About Author: Martin Cleary

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Martin Cleary is the founder and editor of the New Korean Cinema site. He is a contributor for the forthcoming Directory of World Cinema: Korea, has been a recurring guest on the 'What's Korean Cinema?' podcast and has participated in a discussion panel at the East Winds Symposium at Coventry University. He has written for the magazines Jade Screen and Screen Power and for several online sites including Electric Sheep and VCinema and was a team writer for the now defunct KFCCinema site.

Posts by Martin Cleary

  • This is Part two of a list of Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema – Part One of this list can be found here Friend (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2001) A good example of the type of Korean films that started to explode at the domestic box-office and helped encourage an...

    Film Recommendations – Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema (Part Two)

    Posted on March 6, 2012 | No Comments
    This is Part two of a list of Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema – Part One of this list can be found here Friend (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2001) A good example of the type of Korean films that started to explode at the domestic box-office and helped encourage an...

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  • Although I’ll admit that I’m not a big fan of ‘best of’ lists I do recognise that they can often be a shortcut into a subject that the reader may not be familiar with. One the questions I was asked recently by a reader of the site was to suggest...

    Film Recommendations – Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema (Part One)

    Posted on March 5, 2012 | 6 Comments
    Although I’ll admit that I’m not a big fan of ‘best of’ lists I do recognise that they can often be a shortcut into a subject that the reader may not be familiar with. One the questions I was asked recently by a reader of the site was to suggest...

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  • There’s been a big news story this week for anyone interested in classic Korean cinema: the Korean film Archive (KOFA) have announced a partnership with Google which will deliver a Video On Demand service through YouTube of seventy classic Korean films, ranging from 1949 to 1996 – seven of which...

    Classic Korean Film Channel Heading For YouTube

    Posted on February 18, 2012 | No Comments
    There’s been a big news story this week for anyone interested in classic Korean cinema: the Korean film Archive (KOFA) have announced a partnership with Google which will deliver a Video On Demand service through YouTube of seventy classic Korean films, ranging from 1949 to 1996 – seven of which...

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  • Following last years very successful debut, Third Window Films and Coventry University East Asian Film Society are once again presenting East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival from 2nd – 4th of March. Last years event was a great success with six films screened including Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima 2010), Kick the Moon (Sang-jin...

    The Return of ‘East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival’

    Posted on February 15, 2012 | No Comments
    Following last years very successful debut, Third Window Films and Coventry University East Asian Film Society are once again presenting East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival from 2nd – 4th of March. Last years event was a great success with six films screened including Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima 2010), Kick the Moon (Sang-jin...

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  • Last year New Korean Cinema played host to the Korean Blogathon – a week which was used to try to shine the spotlight on Korean films and the people who are writing about them online. The response blew us away – over the seven days many great articles emerged from...

    Join us for ‘Korean Blogathon 2012′

    Posted on February 7, 2012 | 8 Comments
    Last year New Korean Cinema played host to the Korean Blogathon – a week which was used to try to shine the spotlight on Korean films and the people who are writing about them online. The response blew us away – over the seven days many great articles emerged from...

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  • Kang-jae is low-level gangster, a hoodlum who receives no respect from the gang that he runs with, he is seen as no more than a washed up and gutless slob . Following his release from a ten day jail sentence – for selling porno videotapes to teenagers – Kang-jae tries...

    Review: Failan (Song Hae-sung, 2001)

    Posted on January 26, 2012 | No Comments
    Kang-jae is low-level gangster, a hoodlum who receives no respect from the gang that he runs with, he is seen as no more than a washed up and gutless slob . Following his release from a ten day jail sentence – for selling porno videotapes to teenagers – Kang-jae tries...

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  • Following the success of last years ‘Cinema On The Park’ – with over a thousand people attending – The Korean Cultural Office in Sydney have announced a second season of screenings. There’s a stack of amazing films to see, with a total of twenty-one titles (see below) making up the...

    Cinema On The Park 2 – Twenty-One Amazing Films

    Posted on January 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Following the success of last years ‘Cinema On The Park’ – with over a thousand people attending – The Korean Cultural Office in Sydney have announced a second season of screenings. There’s a stack of amazing films to see, with a total of twenty-one titles (see below) making up the...

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  • It’s good news for Korean film fans in the London area as the Korean Cultural Centre has extended its film screenings from fortnightly to weekly. Additionally, this promises to be a particularly special year as each month will be dedicated to the work of a different director and the final...

    KCCUK – 12 Directors for 2012

    Posted on January 22, 2012 | No Comments
    It’s good news for Korean film fans in the London area as the Korean Cultural Centre has extended its film screenings from fortnightly to weekly. Additionally, this promises to be a particularly special year as each month will be dedicated to the work of a different director and the final...

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  • A group of deadly assassins kidnap a hostage in the hope of getting a high ransom but when they manage to lose themselves in a forest and end up spending the night in a haunted house they manage to disrupt the plans of the ghosts to descend to heaven. The...

    Review: Romantic Warriors (Yun Je-gyun, 2003)

    Posted on January 12, 2012 | No Comments
    A group of deadly assassins kidnap a hostage in the hope of getting a high ransom but when they manage to lose themselves in a forest and end up spending the night in a haunted house they manage to disrupt the plans of the ghosts to descend to heaven. The...

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  • A team working on a sea rig off of the southern tip of Jeju Island fails in their attempts to find oil. When a member of senior management arrives on board it appears that the operation is to be closed down but, surprisingly, they are instead given several more months...

    Review: Sector 7 (Kim Ji-hoon, 2011)

    Posted on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
    A team working on a sea rig off of the southern tip of Jeju Island fails in their attempts to find oil. When a member of senior management arrives on board it appears that the operation is to be closed down but, surprisingly, they are instead given several more months...

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