Film Reviews By Year

1950′s

Forever With You (Yoo Hyeon-mok, 1958)

1960′s

Aimless Bullet (Yoo Hyun-mok, 1962)

Black Hair (Lee Man-hee, 1964)

1998

The Quiet Family (Kim Jee-woon, 1998)

1999

Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999)

Tell Me Something (Chang Yoon-hyung, 1999)

2000

The Foul King (Kim Jee-woon, 2000)

The Isle (Kim Ki-duk, 2000)

2001

Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk, 2001)

Failan (Song Hae-sung, 2001)

My Boss, My Hero (Yun Je-gyun, 2001)

My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-young, 2001)

My Wife is A Gangster (Cho Jin-gyu, 2001)

Say Yes (Kim Sung-hong, 2001)

2002

H (Lee Jong-hyuk, 2002)

No Blood No Tears (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2002)

2003

Into The Mirror (Kim Sung-ho, 2003)

My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (Jeong Heung-sun, 2003)

My Teacher, Mr Kim (Jang Gyu-seong, 2003)

Romantic Warriors (Yun Je-gyun, 2003)

Save The Green Planet (Jang Joon-hwan, 2003)

Sky Blue (Kim Moon-saeng, 2003)

A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003)

The Uninvited (Lee Su-yeon, 2003)

2004

Arahan (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2004)

Flying Boys (Byeong Yeong-joo, 2004)

Ghosts of War / aka, R-Point (Kong Su-chang, 2004)

Some (Jang Yoon-hyeon, 2004)

To Catch A Virgin Ghost (Shin Jeong-won, 2004)

Witchboard (Ahn Byung-ki, 2004)

2005

A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2005)

Crying Fist (Ryoo Seung-Wan, 2005)

Geochilmaru: The Showdown (Kim Jin-seong, 2005)

Heaven’s Soldiers (Min Joon-ki, 2005)

Marathon (Jeong Yun-cheol, 2005)

Typhoon (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2005)

2006

200 Pounds Beauty (Kim Yong-hwa, 2006)

The Art of Fighting (Shin Han-sol, 2006)

Bloody Ties (Choi Ho, 2006)

Cinderella (Bong Man-dae, 2006)

The City of Violence (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2006)

Dasepo Naughty Girls (Lee Je-yong, 2006)

The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006)

I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK (Park Chan-wook, 2006)

To Sir, With Love (Im Dae-woong, 2006)

Vampire Cop Ricky (Lee Si-myung, 2006)

2007

Breath (Kim Ki-duk, 2007)

Kidnapping Granny K (Kim Sang-jin, 2007)

The Show Must Go On (Han Jae-rim, 2007)

Someone Behind You (Oh Ki-hwan, 2007)

2008

The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008)

The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Jee-woon, 2008)

The Guard Post (Kong Su-chang, 2008)

My Mighty Princess (Kwak Jae-young, 2008)

Treeless Mountain (Kim So-yong, 2008)

2009

Breathless (Yang Ik-joon, 2009)

Chaw (Shin Jung-won, 2009)

Haeundae (Yun Je-gyun, 2009)

Kiss Me, Kill Me (Yang Jong-hyun, 2009)

Missing (Kim Sung-hong, 2009)

Passerby #3 (Rainbow) (Shin Su-won, 2009)

The Sword With No Name (Kim Yong-gyun, 2009)

Thirst (Park Chan-wook, 2009)

Woochi – The Demon Slayer (Choi Dong-hun, 2009)

2010

71 Into the Fire (Lee Jae-han, 2010)

Bestseller (Lee Jeong-ho, 2010)

I Saw The Devil (Kim Jee-woon, 2010) / Alternative Review

The Man From Nowhere (Lee Jeong-beom, 2010) / Alternative Review

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)

The Recipe (Lee Seo-goon, 2010)

Rolling Home with a Bull (Yim Soon-rye, 2010)

Secret Reunion (Jang Hoon, 2010)

Through Korean Cinema (Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso / 2010)

The Unjust (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2010)

2011

Sector 7 (Kim Ji-hoon, 2011)

Film Reviews A – Z

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About the Author

avatarMartin 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.