-taek's career that he has yet to match again. It also marks Im's fascination with traditional Korean...
Tags: featured, Jo Jae-hyun, Ryu Seung-ryong
Movie Review: Chunhyang
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Director Im Kwon-taek's Chunhyang is a notable film for many reasons. Principally, it is perhaps the most formalistically adventurous works from the director, nearing his hundredth film. It is also...
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Movie Review: Festival
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Continuing with his exploration of Korean history and culture, director Im Kwon-taek's ninety-fifth film, Festival, adapts the writing of Lee Chung-joon and takes a look at family relationships through the...
Tags: Ahn Sung-ki, featured
Movie Review: Tazza: The High Rollers
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Although it would fail to reach the lofty numbers set by The Host in the summer, Tazza: The High Rollers would turn out to be the big film of the...
Tags: Baek Yoon-shik, featured, Jo Seung-woo, Kim Hye-soo, Kim Yoon-seok, Yoo Hae-jin
Movie Review: The Taebaek Mountains
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Although North and South Korea eventually ended up divided mostly along ideological lines, after Korea was freed from Japanese control at the end of the Second World War, leftists and...
Tags: Ahn Sung-ki, featured, Kim Gab-soo, Shin Hyun-joon
Movie Review: The Tower
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Disaster films have been around since at least the 1970s and, although Korea doesn't have a huge history of disaster films, it seems like ever since the Korean film industry...
Tags: featured, Kim Sang-kyung, Sohn Ye-jin, Sol Kyung-gu
Movie Review: Sopyonje
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A long time ago, when I was a film student in college, we had a series of frequently changing classes that were considered "national cinema" classes and as aspiring film...
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Movie Review: The Thieves
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Some directors have made careers on the backs of making certain kinds of movies and Choi Dong-hoon is one such director. In many ways, his filmography kind of resembles that...
Tags: featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Hye-soo, Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Yoon-seok, Lee Jung-jae, Oh Dal-soo