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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... -
Ryoo Seung-wan
Posted on December 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe Unjust (2010) Director Troubleshooter (2010) Screenwriter Dachimawa Lee (2008) Director The City of Violence (2006) Director Crying Fist (2005) Director Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005) Actor Arahan (2004) Director Sympathy For Mr Vengeance (2002) Actor Oasis (2002) Actor No Blood No Tears (2002) Director Die Bad (2000) Director -
“Introduce what they have missed”: An Interview with Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsReviewed recently here on the site, Through Korean Cinema is a fascinating documentary that examines the history of the Korean film industry through the perspectives and experiences of five influential filmmakers. Having recently appeared at several international festivals, Through Korean Cinema will appear on DVD in 2012. Director Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso... -
Guest Post: “We Saw the Devil…”
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Stewart Sutherland of Podcast on Fire.. ‘Korean revenge thrillers’ probably bring one name to mind – Park Chan-wook. Park’s Vengeance trilogy shook the world and for many years the genre has been his, although experimental “genre master” director Kim Jee-woon introduced the... -
Listening To Korean Cinema: The Podcast On Fire Network
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn the third of our short series taking a look at some of the podcasts that – one way or another – cover elements of Korean Cinema, we catch up with the ‘Podcast On Fire Network’… Probably the first English-language podcast dedicated to Asian cinema, Podcast On Fire has grown... -
Call For Papers: East Winds 2012, Coventry University
Posted on December 3, 2011 | No CommentsEarlier this year the first East Winds symposium and film festival was held at Coventry University – a three day event with the intention of raising awareness of Asian cinema for a crowd ‘who might normally not have much chance to catch Asian cinema on the big screen.’ The event... -
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... -
Listening to Korean Cinema: Podcast Without Honor and Humanity
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsIn the second of our short series highlighting some of the podcasts which cover elements of Korean cinema, we take a look at the snappily titled ‘Podcast Without Honor and Humanity’… Launched in early 2011 Podcast Without Honor and Humanity hasn’t even celebrated its first anniversary but having reached its... -
![“It was the one military practice, the one token of martial skill, which ever held its own among a people who for thousands of years have preferred silks, pictures, poems and music, the stately crane in the paddy fields and the knarled [sic] pine on the mountainside.” —Historian J. L....](/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Kim-Han-min-115x115.png "“It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film:” a conversation on Kim Han-min and his film, War of the Arrows")
“It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film:” a conversation on Kim Han-min and his film, War of the Arrows
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No Comments“It was the one military practice, the one token of martial skill, which ever held its own among a people who for thousands of years have preferred silks, pictures, poems and music, the stately crane in the paddy fields and the knarled [sic] pine on the mountainside.” —Historian J. L....
