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Review: Failan (Song Hae-sung, 2001)
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsKang-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: Romantic Warriors (Yun Je-gyun, 2003)
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsA 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: Sector 7 (Kim Ji-hoon, 2011)
Posted on January 4, 2012 | 1 CommentA 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: Through Korean Cinema (Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso / 2010)
Posted on November 23, 2011 | No CommentsItalian filmmaker Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso’s Through Korean Cinema combines interviews with five Korean filmmakers – and not just any five, we’re talking Im Kwon-taek, Park Kwang-su, Lee Myung-se, Lee Chang-dong and Park Chan-wook – three film critics (Lee Young-jin, Kim So-young and Tony Rayns), short film clips and some beautifully... -
Review: Black Hair (Lee Man-hee, 1964)
Posted on October 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe boss of a gang of smugglers discovers that his wife Yeon-sil has been having an affair so, in line with the law of the gang he arranges for her to be thrown out of his house and for her face to be cut so that she’ll never be attractive... -
Review: Rolling Home with a Bull (Yim Soon-rye, 2010)
Posted on September 22, 2011 | No CommentsA humorous, lyrical, and philosophical wonder, Yim Soon-rye’s Rolling Home with a Bull is her best film to date, a superior addition to her already impressive body of work. Essentially a Buddhist parable, its free-flowing peripatetic nature, following the path of a lovelorn, failed poet who seeks to escape his... -
Review: Passerby #3 (Rainbow) (Shin Su-won, 2009)
Posted on September 19, 2011 | No CommentsThe trials and tribulations of being a film director, an oft-told tale in movies, gets a unique and lightly surreal spin in Shin Su-won’s Passerby #3 (Rainbow), which can be best described as the slightly milder cousin of Barton Fink. Passerby #3 features an increasingly unhinged protagonist whose attempts at... -
Review: The Unjust (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2010)
Posted on August 21, 2011 | 1 CommentA police investigation into a serial killer targeting school children is proving fruitless and the situation worsens when the prime suspect is shot dead, leaving little evidence and a dead end. In order to resolve the situation Police Chief Kang enlists the help of Captain Choi in a deal that... -
Review: Aimless Bullet (Yoo Hyun-mok, 1962)
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsCheol-ho has it tough. He lives in a small house with his pregnant wife, a daughter who craves new clothes, two brothers – one of whom is an injured war veteran while the other sells newspapers when he should be going to school – a sister who has become a... -
Review: Treeless Mountain (Kim So-yong, 2008)
Posted on July 20, 2011 | 1 CommentAn elementary school in Seoul, the present. Six-year-old Jin spends her penultimate day at elementary school learning about time and playing with friends. Later that evening, she is chastised by her mother for failing to take Bin, her four–year-old sister, off the neighbours’ hands when she was supposed to. While...